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Tropical Freeze is a near-perfect platformer in the Switch catalog. The level design is top tier with creativity oozing out of every level. After recently playing New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Tropical Freeze blows it away. Every single level has something great in it, and the levels never get old. Even the underwater levels were fun...in a NINTENDO game!
Every world is unique keeping the game fresh while it all feels like it's this one grand world Donkey Kong is going through. You get a nice beach themed one, then you get autumn, savannah, underwater, a jelly factory, and a frozen DK Island. It's all so inventive with so many standout levels. World 4 can feel a little slow compared to the others as you can only take so many swimming levels at once, but the individual levels are fun.
The difficulty is done really well where it actually puts up a challenge in a completely fair and reasonable way. Some things I didn't like in Sonic 2 were that the enemy placements were awful and the platforming could be straight up unfair from how slow Sonic's acceleration is, but here they actually made platforming that was hard because it was designed to be a challenge and not because they wanted to make their hour long game longer.
The only real issue I can think of with this game is that they made roll and slam the same. Sometimes I'd lose a few lives because Donkey Kong would roll off the platform instead of slamming it, but that could also partially be me not reacting fast enough with the analog stick. Tropical Freeze really went out there and did everything right. It controls beautifully other than that with stunning visuals. The silhouette levels look fantastic and there is so much background detail that I died a couple times by looking at that instead of the hazard in front of me.
The soundtrack is great too with Busted Bayou and the underwater levels having the best songs. Frederick's theme was also really really cool. This game just shows its style everywhere and it cements itself as one of the best platformers of all-time. I genuinely think it's the best DK Country game over DKC2, and that's really saying something. Tropical Freeze is a must play on Switch (and Wii U), and I will absolutely be playing this again.
Tropical Freeze is a near-perfect platformer in the Switch catalog. The level design is top tier with creativity oozing out of every level. After recently playing New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Tropical Freeze blows it away. Every single level has something great in it, and the levels never get old. Even the underwater levels were fun...in a NINTENDO game!
Every world is unique keeping the game fresh while it all feels like it's this one grand world Donkey Kong is going through. You get a nice beach themed one, then you get autumn, savannah, underwater, a jelly factory, and a frozen DK Island. It's all so inventive with so many standout levels. World 4 can feel a little slow compared to the others as you can only take so many swimming levels at once, but the individual levels are fun.
The difficulty is done really well where it actually puts up a challenge in a completely fair and reasonable way. Some things I didn't like in Sonic 2 were that the enemy placements were awful and the platforming could be straight up unfair from how slow Sonic's acceleration is, but here they actually made platforming that was hard because it was designed to be a challenge and not because they wanted to make their hour long game longer.
The only real issue I can think of with this game is that they made roll and slam the same. Sometimes I'd lose a few lives because Donkey Kong would roll off the platform instead of slamming it, but that could also partially be me not reacting fast enough with the analog stick. Tropical Freeze really went out there and did everything right. It controls beautifully other than that with stunning visuals. The silhouette levels look fantastic and there is so much background detail that I died a couple times by looking at that instead of the hazard in front of me.
The soundtrack is great too with Busted Bayou and the underwater levels having the best songs. Frederick's theme was also really really cool. This game just shows its style everywhere and it cements itself as one of the best platformers of all-time. I genuinely think it's the best DK Country game over DKC2, and that's really saying something. Tropical Freeze is a must play on Switch (and Wii U), and I will absolutely be playing this again.