Also the jaunty way he hung on horizontal ropes, generally his animations showed a certain level of extra liveliness Rare gained over the course of making the trilogy.
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze coming to Switch
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Yep, Kiddy is great. I feel the animosity toward him is a vestige of childhood insecurity when Nintendo fans were under siege for lack of edgy games.
Kiddy is fine and DKC3 is mad underrated. Lord Wise didn't compose the vast majority of its OST, but he did grace us with this banger:
When I was a kid, the DKC player's guide was my bible. When I wasn't poring over its maps and marveling over the detail in the character renders, I daydreamed about new characters, doodling concepts for new members of the Brothers Bear. I found DKC to be exceptionally immersive, in part due to the open map. I also found the Canada-inspired setting so refreshing for a game starring jungle animals -- something I also appreciate about the Swiss/Bavaria-inspired Windmill Hills in Tropical Freeze.
I can't help but get all giddy whenever I read something like that.
God I hope that's true.
Notice how the base of that awesome theme is also the exact same base of this even more awesome tune from Tropical Freeze:
Yeah, this tracks is an even bigger banger.
And such a great level:
Sounds cool but hopefully they retcon a lot of the old kongs and make new ones.
Huh, maybe I should look up a video of the Wii version - there was definitely a set pattern when I played it for the first time on DKCR 3D recently. Mind you, it's still not telegraphed the first time through, but the pattern was the same each time I had to restart the fight.
I also played through DKCR 3D in preparation for DKC TF; y'all are really hyping me up for this lol.
Y'all gonna' keep posting music tracks and I'll keep posting accompanying level videos!
This level is incredible, as well as the following stage that shows the aftermath of the storm.
This level is incredible, as well as the following stage that shows the aftermath of the storm.
Your reminder that a true contender for best track only plays on a stretch of land you'll spend about 6 seconds on
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Trying not to spoil myself too much by watching those videos since I didn't own a WiiU, but I can't help myself. Game looks incredible. Can't wait.
Trying not to spoil myself too much by watching those videos since I didn't own a WiiU, but I can't help myself. Game looks incredible. Can't wait.
I knew someone would bring up Irate eight's opener, but it's the land theme for Current Capers!
Kiddy is not fine and DKC3 is indeed underrated in spite of fucking Kiddy. Theres a reason why they havent brought him back ever since.
The way the background elements of Harvest Hazard's theme build upon each other before the loop is too strong.
Whew, that made me feel better. I got Returns on my 2DS XL last month to prepare for Tropical Freeze and its kicking my ass.
That tells me I will enjoy Tropical Freeze more if I can just accept that I need to use Funky from the start.
I got a month to kill my ego to make that happen.
World 5 is awesome. Phil Collins would be proud of this musical piece. The entire world is a wonderful twist on the DKC Factory setup.
Yup, that's one of the reasons I like it so much.
Yeah I love how it takes you through the whole fruit processing, starting with harvesting and even leading to finished products like jellies and popsicles. Pretty neat idea. The fact that fruits are so colorful helps the levels feel pretty vibrant too.
Yep, some of those patterns were fixed in DKCR 3D and it's probably, now that you say so, that Colonel Pluck's routines were less random in the port. In addition, the time mark necessary to get gold was more comprehensive in some levels and boss battles, and I'm pretty sure you didn't have to take advantage of a bug to shiny gold Mugly in the 3DS version.
I don't say this lightly, but it might be my favorite world theme in the history of level-based 2D platformers. The way the levels are structured to take the player through the whole factory process is so smart.
Also, Bright Savannah. You arrive during a carnival, then a tornado passes through and leaves fire and destruction on its wake - and everything is told via the sequencing of the level motifs. I'm such a sucker for this sort of thing.
By far my favorite track on this overall great soundtrack. Makes for one of the most intense boss fights of all time (well to be fair, probably the easiest boss in TF, but who cares with that music playing?!)
Awesome, awesome track. I was so disappointed when I got to the boss of the following world (AKA the final boss) and the track wasn't nearly as epic as this one.
I really love this game, it's one of my Top 5 of all time. But I don't know if I can spend $60 on a game I already own, spent 80+ hours playing, and cleared it 200%.
I feel like this release isn't for me, there's no content for veterans of the game, just newcomers. And that's fine, I don't need to own everything.
I feel like this release isn't for me, there's no content for veterans of the game, just newcomers. And that's fine, I don't need to own everything.
Like most people, I never had a Wii U so this will be my first time playing this game and boy am I excited
The Factory was my favorite world in DKCR and I was shocked that Retro was somehow able to surpass it with the Fruity Factory. It's simply Sublime.