Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Nintendo Switch Review
Funky Port.- Excellent level design
- Superlative soundtrack
- Quick load times
- Runs well
- Sub native resolution in handheld mode
- Not much for returning players
This review is based on a download code provided by the publisher. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will be available in retail and digital stores on May 4, 2018 for $59.99. The game is rated E for everyone.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Switch)
Tropical Freeze is a pinnacle of modern 2D platform games, offering an immense challenge while improving on the original, much revered original trilogy. Funky Kong's inclusion is clearly well-intentioned.
Tropical Freeze is great, but has a fair few issues and an insane price tag.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch) Review
Cubed3 really loved Donkey Kong Country Returns on Wii, and absolutely adored its successor, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze when it hit Wii U. After a short hands-on session with the latter's Switch port, all signs were pointing in the right direction for this to be another superb addition to...
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Review – Still A Banana-Slamming Good Time
Nintendo has been slowly but surely breathing new life into their Wii U library by porting it over to the Nintendo Switch. The latest game to get this treatment is Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze .- Framerate and resolution are improved
- Game is still fabulous
- Funky Kong is pretty useful
- Not much has changed
- Funky makes the game too easy
- No idea why ‘lives' are still a thing
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Switch Review
Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze's addition of Funky Mode makes it more accessible without reducing the formidable platforming difficulty to a walk in the park. There's still a lot of challenge, even with the extra help Donkey's Funky uncle affords.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
We didn't quite remember how difficult Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was, or perhaps we're a bit embarrassed to admit it took us a few hours this time to master a game we'd beaten already four years ago.
Don't Miss It This Time
When Tropical Freeze released on the Wii U in 2014, it was exciting because it marked Donkey Kong Country's belated entry into the world of high definition. It played well, included tons of nostalgic and novel platforming ideas, and offered a significant, but fair challenge.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Nintendo's marketing strategy of rereleasing slightly altered versions of critically acclaimed Wii-U games for the Switch continues on with the re-release of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Switch.