Every level across the six primary island “worlds” features mind-boggling details - enemies churning in the backgrounds, objects moving from backgrounds to foregrounds, and themes that evolve from the start to the end of a stage. You can revisit a level multiple times and still not collect all of the items hidden inside - that’s the mark of a great platformer.īeautiful graphics, great music, and generally good sound effectsįrom beginning to end, Tropical Freeze is absolutely beautiful, and the best-looking Donkey Kong game. Each level is so packed with various bonuses that even adults will want to dilly-dally rather than just keep running. Kids will find it challenging enough to just complete levels by running and jumping, but the game deliberately distracts you with so many alternatives that mere completion misses the fun of exploration. With Donkey Kong Country, the SNES suddenly had a Sonic competitor with even better visuals and music, plus the polish gamers expected from Nintendo.Ībove: One of the game’s intense barrel rocket sequences. Nintendo handed its Donkey Kong characters over to British studio Rare, which married the best parts of Mario and Sonic platforming with breakthrough 3D-rendered graphics. The Donkey Kong Country series dates back to a time when Sonic the Hedgehog was helping Sega’s Genesis crush Nintendo’s SNES, and TV ads made Mario look uncool.
Even so, I wish every future Nintendo game had a Funky Mode, because it’s a great idea with a fantastic, fun-sounding name. Retro succeeded in making the game more accessible, but not in making the levels fully kid-friendly, unless just skipping parts of the game all the time strikes you as a good solution. But once my kids started playing, I knew I’d be asked to wield the controller through Tropical Freeze’s many hard parts. I was excited about Funky Mode, and so were my kids, who wanted to play what looked like a Pixar movie. Above: As tight as the controls are during the platforming, they’re floatier underwater and downright challenging during barrel rocket rides.
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