![]() ![]() Tropical Freeze, however, has the tricky task of recapturing the excitement that Returns brought back to the series without becoming a ‘me too’ sequel, and I have to say that it both succeeds and falters in its mission in the way that so many sequels do it manages to improve on its forbear in significant ways by using the original as a template to iron out any flaws and to build from, but having said that, it’s not doing an awful lot that’s new and it doesn’t have the ‘wow’ factor that Returns had after the series had been away for so long. ![]() Prior to that, Rare made the original Country trilogy in the mid 1990s on the SNES (a series I fondly remember growing up with). Tropical Freeze then is the fifth title in the side-scrolling series, and the second from the Texas-based Retro Studios, following Donkey Kong Country Returns on the Wii in 2010. But it’s the Country series, that for me at least, have always been the ‘real’ DK games, and the only time he’s been treated as the heavy hitter he so obviously is. Donkey Kong games – which hark back to the big ape’s original release and his rivalry with Mario. He’s been in all the sports titles, parties and karts, and had a spin off series on portable consoles with the Mario vs. Always a prominent member of the Big N’s character roster, but never given the five star treatment that the likes of Mario and Zelda receive. Donkey Kong has had a strange time of it at Nintendo over the years.
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