E3 Quick Impressions: Donkey Kong Country Returns
by dantebk
I hate to pull a Jeff here, but yup, this game is totally Donkey Kong Country. There are barrels that you can throw, and barrels that fire you like a rocket through a series of other barrels. You can pound the ground. You can play 2-player with Donkey and Diddy Kong. There are enemies and you can stomp on their heads. The only things that were different, as far as I could tell, were: 1) Diddy h...
I hate to pull a Jeff here, but yup, this game is totally Donkey Kong Country. There are barrels that you can throw, and barrels that fire you like a rocket through a series of other barrels. You can pound the ground. You can play 2-player with Donkey and Diddy Kong. There are enemies and you can stomp on their heads. The only things that were different, as far as I could tell, were:
1) Diddy has some kind of gun. I think it shoots peanuts? Was that in the original?
2) You blow on dandelions to reveal secrets. It's kind of odd.
3) At one point a barrel shot us into the background where we played back there for a while before being shot back to the foreground.
I'm one of those guys that insists the original Donkey Kong Country was one of the best SNES platformers around, so I will probably get this when it comes out, but from what I've played so far, it doesn't really innovate or distinguish itself from the 16-bit games.
If you have any questions, comment and I will try to answer.