Finally, are you tired of just barely missing a vital jump, only to start from a far away checkpoint? Bring some green balloons with you, and ensure your return after an untimely fall-and don’t worry, if you happen to hit a Tiki Buzz on the way up? You’ve got three hearts as DK, and six with Diddy by default. Need Diddy Kong on the fly to help make a more precise jump? Pick up a few barrels to use at your convenience. Tired of being shot out of the sky by a Squeekly’s sonic blasts, or hitting jagged crystals while making a tricky jump out of a mine cart? There’s a potion that’ll let you take the hit without derailing your progress. The new mode, however, allows you to buy new items that limit some of the frustration induced by the game’s more difficult stages. Original mode is simply the direct translation of the Wii version of the game. Much like Fire Emblem: Awakening, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D offers two modes of play, aptly dubbed the original mode and new mode. In DKCR3D, however, a new compromise is made. In other words, they knew that even veteran players would need to be able to take more hits to be successful.
This wasn’t included to make the game welcoming to new players it was a direct response to the difficulty of the stages. When Retro studios designed DKCR, they allowed Donkey Kong to take an additional hit before the player had to restart the level. One of the many joys of running around Donkey Kong Island is accidentally stumbling upon a floating barrel or fake wall concealing a jigsaw puzzle piece (collectibles that unlock concept art in the startup menu).ĭon’t be fooled, though, as you’ll often find yourself diving off of empty ledges in pursuit of these rewards. In the spirit of its SNES predecessors, discovering these secrets is entirely optional-but nevertheless rewarding. The 9 worlds of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D are riddled with cleverly hidden secrets, modest puzzles and occasionally frustrating tricks. The Wii version may benefit from having a silky smooth 60 frames-per-second framerate, but it robs the game of how it was truly meant to be played-in stereoscopic 3D. The result is a more thrilling, more memorable experience that will likely have you finding reasons to go back and play the game time and time again.
With the addition of the stereoscopic 3D effect, the foreground and background elements take on a new life that just wasn’t there in the Wii version. Last week, I said that Donkey Kong Country Returns has always had “3DNA”. It’s up to DK and Diddy to follow the trail of bananas across Forest and Factory to peel away the secrecy in which the Tiki Tak Tribe is encased. The game revolves around a relatively simple and vaguely familiar plot: One day, whilst loafing around and possibly discovering fire, DK and Diddy’s banana stash is stolen by the mysterious Tiki Tak Tribe, who have “enlisted” (via hypnosis) the help of the island’s animals to transport the Kong’s precious fruit… somewhere.
Like Jungle Beat on the Nintendo GameCube, the technology required to fully appreciate the game simply wasn’t there yet-but two years after its release on the Wii, and with some help from Monster Games, Donkey Kong Country Returns has finally found its home on the Nintendo 3DS. Shifts in perspective and depth allowed enemies to come at you not only from the sides, but from the background as well.ĭespite the fantastic work Retro Studios did with breathing life back into the series, Donkey Kong Country Returns felt more like a game that was adapted to the Wii. Rool’s horde of crocodilian creeps (and a few indigenous barrel throwing orangutans), the antagonists of Donkey Kong Country Returns ranged from the frazzled frogs, mad moles, and berserk birds to the mischievous, banana-loving Tiki-Tak Tribe. The atmosphere of their island home changed from gloomy and lonely to bright, lush and bursting with life. The original Donkey Kong Country Returns represented a dramatic shift in the Kong world.
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