Topic: Donkey Kong Country Returns

I'm not really excited by the game play videos. I don't understand why they use such easy levels for demos. It'd make sense at a Gamestop for random passersby, but at E3? These are video game journalists playing, people whose job requires them to be pretty good at games, and we are avid fans watching. Toss in something more challenging. DKC was always a difficult series for me, so I'm sure it gets better than this, but these presumably early levels are rather tame.

And yea, the banana nut is annoying, haha.

Heh. That's totally me, sometimes to the point that i violently annoy myself. xD

Never been a big fan of the series so... Whoop de freakin' doo...

sweet i love the first dkc remeber the snes days so i downloaded it on the wii got the second and third which reminds me i should try and finish the third one and also as soon as a release date pops up im imediately preordering it

As long as the final levels in the game are more challenging than these beta levels, this game is going to be awesome. Love the gameplay, and this is my most anticipated Wii game this year.

I don't think we're seeing everything. I read one preview that said they played a very challenging level.

big retro studios interview: http://wii.ign.com/articles/109/1099190p1.html

for me, the most interesting part is that kenji yamamoto (the metroid composer) is doing the soundtrack. they're also letting you choose a nunchuck or sideways remote control scheme, and the game apparently has 3 times the detail that metroid corruption did.

Phew! I saw nunchuk indicators in the game play video. I was really hoping I wouldn't have to use it.

@romulux: i figured it'd be that way, considering it looks very much like DK meets NSMBW. good times, i'm not really a nunchuk fan either :3

You can play it with the remote sideways too? Thank heavens.

Hope we See alot of Donkey Punch like in Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.

I would say this and Zelda: Skyward Sword are my most anticipated games of E3.

Nah, the graphics are not impressiv, I hate donkey kong music it like "ahh-ahh" everytime and there are and will be much better 2d paltformers as these like: a boy and his blob, new super mario bros for wii and kirbys super yawn

Super Yawn, ahh-ahh.

Since I didn't understand most of that, I'll simply comment on the highlighted spot. Ahem .......... stfu.

Looks amazing. I've always been a big fan of the DKC games, and I quite liked DK64. The moment I heard the theme during the conference I almost cried. True story And I loved how a couple people went "woo!" when the theme started and DK appeared on screen, but when the gameplay was shown everyone cheered Day one buy for me.

And Simultaneous play? HELL YEAH! Wonder if you can play competitively? All 3 DKC games had cooperative and competitive modes (taking turns, though), simultaneous would make it a million times better. Imagine racing through a stage throwing each other into enemies and trying to collect all the bananas

Oh, and the mine cart levels looked glorious.

I agree with this 100%! But I not only cried, I grew so much excitement I tried to rip my shorts off.

Everything in that trailer was mind blowing! It's just... speechless in my opinion. And yes, I'm a very hardcore Donkey Kong Country fan.

I am glad that you can play Donkey Kong Country Returns sideways-Wiimote style. Surprised to heard that the Kremlings [including King K. Rool] are not returning. I am looking forward to this game!

Some of the first prototype artwork stuff was like, "This palm tree looks like a Metroid palm tree."
Oh my god I want see this palm tree! I laughed so hard when I read this.