I thought the mine cart and rocket barrel levels were easier in Tropical Freeze than in Returns. I know that Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze will be my personal game of the year unless Destiny just knocks it out of the park. You should buy Tropical Freeze just for the soundtrack.
DKCTF is harder by far than any platformer that I've played. NEVER in my life I have re-try a level more than 15 times.
A couple of the bosses drove me nuts until I figured out their patterns, but I still find stuff like Mega Man more frustrating.
Mega man is okay until you reach the final map where you have to go thru like 1000 stages in one go. Ah the good old days where we don't have a save point every 5 minutes.
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It's hard but manageable just keep at it & don't give up you'll do the level or boss your stuck on in the end. I found it hard mostly if you lost Dixie, Diddy or Cranky they made the levels much easier due to the fact you had advantages with them. Being left alone with just Donkey Kong was a nightmare.
It's hard but manageable just keep at it & don't give up you'll do the level or boss your stuck on in the end. I found it hard mostly if you lost Dixie, Diddy or Cranky they made the levels much easier due to the fact you had advantages with them. Being left alone with just Donkey Kong was a nightmare.
It's not that hard just being left alone with Donkey Kong
Let's put it this way, I had no trouble with the first few worlds on DKC Returns. And When I recently got Tropical Freeze, I found myself dying multiple times in each level of World 1 haha. That is not to say it is a bad game!
I would without a doubt put Tropical Freeze as the best 2D platformer on Wii U. Yes even above Rayman Legends and NSMBU.
It is that well polished.
I Wouldn't go that far saying its better than Rayman Legends
I Wouldn't go that far saying its better than Rayman Legends
I would. I loved Rayman Legends, too. The thing is, the single player campaign was kind of tame. The only levels that really challenged me were the ghost levels.. those were really fun. I put tons of time into the online challenges, too. I think that was the best part of the game. Those were actually harder than DK, but.. they were basically just repeats. The scope of all of DK's levels and their designs outweigh the difficulty of Raymans challenges for me.
None of the main game levels in that have been nearly as challenging as some of the DKC:TF levels though. Especially trying to do speed trials. It's all obviously a matter of opinion, I just think DKC:TF is better. Rayman Legends was probably my favorite console platformer beforehand. The only platformers that I liked as much, as far as challenge goes, is Super Meat Boy.
@Spuratis Yeah I have to say, Rayman Legends was kind of boring, for me. I think the only aspect that Rayman Legends does better than Tropical Freeze is the online races and events they have daily and weekly.
It's not Super Meat Boy or Cloudberry Kingdom hard, but harder than Mario games for sure. You'll likely be playing some levels a few more times than you'd like to get past them
After rayman legends(and playing a couple o f leves of Dkcr last month, ugh motion controls ) i tought my love of 2d platformers was gone.
Everytime i play DK TP i giggle like a little girl, its awesome! alredy put 20 hours on it and have yet to get 4-6 k lvls, and.. the thing that comes after that, i cant stop playing it, music is just awesomeee.
My game of the year so far, but.. oh well mk8 and ssb4 are coming so...
I have heard that the game is hard, but just how hard? Is it much harder than Mario, say 3D World. Or is it about the same? I really would love a challenging platformer. I would like to here your thoughts.
Trust me, this is your game. DKC Tropical Freeze, like its predecessor, is tough as nails. The difficulty is manageable up through the 3rd world (still challenging though, definitely no walk in the park), but the 4th world is where you really have to start bringing your A-game. World 5 will push you to your limits, and world 6, well, trust me you better come locked and loaded with 99 lives and a thousand banana coins if you want to survive. Just making it through the levels is hard enough, but the REAL challenge comes from collecting the K-O-N-G letters in every stage. You have to get all 4 in the same play through. So no exiting and coming back for the last letter. There are also 5, 7 or 9 puzzle pieces hidden throughout the stages and in bonus rooms. Those you can come back and collect the one you missed later. You don't have to get them all in one run.
Furthermore, once you beat the game there is a hard mode where you can play as DK, Diddy, Dixie or Cranky solo- you get no barrel buddies, no items, no checkpoints and only one heart. You want challenge? This game's middle name is challenge. You also will need to RE-collect the K-O-N-G letters in hard mode, which are now blue/yellow instead of red/yellow. And lastly, the time trials, which I would argue are the funnest (and MOST challenging) part of the game. There are bronze, silver and gold times for each level, and you'll want to score a gold for every one of them. You can also upload videos of each of your runs to the leaderboards for others (such as your friends) to view. You want challenge? Come try and beat my times in any of the temples. I've ranked as high as 4th in the world.
All in all, this is the most challenging game you'll play short of Dark Souls or Monster Hunter> even Monster Hunter is easy though once you know what you're doing. Trust me, you want this game. And when you're finished with it, go pick up DKC Returns and extend the fun even longer...
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
I Wouldn't go that far saying its better than Rayman Legends
Oh I would. Rayman Legends is good, REAL good, but DKC Tropical Freeze is better. It's the intricate mechanics of roll-jumping off ledges, the dynamic of the hair-flutter, rocket-hover and cane-bounce for time trials, the added mechanics with buddies allowing for endless rolling or spinning underwater, and the low/high jumps off enemies that really put it in a category of it's own. Not to mention it's just so precise, so incredibly precise. And that's not even getting into the world-class soundtrack (and I do mean world-class), the most beautiful and expertly crafted levels and stage design I've ever witnessed and the die-hard difficulty. And, once you run time trials and get really good, you come to appreciate just how expertly crafted the level designs are. You start realizing "oh THAT'S why that owl is there, it's so I can roll jump cane-bounce off him into that barrel and shortcut 2 seconds".
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@WaveBoy Dude, Rayman IMO is one of the best platformers as far as difficulty goes. It's not in the same league as like.. Ninja Gaiden, because it's feel is completely different, but there's just something about it. I never beat the game but I haven't played it since I was like 11. I got played it on the Sega Saturn and loved every minute of it.. there was just one boss that I could never get passed. I wish I still had the game and my saturn, I've been wanting to play it again for some time.
@Spuratis Yeah I have to say, Rayman Legends was kind of boring, for me. I think the only aspect that Rayman Legends does better than Tropical Freeze is the online races and events they have daily and weekly.
Origins was the most boring platformer i've played in years. I wish ubisoft would of done something more similar to the 2D PS1 original.
Whoa. My thoughts exactly. Considering the love Origins and Legends get, it's quite rare to run into another who would have preferred a direction more faithful to the original. The original is tense and precise to a fault. Like a daunting, refined dish that is appetizing, yet not so easy on the palette. These new games are elegant junk food.
I feel the developers have become so hamstrung by the desire to make something for all to enjoy together that they lost some focus and respect for the single player experience. The levels thrill when played with others around some drinks, but I have little desire to play more than a couple in a single sitting. All those spectacles do little to make the game more engaging or fun to play. Origins' levels are weirdly broken into incongruous segments. Legends is preoccupied with unnecessary, mindless environmental interactions that are not conducive to the free-flowing, frenetic platforming style.
I'll stop this rant before I get out of pocket, but I find the admiration for Origins and Legends to be strange in any capacity other than a multiplayer time-waster.
This is my first DK game, and it's not nearly as hard as I thought it would be. Only anticipated it to be very difficult since that's what many other people have said...but it hasn't been too much of a challenge yet! I'm at world 5..maybe it'll get harder later
Getting gold on some of the time trials is very difficult though
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