Nintendo Reveals Donkey Kong Country Returns HD's Opening Cutscene

good lord can we have new games

I'd be hard pressed to re-buy this even if it WASN'T the worst of the DKC games.

This may not be the biggest seller, but there are probably a lot of Switch players that never played the original Wii game. Many casual players may even just think it is a new game.

@axelhander That... sure is a take. I'll give you that.

This is the best DK game ever made, man I want to play it again. The super nintendo ones really have nothing on the new games, you can get into a real flow and speed through levels, I wish they would go ahead and make a third game.

@axelhander even the weakest Donkey Kong is still a good game

I'd actual enjoy a game with difficulty level like the bonus levels throughout a whole game but that wouldn't sell well at all.

DK really needs a new game. A DKC game, a 3D platformer or anything that isn't a remake/remaster. Nintendos main monkey is a moldy old banana at this point. Come on Nintendo give Mario a break and show some love for DK!

Nintendo is basically using ports of this game as a holding pattern for the
relevance of the DK series. It’s so strange.

@N00BiSH I don't get on with the feel of the DKC games at all, but I recognize they're great.

I played the wii, the 3ds one and will play this one on day one because I love this game. too bad for the people complaining, you guys should be grateful

@Bigmanfan was about to comment the same. Both of the retro made DKC games are widely considered some of the best DKC games if not best 2D platformers ever.

I love this game on Wii, except for the waggle controls. I REALLY want to play this version for the regular controls and added levels, but $60 for a port is crazy, especially when the game was originally $50(Wii)/$40(3DS) and then sold as a budget title for $20 NEW for years.

@DwaynesGames I'm in that camp. I totally get ppls frustration n such but as a whole new experience for me it truly makes no difference

This is just Nintendo doing easy things while they scramble to get Switch 2 material completed. It could be worse.

I like to see a Donkey Kong game where the Tikis and the Vikings team up with the Kremlins to get back at the Kongs. They could call it Donkey Kong World, a nod to Super Mario Bros. 4.

Day one, can't wait!

@waveboy I'm all for options. If Nintendo weren't ignoring most of their IP it wouldn't be an issue. Glad you'll enjoy it!

I’m a huge fan of the DKC series, but I won’t be getting this. I could get the identical game for literally 1/4th of the price for 3DS, and I won’t have to wait until release date. Nintendo needs to spend time making a new DKC instead of selling this game for a 3rd time since Wii!

@waveboy yea play tropical freeze it's fantastic.

Punch-Out would be near the top of my requests for sure. I loved the Wii sequel, didn't pay much attention to scoring though.

Nintendo needs to emulate Sega and revitalize these rotting franchises. I want a game company not a multimedia company.

@waveboy okay now I'm curious. Why exactly did Next Level's Punch-Out not work for you?

@axelhander For me it’s the best, though I haven’t played a ton of DKC 2 or 3 yet.

People should have zero expectations to this as it's developed by Forever Entertainment, who did the remakes of House of the Dead and Front Mission.

They're like Outright Games as a publisher, not the worst, but far from the best.

It's a really fun game if you haven't played it. And no pointless motion controls!

But wait for a sale. Or play DKC: Tropical Freeze which is one of the best 2D platforms ever!

@jake1421 Honestly, I’m thankful DK is getting anything at this point, especially this late into the Switch’s life. I’m sure they’re cooking up something new for the successor.

@PikminMarioKirby Yeah but then you will never get to play this fantastic game in HD. The other two versions are the 480p version and the 240p version. This is the 720p/1080p version. The Wii version will only look good if you had a CRT TV and the 3DS version will only look good if you own a New 3DS XL where the 3D effect is stable. If you play it on a regular 3DS then the 3D effect gets jank, if you play it on a 2DS or in 2D mode then you get worst graphics.

@waveboy Interesting points. I'm not quite sure I agree with the game feeling "more westernized" in terms of presentation. Previous Punch-Outs had some Western influence in their visuals - a sort of American comic book/Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic in terms of character design, most notable in Super Punch-Out, so Next Level's approach always felt the right one for the art. It has some hiccups in terms of how some of the characters(e.g. Aran Ryan), but overall I feel it's a proper evolution of what the previous games established. Same with the music - by Super they were already leaning towards a grungy rock sound, so the Wii game pushes that even further, as well as creating specific variants for the other boxers, which is a nice touch.

Also, I think the boxing rings looking less interesting was a deliberate choice for the sake of visual clarity. In a game where focusing on your opponent is top priority, you don't want the player to be distracted by anything else.

@LastFootnote More power to you! I liked Tropical Freeze way more than Returns and am a huge fan of the SNES trilogy.

DK64 2 is coming when...?

For the love of Cranky Kong please give us a new DK game it's been over a decade!

I’ll be getting this but not at full price, I just can’t right now. Nothing against it but $50 is the sweet spot, not $60.
I have it on 3DS too if I really want to get down to business in the meantime.

its been ten years since Tropical Freeze, we should have been on like the fourth entry in the DKC reboot series by now

Some of the visual downgrades in this remaster are baffling.

@axelhander

It's not the worst, there's DKC3. But yeah it's the second worse and I'd say there's quite a large gap between those and 1/2/5 which I'll probably never really be able to separate.

@mlt DKC3 is underrated. It ain't DKC2 but it don't gotta be. It's still filled with stellar level design, and the new overworld is fun to traverse. Though I do wish some of the GBA version's music tracks were in the SNES original...

But I get it; after 2 it can feel like a downgrade, especially since Mario 64 was already out.

@axelhander
Oh yeah I'm not saying it's bad it's just my least favorite. In that series there is not a single bad game. 3 and 4 are great games, it's just that 1, 2 and 5 are insanely good. I know people like to say 1 is more like some sort of introduction to what eventually became the full concept of DKC but I love its arcade simplicity. It's just great and fast and super straightforward. It's the purest form of DKC and it's awesome. 2 and 5 are generally regarded as the best and some of the best platformers ever.

Also for 3, being too close to what Rare produced afterwards is actually what makes it less appealing to me. It feels like a proto Banjo in a lot of ways and I'm not sure if I wanted that in my DKC. But again it's a great game. I replayed it recently on NSO and it's really good.

@mlt All good.