So, Have You Pre-Ordered Donkey Kong Country Returns HD For Switch?

not for $60 USD, absolutely not, no.

I'm not really interested in it. It's pretty much a filler port of a game that has been ported time and time again. Price is just steeper this time.

No I'm not going to support another port when it's been 10 years since we got a new DK game! Also bring back King K. Rool please Nintendo.

Besides Zelda Twilight Princess this is the 2nd game to get 3 releases with no major add on content or DLC.

@LadyCharlie You're right. $60 is too cheap for us peasants. It needs to be $90 minimum.

I'm interested, but two things are stopping me from getting it next week:
1) The price, as others have alluded to
2) I still have barely played Tropical Freeze, so when I get the DKC urge I can just play that

Not pre-ordering, but I enjoyed this on 3DS, so I'll get it later down the line (and at a discount).

Game is amazing but not buying again unless my wife wants to play it. It really is a great game

Never played it so maybe one day? 59,99€ ouch

I said no in the past then gave in and preordered. Have it on Wii and 3ds and now on switch. Tropical freeze too on Wii u and switch. Excellent tight platformers

I don't pre-order new games, let alone games I played over a decade ago.

It looks like an XBLA game, has effects removed for some reason, and they're charging $60. Not interested.

Only when I have 100% on Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. I´m on Island 2, but playing slowly.

I played the snes version. That was plenty. Overrated game with awesome music and, at the time, incredible graphics that are now irrelevant.

I already have the Wii version and still haven't touched the game yet.
Not sure I will get the Switch version.

I would buy it a third time but only if they have fixef all the graphical issues that have been shown in the trailers.
If I pay 60 this needs to be the best version and not a worse looking one

@jesse_dylan why do you think it's overrated?

Not sure what to pick since I’ll wait for a price drop like most here. Great game though.

Oh dang. I haven't yet. Might go buy a set of Vouchers for this and Prime 4. So hyped to finally have one of my favorite games on Switch!

I really felt this missed atmosphere somehow. I had way more fun with the refined controls on the 3ds though, so if they stick to not using waggle controls maybe it be fun to try again!

It's cool to have those 3DS exclusive stages on the big screen, but having the less graphically detailed 3DS version because of that as the base for Switch version... and selling it for 60€...

Not cool.

And if people don't buy this version, the hyper Nintendo fanboys will use this as an excuse for why we can't get new Donkey Kong games: "You should have bought the most expensive version of a 14 year old game" or something.

So the 3DS version has stereoscopic 3D visuals which the Switch version doesn’t. I bought DKR brand new for $20 on the 3DS under Nintendo Selects budget range. Now they want to charge $60. Please don’t buy this and send Nintendo a message about where they can stick it

Not a chance on earth see comment #3

@jojobar the level design, control, and mechanics just aren’t that great, which is highlighted by the re-releases. I’d say it’s upper-mid tier. It’s no super mario world, but it’s also better than a lot of the mid tier platformers of the day. Like, it’s maybe a little above an earthworm Jim level game. Graphics, music, vibes, all great and took it to the next level in 1995 with Nintendo’s marketing. But it’s far from a nintendo Japan tier platformer.

@Bigmanfan @garfreek I still have one voucher left and nothing I want to buy other than Metroid 4. If that doesn't release before June, I may have to use it for this. Literally nothing on the release schedule I want 😩

Never bought the wii version. Found the 3DS version at CeX one day, got it for "later" and then never played it. Not gonna buy the Switch version unless I see it cheap in the future, this game is not exactly a high priority for me.

I have just spent £40 on this....well, what I actually did was buy a mint condition 3DS XL and redownload the library of games I had including this. Win for me.
For the record, you can preorder this for £36.79 at Currys in the UK, but that's still too much for a no frills remaster.

@VoidofLight It was ported to 3DS, and Nvidia Shield TV but only in China. Those are the only times it has been ported. So "time and time again" feels like an exaggeration.

Not yet, trying to decide if I want to buy it on its own or get the vouchers for it. Not really looking to spend the extra $40 right now and there aren't really any other games I'm wanting to use it on at the moment so kind of hesitant to buy another set of those right now but it is the better value.

@splinters I recently got Pikmin 4 in a killer deal, absolutely amazed by that one!

So that's my recommendation of you haven't played it yet!
(And Mario wonder, Mario 3D land or Links awakening if you haven't played those! 😂)

As always, I'll be keeping an eye out on bargains. I'm fairly sure I can get this game for the same price I got Tropical Freeze, which was around 30 euros. No way am I going to pay full price for this, even when the DKC series is one of my favourite platformers of all time.

@KoopaTheGamer Three times counting switch.

@LadyCharlie The Japan release is $40 USD at Play-Asia.

Played it and loved it on Wii but don't need to play it again, not with my backlog.
Only reason I would get it would be for the extra levels they added in the 3DS port. If they'd sold me them on the Wii as DLC I would have bought them at the time but I'm not paying full price again for a tiny bit more, really hate it when Nintendo does that.

Yep. Including all the pre order bonuses.
I really want to play this game without the nunchucks. This game has so many awesome levels. I can’t wait!

I really hoped for a new DK game but it’ll do for now.

@garfreek not a Pikmin fan, and I have all Mario, Zelda, Metroid, DK games etc. Thanks for the recommendation though

I love the original and it would be sweet to have a way to play it on Switch. But it´s just hilarious that Nintendo thinks it is fair to ask for full price for this.

This is something that should have been offered very discounted, or be part of a subscription service. It is truly mind blowing how far behind Sony/Microsoft they really are. But I guess it is nice to be able to sell old games for full price. Since people seem to be buying these full priced remasters, I guess it makes sense to Nintendo to just milk their customers for all the money they can.

But no, I will definitely not be buying this. The price tag is just insulting.

There’s no denying it’s a good game, but having played the Wii and 3DS version I don’t feel like going back to it. It must take some effort to remaster a game like this, so why not bother making something new out of it?

60 is too much for this.
Max 40 would do.

I picked up a Wii copy before it was announced. The price point is bad and is a bit similar to how Luigi's Mansion 2 HD was handled (and should have contained 1!)

Its a shame as if it was lower price it could do much better. £40 is way too steep, £30 or below would do better.

I hope they do a new DK game and go 3d again one day!

Love this game but having bought it twice already can’t see me treble dipping.

Shame Nintendo have no upgrade path…

Still haven't finished Tropical Freeze whiles highly enjoying that. Strange. Guess my heart will forever belong to Donkey Kong Country 2.

I'm gonna pass on this since I already own the Wii and 3DS versions. Both of which cost a fraction of the cost compared to the Switch port but it's a good option for anyone who still hasn't played it yet.

While I highly enjoyed the Wii Version and Tropical Freeze as well....I'm saving up for Xenoblade X and the "Switch 2".

The UK Nintendo Store is doing pre-order bundles with various items such as a microfibre cloth and a bum bag. Even if you have no interest in the game, it’s worth pre-ordering it for these items alone.

Just think how cool you’ll look walking around with your microfibre cloth in your bum bag. People will want to talk to you. Men will want to be you. Women will want to be with you.

I still have Tropical Freeze on my shelf to play so I really dont think I'll ever get round to playing this unless I really enjoy TF

Can't get into Donkey Kong and its weird difficulty, so no I won't be getting this.

Nah, DKC Returns has never really clicked with me. This or Tropical Freeze just don’t do it for me.

Of course not when it's 3 times the price they charged for it as a Selects title on 3DS, with no new content. Nintendo have done this far too often on the Switch.

@VoidofLight Yeah, but only two outside of China. Which is more than a Wii game needs, but then, it's almost 15 year old game already. Plenty of people without Wii or 3DS out there.

Nintendo is ‘looking at pricing on a game to game basis’ again

@VoidofLight ported time and time again? It's been ported once prior to this 🤣 twice if you count a version that only released in China.

For the price I’d really want the funky Kong mechanic so the whole family can play at their different abilities. So without this is an avoid s it would be a lot of money for just me to replay.
And I’d rather be saving for the S2

i rather a HD port of F-zero GX with online

@jesse_dylan The SNES version? You think this is the same game as the first DKC?

If it was 30 dollars or below i would have got it. Because i really do like this game and this seems like the definitive version of it. However for 60 dollars. NO. I will buy it used.

It’s already on my switch ☺️

Think I'll stick with the Wii version unless it goes down in price

Seeing the argument that it should be $20 because that's what the Nintendo Selects version of the inferior 3DS release cost is just....weird.

I guess the Horizon remaster should have been free to all since that was the lowest price Sony gave the original out at, quite literally giving it away to anyone during lockdowns.

Welcome to capitalism. It's the best we got so suck it up, and over 6 billion agree.

60 Euros! LOL
not a chance to get it at this point.

I don't do preorders, but I definitely want it!
I didn't play the 3DS version because of the terrible controls, and I haven't played the Wii version again because of the graphics. This is going to be amazing!

@Haruki_NLI At least Horizon offers it as a cheaper update

Least exciting port in recent history.

Not for the price, and I’m certainly not triple dipping.

I only bought the 3DS version when it was on the Nintendo selects range for less than £20.

No way am I paying more than that for a HD remaster Nintendo, what in the Metroid Prime Remastered are you thinking? The pricing strategy is hugely inconsistent with these remaster / remake rereleases.

Cartman already shared is opinion on pre-ordering games. He was spot on.

I'm just as interested in this as I was in the LM2 HD version. That is to say, not at all. When the superior sequel has already been available for years, this seems redundant. Never played this or LM2.

I did double-dip for Tropical Freeze.

I'm good with the 3DS version personally.

Nope. No interest in Donkey Kong and never had any, my husband might once it’s on a good discount. 60 dollars for a port and nothing added just sounds like greed.

@DiamondJim I’m not rebuying it - I have the Wii original and loved the hell out of it back in the day but don’t feel the need to buy it again. My view is this release is mainly for the people that haven’t played it before to get to enjoy a brilliant game. My nephew wasn’t even alive when the 3DS version (!) was released and he’s getting it (I insisted as obviously I wanna pop round and show him how to DK properly).

@Summer235 depends on your perspective. For those that haven’t played before perhaps it’s quite steep. For those that get to experience for the first time perhaps it’s an absolutely brilliant game deserving of the price. I’m in the former category but very happy new players get to experience an absolute gem

@Qwiff this is easily just as good as Tropical Freeze. While I’ll hand it to you that LM3 is objectively better in most ways than LM2 and I understand not wanting to buy LM2 port this is different. (Id recommend playing LM2 on 3DS anyway for the 3D effect). But DKR is one of my favourite games from the Wii era and is every bit as good as TF. Unless they bodged this HD port ofc.

@WheresWaveRace Thanks, I'll keep an open mind then.

Yes I Already Pre-ordered DKCRHD
On The Switch.

This is for kids and parents who need something to spend their holiday cash on. My own children would go ape for this (pun intended), as they don’t know it exists. It’s a great plan to squeeze some sales out of an excellent game.

I was waiting for a good offer and that precious cleaning cloth from Currys convinced me to pre-order.

@ZZalapski still too much for a game that sold at $20 USD on Wii and 3DS.

Nah this is an old ass port which is far over priced, this wouldn't be good value for money anyway even if you did want to play it, you'll be looking at getting a weekends worth of game time here, when you can spend your money on a game like Smash, Splatoon or even one of the Zelda games, for the same cost and get 8 times as much gaming time as you would with this.

For me personally, I don't spend my money on games willy billy anymore, the minimum value I look for is £1 for 1 hour, if I don't get 50 hours of play time for a £50 game, then I'm not interested.

For me it just doesn't add up to buy a game like this,btoo expensive, too short and ultimately too old for me to bother with.

Busy with other games

Difficult to describe just how little interest I have in this rererelease.

Where the Hades is Kid Icarus Uprising?

I know DK games are great but I just can't bring myself to really care for the characters. Plus I already have the Wii version. I'll buy this version only if I can manage to find it for a good price (read: half price at most), otherwise I'll let this one pass me by.

I remember buying it for $20 before the 3DS eShop closed. I think I might just fire the 3DS up instead on the 16th

I dont like how this game and tropical freeze look or play. love the og trilogy tho.

@LadyCharlie payed 40 euro's at Amazon there is always a nice deal to get it cheaper than the retail 60.

got the following games on release day for the prices behind it.
Zelda EOW payed 41
TOTK 44
Mario and Luigi 39

I havent played much of tropical freeze (my first dkc game), as i just suck so much at those mine cart levels, so not sure id get another one.

Wasn't planning to preorder it but I got an eshop voucher for xmas so I put towards 2 game vouchers. One for Donkey Kong and one for Xenoblade Chronicles X.

I've played DKCR on both the Wii and the 3DS. The 3DS with the extra content was cool as it helped justify a double dip.

I think I'll wait till it's heavily discounted before triple dipping, much as I adore thebgame

No, but I might rebuy the Wii version someday.

@onlyonemello exactly, obviously everyone on here has played it. But 15 years is enough time for some people to have kids of their own who haven't touched a 3ds or wii. Nintendo is definitely charging 60 for that, especially since DK is kinda "in" with the theme park and Mario movie stuff

Might pick it up on sale later

I guess I’m in the minority who plans on getting this day 1. For whatever reason I’ve never owned this game before, and I have $50 in eshop gift cards from Christmas

Might sell my copy of Brothership and get this instead.

You better believe it. One of my favorite Wii games, will love playing through it again on a new console.

Excellent game but it should be 30e.
I mean if you want to sell something like this full price it needs to be a full on remake with real novelty on top of much better visuals, new presentation, new gameplay possibilities...

I mean last time I saw a comparison video from an old trailer VS the Wii version, it basically shown there was quite a few missing visual effects. Now of course they've had time to fix this and it might be better now but let's just say I was not exactly confident. I'll wait for reviews but it seems like it's just a slightly enhanced port and even that remains to be seen. Not a 60e product.

Man, the amount of games I’ve been buying has been dwindling over the past year or so. I think since I’ve been barely playing online multiplayer titles, I’ve been going through my backlog and realizing how content I am with my current game library.

All that is to say, DK Country Returns HD is something I might get down the road, but at the moment I have no plan to pick it up. I have it on the 3DS and loved it on that, so if I suddenly want to replay it soon I’ll either play that or maybe see if I can borrow my brother’s copy for the Switch.

Regardless, it’s a great game for anyone that hasn’t played it yet!

Already have it pre-loaded. I don’t have a Wii handy and I don’t want to play with waggle controls again anyway. The 3DS version will feel mostly obsolete after this. And I do like the idea of the Switch being a nearly all-in-one DK machine!

Skimming through the comments it feels like Nintendo may have hit a wall on this release.

The overall general feeling is this is a filler port of a 20+ year old game that they’ve monetized twice before and while, yes, it may be a phenomenal game, even Nintendo can’t convince people to pay $60 for it a third time.

Makes you wonder what their thought process was behind this release? It just feels tone deaf.

Edited to make clear I’ll pick this up at some point but it will have to be discounted to the sub $40 range.

If the 3DS port didn’t exist I probably would get this (since I barely played on the Wii before getting the 3DS port and it was nice to have it portable) but currently it’s a really hard sell.

@BTB20 it hasn’t changed a whole lot! I think the snes original is a better design (and better music) but still overrated

I’ve never played the original weirdly enough, so I’ll be picking it up with an Amazon card I got from work

too expensive for a port, so Im passing

Probably the laziest port of a game no one was clamoring for Nintendo has ever done

It's one of the worst dkc games I've ever played and it gutted what made the trilogy so good. I'll pass.

I caved and preordered on Tuesday - Gamestop has a fun DK barrel desk cup for a preorder bonus, I have a $5 off coupon with them, and somebody’s got to keep that business afloat! (They closed my local store in 2021 and now the next closest store just last week.)

I’ve barely played any of the DK Country games so I’ll be going into this one with an open mind. At the pace I play games lately, though, Kong will likely simmer in the backlog for a long time.

I won't be getting it, but everyone interested, please do so, so they can consider finally dropping DKCR3 on us all.

Heck yeah I've had it pre-ordered for some time...however the Gamestop I pre-ordered it at literally just closed down with no notice two days ago. I'm curious how I'm supposed to get it? They going to call me and let me know where it's moved to? I've read some stuff online about that's usually plan. I'll have to make some calls next week to the (very) few stores that remain in my area.

I totally understand everyone's gripe about the port and price. However, for someone like me that missed it back in the day this is perfect. In that era the girl I was with at the time had it and loved it however I believe I was neck deep into the whole "Call of Duty" phase. I missed a lot of games back then due that era so it's perfect for me to get another proper shot. Especially since all I have is the Switch. I ain't hunting down a Wii or something to play it again.

This is one of my favourite games of all time! Absolutely getting it. Didn't play the 3DS version though.

I definitely want it but I don’t want to spend $60 on it. I bought the same game on 3DS for much cheaper, half the price I believe, so it’s quite difficult to justify.
Will likely buy it on sale or with some kind of voucher to bring the price down a bit.
I think $50 would’ve been much more fair and would’ve gotten them an instabuy from me.

Not interested. I got enough with Tropical Freeze. I want another game like DK 64, very underrated game.

The only Nintendo release that has my eye this year is Xenoblade Chronicles X so this is a big NAH for me

I once collected every secret and beat every challenge on the Wii version. Never, ever again.

But maybe, if the price drops, say next holiday season, I will bite. But I'm never 100-percenting this game again - That's for sure.

I already have it on Wii and 3DS. I preferred the 3DS version as the extra heart made it slightly easier.

These ports are too dog gone expensive every other company except Nintendo has substantial price drops for their top games over time except them. 60 dollars is too much for a simple re-release

@FishyS "Although I like Donkey Kong I don't feel the need for this port. If it was $20 I might grab it, but definitely not $60."

That makes total sense!

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