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It's also quite generous in dishing out the lives, so players will feel challenged to progress through the game, but they won't feel under pressure of the 'Game Over' screen another nice concession to the new without forgetting the old. But at the same time Retro Studio's difficulty seems somehow fairer - testing a player's skill more than his/ her ability to react to sudden hazards.
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The game's levels are challenging (even with an 'easy mode' for the less experienced gamers) another nod to the crushing difficulty that the original SNES games were able to provide at times. Even the rideable Rambi the Rhino is back - though I guess a Donkey Kong game wouldn't be one without Rambi. The mine cart levels, which where the bane of my childhood gaming experience are back and just as nasty as ever. I laughed because I remember as a child having a nightmare of a time trying to get through a level built on the same concept in the original Donkey Kong Country. I laughed out loud when I got mid-way through the first world and encountered a level filled with those explosive barrels that I needed to blast the team between. The new music tracks are thematically spot on and help break up a soundscape that could have otherwise felt uncreative.Įverything else about the game then follows the lead of the music taking the old Donkey Kong Country that we loved so much, and just tweaking things enough to give us a new game. Many of the tunes are familiar, yet remixed to not feel dated. The music is the most immediately noticeable way in which the desires for the old and the new balance out perfectly. From start to finish this new adventure tracks the fine line between nostalgic indulgence and modernisation perfectly. The good news is that the game is undeniably brilliant.
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So I'm back to remedy that with the 3DS release of the game, and I'm probably one of the few critics reviewing this game as the first time I've played it. I'm not sure if it just released at a really busy point in time, of it I was broke, or if it was some other reason, but despite loving Rare's Super Nintendo trilogy, I skipped the reworking of the classic formula. For some reason I missed the original Wii release of Donkey Kong Country Returns.