Donkey Kong Country Returns: Review
Donkey Kong Country Returns is a devilishly hard side-scrolling platformer. Although it is one of the more difficult games out there, the difficulty actually adds to the fun. The joy you get from finishing that next impossible level just adds to the charm.
Although it starts out fairly easy, Donkey Kong Country Returns gets to the point where you are dropping around 30 lives in one level. It has the classic mine cart levels, as well as some standard accurate-jumping levels just like the ones in the original Super Mario Bros. But a great addition to this fantastic game is the rocket barrel levels. And no, I don't mean the levels consisting of all those barrels with arrows on them, and although there are plenty of those levels in Donkey Kong Country Returns, I mean that there is a rocket barrel you can actually ride. While steering the rocket barrel, you avoid enemies and walls, because if you hit anything once, you die. These levels can be the hardest, but also the most fun. And if you get stuck on a level of any sort, you have the option in most cases to take an alternate route through the world.
A fantastic addition to the game is the silhouette levels. As the name implies, you play as merely a silhouette of Donkey Kong traversing through a completely silhouetted level. It makes for a great time exploring, since the hidden objects of the level are much trickier to find than in a normal level. But the levels aren't the only good part of the game. The musical score is really marvelous. It is the kind of music that sticks in your head. In one of the levels, your movements are actually synchronized with the music. You roll under a hammer before it pounds out the next note, you bound along humongous drums towards the end of the level, etc. You also have more than one control option; you can go with either the Wiimote and Nunchuk or the Wiimote held sideways. This game is funny and entertaining; I suggest giving it a try.
Although it starts out fairly easy, Donkey Kong Country Returns gets to the point where you are dropping around 30 lives in one level. It has the classic mine cart levels, as well as some standard accurate-jumping levels just like the ones in the original Super Mario Bros. But a great addition to this fantastic game is the rocket barrel levels. And no, I don't mean the levels consisting of all those barrels with arrows on them, and although there are plenty of those levels in Donkey Kong Country Returns, I mean that there is a rocket barrel you can actually ride. While steering the rocket barrel, you avoid enemies and walls, because if you hit anything once, you die. These levels can be the hardest, but also the most fun. And if you get stuck on a level of any sort, you have the option in most cases to take an alternate route through the world.
A fantastic addition to the game is the silhouette levels. As the name implies, you play as merely a silhouette of Donkey Kong traversing through a completely silhouetted level. It makes for a great time exploring, since the hidden objects of the level are much trickier to find than in a normal level. But the levels aren't the only good part of the game. The musical score is really marvelous. It is the kind of music that sticks in your head. In one of the levels, your movements are actually synchronized with the music. You roll under a hammer before it pounds out the next note, you bound along humongous drums towards the end of the level, etc. You also have more than one control option; you can go with either the Wiimote and Nunchuk or the Wiimote held sideways. This game is funny and entertaining; I suggest giving it a try.
My rating?
8/10
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