Donkey Kong series back in-house for a new 2D platformer created by the team behind
Super Mario Odyssey that could line up with the big ape’s 40th-anniversary celebration.
DK’s last big outing was on Nintendo’s previous console, the Wii U. 2014’s
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was the second of two revivals of the SNES platformer series by Retro Studios, a Nintendo aligned developer out of Texas. That team is currently at work on
Metroid Prime 4, and sources have heard rumblings of a new
Donkey Kong 2D adventure coming from Nintendo of Japan.
The rumor includes that Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (known as EPD Tokyo) will not be using the
Bowser s Fury is a fun expansion that takes things in a different direction
Level design is consistently good
Graphics are beautiful, particularly in SM3DW
Cons
Maybe a little too easy on the whole when compared to other Mario games
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A huge multinational company launches a game platform that’s an abject failure, drops it after just four years on the market, and then launches a new console that turns out to be a huge success. It takes all of the old first-party games it released on that previous console, which all had very limited audiences thanks to poor console sales, and re-releases them on the new, much more successful console for full price despite the fact that they’re all years old at this point. There is no punchline.