- Once again, never played the original non-HD version; this was my first time through what now amounts to a âclassicâ game
- It isâŠ. fine, but they almost shouldnât call these âDonky Kong Countryâ games. There are several hallmarks of all 3 DKC games which are missing. The worlds do not feel expansive or covered in secrets at all, the way DKC2 and DKC 3 do. Everything you could possibly have to do is all laid out in front of you. Thereâs no Krematoa-equivalent.
- There is a final, secret world, but unlocking it is all-or-nothing; you canât partially visit or come in through a bunch of little side doors scattered all over the place.
- Also no animal friends besides Rambi
- Even the soundtrack doesnât really have the juice. There are good arrangements of good songs but nothing can really match a SNES sound chip cranking out those David Wise originals
- Even though I donât think itâs a real Donkey Kong Country game, it still is not bad. The level designs are fun and the difficulty curve is fair, to maybe leaning a LITTLE on the easy side.
- I also could not see anywhere that the HD upgrade went clearly and severely wrong. The game looks good and you donât have any weird artifacts that you sometimes see on âHD upgradesâ like texture resolution mismatches
- Overall, probably worth it if you didnât play this game in itsâ day, but if you did, I donât see what would be the point.
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Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
(Completed on 6 Feb 2025)
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Tomb Raider: Legend
(Completed on 23 Jan 2025)
- The PS2 original is the âcanonical versionâ of this game, considering all the remakes and ports that came out over the years
- Itâs a fun, low-stress adventure game which doesnât demand very much of you
- Gameplay-wise, itâs not demanding much of you, but the visuals and characters and music and settings are all so good that youâre sort of willing to go along with it
- I had forgotten how much unlockable content that developers used to put in these games. While I did not do â100% completionâ and get all of Laraâs little outfits and such, I can see myself going back to the game for those things. It is fun and a little jarring to see how developers used to give the fans what they want; today all that stuff would be DLC.
- The game is short (even, I think, for the time) but in itsâ small package, it accomplishes what itâs trying to do. The settings are very memorable and the story (which no one even really needs in a Tomb Raider game IWABH) is coherent and interesting.
- Not all games reviewed on this site are very accessible to moderns, but I think this one is, and I can recommend it as long as you donât come in looking for something too hardcore
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