Thought I'd post up a quick review of the new Donkey Kong Country Returns on the Wii as I've just been bowled over with how good it is. I know there will be a lot of people out there that played the original and maybe like me, consider it to be one of the all time best games of that era.
I originally produced this as a review for Amazon (I know it's a bit geeky).
Utter Brilliance - Retro Nostalgia with a Modern Update
The original DKC is an all time classic game made by the developers of that era - Rareware. The music, the game play, the graphics - combining to form one of the fondest gaming memories of my childhood.
It was scary loading up Donkey Kong Country Returns for the first time. How can a new version live up to those childhood memories? Well, the fact is, this is first time I've ever bothered to write a review of a product on Amazon, so you can gather that it does... and more so!
It is simply brilliant - the perfect combination of the classic with enough new elements to bowl you over for a second time round. Fans of Donkey Kong Country on the SNES will find nods to the original around every corner. The most important thing is the new developers have added loads of fresh twists to the original idea, making it stack up well in todays modern gaming world, but at no point have they forgotten their roots.
Oh, if you were enchanted by the music scores in the original, those tunes are back in this version.
It does the SNES version proud - you need this game in your life (again)
Only negative thing is the Kremlings aren't in the game, which I think is a shame. Even though the new enemies work well, they're just not Kremlings!