Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D preview - New screens and details
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Donkey Kong Country Returns on the Nintendo Wii was an excruciatingly difficult platformer featuring Nintendo's famous red-tied Kong and his partner Diddy. Now the game is coming to the Nintendo 3DS with all new features to transition the side-scroller to a more pleasant handheld experience.
The first thing the developers added to the portable 3D version of the game was the less challenging New Mode. The added difficulty setting increases the number of hearts from two to three, giving you a total of six hearts if you have Diddy with Donkey. Players also have more options when they go to Cranky Kong's item shop. Three new items have been added to give players a little bit of breathing room. Likely the most useful is a green balloon which can carry players back up after falling into a bottomless pits. Plus, Donkey Kong can now equip DK barrels that can be used to summon Diddy at any time, and the Crash Guard potion allows you to take three total (formerly fatal) hits during mine kart challenges.
The 3DS version has also added eight new levels to the end of the game. Unlocking the secret Golden Temple level from the original game now opens up a world above the clouds. Each stage represents the different environments around the original game's island with appropriately challenging platforming. Donkey Kong Country Returns will also feature co-op over Wi-Fi but will keep the characters within the confines of the shared screen (the same as the original couch co-op). Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D will hit stores on May 24 on Nintendo 3DS.
Want to see the 3DS version in action? Check out the Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D gameplay in the video below.
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Eight new levels on top of the clouds
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The new Crash Guard will help you here
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A familiar environment with new challenges
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Six hearts is better than four
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ObliqueZombie - April 18, 2013 2:56 p.m.
Man this brings back memories... pretty excited for this one. If only they'd remake/make a new Donkey Kong 64. :'( -
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BladedFalcon - April 18, 2013 11:37 a.m.
I'm slightly confused, is the new easy mode optional? or is that how the game will be by default? I honestly wouldn't like it if they didn't let me play it as it was originally intended. Aside from that, I'm pretty excited since I didn't play the Wii version! 8 now worlds sounds like even extra bang for my buck, (and also the kind of extras a proper old school nintendo game would have had from the get go...) The graphics do seem to have taken a hit, but I suppose it was inevitable, and it still looks pretty good, and it should look even better on the smaller screen! -
JarkayColt - April 18, 2013 12:08 p.m.
In the Nintendo Direct they introduced the easy mode as "New Mode". They're also keeping the "Original Mode", so you can play with the old settings if you wish. You pick which mode you want to play at the start, just like you would with any other difficulty setting, although naturally you can't change it later in this game as I guess it effects the item availability and such. -
BladedFalcon - April 18, 2013 1:30 p.m.
Ah, awesome, good to hear! And well, no matter if difficulty level can't be changed, I make it a point to never do that XD -
Person5 - April 18, 2013 1:36 p.m.
Remember that graphics always look worse when blown up like this from the 3DS games and they always look better on the original resolution. Also It seems like the New Mode is optional to my understanding, it confuses me though, the original DKC wasn't all that difficult and I didn't play DKC:R but I would have thought it was even easier. Yet GR keeps making it seem like the hardest thing since sliced bread, anyone who played it on the Wii, was it that difficult? -
BladedFalcon - April 18, 2013 3:20 p.m.
I'd imagine that part of the reason that was considered hard was because it forced you to use waggle controls, and as well all know, waggle is kinda very terrible for anything involving precision. That, and no offense, but the majority of the new GR crew are kinda lightweights when it comes to challenging stuff... And even the old crew, I remember them complaining that MM9 and 10 were super hard- and they really weren't, they just got softer with age I guess XD -
Person5 - April 18, 2013 5:19 p.m.
Well to be fair I viewed MM9 to be incredibly difficult, but I've never been good at MM games. The waggle probably was the main problem with DKC:R, hopefully the 3DS controls make things easier. You are right though, they do seem to over exaggerate difficulty though. -
JarkayColt - April 18, 2013 11:15 a.m.
Looks good, I passed on the original Wii version because I heard the difficulty was aggravated by the controls or some such. Well, that's not the only reason I passed on it, but I think it's probably better suited to the 3DS than it was on the Wii (and the extra additions seem nice). Still, when the camera zoomed out it did look as though it might be a little hard to keep tabs on where DK is on the 3DS's smaller screen.
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