August 8, 2011

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Date played: August 6th
Platform: Wii
Time played: 90 minutes
Session fun rating: 10/10

This is such a great platforming game.  I keep being impressed with the level design actually.  I've played through World 7 and two levels of World 8 this time.  World 7 is factory themed so it's not really interesting compared to some of the other world but the level design is simply amazing.

There was a new silhouette level which very pretty but outside of that, it was pretty bland.  There was also a cool level with some barrel riding which was kind of difficult.  The boss was interesting (a chicken riding a giant mech?!?) but was way too easy for such a late level.  The bonus 7K level was also much easier than many of the others but it was still a lot of fun.
An ape, Mr Game and Watch and Limbo?  All that's missing is that Final Countdown song.

The first two levels of World 8 were pretty cool.  It seems to be lava world of some sort.  Again, another barrel riding sequence but this one was much more difficult because the KONG letters were tough to catch.  I'm almost done with this game and it's breaking my heart.