What Gamespot Users have to say about Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Rating:9.5
Retro resurrects one of the greatest platformers of all time and does it more than justice.
In 1994 Nintendo released a Super Nintendo platformer developed by Rare featuring everyone's favorite ape: Donkey Kong. The game was a smash hit selling over eight million copies worldwide making it the best selling SNE... Read Full Review
5 of 5 users found the following review helpful - Rating:8
Donkey Kong Country Returns is a great game but, it's hard to say its an awesome game.
In Donkey Kong Country Returns (Dkcr) you play as the famous ape, Donkey Kong, accompanied by your monkey companion, Diddy Kong. You go through levels which have barrels to help get you farther, the new puzzle pieces, yo... Read Full Review
1 of 3 users found the following review helpful - Rating:9.5
Be prepare for both challenge and a lot of fun.
Donkey Kong Country Returns has a well-loved pedigree to live up to, the first three games on the SNES are some of the best games the system has to offer (Of which there are a lot, but I digress.) Fortunately, Retro Stu... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful - Rating:9
Prepare for some hairpulling, screaming, television kicking action!
The new Donkey Kong is great game although a very hard one. While you are totally getting butchered the first 60 times you try a level you'll keep on coming back for more pain. After a lot af practice you'll eventually s... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpful - Rating:10
Reviving games long past seems to be a trend. Donkey Kong Country does it so well, it feels at home with the old ones.
If anything when a game new game comes out in a series your always asking yourself is it going to be horrible or not as good as the other. But what if a game had been nearly dead for fifteen years and Nintendo approaches... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful - Rating:8.5
A fairly steep difficulty curve is the only downside a platformer that's colorful and chock full of character.
From the moment you set foot out of Donkey Kong's hut after comically bashing the brains out of one of his latest foes, you just know you're in for a real treat of a game. The Donkey Kong Country series was one of the mo... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful - Rating:8
Nintendo freshens up the old SNES series and takes to the Wii; and be ready for a challenge.
Donkey Kong Country Returns brings back a beloved platform series from Nintendo's SNES era to the Wii. The premise hasn't changed much here; Donkey Kong has his prized hoard of bananas stolen again, so he sets out with h... Read Full Review
1 of 3 users found the following review helpful - Rating:3.5
Difficulty not for children
I've played all Donkey Kong Country games before, and completed them 101%. This one, however, I doubt I will ever finish. Thank god Nintendo put a leash on their Wiimotes because at the amount of times I've punched the... Read Full Review
3 of 25 users found the following review helpful - Rating:8.5
Retro Studios have managed to recreate everything that made the origernal DKC games great. Including their bad points.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing. There are some game series' that I buy solely because they still give me the same buzz now as they did 10, 15, even 20 years ago. Mario and Megaman spring to mind. Donkey Kong Country th... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful - Rating:8
Donkey Kong fans of the past now have a reason to monkey around again!
** This was written for a high school newspaper, so please take that into consideration when reading through the statistics and brief background descriptions ** Donkey Kong Country (DKC) was released for the Supe... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpful
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