Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
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Packaging artwork released for all territories
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| Developer(s) |
Retro Studios Monster Games |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Ryan Harris Vince Joly |
| Producer(s) | Kensuke Tanabe |
| Composer(s) |
David Wise Daisuke Matsuoka Minako Hamano Shinji Ushiroda |
| Series |
Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong |
| Platform(s) | Wii U |
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| Genre(s) | Platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
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| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 10/10 |
| Eurogamer | 7/10 |
| Game Informer | 9.25/10 |
| GameSpot | 6/10 |
| GamesRadar |   |
| GamesTM | 7/10 |
| GameTrailers | 9.1/10 |
| IGN | 9/10 |
| Joystiq | |
| Polygon | 8.5/10 |
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a 2014 side-scrolling platformer video game developed by Retro Studios, with assistance from Monster Games, and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. Originally slated to be released in November 2013, it was delayed until December, then again until February 2014. The fifth installment in the main Donkey Kong Country series, and the first in high-definition, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is the direct sequel to the 2010 Wii game, Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The game continues on from the side-scrolling platform gameplay of the Donkey Kong Country series and sees Donkey Kong and his friends travelling through six different islands in order to defeat the Snowmads. Controls are similar to the previous game, with the addition of being able to pluck items from the ground and pick up and throw stunned enemies, and various controllers can be used with customizable controls. Like the previous game, players primarily control Donkey Kong who is assisted by a companion, who either provide additional abilities to Donkey Kong, or can be controlled individually by a second player. Along with Diddy Kong, who returns with his barrel jetpack for crossing large gaps, two additional characters are added; Dixie Kong and Cranky Kong. Dixie has the ability to spin her ponytail into a propeller and slowly descend through the air, with an initial boost in height at the start, allowing her and Donkey Kong to fly up out-of-reach platforms or items. Cranky, in a similar mechanic to the DuckTales video game, can use his cane to bounce on dangerous surfaces such as spiky thorns and reach higher areas and defeat certain enemies the other Kongs cannot. Filling up a 'Kong-POW' meter allows Donkey Kong and his partner to perform a special move which defeats all on-screen enemies and converts them into items depending on the partner.
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