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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze |OT| There's always money in the banana stand
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DICKS AHOY
Banned
Could just be excitement over a new DKC but besides a couple 'meh' tracks this is easily shaping up to at least be on the same level as DKC2-musically speaking.
At 2:20 it transitions to the version that plays when you're sliding on the vines. SOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!
Edit: Oh god I swear my heart skipped a beat when it got to 3:02. It's so beautiful!
What the -- this is amazing. There better be a full version of this in the sound test! (The part where the girls sing "Doooonkey Koooong")
No one seems to be talking about Zip Line Shrine, it's another amazing track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fIsahUaEmU
Edit: The next track has been uploaded, it's a nice rendition of the DKC1 caves theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RJK3VdsVQ
I haven't heard it before. To anyone who has the game, where does it play?
Edit: The next track has been uploaded, it's a nice rendition of the DKC1 caves theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RJK3VdsVQ
I haven't heard it before. To anyone who has the game, where does it play?
The Xtortionist
Member
Zipline Shrine should be 1-A.
Nocturnowl
Member
Well it started okay with the splash screen things DK jingle and then....yeah, I get the whole straight into the action angle but I need something more.
Come on Retro, where the hell is something like THIS in your DK games?
Even something simple like the Retro Studios and Nintendo logos popping up in a tropical scene only to suddenly get frozen over by a sudden influx of icy wind.
The question was about the cave music. I probably should have clarified that in my post, sorry.
Wing Ding has that sort of transcendent charm. You feel like you're soaring across the universe.
Man whoever said this game had way too many happy tunes really needs to check out some of these tracks. The soundtrack seems to strike an excellent balance between happy and moody tunes.
I take it I'm not the only one refreshing piplupwater's channel every few minutes
Anyway, I love the cave music. It sounds very reminiscent of the cave theme from DKC1, but so much more haunting and atmospheric.
The Xtortionist
Member
Does Nintendo still use splash screens? Don't think I've seen one in their games in forever.
Ah. 2-A, I think.
Nocturnowl
Member
Nintendo really like to just jump straight to the title screen these days, an angle I understand as they want to get you to the game faster and that by faaar tops the logo parade of most modern games but I do dig having a little skipable something to lead in to that even if its just as simple yet classic as A Link to the Pasts Triforce assembling.
Nintendo Land was the weirdest, not even a title screen? I can't deal with that, it throws me for a loop every time I play it, though with the slow loading upon starting up the game pre patch on the Wii U I guess that was a blessing.
Random Aside: I'll be chuffed as chips if a stage on Frozen DK Island got a Phendrana Drifts style theme from Yamamoto with that lovely little icy sound he employs, though after Returns I'm not expecting much from his side aside from his beloved chorus sample turning up every now and then like in the snowmad theme.
I can't get enough of Alpine Incline (both versions). David truly is the Wisest video game composer.
The Xtortionist
Member
Some stuff to look out for: Grassland Grove (obviously), Frantic Fields (Rambi version), Cannon Canyon (dat flute!), Irate Eight beginning version (so smooth it's like anti-aliased silk), every world 6 song, final boss theme (prepare your anus for this one if you haven't heard it already).
Could this soundtrack surpass DKC2? I think it could. To reference a familiar thread - "Does DKCTF have the most voluminous and varied soundtrack in a platformer ever? I said WOW!"
Neiteio you better make that goddamn thread after the game launches :3
Hero of Legend
Member
Any tracks that are remixes from Diddy Kong Racing?
You just did. That's as good as it gets.
Mountain Mania is a trip
The opening was setting me up for a completely different song, only to burst out laughing when Wise brought in Frosty Frolics 2.0.
Im still not sure what to think of it on the whole, but the sections with the game's liet motif are so good.
The opening was setting me up for a completely different song, only to burst out laughing when Wise brought in Frosty Frolics 2.0.
Im still not sure what to think of it on the whole, but the sections with the game's liet motif are so good.
World 2 boss theme is up!
Very different in tone to the other boss themes I've heard. So far world 5's got my favourite boss theme, but this is a great track too
EDIT: Beaten obviously
Very different in tone to the other boss themes I've heard. So far world 5's got my favourite boss theme, but this is a great track too
EDIT: Beaten obviously
Holy Order Sol
Member
meh, just send me right into 1-1 as I press start for the first time
If we're talking openings, I've always been very fond of the opening to DKC3GBA. But I'm fine with the game just starting up straight away. Even a short sequence like this gets tedious when you just want to start playing the game.
Smashman45
Member
Man I just can't get enough of "Emmentaler Stollen" (Cave music). Creepy as hell. The hints of
make it all the more chilling.
DKC's Cave Dweller Concert
Out of Working Order
Member
This is so eerie and mysterious.
The GameXplain Q&A is up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tav7LweEBJI
Indeed, that vietnamese pokemon is so random :lol. Also, I loled waaay too hard at: "beedrill, porygon, monkey, mario dinosaur, eeeeeh, abomination"!
On topic, well... Is it the 21st yet? =(
I went ahead and created a music thread to free up this OT for actual game discussion. David Wise returning is, after all, a momentous event for the gaming community.
Thread is here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=771350
Thread is here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=771350
KennyLinder
Member
Preordered from Amazon UK, looking forward to playing it this weekend. My poor Wii U is sitting there unloved and I absolutely loved the Rare DK's and the first Retro one too so had to buy this game.
In fact i've moved my Wii U from downstairs to in the study alongside my PS4. Looking good together, I must say
In fact i've moved my Wii U from downstairs to in the study alongside my PS4. Looking good together, I must say
TheSpaceBetween
Member
42 levels if you want to blow through the game, 63 total.
Outtrigger888
Member
One review mentioned around 13 hours, but to 100%, play hard mode, doing time trials, that you can easily triple that.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
What I have gathered is that load times vary depending on the level, but overall the concerns have been exaggerated.
ugh_the_boot
Banned
My friends and I get together every Friday to have a gaming session at a mates place and we have been starved of any couch co-op stuff lately.
Even though we never finished DKCR on Wii i'm looking forward to grabbing this. Not sure why the Australian release date is 22/2/14 though.
Even though we never finished DKCR on Wii i'm looking forward to grabbing this. Not sure why the Australian release date is 22/2/14 though.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
What horrible load times???
Besides loading the first level for the first time, they are on par with Returns.
Then again, knowing people, many would call those "horrible".
I thought they were fine.
Christopher
Member
Club Nintendo: Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze OST platinum status
dream big, my friend
Kamek Koopa
Member
Triple that? If time trials are as hard as they were in Donkey Kong Country Returns, you can multiplicate that number by ten or more, seriously. I spent more than 100 hours in order to get all those delicious shiny golds back in DKCR.
It's so weird that people didn't want me to review Tropical Freeze after I gave an 8.5 to Returns.
I guess people read WAY too much into that preview you did.
Thanks bro!
CrimsonCommie
Member
Is it bad that I haven't finished the last level of DKCR yet?