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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze |OT| There's always money in the banana stand
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I'm vaping with Master Kush, so yeah Im going to think more thoroughly when someone is gonna come rustle my nuts.
We like games
Im personally doing ejaculatory gushing because all of this has been pent up inside me since Ive been banned.
Freezie KO
Banned
^Thank you, Xtortionist for linking spoiler images!
Anyway, got a question for those of you who've beaten and experienced 3-K. I just finished it:
Anyway, got a question for those of you who've beaten and experienced 3-K. I just finished it:
Was anyone else absolutely terrified at the last platform?
It's just sitting there. It's a moving platform that was jammed or malfunctioning, so it's just still. Unlike every other danger in the level, it seems so safe. It has to be a trap. I didn't even want to jump to it, so I sat on my safe platform for a while. And waited. And waited. And finally decided to go for it. Once I landed on the non-moving platform, I noticed that I could pull up the plug on the ground. And I didn't want to do that either. I had made it so far, and I didn't want to die. So I just sat on the non-moving platform for a minute... and waited... and finally decided to pull up the plug. And then it flings me to the end of the level. HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF.
Anyone else experience this?
It's just sitting there. It's a moving platform that was jammed or malfunctioning, so it's just still. Unlike every other danger in the level, it seems so safe. It has to be a trap. I didn't even want to jump to it, so I sat on my safe platform for a while. And waited. And waited. And finally decided to go for it. Once I landed on the non-moving platform, I noticed that I could pull up the plug on the ground. And I didn't want to do that either. I had made it so far, and I didn't want to die. So I just sat on the non-moving platform for a minute... and waited... and finally decided to pull up the plug. And then it flings me to the end of the level. HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF.
Anyone else experience this?
I would say 3D World is far far more novice friendly than DK since it requires far less precise platforming and the difficulty curve very slowly increases.
The 1st World of DK might be ok, but the difficulty ramps up so fast it'll be really hard for anyone who doesn't play platformers like this regularly.
On the other hand though, for the more difficult sections you can always let you're co-op partner jump on your back and be more of an assist character. Should make it less frustrating.
Basically I'd say give it a try but don't get you're hopes up. You could spend extra time on the 1st few levels finding all the secrets so that she could get used to the feel of the game.
Oh man, you delivered. The first and last shots are probably my favorite, but I'm cracking up at all of the shots with DK poking his head out of a barrel, and those
popsicles
Thank you so much for sharing these.
TIGER-COOL
Banned
Mario is more manageable, and far easier. To be honest I have a much worse time playing co-op with my brother in TF (and he's not particularly bad). I just get stressed out when I want to take my time and enjoy everything the game has to offer and instead I find myself worrying about what he's doing. No one ever moves at your pace, which is frustrating on its own. Add to that the already difficult, precise platforming, and if you're not on the EXACT same page, you're going to have rough go.
My plan is to beat it single player, then do some co-op so that I can relax and enjoy it
Solid Samus
Banned
edit - holy shit where'd my reading comprehension go
Just finished World 4. God damn the music is amazing. Loved how Aquatic Ambiance is integrated into lots of levels. Also, freaking loved
and
. Probably my two favorite levels so far. That music, too! I wasn't expecting
! This game makes me feel so nostalgic.
EDIT: How could I forget
! Brilliant! Is that a new song? I can't really tell, it works so well with the rest of the soundtrack. It's starting to get hard to tell which songs are new and old, they all are bringing me back. It's weird, but in a very good way. Can I call this soundtrack of the decade yet? I'm not even done yet...
Irate Eight
Rockin' Relics
Lockjaw's Saga
EDIT: How could I forget
Amiss Abyss
I'm in world 5 now; game is sure not easy...but it does seem to evoke a lot of the same feelings as those SNES games all those years ago. It's much better than Returns in that regard...in fact it is much better than Returns period and that was a very good game.
It is right up there with DKC2 as best in the series. This is one of the best platformers ever made.
It is right up there with DKC2 as best in the series. This is one of the best platformers ever made.
Incitemaybe
Member
Holy crap.....just made it to 4-1...... Love it! Also that music....might be my fav so far....this level is very trippy
I think part of the problem lies with the instrumentation used. The music sounds cheap and tinny most of the time.
The best songs are just themes ripped from the original games and sound worse due to poor the above problem.
Kenji Yamamoto has done some amazing work, but DKCR is not one of those. He was trying too hard to duplicate the original Rare games and just couldn't pull it off.
It's a good sountrack in my opinion. I like it. Never had a problem with it.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
W-whoa...
That rock...
That rock...
Trevelyan9999
Banned
Well, that fifth boss was weirdly easy... The poor guy didn't even hit me a single time.
As a matter of fact, I have to admit that DKTF is not as hard as I thought it would be. The reviewers were exaggerating, as often happens...
The game is hard enough in my opinion. I have died nearly 10 times on a few levels so far and I'm on World 4.
Retro did an excellent job of teaching you without tutorials; you can see what you need to do usually, it just takes practice and memorization. I love one of the first Rocket Barrel levels where when you die you are greeted with nice soothingly calm music before it puts you back in harms way. Nice job.
The Xtortionist
Member
That's a crocodile.
HUELEN10
Member
That a Kremlin or something?W-whoa...
That rock...
RhombusPrime
Neo Member
I totally second this. Amazing game and my favorite DK game by a mile, but why they chose to do them like they did makes no sense. Even in DKC2, as far as i remember, a lot of the bonus rooms involved getting to the end of a challenge or something rather than grab every banana. Plus, the old bonus room music was way cooler..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S62AX1_HTkA
comadorcrack
Neo Member
Okay Just finished the last boss. Can I just say the bosses in this game are too damn long!
Apart from that though, I had a blast! I'm no where near done with it, now I gotta find all the secrets.
Especially the last boss. There is no challenge to any of it until the last segment. Which I died on a fair few times, and had to do the piss easy, time filling first two segments. It just got boring towards the end, which really sucked the fun out of the end for me.
Apart from that though, I had a blast! I'm no where near done with it, now I gotta find all the secrets.
I beat it today and thought it was WAYYYYYYYYYYYY easier than Returns. Maybe that's just because I played through returns first. There were only maybe 4 levels (including bosses) that I died more than 5 times just trying to beat. Most of the game I had 99 lives.
Any tips for 1K? Can't quite get the gold on it yet.
W-whoa...
That rock...
Now that you mention it it's hard not to think of that as King K.Rool.
The perfect Dark
Banned
This is my first time playing Donkey Kong Country since the SNES game (unless completing my sister's Gameboy DK Land counts?). I was fully not prepared for how complex the levels or the controls would be.
Played some multiplayer with my girlfriend. We had to stop the game and check the manual (!) because we couldn't figure out how the controls of how to detach the two characters once they connected. We thought player 2's controls were broken.
I think I'm liking the game, but it's been a while since I was exposed to a game with so many currencies and items. When I visited Funky Kong I had no idea what the red, green or blue balloons were for, so didn't buy any.
Played some multiplayer with my girlfriend. We had to stop the game and check the manual (!) because we couldn't figure out how the controls of how to detach the two characters once they connected. We thought player 2's controls were broken.
I think I'm liking the game, but it's been a while since I was exposed to a game with so many currencies and items. When I visited Funky Kong I had no idea what the red, green or blue balloons were for, so didn't buy any.
I disagree - I think he went for a different thing and largely succeeded, giving the levels atmosphere and not so much in terms of hooks. Different thing, that's all. Wise's soundtrack is one of a kind and obviously a greater work but I really enjoyed DKCR's sound.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Wow, 4-k was actually pretty easy.
Red balloons are 1-Ups. Green balloons lift you up if you fall down a pit. Blue balloons replenish your oxygen under water.
You have to equip them on the Inventory screen before entering a level, and confirm your selections with the + button.
D
Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Two hidden exits in one area
I love how the difficulty isn't at all gradually increasing, but takes random leaps and jumps back and forth. 2-K is ten times harder than 3-K. Level 2 boss is also arguably much harder than level 3.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Looks like that rock on the bottom right is sticking it's tongue out.
Played a little more of this last night, and it's just such a killer game.
Hey Xtortionist, posted more of your screens in the screenshots thread, with proper attribution, of course.
The perfect Dark
Banned
My god I hate 5-4. missed the last letter, so I have to play it again. Nice.
The Xtortionist
Member
But that underwater music
D
Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
When I miss a letter, I mysteriously die so I can start from last check point.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Yeah totally forgot about that, lol.
I'm guessing that you skipped the post game content on the Mario games.
Started playing yesterday and so far I'm really loving this game, even though I'm only in world 2 and have already yelled at the tv in rage quite a few times.
But I'm currently at level 2.4 and I'm kind of stuck.
Edit: OK, like 40 tries later I finally got it. Feels good!
But I'm currently at level 2.4 and I'm kind of stuck.
After the minecart changes to the log of wood there is this sequence were you slide on water and can jump out of the water and dive under it. It is just that it seems to me totally random, when I'm able to jump high enough so I can dive and not crash into the poles for that matter. I'm guessing I'm missing some rule of timing here, but I can't figure it out for the love of me
Edit: OK, like 40 tries later I finally got it. Feels good!
SaintMadeOfPlaster
Member
That's not a rock, it's tapestry.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Fuck 6-4, fuck it!
Anyone feel as if some of the levels are just a bit too long for their own good?
First time through, not a big deal, but I find myself not really wanting to replay a lot of the stages due to just how long they are. I've realized that all of my very favorite platform games all feature levels which can be finished in 1-2 minutes during normal play. I'd rather have more shorter levels than a handful of long stages.
This applies doubly to boss fights which are WAYYYYY too long for their own good. Most of the patterns are simple enough but you spend so much time waiting that retrying after failure becomes tedious.
Still great, of course, but just the one small thing that has been annoying.
First time through, not a big deal, but I find myself not really wanting to replay a lot of the stages due to just how long they are. I've realized that all of my very favorite platform games all feature levels which can be finished in 1-2 minutes during normal play. I'd rather have more shorter levels than a handful of long stages.
This applies doubly to boss fights which are WAYYYYY too long for their own good. Most of the patterns are simple enough but you spend so much time waiting that retrying after failure becomes tedious.
Still great, of course, but just the one small thing that has been annoying.