It was nice of Donkey Kong Country to return and all that, but the act is already starting to feel stale. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, coming out on Feb. 21 for the Wii U, is the follow-up to the Wii's Donkey Kong Country Returns, which was the first entry in the franchise since the days of...

Tropical Freeze might not have the novelty factor of its predecessor, but it's still a great platforming experience; Levels offer plenty of challenge, with lots of extra lives and checkpoints to keep you from becoming totally frustrated after each of your (many, many) deaths.

Each boss fight acts like it's the final encounter of any other game; They all feature multiple stages with different patterns to memorize, which means that they're all very, very long.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a challenging, well designed and rewarding platformer. It's the perfect start to 2014 for Wii U fans, and has topped Returns in challenge, design, soundtrack and overall fun. Tropical Freeze is unforgiving at times, but that only makes success even more sweet.

+ Great level design; + Looks great; sounds even better; + Challenging boss battles; + Added characters; + Collectables

- Multiplayer isn't that great; - Inherently can become a little repetitive

This game is an old time favourite, a true classic. Great that it's on the Wii U

It looks fantastic, with the extra grunt of the Wii U creating a sense of spectacle. The worlds are vibrantly coloured and rich in detail, with a hyperactive camera that swooshes outwards as explosive barrels fire you into the screen. The game is at its best when it explores one-shot gimmicks.

The Donkey Kong Country games are almost the perfect package for a gamer like me. Their artistic direction is fantastically realised, their soundtracks are some of the greatest pieces ever showcased in a video game and the gameplay is en pointe, balancing perfectly between a feeling of challenge and...

Donkey Kong's done his damnedest over the years to help you forget he's an ape. Perhaps it's something to do with the Clockwork Orange-style rehabilitation he was presumably forced into after that unfortunate streak of lady-stealing in the '80s, but the leash-like tie he wears isn't the only mark of...

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The oxymoronic nature of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 's subtitle works extraordinarily well as both a punny descriptor of the game's frosty anthropomorphic Viking invasion of the Kong family's equatorial homeland and as a summarization of the type of conservative-meets-cutting-edge gameplay...

Retro Studios have done an astounding job resurrecting the spirit of a franchise's history while creating something new to add to the legacy. If you liked Donkey Kong Country Returns, this game is improved in every possible category, from a stellar soundtrack and graphical fidelity, to the variety...

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