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Donkey Kong Country Returns HD review - a formidable platformer that still holds up today
Here's our review of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, a great game but a sad swansong for the Switch.
Originally made by the folks at Retro Studios and now remastered by prolific Switch publisher and porting house Forever Entertainment, this challenging 2D platformer is itself an attempt to recapture DK's glory days from the SNES, making this something of a double dip in the rose-tinted pools of nostalgia. Particularly early on, DK will regularly barrel over to plunder bits of background scenery for collectible KONG letters and hidden puzzle pieces (the latter of which will gradually swell the ranks of the game's enormous sound and image libraries if all of them get rooted out in a single level). That scenery will also regularly cascade into the foreground too, as pillars of stone domino down a cliff face to bridge looming chasms before you, while kraken tentacles snake through narrow sea caves to block your path and pesky moles chuck deadly bombs from rival minecart tracks in crystal-encrusted tunnels.
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