This game has a lot of great moments. The game play is fun, the art style is amazing, the music is peak. Overall, it's a great game. The thing that killed it for me was the amount of gimick levels.
I could stomach the cart levels, they weren't horrible. But the barrel levels were just atrocious. I'm sure people who love platforms might have enjoyed them, which is fine. But, those levels mixed two of my biggest pet peeves in all of gaming: one hit kills and alternate controls.
The fact that the final boss requires a barrel level before fighting him just made me stop. I saw the ending because the game allows you to enter super mode when you die enough, but that's not really beating a game.
I like Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, but there are way too many levels I utterly despised and used the super mode to skip over that I can't give this game a higher score.
If every level was just regular 2D platforming, I'd probably give it a 3.5 or 4 stars, but nah those barrel levels really killed my enjoyment in this game.
I could stomach the cart levels, they weren't horrible. But the barrel levels were just atrocious. I'm sure people who love platforms might have enjoyed them, which is fine. But, those levels mixed two of my biggest pet peeves in all of gaming: one hit kills and alternate controls.
The fact that the final boss requires a barrel level before fighting him just made me stop. I saw the ending because the game allows you to enter super mode when you die enough, but that's not really beating a game.
I like Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, but there are way too many levels I utterly despised and used the super mode to skip over that I can't give this game a higher score.
If every level was just regular 2D platforming, I'd probably give it a 3.5 or 4 stars, but nah those barrel levels really killed my enjoyment in this game.