Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

The new DKC game has been shown above with a gameplay trailer. I like the idea of different camera perspectives, but why wouldn't they do that for the 3DS one instead of this?

Looks alright I suppose, not that excited for it.

Again?
At least there is another Donkey Kong game...

Yes, again. I would've preferred a 3D one instead of this though, would've been a bit different than just having a bunch of DKC games, just like they keep having a bunch of NSMB games. Doesn't look bad though.

Also in case you didn't know, this is Retro's 'big' game.

They should have just made this game for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.

Anyway it nice that Dixie Kong is back.

I will likely pick up this one up because my oldest sister loves playing the Donkey Kong games with me when she comes over.

It's kind of a letdown that this is not a Metroid game but, there were rumors that Retro was working on a new Donkey game.

Retro's "big game"?
That probably means no Metorid or Star Fox then...
So much for that.

The developer direct said that there is one more playable character that they can't show right now.



I think it might be Funkey or Tiny Kong. But since it's a Donkey Kong Country game it might be Kiddy Kong.

Anyway I hope there an option to play as Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong.

With Dixie Kong in it, it probably won't be Tiny Kong. I think Funky Kong will be the other playable character, kinda hoping for him. But Dixie Kong is a great addition at least, good to see her back for sure!

I also hope that with 4 playable characters, there will be a 4 player mode instead of just 2 player. If there's only 2 player, I'd like to see something new for using the playable characters instead of just being able to choose them.

E3 gameplay of four levels.

Spoiler:

They've revealed why they made a new DKC game instead of Metroid:

Well, after DKCR, we had a lot of gas left in the tank; there was a lot of cool things we wanted to do – the underwater levels, the 3D camera. We were just very excited about working with Donkey Kong and wanted to continue that. And the Wii U hardware allowed us to do a lot of really new, cool tricks. So it was just natural – we went out of the Wii version into the Wii U version, and that same level of excitement and a whole lot of new stuff there.

Underwater levels...they already had those in the first DKC game and probably in others as well. 3D camera? While it is nice they have that, is that really something that makes you want to make another one of these instead of a new Metroid game or even something else? Honestly...with these reasons, I'd MUCH rather have a new Metroid game but oh well.

Here's gameplay of some seal boss. Honestly doesn't look too interesting, I wonder if it's the first boss in the game.

I saw someone doing that boss fight at Best Buy, it looked like the first boss because of the area.
I also saw 2 of the other levels. One that looked like the first level because Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong came out of the plane seen in the trailer and the other one was a minecart level.

Anyway here is the analysis video be GameXplain.




I think I would have to agree with him that Kiddy Kong is the last character since he was playable in Donkey Kong Country 3. However I think Cranky Kong is running the shop again, Funky Kong might build different things things for the kongs so they can get to the other islands and Swanky Kong might host a game show if he comes back. .

The boxart for Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze.



It's nice how Dixie Kong is on the boxart but, we still don't know who the forth kong is.

Also via PR email.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: Launches Dec. 6 at a suggested retail price of $49.99.

I was hoping that the game came out in November like Iwata said but, it was smarter to change the dates of 3D World and Tropical Freeze.

This might be some bad news for this game.

Go Nintendo wrote:First up, don't get worried just yet. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is still listed for a Dec. 6th release, according to Nintendo's official website. The reason to worry a bit comes from Amazon, which changed the release date from to "undetermined". Also, Xtralife puts the release date at 02/12/2014. Thanks to KingBroly for the heads up!

I guess it would make sense to move this game to then if there not planing any other Wii U games for early spring. However this might make Wii U's sell less in December.

Really? That sucks, I was hoping I could get this on my Wii U, if it won't be releasing this year, I'll have to settle for 3D World instead. :/ (not that it would be a bad game, I was just looking forward to this)

Plus, that means it's less likely we'll get a Metroid for Wii U anytime soon.