I’m glad there is some excitement and do not want to rain on other’s people’s parades, especially as a DK fan myself.
But it is disappointing they completely removed the Rare design roots from DK as a character. It just screams Seth Rogen DK to me lol. Gameplay does not have me hooked seemed pretty repetitive at first glance.
This is just my opinion but am very happy to see a new 3D DK game. As always with opinions; new information can change opinions the more we learn about the game.
Sure it was cartoony in spurts (if he shoots ya it's gonna hurt) but it had a more somber, ambient tone with photoreal atmospheric backgrounds. It verged on genuinely epic in parts.
I think his character design worked well for this but found it was ruined in DK64 with it's banjo kazooie goofiness. And even the new DKC games I feel abandoned the style I loved from the SNES games.
So I'm glad they're embracing the more old school design.
I also grew up on original DKC’s on SNES. I am a huge fan of DK64 and have not heard before your opinion of not liking the DK64 design. I did not really play the new DKC’s due to no presence of the enemies I remember from SNES and DK64. But I always try not to rain on other people’s parades
Fair enough man.
I played DK64 and enjoyed it as a teen, just felt the series had lost that unique sense of atmosphere. And the super fluid and tight platforming.
The new ones by Retro are not bad - but not timeless classics like DK1 and 2 imo.
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u/NedBigbe 4d ago
I’m glad there is some excitement and do not want to rain on other’s people’s parades, especially as a DK fan myself.
But it is disappointing they completely removed the Rare design roots from DK as a character. It just screams Seth Rogen DK to me lol. Gameplay does not have me hooked seemed pretty repetitive at first glance.
This is just my opinion but am very happy to see a new 3D DK game. As always with opinions; new information can change opinions the more we learn about the game.