Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze details
New previews are starting to hit for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. You can find information rounded up from IGN’s report below.
– Game has a lot of secrets
– Puzzle pieces, collectible letters, bonus rooms, concealed coins, alternate exits, and scores of bananas
– One secret: tucked away rendering of Samus Aran’s Gunship
– Familiar Donkey Kong Country melodies
– Tropical Freeze’s level designers creatively integrate the artistic aesthetic into the exploratory mechanics
– Every theme is new and originally composed
– Buy extra lives, items, sidekicks, and the assistance of Squawks the Parrot in Funky Kong’s chain of Fly and Buy stores
– Rambi the Rhino returns in select levels
– Enguarde the Swordfish is nowhere to be found
– New zipline stages
– One boss battle: simple timing-based fight against a giant anthropomorphic viking seal sliding on his belly along a half-pipe
– Another boss: sorcerous owl, has seven unique attacks
– Chase the owl through three arenas
– Post-game Hard Mode confirmed
– Time Attack: speedrun stage replay variant
– Post best time for each Time Attack challenge to online leaderboards
– Compare scores with friends and the community
– Leaderboards will also keep track of which sidekicks are used to help complete these stages
