Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze level names
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GameXplain has put together a fairly comprehensive listing of levels in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. You can find the full lineup below.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is native 720p at 60 FPS, upscaled to 1080p
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Just in case you were wondering, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze doesn’t run naturally at 1080p. Nintendo has clarified that the game is native 720p (at 60 frames per second by the way), though is upscaled to the higher resolution.
GameXplain relayed the news via Twitter:
Also, we clarified with Nintendo that Tropical Freeze is native 720p (@ 60fps), upscaled to 1080p.
— GameXplain (@GameXplain) January 20, 2014
This probably won’t end up being a big deal for most players, but is worth mentioning in any case.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze screenshots show new levels, shop, leaderboards, more
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Nintendo has released another batch of screenshots for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Today’s images show new levels, shop, leaderboards, and more. View the set above.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze details
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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
Off-screen Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze footage
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze screenshot confirms the return of Rambi
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Nintendo has shared a new screenshot from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, confirming the return of Rambi. You can find it below.
Meet Rambi the Rhino. He’s making his return in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. #WiiU pic.twitter.com/bSjS22Z8dR
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 20, 2014
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze screenshots
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Video: Behind the scenes of “Gorilla Wayfare” (YouTube video for Donkey Kong)
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Tons of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze details – upload times/replays, more
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A slew of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze details have emerged from this month’s issue of ONM. There are a bunch of noteworthy tidbits here, including the ability to upload times and full replays. The full roundup of information can be found below.
– ONM estimates that most levels will take about 10 minutes to complete on your first attempt
– 3-3 Frantic Field: set against a hurricane, with small tornadoes, and lightning as obstacles; eventually you reach the eye of the storm
– Next stage takes place in a forest, with sections on fire due to the previous levels lightning
– Need to use watery fruit to put out vine fires in order to progress
– Game includes tag barrels ala Donkey Kong 64, to switch between Kongs (could just be DK barrels)
– Multiple routes in the various levels
– 3 secret levels per world confirmed
– Time Attack returns
– In Time Attack, you can choose which character’s DK barrels will appear
– Upload times and full replays to show friends, and to help other players improve their own times
– There seems to be more emphasis on the background, which is constantly moving, which makes the world feel alive, and sometimes provides hints to what you’re going to encounter next
– When asked if there was anything the felt was missing from the game, Kensuke Tanabe said that he wishes they could have done more with the animal buddies
– Tanabe also mentions that there is something from A Link to the Past that he wanted to do, couldn’t, and used it in Link’s Awakening instead (ending of LA when the egg opens)
– Retro president’s favorite levels: 6-6 Cliffside Slide, “like jumping right into the middle of an action movie”, it’s a silhouette level. 4-4 Irate Eight, and underwater level which sounds like the giant octopus from DKCR is back. 3-3 Frantic Fields, which is challenging, but with a bit of comedy.
Tanabe mentions that World 4 is made of only underwater levels.
– Kelbaugh also mentions that he likes 4-4, and 3-6 Cannon Canyon, because of the dynamic 3D camera movement
– Animation quality has improved over Returns
– With David Wise, Kenji Yamamoto, and Scott Petersen, they have an amazing soundtrack, and special effects effort
– Tanabe was surprised that so few people in DKCR didn’t want to use the Super Guide once it appeared. He said that the difficulty of Tropical Freeze hasn’t been lowered, but that they have added some features that will give casual players an easier time.
– Difficulty hasn’t been lowered, but the new items, and Kong POW allow you to change the difficulty of the levels somewhat
– Miyamoto told Retro, when first working on DKCR: “This is my baby. Don’t mess it up.”
– Kelbaugh and Tanabe both worked on DKC, with Tanabe on the Japanese localisation, but never met.
Ten years later Tanabe met Kelbaugh, when he became president of Retro. He saw that Kelbaugh had a DKC jacket, and they learned that they both worked on DKC.
– A few years after that they both started on DKCR, Michael gave DKCR the codename F8 – fate.
– Retro was working on Mario Kart 7, and TF at the same time
– Tanabe, and his team at SPD is Retro’s primary contact at Nintendo, but the games are a collaborative effort throughout Nintendo
– If they found themselves on Kong Island Kelbaugh would team up with Diddy, and Tanabe with Donkey Kong, so that he could be carried around
Rumor: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze comes with 3 secret levels per world, plus more animal buddies
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We’re hearing – as reported in this month’s ONM – that Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will offer three secret levels per world. In total, the game would end up featuring 60 levels if true.
ONM also apparently contains a quote from Retro president Michael Kelbaugh who told the magazine, “As for Tropical Freeze, there are a few more things I feel we could have done with the animal buddies”. Some are speculating that Kelbaugh could be hinting at more animal buddies included in the Wii U title.
