2013: A new 2D Donkey Kong is announced.
"But we were expecting Metroid!"
2021: A new 2D Metroid is announced.
"But we were expecting Donkey Kong!"

This game is the quintessential example of people stupidly shitting on a game before it's even out. It's the best 2d platformer ever. Retro should be proud.

What I love about this game is how natural the platforms are they aren’t just floating blocks they are leaves, branches ground, ice, etc they are built it the world

It really pains me that a difficult game won't be popular anymore if it doesn't have dark and/or serious art design. I miss when games like dk and mario were "cool". I didn't even know there were so many people disappointed to hear about a new dk game when I had been hoping for one for a long time.

i never knew that this game was overlooked, it’s kind of surprising, this game is such a masterpiece

Heh. "Should've been Metroid" turned out to be "should've been Dixie".

The Nintendo Direct announcement of Tropical Freeze on Switch brought me here!  Excited to finally play this one :)

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is one of my favourite platformers of all time. Hell, it's one of my favourite games of all time.

This game is criminally underrated.

Suggestion for how to make Diddy more worthwhile: make him the only partner who gives you the endless barrel roll. Dixie would still generally be better, but at least Diddy would have some unique benefit, rather than being a strictly worse version of Dixie.

A video about Donkey Kong instead of Other M





should've been Metroid

Krool could not be bad guy because he is cold blooded and it is too cold.

Good video and I honestly feel like the reason DKC:TF was hated upon its announcement WAS just due to the fact that there was an abundance of platformers on the market at the time (and on the way) and people just wanted something different from Nintendo developers. TF was a great game that came out at the wrong time.

I've just played Tropical Freeze to the end credits on the Switch. This is definitively, without a doubt, my favorite sidescrolling platformer of all time.

"should've been Metroid" is such a nasty insult towards the developers. Just because they made a few good games in a franchise you enjoy, doesn't mean they are now contractually obligated to provide you with an endless stream of games in the same franchise. people are such entitled shits.

"And then everything changed when the Ice Nation attacked" I'm dying

I feel bad for this game because Donkey Kong Country  Tropical freeze was amazing

This has to be my favorite platformer in existence, even over DKC2. It's a near-perfect sequel to Returns, and it's easily Retro's best game to date. It frustrates me beyond words how the Metroid fanbase slammed Retro for making it instead of Prime 4, as if a team that already completed their trilogy, had most of the original members move on, and didn't even create the franchise in the first place OWED them a new Metroid because of a game they had nothing to do with.

“we know they’re not doing Prime 4, either.”

That comment didn’t age well.

Edit: Hi, Dusty here, anticipating future commenters. If Metroid Prime 4 is publicly canceled at any point in the future, I'll Venmo the first person to comment "You owe me a soda" 5USD. People seem to think I have some unwavering faith in Nintendo and its subsidiaries, and they love coming down here to tell me to abandon all hope ye who enter... to the contrary, I'm quite open to the possibility that the game could be canceled! But in order to win the $5, it has to be a public and official announcement, so not a leak or speculation. Thank you, and I'll return to my slumber once more...

Edit 2: I actually think a lot of you owe me an apology

For Dixie, she’s great for when you’re trying to get everything, but for speedruns, Diddy is the better choice because Dixie kills your momentum when you use her hair.