Shocked they never revisited the series in some way, but I guess its Western audience limited its exposure. Great games.

It’s a similar approach to the Bravely series IMO. It is Final Fantasy in all but name, but I’m glad series like this and Setsuna exist to scratch that classic itch.

Me too! I’ll only use it for good...

store.nintendo.com has refurbished units for $60 (or $75 with a digital version of MK7). I would bet they’ll lower the price on these too as well. Plus you get all of the benefits of new (like AR cards and a 1 year warranty). Just a heads-up for deal hunters. I’ve never been disappointed by a Nintendo refurb yet.

Those little touches make all of the difference. Of course, that could be taken out of context too...

If you haven’t seen/read it before retro studios has some cool insight into working with miyamoto on DKCR. He judged the animation movements of Donkey practically under a microscope and suggested they add the “blowing” mechanic later on. The process is just fascinating.

Awesome piece! Does anyone else share this as their favorite game of all time?

Nintendo did recently announce a new development structure for their first party offerings (making more main IP games more often with smaller teams, from what the translation looked like). I don’t know if this means they will be focusing more on 1st party offerings as a whole with the ideology that Nintendo does…

They absolutely shouldn’t. As an alum who attended during the last 2 Pearl years, most kids on campus wore hoodies for other schools... Don’t get me wrong, making the sweet 16 changed that for a while back in the day, but the only thing the school has going for it money-wise these days are the research grants they’re…

There’s the one that got dumped online way back when, but I swear there’s a more complete one that was discussed (within the last handful of months) and never shown. Of course I can’t remember where I saw it or have any plausible evidence, but yeah...

I swear I remember reading there is actually a fully completed ROM in Nintendo’s possession recently...

I feel like I played better (in the old series) with the characters who carried barrels in front of them diddy/kiddy and not up top donkey/dixie. I figured it was just weird that Donkey was the DKC headliner but always getting kidnapped...

The saw one gave me such anxiety as a kid...

I should have added *new titles not withstanding. I loved DKCTF having all of those characters.

Its common for that damn owl in Zelda games almost exclusively.

Opinion! Water levels in 3 were awful.

I was convinced with the release of My Nintendo we’d be getting dedicated accounts for stuff like this finally, but I suppose it would be easier for them to do next-gen instead of integrating it to current.

I thought each DKC was better than the last, but it still bothers me to this day, that Donkey is only playable in the first one ...

I don’t disagree with you, but don’t deny the N3DS does actually have more horsepower. Some more recent releases are showing the discrepancy of performance between models (for better or worse).

If you liked 1, you’ll like 2. Played a bit of the Japanese version (with partial translation guide), and it seems like SE listened to fan’s criticisms of the first game.