Physiognomonics
Member
The switch version, while 60fps, will be controlled by the higher latency joy cons (similar to Wii remote) and without 3D. For me the best version will still be the 3DS one.
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Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Announced | Nintendo Direct 2024
cireza
Member
Switch Lite exists.
Andyliini
Gold Member
It looks like this game has been ported to Switch by Forever Entertainment.
Source: NintendoLife
Source: NintendoLife
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
How so? It certainly doesn’t beat it in the soundtrack department.
TheGodfather07
Member
I got ptsd from the damn k levels in this game. Some were ridiculously difficult. Don't know if I want put myself through that again.
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same, i think the last one i played was the one with diddy kong on SNES. those rare games blew my mind at the time even if pre rendered sprites, those silicon graphics were real 1337 at the time.
Neff
Member
The music is the one aspect of TF which is obviously massively superior. But the first game offers a stronger challenge, and for the most part I felt it was designed better. I prefer the Tiki Taks to the Snowmads, and the smooth level transitions vs TF's abrupt, almost random thematic curveballs. Not knocking TF, it's a damn good game, but the first one just edges it out imo.
GymWolf
Gold Member
They both get beaten by the snes trilogy ost wise.
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Bernardougf
Gold Member
60 now and 70 on the switch 2 remaster ...
TheGodfather07
Member
Yep. Especially DKC2. David wise at his best.
GymWolf
Gold Member
Yep, dk2 was pinnacle.
Then dk1 and dk3 in third place.
The others are far away even if the composer is the same, at least for me.
TheGodfather07
Member
Yeah I agree. Even though David wise did the music to tropical freeze, it wasn't as good as the original snes trilogy. There were some tracks that were very good though.
zokie
Gold Member
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scoobidoo112
Member
I agree wholeheartedly. It's a love / hate relationship.
Recently played through the entirety of Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair (kind of a spiritual successor to DKC), and I was ready to throw my controller though a wall at certain points.
I managed to get through it eventually (after 30 attempts), but yeah these types of platformers make me way more irritated than something like the Souls or Ninja Gaiden games.
I still love them though, and I can't wait to tackle DKCR again!
(Thankfully I've never actually thrown a controller at a wall)
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Whoa… so it is not even better (in each and every way) than the Wii version and you bet they will charge $49-59+ for it… will Nintendo fans ever push back?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
The extreme visual downgrades on the 3DS port make it not great to look at, even if you're uprezzing via emulation.
Neff
Member
Nah, TF's soundtrack nukes DKC3's from orbit.
Robb
Gold Member
If they ever make a 3rd game they better bring David Wise back. The TF OST is so darn good.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Watch the video again, they're clearly not using the 3DS version. Look at the models, and they even point out that some of the effects not in the Switch game are in the 3DS one.
This game was ported to Nvidia Shield for China back in 2019, my guess is they dusted off that port (Shield has the same CPU as Switch). Who the hell knows who did it. Hopefully they fix up some of the issues.
Wii's Donkey Kong Country Returns Is Now Playable At 1080p And 60fps On Nvidia Shield
See it in action
www.nintendolife.com
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Robb
Gold Member
Ah, yeah that’d make a lot more sense. Forgot they had a HD version of the game ready on the SHIELD.Watch the video again, they're clearly not using the 3DS version. Look at the models, and they even point out that some of the effects not in the Switch game are in the 3DS one.
This game was ported to Nvidia Shield for China back in 2019, my guess is they dusted off that port (Shield has the same CPU as Switch). Who the hell knows who did it. Hopefully they fix up some of the issues.
Wii's Donkey Kong Country Returns Is Now Playable At 1080p And 60fps On Nvidia Shield
See it in action
Borowski_1
Member
Never played the original
But doesn't this look a lot like Tropical Freeze?
But doesn't this look a lot like Tropical Freeze?
cireza
Member
Well, that sucks. Explains why there are so many issues on the visual side. Not buying if they don't fix their shit.
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SpiceRacz
Member
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Apologies Robb, it is not just worse than the Wii version in some aspects, it is even worse than the 3DS one in others…Watch the video again, they're clearly not using the 3DS version. Look at the models, and they even point out that some of the effects not in the Switch game are in the 3DS one.
This game was ported to Nvidia Shield for China back in 2019, my guess is they dusted off that port (Shield has the same CPU as Switch). Who the hell knows who did it. Hopefully they fix up some of the issues.
Wii's Donkey Kong Country Returns Is Now Playable At 1080p And 60fps On Nvidia Shield
See it in action
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Nintendo can't even get this right, apparently. They're really shitting the bed with these remasters all of a sudden. I'm guessing it'll still be better than the other versions, if only because the waggle is gone, but they're really phoning this the fuck in.
Kataploom
Gold Member
I have mixed feelings about this, I wanted to play this game before, I'll prob grab it, but the stupid flappy birds levels on DK:TF put me off, I can't even finish the game because there's one in the World in the last segment of the game, I haaaaaate them sooooo muuuuch! I with they were all optionals but nope. I guess Dk is just not for me.
Kataploom
Gold Member
Well, that would only mean voting with the wallet, and that only happens if people don't like the product which will only happen if the product itself is bad because nobody is constantly comparing if product X is better than product Y that came out years ago or than product Z that is the re-launch so deciding which one is better in order to know if they should burn Nintendo HQ or not. That's only an internet fans thing.
Killer8
Member
Can't excuse some of the missing effects but the differences in shading and lighting can just be because of a different approach to the rendering. The octopus on Wii for example is heavy on that sixth-gen phong shading while it's replaced with much more precise specular highlights on Switch. Nothing to do with anything being missing.
There is also a lot of complaining about shadows around characters when there is actually a lot more shadowing added to the Switch backgrounds:
"The shadows are all missing" - in this scene in particular... even though there is more shadowing in the environment behind Kong (plus better textures but... ya know):
Again, their approach to lighting the scene is probably different and makes the directional shadows from the Wii game not viable to implement in the same way. That particular cutscene also drops to 30fps likely because of the huge increase in fur shading on display during the close up (fur is just a flat texture on Wii).
Some of the other points about "hazier background" and "softer glow" can also be easily attributed to the SD resolution Wii footage they are comparing to.
This is the Switch background on the left versus the Wii game running on Dolphin in 4K:
It's clear they've had to redo all of the backgrounds because the assets were extremely low res and built for standard def where you wouldn't notice.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Well on a tiny 3” screen at 360pIt looked good to me.
