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This looks gorgeous! Having David Wise on the OST is a cherry on top of the sundae! I've wishlisted this!

You can hear some of the David Wise-esque music over the chatter. Sounds really good!

Oh man, I have been a Donkey Kong Country fan since I was 4 years old. Man, I loved the series. This game looks good to me and I'd love to play it. And I am glad that David Wise did the music for this game. That guy is a legend

Definitely digging those backgrounds. The character absolutely fails at evoking "mongoose," but I'm sure it's very appealing to a specific audience.

For people looking foward to this game i really recommend playing "Kaze and the Wild Masks" It's another plataformer very reminiscent of DKC and a bit of Rayman Origins

That Marsupilami 2D platformer was also heavily inspired by DKCTF. Very underated. This one looks like it has great potential so will add to my Steam wishlist. I love platformers where you take control of unconventional niche animals. Would be cool to see one where you play as a badger or a weasel

you might as well add dk, diddy, dixie, other dk characters, and call it donkey kong country. i was also happy to hear david wise would be helping. i love his work. but that just proves my point.

I just put this on my steam wishlist it looks pretty good and having David wise as the composer is an automatic win for me

In the meantime, they should also play Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, secretly one of the best DKC games.

This character looks like Crash Bandicoot trying to be in a Donkey Kong game.

also seems similar to 2d rayman games

My bingo card had Super Lucky reference! Maybe next time. Great discussion, is on my watch list

For DKC fans, in the meantime, check out Kate and the Wild Masks. Absolutely scratches the itch.

Thank you for the great overview! Only 3 deaths in the Riptor's Rage level - the best result we've seen from new players! :))

I’m a donkey kong fan and this looks good. Hope the music is good. The music is a BIG part in donkey kong. And it syncs so well with the platforming. It’s like a rythm game at times. At least tropical freeze haven’t played the other donkey kong country.

Windswept is another upcoming DKC-like game that I would absolutely recommend looking up. There's a demo on Steam that already checks all the boxes of what I want in a 2D platformer.

Definitely gonna keep my eye on this one. Even if it doesn't review well, I'll have to check out the David Wise soundtrack. Also, this is the third game I know of since Tropical Freeze that is trying to completely emulate the DKC gameplay (after the Yooka Laylee sequel and Kaze and the Wild Masks). I wonder if Nintendo is ever gonna take the hint and finally release a new game in the series.

This looks cool! I'm a fan of the Donkey Kong Country series. This is definitely very similar to the later games like Donkey Kong Country Returns and Tropical Freeze. I guess this is more like a 2.5D platformer but then also switches to 3D gameplay. That's interesting. I like the slide attack that Niko does and that floating parachute ability in this game. I'm surprised that David Wise did the soundtrack for this so that's cool!

This looks really good! I'm definitely interested in this. I'll be picking it up for sure! I'm looking forward to it!

This looks real good! David Wise of OST as well! So happy the Platformer Genre is making a return! Have wishlisted on PS5, Cannot wait!

Now it all makes sense why the enemies are snakes, because mongooses and snakes are natural enemies in real life.

This game looks great. I want to pre-order it, but can't find disc version on sale for pre-order. Will this be available on disc for PS5 or Series X?

You guys missed Kaze and the Wild Masks? Also a great DKC throwback, and possibly a little less derivative feeling than this new one.. although I'm keen to try this also.

It's very welcome too see a game like this coming out nowadays. It's becoming more and more rare today. The atmosphere is not top tier like the country series was, it's more like the retros' DK, and they were not capable to emulate the magic of Rare's DK on the aeshetic and atmosphere. But that's ok. The BIG RED FLAG I see, although, is just one: He has 3 hearts of life.... This will cause the same problem of Retro's DK. In country games if you get hit, you die, or you loose one of the two buddies. You were allowed only two hits. But in Retro games, they double that. And if you are with a buddy, you have FOUR hearts. Even if the game is hard, is almost impossible to die by getting hit, just by falling. It caused a serious problem. Don't get me wrong, the games were pretty hard (in the good way), but It caused a disbalanced at the "hardness" of the game. The overly majority of the deaths is by falling (90%+), and barely by hit. It appears that the same problem could occour with this game.

There are not enough dangers (no pikes on platform, etc), ennemies seems absloutely harmless (they don't fight, they throw nothing, etc), as a result true lack of challenge and visualy not iconic enough. Maybe the backgrounds are not enough animated too I don't know... But this need more a little bit dark identity to that we feel like we're living a big adventure. But I like the rest, the game has a huge potential, it's so frustrating 😅 And David Wise is so promissing. I want to dream a little with this game without again a FPS or a souls-like 😩 Please do your best 🙏🏻

when DKC, Crash and Rayman meet

Looks pretty. At some point it gave me mid to late 2000's vibes, especially thought of Bejeweled 3 for some reason.

Looks like a crash bandicoot clone. Like they kind of mentioned. Im here for it 😊. Looks amazing.

Also try kao the kangaroo

Do people not know that David Wise was not the only composer for Donkey Kong Country? Eveline Fischer was also a composer for the game and her songs are just as grand as David's

I love niko's design, cant wait to play!! I hope a demo comes to Playstation

This game looks perfect! So excited!!

This games is look like TY THE TASMANIAN TIGER and CRASH BANDICOOT and DONKEY KONG. Thank you all saying thinking what it’s look like.

I wonder will there be a physical release?

Why do you have so much horizontal acceleration that you can't slow down without immediately going the other way? Why is the camera so rigidly following the player character? Why are the hooks you can grab on to so hard to see? Why are there sections with very low visual contrast between the foreground and background?

already preordered

I'm just excited for a new platformer that isn't a metroidvania or has randomly generated levels. I'll always support stuff like this, even if the game looks quite derivative. We simply do not have enough traditional sidescrollers like this anymore.

Very nice. I love this style of game and I hope there will be more platform games, and I will add it to the wish list 😍🔥✌🏻

Can't wait to play. Love it.

Well, I’ve come to the conclusion that crash bandicoot isn’t far off from what DKC would be if translated to 3D. The slide jump in crash serves a similar purpose to the roll jump, for example.

Looks really fun, I'll definitely be adding it my list!🙏🏽🎉

you keep talking about donkey kong country but it feels more like Crash Bandicoot to me, apart from the side scrolling. Crash has a slide attack, so Niko's slide is more like Crash than Donkey Kong. I also see a bit of Rayman in this game too, such as the hooks you grab and swing on and the fireflies you collect are like the Lums in Rayman games.

I think it looks fun just like Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4 Its About Time. I might get it when it comes to N. Switch. 😊

Looks great, except for the designs of the two main characters. They look really like generic furry characters, while the main villain and every enemy really look stylized.

How is “ambiguous animal” a “Crash vibe”? His name is Crash…..Bandicoot….

O final da fase me lembrou o Marsupilami hoobadventure

They don't even tried to hide it, thats something the bothers me, sure you can't get inspired, but this is a copy. Im DK fan btw.

I see the crash inspirafiom,inspiration, I don't see dkc inspiration in this one bit, I do see the dkc wanna be returns and tropical freeze that don't play anything like dkc , wich so far is only 3 and theirvon snes

i hope itll b physical for all consoles

looking forward too this game

Game looks good, I'm very happy to see more games of this kind. I won't lie though, I could do without the cookie-cutter furry character design. Fortunately, that's about the only criticism I've got so far.

Weird they even use the banana sound effect from DKC. Too bad it has to be a hell sent furry character.

Does Niko talk at all?

You just know the creator is a furry.

PLAY Marsupilami . it is great

Did literally anybody at GI ever play a DKC game? This looks jank af.

Crach bándicap

This looks pretty good. Though I just don't like the generic "furry" face of the character design.

Looks great. Will keep my eyes on that

Nothing new under the sun (unless you’re a Fromsoft game).

Platforming vi aspetta con tanti videogiochi platform

Yukalalee is more like Banjo-Kazooie than Donkey Kong

Looks very nice ! More news to this game please

We don't want to hear a couple dudes talk, we want to hear the music/SFX of the game. Just put everything you're talking about into an article and give us the raw gameplay without people talking over it.

Viva i platform

Yooka-Laylee Impossible Lair was a DKC clone and I hated how mediocre it was compared to a DKC game. I have high hopes for this.

I find the character design a bit corny for some reason. Like they tried too hard to make him look "cool"

Looks fun...

My xbox always ready 💚

El típico juego que clona y fusila a otro y solo le pone otra skin 🤦🏼‍♂️

game looks awesome but the main characters are super generic and the name from the game itself too. and charme is why i play those games. thats why i still love yooka laylee

Is this an actual game for consoles & not a stupid PC or fan made game?

looks like Nintendo game!

that music from minute 16 oh my God, sooo beautiful and soo dkc2 style and soo revive of the 90's 😍 I'm soo grad they hired the Legend David Wise an did not use that diarrhea music from the first trailer.

What is Luna to Niko? Sister, girlfriend, wife, bestie, what?

i see more rayman than donkey kong, and that's a good thing for me because i'm not a big DK fan

GOTY 🥳

I don't like it when a game doesn't have its own identity and style. This is a copy of 2 great games but that's what it is, a copy, I don't like it.

You all copied Crash Bandicoot? This is not Donkey Kong!

Now this is a game I would like to try . Now crash bandicoot is dead again

boring..slow and not very difficult

It's the kind of games you buy for your 10-year-old children. I don't see how adults can enjoy this.