Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is the definitive version of a great platformer that finally brings the best of the Wii and ...

In 2010, Retro Studios revitalized one of the great franchises of the SNES era. Donkey Kong Country Returns gave Wii owners a new game that drew inspiration from the Rare developed trilogy ...

Rareware’s trilogy of Donkey Kong Country platformers was a huge statement back on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Not only was Donkey Kong back, but he could stand up to Mario ...

For a game about collecting bananas and throwing barrels, Donkey Kong Country Returns is surprisingly inventive. The game, which originally launched on the Wii in 2010, takes the classic SNES side ...

For the uninitiated, Country Returns is a throwback to Rare’s massively popular side-scrolling Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES. In the game, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong must team up once again ...

but it wasn’t until the first Donkey Kong Country game on the SNES, in 1994, that DK himself became a playable character. The series’ use of pre-rendered graphics was a revelation at the time ...

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is a phenomenal platformer and a must-play Nintendo Switch title, but it could be skippable ...

Tapping into the same game feel as Rare’s SNES Donkey Kong Country titles, Returns‘ Donkey Kong is heavier than your standard platformer character. Each jump, roll, and ground pound has heft ...

To paraphrase a meme, it would be the third time that Donkey Kong had returned: the first time on the Wii and the second time on the 3DS. After playing through Donkey Kong Country Returns HD on ...