Yes and No, the thing with Trine 2 is that its slow puzzles and slow platforming with not too many things happening in the background vs DKC is a fast paced platformer with lots of things happening in the background as well as levels being in the background and there are "3d" camera angles and etc

But Trine does look really better in a side by side comparison however

Artistically i'd put Trine 2 several planets ahead of DKC, but graphically it's a bit harder to judge. As Jizz_Beard (lol) said, Trine 2 is relatively slow paced, where as DKC is fast and has constantly moving assets in both the foreground and background, which naturally results in a lower amount of detail per area.

Personally i'd say Trine 2 looks better despite the faster pace of DKC, but i could understand someone disagreeing.

I guess you could say Nintendo is trine hard to make they're games look good.

I'd say yes.

Is Trine 2 60fps on WiiU? I remember reading somewhere that Trine's backgrounds are rendered in real time so making it more impressive imo. Both have great art, and even though I love Donkey Kong, I'd say as far as visuals go, Trine 2 takes it.

Edit: I've played Trine 1 and 2 on PC

Technically maybe, but I'm not a fan of the art style.

Donky Kong TF makes me angry, Trine 2 just puts me to sleep. It's still waiting for me under a pile of other unfinished games, please come back, I'm so pretty, play with me. Sorry, got better things to do, like curse at the screen when that stupid rhino loses momentum again and falls in a pit.

Trine 2 Wii U looks much better than Tropical Freeze; it has more detail, higher resolution textures, more complex lighting, shadowing, and effects. The only advantage DKC has from a technical perspective is 60fps versus Trine's 30fps.

Frozenbyte put visuals as their top priority; Retro Studios did not.

Trine 2 looks gorgeous.

Trine 2 looks better, of course.

I feel the visuals are better with Trine, but the music is better with DKTF.

They must have an amazing team at Frozenbyte though. They put Trine and Trine 2 out within 2 years of each other, but they only have about 20 people.

Trine by a mile, Donkey Kong looks average tbh. But DK does run at 60fps so that explains the average visuals.