I believe Retro studios should never make a Donkey Kong game again!

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kain_kusanagi said:
I want to start by saying that I am a big Donkey Kong fan. I have a very large collection of Donkey Kong games and memorabilia. I have a Donkey Kong standup arcade and every Donkey Kong Game & Watch as well as every Donkey Kong arcade port for every home console going back to the Atari VCS including the system and computers like the Colecovision, Intelivision, Atari 800, and so on. The same goes for Donkey Kong Jr. and Donkey Kong 3. To go along with it all I have vintage 80's Donkey Kong board games, coin banks, toys, figures, tokens, trading cards, books, and more.

I love Donkey Kong. It's a challenging game that can never be perfected. It takes months and years of playing to even break 100,000 points and that's only 1/10 of the official high scores of the best of the best.

When I say I love Donkey Kong you can take that to the bank.

But I don't feel the same about Donkey Kong Country. I have them all and I think they are all quality games. But, to me, they are just average platformer games with no real challenge outside of collectables. I've never been a "gotta get them all" gamer. I finish games far below 100% and when I replay it's not to go after more collectables. It's ironic because I don't care about in-game DK collectables by in real life I collect DK stuff. I also collect Panzer Dragoon, Halo, vintage 80's stuff, and general Sega, Nintendo, and Atari stuff. I guess I only like collectables if I can hold them because collecting those Bananas feels more like a tedious chore than a fun challenge.

So, I don't really care if a new Donkey Kong Country game is made by Retro or anyone else. But I would love to see Donkey Kong go back to his roots and become more of an arcade action game like the original.

Long live the Kong!

Donkey Kong Country Returns is absurdly challenging even when not gunning for collectibles. It's not uncommon to burn through 30 lives in a single level.