atomicblue on 22 December 2014
DKC: Tropical Freeze. I'd even take it over Super Mario 3D World, which is saying something.
Not that the other platformers on Wii U aren't great, but Tropical Freeze was special. The soundtrack was just exceptional, it had a fantastic difficulty curve (challenging but never to the point where I'd get totally stuck) and I love the way the visual design tied all the levels together - like the way a lightning storm in one level leads to a brush fire in the next, or the way one world starts with a whole lot of fruit being harvested, then sliced up, and finally made into jelly and jam. It's incredibly varied in terms of the challenges it throws at you while still being one of the most cohesive-feeling platformers I've ever played.
