Preview: Yoshi's Woolly World (One more analysis ).

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Hynad said:

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"Playing it safe" is actually the key point; that's how 2D platformers by Nintendo are seen by many people these days, as them playing safe and living in the past.
Do I agree with that? Not at all.

But it's a sentiment I see very often.

Playing it safe with a winning formula, where gameplay is has been fun even if it hadn't evolved much over the last few decades doesn't mean the game is bad. 
Don't fix what isn't broken, they say. But Nintendo has played it very safe with a lot of their franchises. Zelda, Mario 2D, DKC, Mario Kart... All iterations that evolve at baby step pace. They're still greatly fun. But even if you're a fan of those games, you have to agree that those games haven't progressed that much since the N64, and have been mostly formulaic iterations with added layers of polish, instead of trying to shake things up.

While I did think Retro's take on DKC was quite a shake-up compared to Rare's SNES titles, I generally agree. It certainly doesn't make them bad; hell, some of the best games out there are just refinements of old formulas executed brilliantly, but I do think that most gamers are less enthused with the idea of spending retail price on a 2D platformer than they would have  been last gen.