Tropical Freeze

Super Mario Bros Wonder is way better than DKC Tropical Freeze.

Better level design, better choice of characters, better feel/mechanics, etc.

But the music is so much worse in Wonder... it's not even in the same league as TF. I'd also say TF has better level design with much more love put into details (except the bonus stages of course lol)

To be fair, you picked one of Tropical Freeze's uglier levels.

Tropical Freeze is def the better platformer.

To be fair, most of the game doesn't look as good as Grassland Groove either though.

Tropical Freeze isn't a bad looking game, but I really don't think it easily beats Wonder. The two just go for very different approaches, dense and detailed vs simple and clean.

Music sure, I'll give DK that but level design for me goes to Super Mario Bros Wonder.

I think it looks better easily the levels feel alive with way more  details going on. Simple and clean is always much easier to with the lazy backgrounds. It's litterly  new super mario type graphics with better character models, better backgrounds and better lighting .

I recommend you check out Digital Foundry's analysis for a good explanation of why Wonder's graphics are far from lazy:

My friend I have eyes when people are saying a platformer that came out 10 years doesn't look as good as a platform that came out 3 months ago on much more powerful hardware doesn't look as  good its lazy. Basically every AAA games is doing way more, not saying the game looks bad but way too simple looking for my tastes. You tell me what's so impressive about it? The character models look cute and nice nothing impressive and everything else is super simple and the best part is probably the lighting. The game could probably run on wiiu, ps3 and 360 at 720p.