


I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask a port to offer something additional to a game – especially in the case of the Wii U to Switch, where that previous console was killed off so quickly that most of these games are all quite fresh in our memories. The upcoming Toad’s Treasure Tracker will have new levels. For the kind of gameplay that a platformer offers, you do want to simply jump in and bounce around, so cutting those loading times out is actually a significant improvement to the quality of the game and what it offers.īut with other Switch ports of Wii U games, there’s been a lot more effort put in Mario Kart has all the DLC, for example. The only other “new” feature in this port worth mentioning is the loading times, which were extreme on the Wii U, and now have been cut in half, or more. On the Switch’s own screen, the game looks lovely and bright, and I think the art shrinks down better than it blows up – small details become largely inconsequential, so you can instead simply let the vibrancy wash over you. Like all Crozza Games, the game is portable, so no installation is needed.More excitingly, it’s now playable in a handheld form factor, and for someone who exclusively uses his Switch as a handheld device anyway, that’s the winning feature, much as I was more than happy to replay the original Donkey Kong Country Returns on the 3DS simply because then I could play it on the go.

You can define different keys by pressing F8 from the main screen and entering new left, right, up, down, and jump keys or edit the Ini file. The word HIGH is spelled HGH in the "How High can you climb" bit, but otherwise a well-done remake.į4 will switch from full screen to windowed mode. However, it's very accurate to the original as we recall from wasting many quarters, and countless hours, plating Donkey Kong. Often Crozza Games makes quite a few changes to the graphics, and this is no exception. Collect all items from all levels without dying, and you can get an extra 5,000 bonus points. The four levels included with the game initially was probably the one thing us old school gamers didn't like.

You can download all 71 of the Crozza Remakes here.Īs mentioned, one unique feature of this game is two additional levels created by the author. Donkey Kong is a remake of the 1981 Atari arcade game with two additional levels.
