Board 8 > I'm trying really hard to enjoy Donkey Kong Country Returns

(+) Yeah! (+)

But these controls are mind bogglingly stiff, almost like there's a delay. I've even modded it so that I can map the buttons to the classic controller but it's still so fucking rigid.

How did this revitalize the series again??

switch to a wired controller?

There may in fact be a delay.

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I dunno I didnt really have an issue but its been so long

it's just bad.

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Such a shame. It's gorgeous aesthetically.

It wasn't a good game

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I played the 3DS version and I didn't even finish it. The controls were just so frustrating.

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Man I didn't have any issues with the controls. I don't doubt there are issues with it, but I just can't understand having problems with the controls.

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DKCR controls great with the obvious exception of the motion controls. You mentioned modding, are you perhaps emulating on a PC that can't handle it? There really shouldn't be a delay.

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Can't say I remember having any sort of input lag issues.
The motion control bits were annoying yeah, but aside from that I thought the game was pretty much amazing.

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Xiahou Shake posted...

DKCR controls great with the obvious exception of the motion controls. You mentioned modding, are you perhaps emulating on a PC that can't handle it? There really shouldn't be a delay.

No, I am playing on a Wii with the classic controller, but the delay feeling was there even playing with the Wiimote.

And I don't think it's really an input delay, but the stiffness and the momentum of the controls kind of make it feel that way.

Never had a problem with the controls myself, at least on 3DS

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I don't recall the controls being an issue, but it's not an amazing game. Tropical Freeze is significantly better in every way.

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Just go to TF

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I had the same feeling when I played Tropical Freeze. Everything was so stiff and clunky I had to stop after like 5 hours because it just wasn't fun. I love platformers and I can put up with some clunkiness but TF was just awful.

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It's also such a contrast to the SNES trilogy. Those movements were smooth as butter. This time around, the developers seemed to intentionally make DK feel "heavy" for lack of a better word.

Yeah its way different from the way the snes games play.

Clear your mind and try to enjoy them as a separate entity. Sometimes I wish they dropped the country part


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Is DKCR the game where to gain momentum from jumping on an enemy, you have to tap jump rather than hold it down? I could not get used to that and dropped the game after just a few levels.

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Lord Ephraim posted...

Is DKCR the game where to gain momentum from jumping on an enemy, you have to tap jump rather than hold it down? I could not get used to that and dropped the game after just a few levels.

Yes, you have to time it perfectly. It's not very intuitive.

Yeah that's a huge change in a 2-d platformer that relies a lot on momentum, many times from the enemies you defeat. If Tropical Freeze fixed that I wouldn't mind picking that up. Being hardwired to play platformers a certain way for decades, changing a core mechanic is enough to ruin it.

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If you're that literally unable to adapt yeah lmao

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Or it's just not as fun

There are other issues with Tropical Freeze beyond screwing with the mechanics but it's at least better than DKCR.

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DKCR controls aren't good and the level design is nearly all misses. TF is better but not by much. I hated these games so much back in the day and literally 0 people on the board agreed.

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