The way I'm playing Donkey Kong Country Returns

So I've been playing a good bit of this game and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. There's a lot of extra stuff to do like collect jigsaw pieces, banana coins, KONG letters, uncover bonus stages, buying things in Cranky Kong's shop... etc.

I find I'm doing very few of these things. I'm buying the key from each world from Cranky's shop alright to get the extra level. When I'm playing the levels themselves I find I'm rushing through them or that I'm trying to bulldoze my way as much as possible. I really like the game so how come I'm doing this?

It seems the levels are made with speedrunners in mind! That'll add a nice bonus to the game. Another thing is that this is reminiscent of all those times I played through DKC3 as fast as I could and putting in cheats to make the game harder and get a better endgame score. This is one of the nice things that has carried over to this new game even though its quite different in many ways!

Donkey Kong Country Returns has controls hacked for use with Classic Controller

I'm not sure I'd play this game with a classic controller... I mean, it feels different enough from the other DKC games that I wouldn't really miss not having the chance to... but I'm glad it's there I suppose. It's a voice that should be heard if people feel that way.

Iwata Asks About Donkey Kong Country Returns

I haven't read this feature yet but I did read one part where a Japanese person was talking about their experience about being in England and what it was like going to Rare in Twycross. I find this especially interesting because usually when it comes to video games you read all kinds of accounts where people from the west are going to Japan and talking about their experiences there. I don't usually see it the other way round!

Cave Story for WiiWare finally gets a release date for Ireland and the rest of Europe!!

FINALLY! We've been waiting for this for well over two and a half years! There had better be nothing wrong with it. So, this coming Friday the 10th of December 2010, Cave Story will arrive and it will cost 1000 points according to this screencap of Nintendo of Europe's site. I am really excited about this!

Donkey Kong Country Returns is out today!

At long last! I got it today and braved really icy conditions to the shops and back. Anyway, I must go play some more.

Just so you know as well, it makes you install the same firmware Metroid Other M did(4.3) and it also installs Everybody Votes Channel, Today and Tomorrow Channel and the Mii Contest Channel(I think).

Mission in Snowdriftland Returns!

This is great news! I loved this game back in Christmas 2006! There's a lot of information about it here for those who don't know about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIXO_In_Action:_Mission_in_Snowdriftland

Imagine that... A 2D Platforming advent calendar! What a brilliant way that was to advertise Nintendo games! Each day I got to play a new level and looked forward to completing it so I could get a wallpaper for great recent games at the time such as Zelda Twilight Princess or Super Princess Peach. The game itself was very nicely done and I remember it being quite challenging too.

Well, now it's back!

http://www.mission-in-snowdriftland.com/

Except this time the theme isn't first party Nintendo games but instead it seems to be about indie games available for WiiWare.

I say try it out! If you like it then look forward to playing it again everyday when a new level in the advent calendar opens. I can't decide which type of advent calender is better - this or the one with chocolates in the days!

Also, remember that the 2006 one vanished from the web shortly after Christmas that year so play as much as you can in case that happens again!

UK - Use a bunch of bananas to pay for Donkey Kong Country Returns!

Just heard about a promotion by GAME that if you're one of the first so many customers to bring in a bunch of bananas to the store that you can use that to pay for Donkey Kong Country Returns!

I have no idea if GAME stores in Ireland are doing this promotion too though...

But hey, what a fantastic and fun idea! Nintendo really promotes like no other. (more on that tomorrow by the way!)