Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D offers over 70 levels of banana‑hoarding platform action starring Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. Run, jump, climb, and defeat enemies across diverse environments to reclaim the…
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D is a platform, released 24 May 2013 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D is
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D was released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Life on Donkey Kong Island is thrown into turmoil when a group of sinister creatures known as the Tiki Tak Tribe arrives on its shores. Using enchanting, hypnotic music, the Tikis bewitch the island's many animals and bend them to their will, commanding the mesmerized creatures to steal Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong's beloved hoard of bananas. Fortunately for the heroic apes, Donkey Kong proves stubbornly resistant to the Tikis' spellbinding tunes, leaving him free to fight back. Determined to recover every last piece of their pilfered fruit, Donkey Kong teams up with his energetic buddy Diddy Kong and sets off on a sprawling adventure. Together, the pair charge across the island's many varied…
How it plays
Its themes are action.
Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D is the 153rd of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Mario Kart Arcade GP DX in 2013. Its critic score of 83 is 8 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D launched on 24 May 2013, within three weeks of The Last of Us, Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us, Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy.
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