You can choose between original mode and Funky Mode when starting a new save file but you have to stick with your choice for the whole campaign. Funky Mode is designed for less experienced players. Funky has seven hearts, can breathe underwater indefinitely, land on spikes, roll indefinitely and has a mid-air jump and stand-still hover. In this mode, you can play as Funky Kong. So, swimming is actually not that bad and handled pretty well in “Tropical Freeze.”įinally, exclusive to the Switch version, we must talk about the new Funky Mode. For more precise swimming, pressing the jump button causes DK to do breast strokes. By pressing the dash button, DK (or his buddies) twist through the water and get a boost of speed.
With “Tropical Freeze,” swimming returns after its hiatus in “Returns.” Swimming is, by far, more tolerable and smooth than the Mario platformers. There is one last major control feature to touch upon: swimming. This means that if you roll off a ledge, you have a window in which you can jump in midair. You can roll jump in midair like in “Returns” and the original trilogy. Whether speedrunning or not, you can easily tell a novice player from an experienced player based on whether they know how to apply rolling effectively. But if you have a buddy, you can roll as long as you like. DK on his own can only roll a short distance but nevertheless helps out your jumping when you don’t have a buddy. Not only can you roll into an array of enemies, but it can build momentum for jumps. The trick lies a lot with DK’s ability to roll, a powerful move. Each level, if you’re speedrunning, has a particular rhythm that is pretty hard to get, but when you do, it feels amazing. Watch any Time Attack of a level that’s at shiny gold pace and you’ll see that enemies are conveniently placed so that the player can move swiftly to the next platform or section. Levels are specifically designed for the player that likes to go fast. You can then upload your time to the worldwide leaderboards. There is an option for each level, Time Attack, that, depending on your pace, allows you to earn a shiny gold, gold, silver or bronze medal. But there’s one component about “Tropical Freeze” that often goes unnoticed: it is made for speed. It has a great level design logistically and artistically. The soundtrack is boosted by the return of the great composer David Wise, who composed the original trilogy’s soundtrack to much acclaim. Each world has a particular theme and each level gushes with colorful backgrounds and excellent level design. “Tropical Freeze” has six main worlds and one secret world with 63 levels total. It’s DK’s birthday and he’s with his friends Diddy and Dixie, as well as his grandpa Cranky there to celebrate. It’s a side-scrolling platformer featuring Donkey, Diddy, Dixie and Cranky Kong as playable characters, but the story is rather simple. It’s important to remember what made “Tropical Freeze” so damn good in the first place. Originally released on Wii U in 2014, “Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze,” while rated highly by reviewers, never got the same limelight as it proceeded to get when it was rereleased on the Switch.
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