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Retro Studios' latest Donkey Kong game may not be exactly what every follower of the studio was hoping for, but you can rest assured that it's at least what Donkey Kong fans were after: more Donkey Kong.Quite a lot more, by the looks of it, and although innovation seems fairly thin on the ground, the shift to an HD platform has given good old DK a lovely pelt, while the designers of his challenging gauntlets have lost none of their enthusiasm for minecarts, exploding barrels and enemies who drop into the world just itching to be bonked on the head by a passing gorilla.
What's changed? Well, there's a new threat in the shape of some invading viking cutie-pies, who take the form of tusk-helmeted walruses and penguins and have sent Donkey Kong on an impromptu tour of the nearby archipelago before he returns home to save the day. Then there's the option to play as Dixie Kong instead of Diddy Kong - a double-jump instead of a jetpack - and there are promises that a fourth playable character will be joining the action too. You can swim once more - a feature that was absent from Donkey Kong Country Returns - and you can also switch the action between the big TV and the Wii U screen when you're shoved out of the living room because Storage Hunters is starting and Pape Bear is going to drop a few Gs over something very mysterious that's lurking under a tarp in a garage in West Hollywood.
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