![]() ![]() “I practiced for weeks before doing my first run. Like DKS mentioned, things started by taking a look at particular levels first and then piecing together a full run as confidence in each stage grew. This concept was explored in a video by Ceave Gaming that is worth taking a look at for those interested in level design. Surprisingly, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has a design that compliments both speed and a more casual pace. So for learning the game I just tried to do things that I knew I could pull off consistently.” “The good thing about the run is that are strategies for every skill level. We asked DKS what some of the more challenging moments were. The process of learning a speedrun can take thousands of hours with a lot of ups and downs. I just started doing time attacks of level after level and before I knew it I was learning the whole game.” “When I bought the game I just fell in love with it: The level design, the music and especially the time attack feature, and then of course with the speedrunning concept, it became a hundred times more appealing. “I never got into speedruns of Tropical Freeze until I played the game itself, I remember having watched a couple runs in AGDQ 2015 and spikevegeta's channel and the game looked cool and all, but I was never a big Donkey Kong Country fan, so it didn't appeal to me right away.” “Then I discovered RTA (Real-Time Attack) speedruns when I was googling some old game out of nostalgia and I found it super interesting and entertaining, it was probably a Legend of Zelda or Pokemon game.” “I guess in terms of speedrunning as a whole,” he told us over Twitter messaging, “I got into it by playing the Mario Kart games, especially Double Dash and Mario Kart Wii, they were amazing and I super enjoyed doing time attack in those games.”Īfter finding a new way to time his runs, the interest in speedruns started to grow for DKS. Similar to how Zserf, the player we interviewed after he beat Super Mario 64 in under two hours while blindfolded, started getting into speedruns through time trials on Mario Kart 64, DKS started competing in times in that same game. Now that the game has the potential to reach more players with the release of the Switch version, we reached out to one of the best Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze runners out there, DKS. Their second entry Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was accepted well by critics and players alike and was surprisingly designed as an excellent speedgame. ![]() While this didn’t work out for Metroid: Other M, Donkey Kong Country came back with help from the much loved Retro Studios, who already made a name for creating the Metroid Prime series. Then Nintendo started revealing modern approaches to their 2D classics that made them a household name. Back when Nintendo was marketing their Wii system, some of the more hardcore fans were starting to feel left out. ![]()
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