It’s been a while since we’ve had a decent Donkey Kong game. Or any Donkey Kong game, in fact. The big ape has been absent from our consoles ever since 2014’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (not counting the Mario vs Donkey Kong games, which paint him as an out and out wrong’un). We’ve not had a new 3D DK game for around two decades – ever since Donkey Kong 64.
That was a bad game. Good news: its successor is not.