The_Walrus wrote:
I’m playing Tropical Freeze at the moment. It is my first DK game. It’s very creative and quite challenging, a nice change to the 2D Mario games which you can easily complete in a day.
Super Mario Bros 2 laughs at your comment. It's a stupidly hard game (often in a bad way).
As for DKC, I think the second one is where the series started to hit its stride. The first one I felt was fairly mediocre in many regards, with not much need for exploration and weak boss fights. The addition of more sprawling level design, hidden collectables, bonus level challenges and a set of more challenging stages leading to an additional ending really added to the depth of the games.