Het was van groots belang dat Donkey Kong Country Returns uitdagend zou zijn

In vergelijking met andere games van Nintendo die op de Wii verschenen behoort Donkey Kong Country Returns absoluut tot de meest uitdagende spellen en dat was precies wat ze bij Retro Studios wilde bereiken. Mike Wikan, Senior Designer van ontwikkelaar Retro Studios vertelde het volgende:

“I thought it was extremely important that the game [Donkey Kong Country Returns] be challenging. When this project began, I played the Super NES version again and was a little irked at how hard it was. I thought it’s really important to make the game tough, but in a good way. I wanted to make a game that was not simply difficult, but possessed a kind of difficulty that made players want to try it again. To be more concrete, when there’s a place where you have to jump, I thought it was important that, rather than make players angry, the game makes players feel that even if they fail, they will be able to jump better next time.”

Wikan meent dus dat het het spelen van Donkey Kong Country Returns erg uitdagend is, maar dat het niet tot grootse frustraties weet te leiden. Of de game naast de uitdaging ook daadwerkelijk leuk is om te spelen lees je binnenkort in de review.