Donkey Kong Country Returns, originally released for the Wii in 2010, is hitting the Switch on January 15, 2025. At the very least, the controls should be simpler, as Nintendo won’t be forcing motion controls into the mix with this remaster as they did with the Wii original.
This game joins Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze as the other modern-ish interpretation of the franchise. Tropical Freeze was first released for the Wii U in 2014 — but since no one owned that poor console, its arrival on the Switch in 2018 meant that a much larger audience got to give the game a shot. That’s not exactly the case with Donkey Kong Country Returns, which sold well for the original Wii. Still, Donkey Kong Country fans are starved for a new game, so this will have to do for now
