{"id":233976,"date":"2024-06-19T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/donkey-kong-country-returns-originally-released-for-the-wii-in-2010-is-coming-to-the-switch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:43","slug":"donkey-kong-country-returns-originally-released-for-the-wii-in-2010-is-coming-to-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/donkey-kong-country-returns-originally-released-for-the-wii-in-2010-is-coming-to-the-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Country Returns, originally released for the Wii in 2010, is coming to the Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"c3415790-4fde-5a11-a44c-104f36a1ab6d\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdjam3yHC-4?si=RtbTug8CfAEB-u08\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"Donkey Kong Country Returns HD \u2013 Announcement Trailer \u2013 Nintendo Switch\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdjam3yHC-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been about a decade since <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/nintendo\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nintendo;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nintendo<\/a> released a new game in the Donkey Kong Country series \u2014 and while there isn&#8217;t a new one coming any time soon, there <em>is<\/em> a port of one you may have missed on its way. <em>Donkey Kong Country Returns<\/em>, originally released for the Wii in 2010, is hitting the Switch on January 15, 2025. It was a fine game for its time, and I&#8217;m hopeful it&#8217;ll hold up well some 15 years later. At the very least, the controls should be simpler, as Nintendo won&#8217;t be forcing motion controls into the mix with this remaster as they did with the Wii original.<\/p>\n<p>This game joins <em>Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze<\/em> as the other modern-ish interpretation of the franchise. <em>Tropical Freeze<\/em> was first released for the Wii U in 2014 \u2014 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&#8217;s not exactly the case with <em>Donkey Kong Country Returns<\/em>, 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. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been years since many people have checked it out, so hopefully it&#8217;ll feel somewhat fresh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/donkey-kong-country-returns-originally-released-for-the-wii-in-2010-is-coming-to-the-switch-153629092.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] It&#8217;s been about a decade since Nintendo released a new game in the Donkey Kong Country series \u2014 and while there isn&#8217;t a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}