Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze heads to Switch this year

12 Jan 2018

Steve Wright

The Wii U’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will be re-released on Switch, Nintendo recently announced.

The 2014 platformer will largely be a port of the Wii U title, though a new mode featuring Funky Kong will be added. Said mode is “beginner-friendly” — players have a hover move and double jump alongside infinite rolls and underwater corkscrews.

The Switch version of the game will also provide local co-op multiplayer via Joy-Con controls.

Look for the Switch version of Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze on 4 May 2018. We reviewed the game’s Wii U version here.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.