One of the best platformers I've played in a long time. The development team are clearly fans of the genre but also understand what makes the genre work, unlike many other fans who develop games based on other games. The game has bonus levels inspired by DKC 2, great controls, and almost every level is well designed to both challenge your platforming and secret finding skills. This game is primarily a side scroller and while it has the occasionally 3d segment most of the game is a 2d platforming bash. If you are a fan of DKC or other 2d platformers, please pick this up and support the development team. They have earned it.

Crash BandiKong Country Legends (the Legends if for Rayman)

If you like those games, chances are you will enjoy this one, since it takes A LOT from those games: the boxes, gems and main characters from Crash; the bonus barrels, KONG letters, bonus stages, animal buddies, silhouette levels, blast barrels, end-of-level animation; the lums and gliding from Rayman, to name a few.

Being so similar to those games it's impossible not to compare them, and the ones it's based on are better, but that doesn't mean this one's bad, it's just not as good, but it's still fun.

Visually the game is very pretty. I can't talk about the story because I skipped through it. It's not very difficult, I rarely died. One thing I really disliked was finishing the game and realizing I didn't have 100% even though I completed every stage with all the collectibles, and that's because you have to buy a lot of extra stuff with game money/items, and to top it off getting something new is not guaranteed, it's random, so, by the end I was stuck with 92% after spending everything I collected (and I collected a lot), and the only way to get 100% is farming, terrible choice.

Also, I don't know why the game doesn't show you what collectibles you have in the current level when you pause the game, it's something so basic in this kind of game, so I was really puzzled by the fact that it's not here, and it could really use it, even more so since the levels are quite long.