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the 3ds one is portable!!!! oh who am I kidding, the controls in both new DKC games are shit, portable or not, Ocarina hacks or not. Not gonna lie, but the controls. They're garbage.
Like really, I'm OK with DK controlling like a big ape. I'm okay with only controlling only one character. I'm okay with animal buddies gimping my jump and I'm okay with Diddy's jetpack being shit. What I can't stand are the godawful controls. I get they had to save space on a wiimote-only layout, but it's like they picked the worst possible ways to go about it. Koopaul can probably vouch for me here, even. Everything is completely clusterfucked, especially TF's Pro control scheme.
DKC 1-3:
B: Jump
Y: Hold to run, pick up barrel (while next to barrel), roll (while standing, or tap while moving)
Down + Y: Ground pound
A: Switch characters (DKC1) Teamup/Animal buddy special ability (2, 3)
X: Dismount animal buddy
Select: Switch characters
DKCR 3DS:
A/B: Jump (hold to jump higher, tap to hop)
X/Y: Ground pound, roll (while moving), blow air (while ducking), charge (with Rambi)
L/R: Grab items/Dismount animal buddy
TF Pro Controller:
Move stick: Walk
Tap stick and hold: Run
B: Jump, tap again in air to use assist Kong ability
A: That screen-clearing ability I think?
Y: Ground pound/roll (while moving)
R (or is it ZR?): Grab and throw items, pluck items, climb (must hold near climbable surface)
(I know there's an alternate control scheme, but it just makes things even stranger. It'd have worked if it was the Classic Controller, not the Pro)
These new controls are awful. It's even worse on a Wii remote scheme due to the waggle controls when you've gotta do things like roll.
First off, using a shoulder button to grab and toss items is just awkward given how often the player has to use it. It'd make more sense to assign all the "R-button" abilities to the Y button and delegate ground-pounding to Down+Y again. It's REALLY not that hard to tap that same button while in motion to roll. It's physically possible for players to do now just as you could then, and also it'd have been way doable with picking up items if you're within proximity of them.
Also why is there a button press required to grab vines. Why
I've had so many bullshit deaths because I realize afterward that I needed to hold a button to cling to vines that really should've been automatic. It's...weird; it's as if the game's difficulty doesn't revolve around the level design and obstacles, it revolves on how absolutely awful it is to control DK himself. Half the time I'm dying for absolutely little reason other than that I'm trying to use the traditional DKC controls to control my character who isn't responding at all like he is in the original. Why even bother putting "Country" in the title at this point if it doesn't even feel like the same game.
the 3ds one is portable!!!! oh who am I kidding, the controls in both new DKC games are shit, portable or not, Ocarina hacks or not. Not gonna lie, but the controls. They're garbage.
Like really, I'm OK with DK controlling like a big ape. I'm okay with only controlling only one character. I'm okay with animal buddies gimping my jump and I'm okay with Diddy's jetpack being shit. What I can't stand are the godawful controls. I get they had to save space on a wiimote-only layout, but it's like they picked the worst possible ways to go about it. Koopaul can probably vouch for me here, even. Everything is completely clusterfucked, especially TF's Pro control scheme.
DKC 1-3:
B: Jump
Y: Hold to run, pick up barrel (while next to barrel), roll (while standing, or tap while moving)
Down + Y: Ground pound
A: Switch characters (DKC1) Teamup/Animal buddy special ability (2, 3)
X: Dismount animal buddy
Select: Switch characters
DKCR 3DS:
A/B: Jump (hold to jump higher, tap to hop)
X/Y: Ground pound, roll (while moving), blow air (while ducking), charge (with Rambi)
L/R: Grab items/Dismount animal buddy
TF Pro Controller:
Move stick: Walk
Tap stick and hold: Run
B: Jump, tap again in air to use assist Kong ability
A: That screen-clearing ability I think?
Y: Ground pound/roll (while moving)
R (or is it ZR?): Grab and throw items, pluck items, climb (must hold near climbable surface)
(I know there's an alternate control scheme, but it just makes things even stranger. It'd have worked if it was the Classic Controller, not the Pro)
These new controls are awful. It's even worse on a Wii remote scheme due to the waggle controls when you've gotta do things like roll.
First off, using a shoulder button to grab and toss items is just awkward given how often the player has to use it. It'd make more sense to assign all the "R-button" abilities to the Y button and delegate ground-pounding to Down+Y again. It's REALLY not that hard to tap that same button while in motion to roll. It's physically possible for players to do now just as you could then, and also it'd have been way doable with picking up items if you're within proximity of them.
Also why is there a button press required to grab vines. Why
I've had so many bullshit deaths because I realize afterward that I needed to hold a button to cling to vines that really should've been automatic. It's...weird; it's as if the game's difficulty doesn't revolve around the level design and obstacles, it revolves on how absolutely awful it is to control DK himself. Half the time I'm dying for absolutely little reason other than that I'm trying to use the traditional DKC controls to control my character who isn't responding at all like he is in the original. Why even bother putting "Country" in the title at this point if it doesn't even feel like the same game.
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