Donkey Kong has a prodigious leap, raps a mighty beat on the ground with his open hands and can cartwheel enemies to death, using his entire body as a weapon. You feel happy as you march gorillas from left to right, navigating strategically placed animals dressed like vikings while jumping over and around obstacles themed to whatever kind of terrain predominates in that subset of levels. This is what you do in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: You feel happy. Games can be anything and can look like anything, and yet few games are beautiful or joyous-at least few games with the budget of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. It is joyous in its joyousness, so happy to make us happy. And then that gorilla rides a gorilla riding a rhinoceros.ĭonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a beautiful game, in both appearance and demeanor. And then I get on Twitter to make a bad joke about it, and then I check all my email accounts again, and then I read strangers’ thoughts on baseball, wrestling and True Detective at various internet message boards, and then it’s been an hour and I’ve done very little work at all and I’m more stressed than before. When work wears me down and I’m close to buckling under the stress, I think of that gorilla riding a gorilla riding a rhinoceros, and of the game that they inhabit, and laugh to myself. I think of that image when I start to question why a man of my age and stature would devote so much of his time and attention to videogames. One gorilla has a ponytail and a pink cap and can levitate the other wears a necktie with his initials on it. It is of a gorilla riding a gorilla riding a rhinoceros. There is an image in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze that I can’t let go of.
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