We're not quite done with summer yet and we're still trying to beat the heat. But as they say, winter is coming.
Personally, I love ice levels in video games. Maybe it's because I grew up in southern California so they always had an "exotic" feeling to me, but whenever a game with a lot of different areas doesn't include one, I'm always left feeling a little disappointed. I think something they also do well is there are essentially two types of ice levels: you have the "pleasant winter wonderland" setting and the "harsh bleak tundra" setting that allow you to draw on many different feelings for the player.
Some of my favorites would have to be...
Chapter 7 from Paper Mario. Once you finally reach the end of the Toad Town Tunnels, you're greeted with a frozen over pipe room before you enter Shiver City. From there, you have penguin murder mysteries, stars in the snow, imposters, mountains, and a palace made out of crystal. This chapter touches on basically everything I love about ice levels in video games and is by far my favorite chapter in the game.
Yeah, Ice Cap Zone had to be here. The snowboarding, the music, what more needs to be said about it?
One of the biggest complaints with DKCR was the lack of ice levels (despite some concept art for it), so Tropical Freeze certainly more than made up for that. Revisiting the setting of the original game, baked in snow and ice, was a sight to behold.
Personally, I love ice levels in video games. Maybe it's because I grew up in southern California so they always had an "exotic" feeling to me, but whenever a game with a lot of different areas doesn't include one, I'm always left feeling a little disappointed. I think something they also do well is there are essentially two types of ice levels: you have the "pleasant winter wonderland" setting and the "harsh bleak tundra" setting that allow you to draw on many different feelings for the player.
Some of my favorites would have to be...
Chapter 7 from Paper Mario. Once you finally reach the end of the Toad Town Tunnels, you're greeted with a frozen over pipe room before you enter Shiver City. From there, you have penguin murder mysteries, stars in the snow, imposters, mountains, and a palace made out of crystal. This chapter touches on basically everything I love about ice levels in video games and is by far my favorite chapter in the game.
Yeah, Ice Cap Zone had to be here. The snowboarding, the music, what more needs to be said about it?
One of the biggest complaints with DKCR was the lack of ice levels (despite some concept art for it), so Tropical Freeze certainly more than made up for that. Revisiting the setting of the original game, baked in snow and ice, was a sight to behold.
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