http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-02T11:10:33 -05.00 0xero0 26 Originally posted by: BilltownSparty

I gotta vote donkey kong tropical freeze as my favorite current platformer. Tons and tons and tons of content very challenging game if you are going to 100% lots of exploring and platforming to get 100%. I beat the game earlier this year at 73% completion. Just recently went back through to 100% and boy was it awesome. The bonus levels are really creative and challenging imo Tropical Freeze is excellent, and along with Yoshi's Woolly World are my favorite platformers of this generation. I still have yet to beat either one 100% but I'm close. The DKC:TF bonus levels are, like you said, very challenging. ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-02T09:52:30 -05.00 0xero0 26 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-02T09:49:10 -05.00 0xero0 26 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-02T09:38:07 -05.00 0xero0 26
When I think of the absolute best platformers in recent years these are the ones that come to mind:
- Limbo
- Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
- Yoshi's Woolly World
- Kirby's Epic Yarn
- Shovel Knight

To me those are the absolute top of their genre. As a huge platformer fan this makes me very happy. ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-02T09:22:54 -05.00 0xero0 26
I recently picked up a physical copy of Teslagrad for PS3. It's a puzzle platformer and is really solid right now. I haven't seen it in stores so I think the only place to grab it is online. ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-01T23:57:51 -05.00 0xero0 26 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-01T22:01:15 -05.00 0xero0 26
I've only played a demo of Rayman Legends (which was fun) but I do own Rayman Origins which is pretty good, though it's not one of my favorites. Sometimes I feel like the camera in Origins can zoom out a bit too far and make the sprites tiny but the overall art style and presentation is good. Some of the stages can also feel a little gimmicky at the expense of play-ability to me, which can kinda spoil the mood, thus I've never finished it.

I don't think I've played a bad Sly Cooper game yet. I haven't played the newest one (again, new to PS3) but I've been considering picking it up as I hear it lives up to the previous titles.

Even though some may call Shovel Knight a "retro platformer" because of its general appeal, I don't really buy that as an excuse to exclude it from anyone's list and think it looks amazing in its stylized way. It is also an excellent platforming game, although not terribly challenging overall and only "Mega Man hard" in a few tiny spots. Even so, it's a good enough game to be worthy of repeat playthroughs. And the music is wonderful.

I haven't gotten to play Guacamelee! yet, though I have really wanted to and it's currently on sale on X-Box Live, so I may just pull the trigger there.

If you haven't yet, you ought to play Braid.

I also hear really good things about Axiom Verge (Edit: its seems this is only on PS4...bummer) and Trine/Trine 2.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii U both look and sound great but something about their game play failed to capture me and I couldn't really tell you why. Super Mario World is one of my all-time favorite games. Maybe they just came across as uninspired.

Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 and Super Mario 3D World are also very pretty games and certainly fun in their own style...but they don't really satisfy me like a true 2-D platformer. I consider them their own type of game.

Take this with a grain of salt as I'm a big Donkey Kong Country fan as it is...but DKC Returns really surprised me both in terms of how great it looks and how solid the game play and level design is in it. One of the best non-retro platformers I've played in a long while. I could have done without the waggle control bits, but at least they're kept to a minimum. Because of how great Returns was, I've picked up DKC Tropical Freeze as well, though I haven't yet started that one. ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-12-01T21:00:55 -05.00 0xero0 26 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-11-28T19:04:16 -05.00 0xero0 26 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155600 2015-11-28T12:07:02 -05.00 0xero0 26 Guacamelee is one of those games I've had for about a year but haven't tried yet.

I don't own a WII U or any X Box systems, so I'll be missing out on any exclusives for those systems.
I'll probably pick up a WII U if they ever get as cheap as used WIIs did. ]]>