Marsupilami 2 - Salsa Palombia

The best DKC: Tropical Freeze successor out there. Is it as good as DKC: Tropical Freeze? Not even close. But it is on PC, is good in it's own right, and is much better than the first game. It's also miles better than the clunky and stiff Nikoderiko. Runs great on my main rig and my Steam Deck.

TL;DR at the Bottom, but I encourage you to read the full review to get context. I loved the original Hoobadventure. It was a great game, had a fun spirit, and was well optimized to boot! I was really looking forward to the sequel. Now the game didn't count the time I played offline, but it was about 5 hours I put in before I hit a major roadblock. For some reason, they made the baffling switch from Unity in the last game with great optimization, now switching to Unreal Engine 5 with rather poor optimization. Why would they go through all the effort of porting the game to a completely different engine when the first one did its job well. I'm sure even lower end devices will struggle due to how bloated Unreal Engine 5 is by nature. Even if you turn off all anti-aliasing, the game is blurry for some reason, like some sort of temporal or FXAA filter is on at all times. When it comes to level design, if you ignore 100%, it can actually be really fun, or so you might think. The core mechanics and gameplay variety and obstacles have been expanded, all without straying from the core platformer gameplay, which is really nice. They added set pieces and escalating level gimmicks which ma…

The negatives; The crashes. There's a lot of em. But it's worth it, because... this is a SUPER competently made 2.5d platformer in the vein of DKC: Tropical Freeze. It's tight, the soundtrack is fantastic, and it's pretty difficult in places! Genuinely surprised with this. It's a blast.

Really fun game with a good ost. Would recommend if you like dkc, dkc returns, or Rayman Origins

[h1] A Good Sequel [/h1] After enjoying the first game (Marsupilami - Hoobadventure), I was really looking to this second game and seeing how much it improved over the first game. Luckily, I'm happy to say that this game DOES improve upon the first game in some aspects (which I will be listing shortly), but I do feel like that there were areas where the developers could have done better to make this game stand out even more than the first game. Anyways, the following summarizes how I felt about this second game, followed by a final rating at the end. [h2] Improvements Over the 1st Game: [/h2] 1) [b] More memorable stage music [/b] (I especially like the 1st level stage music). 2) [b] Better Boss Battles [/b] (WAY BETTER than the underwhelming boss battles in the 1st game). 3) [b] Each playable character have their OWN UNIQUE ability [/b] (which was a criticism I had while playing the 1st game) and thereby I was encouraged to continuously switch between them to deal with different situations within each stage. [h2] Aspects Which Could Have Been Done Better: [/h2] 1) [b] No re-mappable skill button options [/b] and this was ESPECIALLY annoying with the yellow Marsupilami (Twiste…

Game is probably great for 2 players, but suck for 1 player. Why can't I use all abilities on 1 character? "♥♥♥♥ you" thats why.