


Donkey Kong franchise finds the big ape kidnapping Pauline at Mario's new amusement park. The series seems content catering to its core fan base and no one else that's great news to diehards but mostly inconsequential to everyone else. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! while it's by no means a shoddy game, it does little to break the mold set by other titles in the series and demand any real attention. This is precisely the problem with Mario vs. The games tend to come and go largely unnoticed, often overshadowed by other high-profile releases that promise to push genres forward rather than rest comfortably on their laurels. While the games are generally well-made and mostly entertaining, it's a difficult series to really get invested in and care about. Donkey Kong franchise sits in an odd place.
