 Donkey Kong Country Returns received critical acclaim . It has an aggregated score of 87 % on both GameRankings and Metacritic . For its awards for games released in 2010 , IGN gave Returns awards for " Best Retro Design " and " Most Challenging " , then selected the game as the 5th best on the console . Game Informer named it Game of the Month for December 2010 , with reviewer Dan Ryckert hailing it as " one of the best platformers [ they 'd ] ever played " . The publication later picked it as the " Best Platformer " and " Best Wii Exclusive " of 2010 . 
