Donkey Kong Country, great or awful?

[Dakinggamer87]

I really enjoyed the Donkey Kong Country series especially the original. It's one of my favorite retro classic platformers.

[sevin0seven]

I really enjoyed the Donkey Kong Country series especially the original. It's one of my favorite retro classic platformers.

^what my buddy from cali says.

[kelsoanim]

Haha, now the guys from the same podcast are complaining about things in Super Metroid and A Link to the Past. Me thinks these guys are SNES haters. The podcast is "After the Fact Podcast" if anyone is interested in hearing a group dis your favorite games from the past.

[zxqdms]

Here's an interesting article about DKC 2: http://www.sirlin.net/articles/the-secr ... try-2.html. It compares it to DKC 1 a few times.

[Gamerforlife]

It's certainly better than Donkey Kong Country Returns. I loved the first two, fun, relaxing games. DKC Returns just pissed me off half of the time with its sadistic, douschebag level designs. I'm finding Kirby's Epic Yarn to be much more enjoyable so far

I still need to play DKC 3

[AznKhmerBoi]

donkey kong return should of used the classic controller and dropped that stupid shaking of the wiimote to perform different action.

[Xeogred]

Haha, now the guys from the same podcast are complaining about things in Super Metroid and A Link to the Past. Me thinks these guys are SNES haters. The podcast is "After the Fact Podcast" if anyone is interested in hearing a group dis your favorite games from the past.

You should probably quit this podcast immediately. Actually everyone should. The hosts too.

Anyways yeah, DKC is great. The first game is and will always be my favorite pick out of the trilogy, even if it's the most simplistic and easiest, to me it's always had the best atmosphere. The environments and the music are absolutely amazing. And I remember having strategy guides or Nintendo Power's that hard a bunch of artwork from the games, they were always these dark big pictures of Kong and Diddy in these mysterious looking caves, etc... the game just really takes me back to those days. And I don't really think it's a nostalgic excuse, but yeah I have a blast playing them again to this day. In fact I ran through all three games again a few months ago.


I think DKC3 gets a lot of undeserved slack. It's different, but I think it gets really good after the first two area's (which are admittedly really boring). Great atmosphere too. The waterfall, water, snow, and mountain stages are all awesome, along with those weird industrial tube levels.

Still an amazing platformer, but I guess if I did have a complaint for it... it is with how weird and different it is from the first two games. All enemies are redone (even the bee's, etc), the bear characters come in, the environments are way different, etc, so it all kind of feels very detached from the first two. DKC2 on the other hand almost feels like one huge game together with DKC if you play them back to back, seriously. It's like you're taking the fight to K. Rool's house and finishing it. I love the huge increase in difficulty too, I still think it's definitely the toughest one of the three. And the entire game is pretty grim and dark, fitting for a evil island.

Amazing games. I sadly don't have good memories of DK64 on the other hand. I remember marathoning that game (and people who have played it can probably back me up in saying it's like the BIGGEST 3D adventure game ever)... but I played it constantly for a week or so when I had a high fever and was really sick. Something about Rare's platformers on the 64, even Banjo at times, made me very motion sick, like the stages were often so claustrophobic or something, most other platformers back then didn't bother me like these games. Basically when I think about DK64, just thinking about it thesedays makes me a little nauseous. It's weird, can't even explain it, and there's no other game out there I've ever played that gives me such a feeling... but yeah. Weirdest experience ever.

[Grooter48]

DKC looks and sounds great, but I found some levels to be a chore playing through. Personally, I think DKC3 was the best of the original trilogy, though I'm in minority on that opinion.

[Ack]

Haha, now the guys from the same podcast are complaining about things in Super Metroid and A Link to the Past. Me thinks these guys are SNES haters. The podcast is "After the Fact Podcast" if anyone is interested in hearing a group dis your favorite games from the past.

Not necessarily, as some of the things they point out may be legitimate concerns. That said, do they spend their time focusing on how great the games of a particular console or company's line of consoles are? If so, yeah, I'd say they're SNES haters. If they are, expect to hear one of them throw up the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" line, and expect them to seriously mean it.

Then again, perhaps they just dislike retro games. If so, their loss, though I'd be interested in learning what it is they considered retro.

[FiftyDollarCurse]

I think they are in the range of okay-to-pretty good. Fun platformers, for sure. But they don't do anything particularly unique or interesting. But what they do do is highly polished and utilizes some endearing characters. Some of my interest in the series was lost when I was unable to play as Donkey Kong in 2 or 3.

The graphic style was new and impressive at the time, but I don't think it compares very well at all today to the top-shelf sprite graphics of Sonic 3, Yoshi's Island or Super Metroid.