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Wow! Finally after so many years of Mario and Luigi games,
Nintendo decided to make a comeback of one of the earliest game characters
of all time, the Donkey Kong! In this incredible game, Donkey Kong is in fact a good
guy. Looks like he's changed his ways :). Teamed up with his little buddy Diddy Kong,
Donkey has a mission to restore their stolen bananas. The creatures responsible
for this are the evil Kremlings who must be beaten in order for the Kongs
to get their bananas back!
What else can I say than "this is the game that made me buy my SNES!". Actually
the graphics caught my attention mostly of everything because they are
just superb! This game when played nowadays makes the player think he
owns a Nintendo 64, that's how good the graphics ACM technology of this game is!
Everything from backgrounds to the characters is done perfectly. Each character
is well animated and although this is a 2-d game, they show a bit of 3-d
movements. The good thing about this game is that whether there are a lot
of characters on the screen at the same time or not, the movements of them
are without any slowups whatsoever. Kongs move realisticly as well as the
enemies and bosses. This game is one of the rare eyecandy games that actually
has a great gameplay!
At the very beginning of the game you will be stunned by the jungle drums
that follow the gameplay and the movement of the Kongs perfectly. Compared
to today's standards the sound of this game is nothing special, but compared
to other SNES 16 bit titles, the sound rocks! Every level has a suitable
background music that follows it amazingly well, and sometimes it makes you
wistle the toones while playing, which usually makes you lose a life or two. ;)
Ah yes, the game play. Well the most important part of every video game is
in this one exactly how it should be. The software company that made Donkey
Kong Country (RAREWARE) made sure that you do not stick only with one of the
Kongs throughout the whole game, no, you need them both for certain places, so
it virtually is impossible to use one of the Kongs only. For long jumps you
will need Diddy Kong who is smaller and jumps better. He also handles the barrels
better which he picks up on the way, than Donkey Kong. Diddy can get away by only
carrying a barrel and bumping into an enemy with it, while Donkey will have trouble
in that situation and will have to throw it directly at an enemy instead of not
worrying and freely bump into him. But, Donkey Kong is bigger, and much
phisically stronger than Diddy, therefore he can hit the ground and find
secret bannanas hidden there, or coins and lives. The need of both Kongs at
specific places is what makes this game so fun and brings great game play! Also, there's an
option of 2 players playing together as a team, or one against another.
The teamwork mode is very amusing if you play it with a friend, and it is much harder
to complete the game that way.
A very challenging title we have here. Donkey Kong Country is filled with
secret caves, places where secret coins, or lives can be found. After completing
this game, you will want to play it again because you will notice that there
is a percentage of the completness of the game, which will make you start up again
and get to the 100th percent, which means, find all the secrets! :)|
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