I played Donkey Kong Country on a Gameboy Colour (I had a SNES but never got the SNES version) and I thought it was one of the best games ever π still remember tryin to get past that mine cart level lol
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You fucking idiot
You absolute baffoon
Donkey Kong Country let 2nd player play at the same time as you
Wait, I thought you were only able to tag out or were forced to swap on death. Did me and my brother spend all that time taking turns when it was actually true co-op!? (Tbf, I was always Donkey, so this is more of a "him problem", but still!)
Yes, but... how likely do you think it is that Anon has even one friend?
Or a sibling for that matter
I remember the reviews of the first re release for the GBA, they were similar to this one from 4chan.
The soundtrack is pretty good tho
My parents had a pretty good stereo, and I loved to just listen to the water level soundtrack.
I was just listening to this set sooner today. After hitting hard for an hour, she close with the water level soundtrack (58:30).
Mine Cart Madness was one of the best levels in any game fight me.
Oh my god
I played that not too long ago. The muscle memory is still there πππ
I canβt stand most platformers, but particularly older ones. Itβs maddening to play within such small visual areas. If I have to consistently guess whatβs on the other end of a jump in a game about controlling my jumps, youβve fucked up completely as a developer. Donkey Kong is awful at letting you know what exists in front of you within a timely manner.
I always chose Diddy
I always feel like Diddy controls better than Donkey somehow (even though that's probably untrue), and the fact that he holds barrels in front means you can safely run forward into an enemy without getting hurt. That made all the difference to me as a kid.
Plus he wears a cool hat!
Diddy all day. His cartwheel felt so much snappier than Donkey's roll. I felt like I could jump farther with him.
Yep, agree
Yea, the graphics of this game (and Super Mario RPG) are nightmare inducing. I can only be onboard with anon about this. Plus, you had great point+click adventure games back then as well.
Also soundtrack is mid. It has no Bad Religion or Less Than Jake. Fight me!
I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.
Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.
In fact I'll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.
Uh... Perfect Dark and GoldenEye.
I mentioned Goldeneye.
Yeeeeeaaaaaauuuhhhhhh but then you paired it with Diddy Kong Racing. Replace that with Perfect Dark and then you're valid.
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Banjo kazooie and dk64 were tops, you take that back right now
I'd say those were solid games, but not great.
Rare games just had this style that made everything feel a little off.
Like eating a Subway sandwich. The ham doesn't just taste like ham; it tastes like ham + Subway. The turkey tastes like turkey + Subway. Banjo-Kazooie was the worst about this. It just had so much of this extra "Rare" flavor on top of it.
And like, you don't notice it at first until you try the breakfast sandwich, and when that tastes like egg + Subway, you can't eat there anymore because that's all you can taste.
... that "style" is what makes modern games suck. They lack that authenticity. Rare's games had personality.
Modern games don't suck. That's a silly thing to say.
Rare's N64 platformers especially wouldn't hold up today.
Go play DK64 today and tell me it's better than a modern game. But you have to play it all the way through, all the bullshit repetitive item collection, going through the same rooms with every character to get every boring banana.
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