Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
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4.21 average rating based on 2065 ratings
- Developers
- Rare
- Publishers
- Gradiente, Hyundai, Nintendo, Playtronic
- Franchises
- Donkey Kong
- Series
- Donkey Kong Country
- Platforms
- New Nintendo 3DS, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii, Wii U
- Genres
- Platform
- Themes
- Action, Comedy, Fantasy
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DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 2 REVIEW: (SNES)
This review is for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System version
Donkey Kong Country 2 is a 1995 platform game.Rare, the producer of the game, and Nintendo, the distributor, have done a great job.The story of the game is as follows.Some time after Donkey Kong Land, Donkey Kong is resting on the beach until he is ambushed by Kremlings. He is kidnapped and in this game King K. Rool's nickname is Captain K. He is brought to Rool, who then demands the Hoard of Bananas he unsuccessfully tried to steal in the previous game in order to get a ransom from the Kongs. Instead of complying with this, Diddy Kong and his friend Dixie decide to go to Crocodile Isle, Kremling's hometown, to rescue Donkey Kong. Together, they make their way through Crocodile Island and are helped on the way by a number of animals to defeat Captain K. Rool.Diddy and Dixie finally K. He fights and defeats Rool and frees Donkey Kong. But K. Rool manages to escape, and soon Diddy and Dixie confront him in the Lost World, a secret space in the heart of Crocodile Isle powered by a geyser. K, who was thrown into the geyser. They beat Rool once again, causing him to clog and explode. …
Read MoreDonkey Kong Country 2 is a 1995 platform game.Rare, the producer of the game, and Nintendo, the distributor, have done a great job.The story of the game is as follows.Some time after Donkey Kong Land, Donkey Kong is resting on the beach until he is ambushed by Kremlings. He is kidnapped and in this game King K. Rool's nickname is Captain K. He is brought to Rool, who then demands the Hoard of Bananas he unsuccessfully tried to steal in the previous game in order to get a ransom from the Kongs. Instead of complying with this, Diddy Kong and his friend Dixie decide to go to Crocodile Isle, Kremling's hometown, to rescue Donkey Kong. Together, they make their way through Crocodile Island and are helped on the way by a number of animals to defeat Captain K. Rool.Diddy and Dixie finally K. He fights and defeats Rool and frees Donkey Kong. But K. Rool manages to escape, and soon Diddy and Dixie confront him in the Lost World, a secret space in the heart of Crocodile Isle powered by a geyser. K, who was thrown into the geyser. They beat Rool once again, causing him to clog and explode. Bang, Kongs K. While watching Rool escape on a small sailboat, he causes the entire Crocodile Isle to sink.The gameplay is as follows.in this game consisting of 8 sections, you are trying to kill the creatures and pass the section.The music of the game is beautiful.If you are not too obsessed with graphics and you like retro games, this game is for you.My rating for the game: 10/10 (y) Good games to everyone 🙂
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Liked this more than the first game. Dixie is the MVP with her floating, the tag-team carrying mechanics are a nice addition, and I like the animal buddies more in this game. Cloud Mario in SMG2 blew my mind with being able to create platforms, so it was a pleasant surprise to find out Rare did that with the spider buddy in a game from the 90s. Even though I like this game more than the first, it still didn't click with me and I finally figured out why. First off, the hit/hurt boxes are HUGE in this series. Secondly, I hate having to hit bosses like 10+ times (I'm used to 3). The biggest reason I just don't like DKC is that the focus on animations actively detracts from the gameplay. The animations are very slow and seemingly can't be cancelled so you have to wait for the animation to complete before being able to do another action, making the game feel a bit unresponsive. This is really noticeable when engaging with the climbing mechanics or when needing to pick up an item and quickly turn around. I probably would have loved this game as a kid because of …
Read MoreLiked this more than the first game. Dixie is the MVP with her floating, the tag-team carrying mechanics are a nice addition, and I like the animal buddies more in this game. Cloud Mario in SMG2 blew my mind with being able to create platforms, so it was a pleasant surprise to find out Rare did that with the spider buddy in a game from the 90s. Even though I like this game more than the first, it still didn't click with me and I finally figured out why. First off, the hit/hurt boxes are HUGE in this series. Secondly, I hate having to hit bosses like 10+ times (I'm used to 3). The biggest reason I just don't like DKC is that the focus on animations actively detracts from the gameplay. The animations are very slow and seemingly can't be cancelled so you have to wait for the animation to complete before being able to do another action, making the game feel a bit unresponsive. This is really noticeable when engaging with the climbing mechanics or when needing to pick up an item and quickly turn around. I probably would have loved this game as a kid because of all of the bonuses and secrets that you can spend hours upon hours trying to find, but right now I am more focused on chipping away at my backlog than playing games to completion.
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Playing on Nintendo Switch online, one of my favorite SNES games as a kid, still holds up - Through 2nd area so far.
Better for me than expected, considering there's only a few older platformers that I've liked at all and Donkey Kong Country was not one of them. Really wish there was not a combo of a limited-use save system and limited lives, had to repeat a set of levels a few times and it just right away makes me want to put it down and switch to using save states next time. But yeah it's pretty fun and introduces new ideas at a good rate so far.
Felt like playing some bed time donkey Kong country and now im feeling like Diddy kong hanging upside down at the moment because I've just realised that I thought I'd completed it but I haven't. All these years I thought I'd played all the DKC stuff there was to play. Can't believe I put this down at some point and just forgot about it!
Final boss is a real gauntlet and just as fun as I remembered, took me like 20 attempts to clinch the victory!
Also played through the final postgame level for the first time, which brings back the remarkably annoying wind mechanics, and breezed through the incredibly brief and anticlimactic secret boss. Still cool to have finally done it, but the optional world could've ended a lot stronger.
Guys it was fucking worse, I couldn't even finish 2 levels, TWO, I swear to the gods, if I ever face another damn monkey in my life, I'll make sur to make them rail off a fckin rollecoaster while I chase them. oh we 100% it?! for what?! NOTHING but it was fun. Took us 2 fcking days to get a DK coian (only to see where it was on the internet because we fcking suck?
Anyways was fun will never do it again
Yeah I don't have any hopes up for 3
Played this on Nintendo Switch Online and it's an awesome game. I missed out on it back when I had a Super NES, not sure why as I loved the original DKC, but this game is even better. Dixie and her floating move is so much fun and the challenge is tough, but not unfair. There are so many things to find and secrets to uncover, making it replayable. Highly recommend you check this out if you have a Switch and the Nintendo Switch Online service.
