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Gryzor's Top 50 Video Games Of All Time [#42]
#42 - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest
Donkey Kong Country is about a gorilla who has to get his bananas back from a crocodile. That's probably the best way to sum it up. Oh, unless you're dealing with Donkey Kong Country 2, in which you're a chimpanzee instead of a gorilla.
In my eyes, all three Country games deserve to be on this list for having some good level designs and tight mechanics to go with the excellent visuals and kickass soundtrack, but the reason I put this one on the list above the other two is because this felt more balanced than the first, and did a better job of everything than the third. Many people would cite additions like more animal buddies and additional collectibles as their reasons for preferring this over the first, but for me, it's just the fact that it never gets as ball bustingly hard as the first got at times. The controls feel better, the level designs feel more refined, and... generally, everything is better. This is what I think of when I think of a sequel - the refinement of the original game.
As much as this seems like something I ought to put in my top 10, I honestly just don't like it that much. Some of the animal buddy moments felt shoehorned for the sake of variety and their levels just didn't feel as good as the levels with Diddy Kong. I still find that it gets unnecessarily frustrating at times. Never to the extent of the original game, oh thank god it never gets to that extent, but it still has its cheap moments. Finally, I thought a couple of the bosses sucked ass. But besides the last bit, they're not really a huge deal. They're either just not as good as they could've been or mildly frustrating instead of challenging. Technically, this is a great game, but as I've said on many occasions, this is a list of my favorite games, not the best games ever - Earthbound and True Crime: Streets Of LA wouldn't even be on this list otherwise.
Summary - An excellent platformer that has moments of not being so excellent.
Rating - 8.5/10
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Donkey Kong Country is about a gorilla who has to get his bananas back from a crocodile. That's probably the best way to sum it up. Oh, unless you're dealing with Donkey Kong Country 2, in which you're a chimpanzee instead of a gorilla.
In my eyes, all three Country games deserve to be on this list for having some good level designs and tight mechanics to go with the excellent visuals and kickass soundtrack, but the reason I put this one on the list above the other two is because this felt more balanced than the first, and did a better job of everything than the third. Many people would cite additions like more animal buddies and additional collectibles as their reasons for preferring this over the first, but for me, it's just the fact that it never gets as ball bustingly hard as the first got at times. The controls feel better, the level designs feel more refined, and... generally, everything is better. This is what I think of when I think of a sequel - the refinement of the original game.
As much as this seems like something I ought to put in my top 10, I honestly just don't like it that much. Some of the animal buddy moments felt shoehorned for the sake of variety and their levels just didn't feel as good as the levels with Diddy Kong. I still find that it gets unnecessarily frustrating at times. Never to the extent of the original game, oh thank god it never gets to that extent, but it still has its cheap moments. Finally, I thought a couple of the bosses sucked ass. But besides the last bit, they're not really a huge deal. They're either just not as good as they could've been or mildly frustrating instead of challenging. Technically, this is a great game, but as I've said on many occasions, this is a list of my favorite games, not the best games ever - Earthbound and True Crime: Streets Of LA wouldn't even be on this list otherwise.
Summary - An excellent platformer that has moments of not being so excellent.
Rating - 8.5/10
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