What does Zig Forums think of Donkey Kong Country? Not the series particularly, just the first game alone

What does Zig Forums think of Donkey Kong Country? Not the series particularly, just the first game alone.

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I like the boxart artstyle.

Very good. One of my favorites of all time.
Makes me a little sad to admit the sequel did everything better. Except for aquatic ambience. youtube.com/watch?v=wAPpVplHiDE

A generally well-made platformer, although it did suffer from a bit of a screen crunch problem.

Great game with an even greater sequel

It's a very simple game mechanically but there's an elegance to it. The speed of the game and techniques like roll jumping make it incredibly satisfying to master, the environments are as immersive as a 16bit game can get, while the secrets held nothing worthwhile they're still fun to find, and the buddy system is a really novel take on a health bar that made for some pretty fun co-op play.

The game doesn't do one thing incredibly well like Mega Man X or Super Mario World. It does a fairly good job at everything though. It and its sequels, as far as I'm concerned, are the most well rounded platformers out there.

I loved it as a kid, had no idea there were sequels until years later.

The sequels came out really late in the SNES lifespan.
I knew Country 2 existed but only had a copy of Land 2 as a kid, didn't have an opportunity to play the original game until it came to Wii VC. I didn't even know a third game existed until I was a teenager.

If you were born during that time, the time where this would have reached your eyeballs as a teen, you would have thought the graphics were fucking amazing and that Sega was about to get dabbed on hard (Which they did, DK singlehandedly shot the SNES to victory afterwards).

Its fun. The secret hidden platform in treetop level is still weird to me.

DKC3 > DKC2> DKC>>>>shit> DKCR

I fucking love the early cg promo art. There is something so aesthetic about it

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2 > Tropical Freeze > Returns with the patch to remap the waggle so it's not annoying as hell to play > 1 > 3 > Returns with the original Wii controls

A lot of fun and provides interesting challenges if you try to break from the intended path. Damage boosting upward and backward was an interesting challenge.

That being said I played it on Switch and I must be getting old because in the water levels it seems impossible to react to most shit in time.

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It's fun, I like it. Just wish the newer rereleases had a manual since I beat the whole game as diddy not knowing DK could actually kill the big enemies

DKC is such an amazing masterpiece that it makes me shiver in disbelief just thinking about it. It is extremely rare to see a game that does virtually everything perfectly. Art, music, levels. They're all at 100%. Even Nintendo knows this game is better than their own creations. DKC is one of the era's greatest achievements.

best in the series imo
dkc2 and dkc3 feel like fan games even though they're still great.
returns and freeze are great in their own right too, but nothing beats the original in this case. it's perfect.

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I'm bad and I suck so when I played it for the first time recently I got second in the second world/level/map whatever its called with the sand and the vulture throwing rocks at you. Its a fine game but the best part is the soundtrack. The soundtrack is not exaggerating one of the best in any video game to date.

It’s my favorite. DKC2 was much too hard for me. I beat it but didn’t really enjoy the last couple of worlds because they were so hard compared to DKC1

>silly, fun game with "loose" controls that childhood me found forgiving
>reach Croctopus Chase
>first experience with childhood anxiety in a game

I used games to escape the actual trauma going on then, man.

One of the best SNES games. Permanently redefined one of Nintendo's most famous characters. Criminally underrated by most retrospectives.

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the minecart level (that one jump in particular, you know the one) was probably the first time my young mind got even remotely angry at a video game

I think it's cool. No game feels like it besides the sequels, and they don't have the based king of Kong himself in the games

i never had an snes growing up but i always played this and dkc2 when visiting my grandparents' house. no games feel as comfy as those two to me

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Remind me, which one was croctopus chase again?

It's good, but DKC2 runs circles around it in every way. Except for Aquatic Ambiance like said

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A very solid game with a great soundtrack and doesn't get enough credit for redefining Donkey Kong the character for a modern age. The sequel manages to outshine it, of course, but the first DKC was a very strong foundation for them to build the franchise onto.

Minecart levels are cancer, and the sequel is 10 times better

Underwater level, octopus-looking enemies hang out in alcoves along the path and start chasing you as you pass them. They're fast.