For my 4th birthday, my parents bought me Donkey Kong Country. I remember jumping up and down and fighting to kick off whoever was on the Super Nintendo moments later. Donkey Kong instantly became a gaming icon among my family. This game was brilliant. Who would have thought a side scrolling game with a guerrilla and a chimp could be so fun and so popular? This game has wonderful music, it's very addictive, competitive and it was a great buy at the time. It was well worth having in my collection and well worth the time spent playing.
Overall: 10
When this game was released it was a great buy. It's fun playing single player and much more fun competing with friends. Donkey Kong Country offers a lot of good music and the levels were designed to be awesome. If you've never played this game, I'd suggest you play it right now, you didn't even need to finish this review. Just go play. It's much more fun than it is reading a review about it! If you still aren't convinced, I suggest you find someone to play with. The netplay offered on Vizzed should help find you a partner and it would be fun to try and out-do each other. Overall, the game is great and it's exactly what you need in a SNES game.
Graphics: 8
The graphics were pretty awesome with plenty of room for improvement. I think when Rare created this game, they held back a little too much. It was designed very well and it was very appealing, however, I could see the game itself being kicked up another level or 2 before they even created the sequels and even during the sequels, they could have taken their game to an all greater level. I still don't complain about the animations or graphics that were used because it fit perfectly and made the game very enjoyable. Compared to other games on the console, it didn't do so bad. I'd still hold this game's graphics above many other games and even some on the Nintendo 64.
Sound: 10
Addictive. Personally, I love Fear Factory, Gang-Plank Galleon and Jungle Hijinx. The music in this game is epic. Songs taken from Donkey Kong Country should be the icon for epic more modern gaming. There songs were among the first that actually pulled a game to the edge of their seat and it was even more so when you're younger and you get trapped on the same level many times knowing that you can beat it. Music is easily the top seller in this game and the sound effects were flawless too. I can't think of anything that was annoying about this game in regards to sounds.
Addictiveness: 10
When you pick up that controller to play the game, it wraps ahold of your head and keeps you sitting there. What feels like 5 minutes turns into hours and before you know it, you're battling it out through the 4th area of the island. Like I've said before, it's even better with another friend along side you competing to win the game first or as a team. Playing Donkey Kong Country, you will not want to put down your control until you've won the game or found everything in the game.
Story: 4
So the game doesn't necessarily tell you the story so it's my job to tell you the story I came up with... Once upon a time there was a giant Donkey Kong head shaped island sitting in the middle of no where. For some odd reason King K. Rool was jealous that Donkey Kong's head was exactly like the island so he robbed Donkey Kong of his banana hoard and stored the bananas on his ship and sailed away. Cranky Kong saw the Kremlin menace steal the bananas. Cranky Kong went to sound his alarm but the record was set to lullaby music and soon it earned Donkey Kong's attention. Donkey Kong is young and immature so he jumped down from the trees above and broke the record player and knocked cranky off the tree (by accident of course). To get Donkey Kong's attention, Cranky threw a barrel of TNT at Donkey Kong and it exploded. Cranky explained the situation to Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong went back to his house to find Diddy Kong but Diddy fell asleep in a barrel. That's when Donkey checked for the Banana Hoard beneath his house. Donkey and Diddy Kongs went searching for King K. Rool. Lucky for them, they find that King K. Rool's ship returns to the islands because King K. Rool accidentally lost his crown and had to come back to get it.
Now, isn't that a great story???
Depth: 8
Surprisingly, there was a lot to explore in this game. You have several elements to play against, water, ice, darkness and on top of that, each part of the "world map" is pretty unique. Sometime later into the game, you will travel through a mine and in a few levels you actually ride a mine cart which I thought was cool. On top of that, there's some levels that you jump into a barrel that turns specific enemies "off" so that they don't chase you, which I thought was pretty unique. Lastly, you're able to ride around on other animals like the Rhino, Ostrich, Frog and Shark. Each level keeps the game entertaining. Personally, my favorite level is the one where the snow picks up as you progress and eventually turns into a blizzard.
Difficulty: 7
At first, this game would be kind of difficult to someone who hasn't played it much or at all. After you've played the game, it's not all that difficult. I'd have to say it's at a proper level of difficulty for new and old gamers. It's fun and enjoyable without being too overbearingly hard or way too easy. This game would give you a slight challenge especially if you attempted to find every bonus barrel for the 100%.
Donkey Kong Country is a childhood favorite of mine. I have some great memories from playing this game and it's brought me lots of fun and excitement. I've played it plenty of times and still can't remember where everything is. I like that this game can be a game that family could sit and play together, which I think is ultimately a problem with modern gaming. It's become too much more convenient to play online against strangers world-wide than it is to sit and play with family. The old games of the past were truly great games, but I guess that's why we're all here on Vizzed playing them! Play Donkey Kong Country if you know what's good for ya!
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