SNES

Donkey Kong Country

Instead, the Big N builds on recognition of the Donkey Kong name to launch an ultra-advanced, 32-megabit monster featuring textured, three-dimensional characters, CD-quality music, and backgrounds that look like movie matte paintings. Donkey Kong Country is to most 16-bit games what most 16-bit games are to their Atari forebears. Once you've played it, everything else before it seems like a peewee.

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A blockbuster hit, Donkey Kong Country literally changed the face of video games in 1994. Although its gameplay borrows heavily from Super Mario Bros, its groundbreaking graphics and animation blew everything else out of the water.

Absolute 16-bit perfection. It just does not get any better. SGI graphics that make you gasp for air, scrolls out the ying-yang, play mechanics galore, hidden stuff up the wazoo and music to die for!! Donkey Kong Country chuckles at the Jag and 3DO, as it flies by, untouched. The SNES must be a 32-bit in disguise.

With such a strong replay value, Donkey Kong Country is sure to be a colossal hit this holiday. If you want to hit an ape ball in the side pocket, you'll recognize DKC for what it is: the gorilla of your dreams.

DKC was quite simply an amazing game and I certainly feel that it changed the way many video games are made today. The SNES hardware is pushed to all new limits with DKC, leaving what is believed to be very little room for improvement in any aspect. In conclusion, if you are looking for a good platformer to play and you haven’t tried this game yet, then look no further because this is the game you want to play.

I generally don't even like action games, but this one had me hooked. Everything was just done so superbly that it would be a sin to give it any less.

En definitiva, nos encontramos ante un juego que pese a haber sido superado por Diddy's Kong Quest o Dixie's Kong Double Trouble, marcó un antes y un después en la trayectoria de Rare, que alcanzó con esta trilogía y el Killer Instinct, el carácter de compañía mítica, algo que agrandaría en su etapa en Nintendo 64. Donkey Kong Country es un juego imprescindible, historia viva del género de las plataformas.

So, from the fancy graphics to the new features and everything else, Donkey Kong Country really delivers. It's sure to be up there with MK II as the biggest SNES games this Christmas and could really do good things for ol' DK's career. After years of sitting on his butt, the big ape could use a steady cash flow.

Hello? Is this really the Super NES I'm playing? It's hard to believe the graphics and sounds like this are coming from a 16-bit system. But that's not all - combine those features with an extremely long and playable game and you have one helluva winner. Who needs 32 or even 64-Bit when Nintendo can keep pulling marvels out of the 16-Bit hat? Donkey Kong Country is simply mind-blowing.

Fortunately, Donkey Kong Country isn't a title you'll easily tire of, providing just the right amount of challenge throughout its eye-popping levels. There's an impressive amount of variety in the stage design, as you'll blast across cannon-like barrels spinning through the air, ride inside a mine cart, swim across treacherous waters, and more. It's no Super Mario World, but Donkey Kong Country is still a must-have cartridge packed with fun, if familiar, action. The big ape makes a triumphant debut in the spotlight after years of playing second banana to a paunchy plumber.

If you already own a Super NES, you should be out of the door and hunting down a copy of Donkey Kong Country right now. If you don't own a SNES, maybe now is the time to buy one; this game is just too good.

Overall, this is one of the finest SNES games of all-time. Not the best. Not by a long shot. But it definitely stands near the top of the second tier of the SNES greats.

What then is the conclusion? What conclusion could there be but that anybody who is a fan of the SNES needs to have this game? If you don't have an SNES, there are ports of this game on the GBC and the GBA, and I'd bet it will be on the Wii for download one of these days as well. Whatever the method, if you are a fan of platformers, you owe it to yourself to try this game.

Donkey Kong Country is a solid addition to anyone's collection and it has been revisited a handful of times over the years. Its visual style and gameplay design were first adapted to the Game Boy as Donkey Kong Land in 1995, and then the original game itself was ported to the Game Boy Color in 2000. In 2003, it went portable again, ported to the Game Boy Advance before finally hitting the Virtual Console in 2007. Keep in mind, though, that some of your nostalgic feelings may take a hit, as its revolutionary-in-1994 visuals aren't as spectacular any more, now in 2007. But DKC's gameplay is still a lot of fun, and it's still easy to see why this was the game that saved the Super NES.

I had fun playing this game and will continue to do so in the future, as well as eventually trying out its sequels. However, the game lacked that extra something, that rare spark that makes me want to play something over and over again, no matter how many times I’ve beaten it. For me, Donkey Kong Country is very enjoyable as a new experience, but it’s certainly no Super Mario World. However, that shouldn’t stop you from picking it up on the Virtual Console, because it is certainly worth the price. Few games can attain perfection, but this very ambitious SNES title is definitely a valiant effort.

Bleibt zum Abschluss zu sagen, das Donkey Kong Country eines der überhypetesten Spiele aller Zeiten ist und von Spielern und Magazinen gnadenlos überbewertet wurde. Abgesehen von der guten Grafik findet sich hier keinerlei Innovation, dafür bekommt man einen unausgewogenen Mix aus Sonic und Mario, mit durchschnittlichem Leveldesign und praktisch keinen eigenen Ideen.

As a whole, this game is quite average. You're unlikely to find much of anything remarkable about it at all.