Ughhhhhhh!!! I can't stand this freaking game. It's so boring and annoyingly difficult that I find myself more frustrated playing this than anything I've played so far - even Halo. I've reached the level of "controller spiking fury" a good five or six times and each time I find myself saying "That's so STUPID!" The frustration isn't coming from my inability to beat a level, it's coming from lazy level design.
The worst thing about this whole game is how easily you can die in bottomless pits. For example - I just finished a level called Barrel Blast where you have to propel yourself from barrel to barrel - launching as if from a cannon. The issue is that these barrels are spinning and if you're a centimeter off your desired angle, you will send DK and Diddy to their untimely - and unbelievably infuriating - deaths. Eventually, I beat the level by accident:
I had launched my characters straight down from a particular barrel. Just as the profanity was building up behind my teeth, and just as my hand was raised in the air to spike the controller into the wall, I saw DK and Diddy fall into a hidden barrel at the bottom of the screen. This "cleverly disguised secret" propelled me all the way to the exit, and gave me 50 bananas during the ride. I bet the developers thought "Yeah, people will be really excited when they find this" - I wasn't. I didn't think it was clever or have any sense of discovery for finding that thing - the only way anyone would ever find it is by accident! All I said was "thank God I'm done with this level..."
I will admit, there have been two or three levels that weren't bad, and the game seems to get progressively better as I go forward, but only by very little. As of now, this is the worst and most despised game in my collection.
Eat my crap Donkey Kong Country.
Hahahahahah!
ReplyDeleteI remember playing this back in the day. Trust me, I didn't see what was so awesome back then, either. Just give me Sonic the Hedgehog, and blood in my Mortal Kombat.
Screw you, SNES. :)
Hilarious. One of my most vivid memories of this game is THAT. EXACT. LEVEL. If I remember right, it's in a really stone gray type of place, mountains, maybe with snow, also? Yeah, I remember the off-screen barrel, too.
ReplyDeleteThat and the underwater banana collect-a-thons stick out for some reason.
Music in this game is great, though. Check out OCRemix's version: http://dkcproject.ocremix.org/index.html
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Overrated. Bam.
ReplyDeleteDid you know this is the best selling SNES game of all time? Wow.
It's remarkable how stupid people can be.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, to be fair, many magazines gave the game highest scores, which in turn made many people buy it. Most will not have played it beforehand to judge it fairly.
ReplyDeleteI myself loved this game back in the day, but I think I'll play through it again just to have a more objective look at its level design. I'll brace myself to be properly disappointed, just in case :-)