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Rating:  - This game ~ROCKS~
Well starting out this review I would like to say this game is ~COOL~. I got this game a couple days ago and I beat it in 3:16 min. It's still fun after you beat it because you still got to get 101% and I haven't gotten that much. The graphics are like the same as the one for SNES and the sound is pretty good too but I don't like how it saves after you beat a level it just makes it too easy. The bonus levels are also pretty good but the graphics arn't that good in them except for the sniping game. Their are also different options like DK Barrels off/on or Save Barrels off/on which means you have to beat the game three times. You also need to get all the stamps to get up to 101% well I'm not going to say anymore or I might give the rest away. I would recommend this game to anyone.
Rating:  - Not the Best Port Ever...
The original Donkey Kong Country came at the height of the 16-bit era and featured stunning CGI-rendered graphics and an awesome soundtrack. It was no easy task for Rare to compress this all into a Game Boy Color cartridge. Rare succeeded in some aspects, but fell short in the most vital ones.To its credit, the game does manage to capture the general feel and essence of the SNES game, despite the hardware limitations. The screen is richly populated and detailed with stylings direct from the SNES game, downsampled of course. The levels are all here. That said, think of the SNES Donkey Kong Country with Donkey Kong Land controls. Eew. The problem with the game comes from its poor controls, hit detection, and general field of vision. The controls are clearly modeled after those in the Donkey Kong Land games, which I always thought felt way too "loose" for making precision moves and certainly not as tight as the SNES versions. Couple this with shoddy hit detection and you have a real problem. The enemies are much bigger than they really appear to be and trying to weave through dense fields of them (like in the forest stages) gets to be outright frustrating. Another point where this become apparently involves the derailed mine carts sitting on the tracks. Believe me - you will convince yourself that you successfully jumped over them only to have the game kill you. ARGH! That stage took me no less than a dozen tries. The third dynamic that complicates the game is the smaller field of vision. Relative to the SNES incarnation, you just plain can't see as much at once. Now, of course, this is a very understandable limitation. However, the way it propagates itself in the game is not pretty. There are plenty of blind leaps of faith. In fast-moving stages (like the aforementioned mine cart stage), there is very little time to react to upcoming obstacles. Even if you remembered the layout of the stages in the SNES game, you still have the wonky hit detection to contend with. Overall, I cannot really recommend this game to anyone unless they enjoyed the Donkey Kong Land games. This title has more in common with those than being a good port of the SNES game. Pros: Good graphics and decent sound. Levels are faithfully built to mirror their SNES counterparts. Little was sacrificed in basic game structure. Cons: Frustrating hit-detection and inaccurate controls. Field of vision seems too small.
Rating: - It's a Classic
I played Donkey Kong Country to death on the SNES, and I loved it so much back then that I bought this GBC version to see if it could live up to it, and it did! I immediately became addicted to it all over again- it's almost exactly like the original. The graphics & sound are not as good, but afer all, it's the gameplay that counts. Donkey & Diddy Kong can still bounce on tires, ride ostriches, rhinos & frogs, collect golden bananas, ride on runaway mine carts, cartwheel through enemies and swing on vines. If you've never played the original version, then you'd better get this one to see what you missed - it's an all-time classic Nintendo game, and definitely a must-have Game Boy game as well.
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