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Celebration thread for Donkey Kong Country's 25th anniversary
- Thread starter Uglier Rare Character
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Same, I have to go for that 101%/102%/103% every so often.
Ninty should surprise release DKC on SNES Online!
Madison You could! I love me some DK64.
You know, it's amazing how many details in DKC1 I take for granted relative to the time of its release, Andre highlighted the goods
This video makes me salivate wondering just what craziness Rare could have pulled off if DKC2 or DKC3 has used the FX2 or SA-1 chips. *mind blown*
You guys should try this on your copy of Donkey Kong Country and see what happens:
- On the game selection screen, highlight "Delete Game".
- Enter DARBYDAY (where D is d-pad Down). This cheat will enable the music test mode. You can now cycle songs by pressing Select.
- Delete any save slot (even an empty one).
- Go back on "Delete Game" again and press Select again to change to the next song.
- On the game selection screen, highlight "Delete Game".
- Enter DARBYDAY (where D is d-pad Down). This cheat will enable the music test mode. You can now cycle songs by pressing Select.
- Delete any save slot (even an empty one).
- Go back on "Delete Game" again and press Select again to change to the next song.
This GameXplain coverage has been something else! Thank you all so much!
When I first saw DKC when I was 6 years old I was determined to run like an ape as fluidly and comfortably as DK and Diddy did in the game. I kept that practice up my entire life but it wasn't until I was 19 that I learned of a kungfu monkey style that encouraged running on your hands and like primate! I was no longer the fool of society I was just in the wrong culture!
When I first saw DKC when I was 6 years old I was determined to run like an ape as fluidly and comfortably as DK and Diddy did in the game. I kept that practice up my entire life but it wasn't until I was 19 that I learned of a kungfu monkey style that encouraged running on your hands and like primate! I was no longer the fool of society I was just in the wrong culture!
I like how they just ignore DKC3 lol
I was actually thinking of possibly making the OT for DK64, but I do have work tomorrow for several hours, so you can do it if you want lol.
I was actually going to make the thread for DKC1 if nobody else had made it, but that's been taken care of too. :p
Are we ignoring Retro's efforts? Or do you just mean Rare specifically?
Those aren't Donkey Kong Country games. They're a cheap imitation.
(granted they're just not for me and they're probably good games, but for me they gutted all the good things about the original games and turned them into a mediocre platformer with shadows of hints of the magic that made the originals so good)
I watched Andre's video on the immersion in this game. Really good points about the details such as how the intro and outer areas of each level segues into the next, or how the first two levels cover an entire day and night. There's a magic to the world of this game that few games capture, the mostly invisible HUD is another good example of it.
Replaying DKC1 on SNES Classic and currently to world 3. Definitely filling me back up with a lot of happy memories!
Replaying DKC1 on SNES Classic and currently to world 3. Definitely filling me back up with a lot of happy memories!
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To the person who said they didn't talk about DKC3 as much, I believe by that point the Rare A-team was working on DK64, leaving a different group of folks to take the helm for DKC3. Still a great game, of course, a lot more puzzle-based platforming and weird level concepts.
One more video to round out the night:
One more video to round out the night:
Bro... the Retro platformers are anything but mediocre. Especially Tropical Freeze.
I mean, I still prefer the general aesthetic and style of the Rare trilogy, DKC2 is a damn near top 5 game for me, but to call the Retro games mediocre is mindboggling to me. I challenge you to show me any 2D platformer released in the last console generation with level design and presentation as ambitious as them.
Actually, the team that made DKC1 and 2 moved onto Project Dream which became Banjo Kazooie. DKC3 was moved to a different team, and the team responsible for DKC3 was the one that moved onto DK64.
Here's a brief thing I wrote for Retronauts on the subject: https://retronauts.com/article/1383/barrels-of-fun-dkc-at-25
(Hope it's OK to post this stuff?)
(Hope it's OK to post this stuff?)
So this is what Nintendo did to celebrate :
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Edit : Well lol https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...ng-the-dk-statue-with-bowser-ny-store.154598/
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Edit : Well lol https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...ng-the-dk-statue-with-bowser-ny-store.154598/
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