Thoughts on DKC? Which game is your favorite? I just beat Donkey Kong 64 with 101% completion. I never really played it before. It was pretty good, but it felt a lot more like Banjo Kazooie than the SNES DKC games, especially the music.
I played through Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2 on SNES. I don't remember if I ever beat 3. Played through the 2.5D Donkey Kong Country Returns & Tropical Freeze as well. Tropical Freeze felt more like a DKC game than DK64 honestly, even without Kremlings.
Regardless, it might be nice to go back to that full-3D formula with free-roaming, exploration & even the rather tedious collectathon, but I don't think that's ever going to happen.
My favorite DKC was 2, although DKC 1 had some really great levels too so it's a close call between 1 & 2.
I'm new to the series, but I'm liking Frozen Dong so far, I hope they bring it to the Switch.
Landon Thomas
Also regarding the music, Rare's composer for the N64 was generally Grant Kirkhope, while they used David Wise for their SNES games. Grant did BK as well
Benjamin Nguyen
Wise is overrated anyway. While Wise technically held the honorary title of Chief Composer, Eveline Fischer and Robin Beanland were the real reasons why DKC's music is so memorable. Wise's popularity and prominence is due to an overstated amount of misinformation from older nintendo forums trying to figure out why DKC's music is so good and did the typical thing of seeing the first name appear on the credits and ignore the rest of the names on the list. By himself, Wise has never really produced anything memorable but with the other two, suddenly his music is some of the best. It's a shame that it's gone this long and people still think they need him to get decent DKC tracks.
Samuel Bell
I always preferred 1 over 2 for some reason. Don't really know why, I just enjoy it more.
Jose Perry
I've been playing this hack, really fun stuff. This guy even managed to change the music of some stages.
Caleb Bell
I like all the SNES games.
Camden Bailey
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James Myers
Fuck yeah user. Do you have any more of the sort?
Noah Nguyen
Ever notice that mechanic in the DKC games where you can still jump a brief moment after falling off a ledge? When you roll off it's noticeable, but even when you're just running it works. It's a minor thing but it's seriously a godsend, makes the platforming much more enjoyable to me. I wish more platformers had it, especially when I'm playing some bullshit SMW romhack with ridiculous jumps.
William Lee
Some DKC2 hacks i know are: -Hard as Kongcrete -DKC2: The lost levels -Brigand Barrage (boss rush hack)
DKC is filled with a lot of subtle gameplay mechanics that everyone takes for granted.
Evan Parker
There's lots of secrets that you can only reach by means of an extended jump like that
Caleb Gray
The extended jump made possible a better level design, since you use it to discover secrets on every stage. They made it even better in DKC3 when they added the Water bouncing mechanic.
Brayden Anderson
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Brody Wright
That's some good shit right there.
Justin Miller
That's used to get literally one bonus barrel in the first world. They really never used it.
Christopher King
With that post you're telling me you didn't completed Riverside Race at all.
Nicholas Phillips
Sorry, two levels.
Hudson Turner
Well, its still useful for speedruns
Ryder Hughes
How did Funky go from a surfer dude to a military grunt?
Aaron Reyes
He has the greatest story arc from the entire franchise
Dylan Garcia
He got 'nammed.
Wyatt Gomez
Just a guess.
Jaxon Cook
I liked DKCR the most, but still have not beat it. I always get mad at the older DKC just because I hate having to replay 3 easy levels to fail on the fourth hard one.
Noah Rivera
Damn, I was just about to post this too.
Funky has also become a mechanic and a pilot. He has a very well-rounded mechanical skillset, and also likes to surf a lot.
Noah Taylor
I love this movie's ability to disorient throughout, so much doing on in each scene
Jason Thompson
The levels aren't actually that hard, fam
Tyler Bennett
4:17 I can't into webm sorry
Grayson Ortiz
IT AINT ME INTENSIFIES
Lincoln Sullivan
funky became a /k/ike. ages ago Camelot software planning said they wanted to make a sequel to dk64. did anything come of that?
Easton Cook
I always enjoyed the first game the most, it felt more satisfying actually playing as DK than the rest of the kongs imo
Charles Walker
What happens to him? I never played DKC 3 or 64 for more than 10 minutes.
James Gomez
Donkey Kong is by far my favorite character, but then again I also happen to love monkeys in general.
The original Donkey Kong Country is my favorite other than that I love dk64, but never managedt o get 100%. I am not a fan of those new dk games that came out of the wii.
Sebastian Anderson
And this isn't just DEEPEST LORE wankery either - Wrinkly Kong was in DKC2, then reappeared as a ghost in DK64.
Tyler Ross
Dixie Kong is a crutch.
Easton Gutierrez
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Christopher Sanchez
64 is my favorite 2 is the best though
Cameron James
tropical dong has the best bosses out of all the donkey kong gays
Adam Diaz
I bought it a long time ago, but never got around to playing it. Same with DKC:R, but I 100% it at my friend's house.
I only have the stock Wii U thing and no wiimote or controller, I don't even know if I can play it.
Aaron Morris
you can play it with the GAYpad
Jeremiah Diaz
64 has the best single boss.
Charles Ward
2 > 3 > tropical freeze > Returns > 1
all great games
DK64 is not a 2d platformer but it was great, albeit inferior to BK it was still an awesome game.
Josiah Miller
I really, really hope we get to see Dixie being a cool bubble-gum chewing, guitar playing tomboy that players think is a guy with long hair again. I dislike the new feminine dixie from tropical freeze.
If we ever get her for Smash 4 for the switch, I hope sakurai uses DKC2 as source material and not Tropical Freeze.
Nathaniel Brooks
If you fellas can't get enough Dong, try the website DKvine.com . It's got loads of stuff to watch and read.
Carter Murphy
2 and Tropical Freeze are my favorites.
Benjamin Smith
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Kevin Walker
But she's a cute crutch.
It is surprising that they had a tomboy with long hair and pink girly clothes, when you look back on the era.
Samuel Rogers
Nothing can beat DKC2, it's one of the games I consider near perfect. Make way for best soundtrack by the way. However I still have fond memories of 3, in spite of or maybe because of how weird and backwards it was. It was infuriating at times, (emulating it a few years ago, I couldn't believe I managed to 100% it as a kid) but it did many refreshing things, from level themes to bosses.
Zachary Smith
The whole game is about collecting pointless items. All your abilities are based around collecting pointless items. Donkey Kong 64 is a travesty.
Wyatt Mitchell
Tropical Freeze da best, it's only issues are some of the bosses suck, namely the baboon and the pufferfish, the bonus levels are all shit, and the game doesn't have enough levels.
How the fuck.
How the fuck
How the fuck
Everything else is great, the level design is immaculate, individual levels exist as self contained stories a feature that the game absolutely didn't need but adds just that little bit more to it. In a world of easy games that give you it's hand to hold,Tropical Feelz isn't afraid of giving you it's back hand and telling you to work harder, and then giving you a hard mode after that.
There's a few other criticisms but I don't think they are anything really bad, the art style is more cartoony but I like it that way, the older games had really strong contrasting colours but I like the bright colours in Tropical Dong just as much.
Video is Donkey Kong difficulty progression.
Jordan Green
So I'm not trying to validate my reasoning here but am I the only person that fucking never bothered to 100% DK3 and just cheated the materials in? I just don't find the idea of replaying a linear level again because I missed a small trinket fun.
Also post some of the more underrated comfy tracks in the series. We all hear the common ones like Stickerbrush but variations of embed related is hometown for me. Also Fungi Forest Day/Night version.
William Hernandez
DKC1 was one of the games I ever bothered to master. My mom's hot friend had me %101 percent it for her. Managed 0:58, felt great. She'd sneak me booze after that, but never had the courage for anything else and was underage.
Not sure if this got popular, but at the end of the first level on DKC1 if you jump up on the cave, jump with the rhino then jump off the rhino fast enough you'll get a blue balloon and some other lives. Called Nintendo Power hotline about it and they didn't know. Sorry for the blog, game gives me feels for a happier time.
Jose Young
How well does 64 emulate?
Joshua Hall
1 is best fite me dixie wiafuists
Parker White
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Julian Ward
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Jacob Rogers
I had this game way back when. I remember being surprised how long it was, but also how good it was to.
Luke Gonzalez
buy the original hardware
Owen Myers
Also I know it's a DKC thread, but I just love SMB2 and Yoshi's Island. Fantastic games. Even SMB3 has fun secrets to find.
Joshua Phillips
It's from Retro, they could do it.
Grayson Edwards
I emulated it in RetroArch using Mupuen64 core which didn't work so well so I switched to GlupeN54 core which ran it fairly well all the way to completion. I had most shit turned off to avoid any further problems since the Mupen64 core's emulation became more & more fucked up over time. GlupeN64 however was fine. The only noticeable downside of GlupeN64 was it blurred textures on characters when they were far from the camera to such an extent that Diddy's pupils practically disappear. This doesn't happen with Mupen64 core, but I learned to live with it since Mupen64 core made the game unplayably glitchy after a while.
Eli Johnson
Jr is literally DK's father.
Nathan Cox
Fear Factory Remix
Eli Lewis
i like the oe with diddy kong in it.
Levi Cruz
Tiny's redesign is fuckable. I'm not even ashamed.