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Post by Exhuminator on Nov 21, 2014 15:40:14 GMT -5
The physics always felt kind of cheap and unpolished, I guess. This was exactly how I felt about Donkey Kong Country Returns. The play of the thing just felt "off".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 15:42:36 GMT -5
Maybe that was my problem with it? Something definitely felt "off" about the whole thing. Like it wasn't quite as professional as a normal Nintendo game.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 16:17:49 GMT -5
Hey guys where's the DK'94* thread!?
Seriously, though, I've always felt ambivalent towards Rare's re-imaging of the series. I mean, Diddy and Dixie are charming in their ineffable ways, sure, but I miss DK Jr., Pauline and, heck, even Stanley. Not to mention sentient bear traps and such.
*DK'94 also aged better
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Post by chronotigger65 on Nov 21, 2014 17:41:31 GMT -5
There's been a lot of anniversaries this year in the digits multiplied by ten. Video games and even ones not in related to VG's. A few examples are this holiday is the 50th for the premier of the animated classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, last month I believe was the 40th for Peoples magazine and I pretty sure the last Super Bowl was the 10th one after Janet Jackson's little boob exposure.
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Post by akumajobelmont on Nov 21, 2014 17:54:42 GMT -5
This version of Stickerbrush is my favourite
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Post by Weasel on Nov 21, 2014 18:00:03 GMT -5
How did I know it was going to be Stickerbrush Symphony? I mean, it's a good piece and all, but I was always a bigger fan of the more ambient tracks in the first game, especially Aquatic Ambience, Mine Cart Madness, Voices of the Temple, and Fear Factory.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Nov 21, 2014 18:32:15 GMT -5
The first DKC is still one of my favorite SNES games. I can see why some people find the physics a bit weird, but I think the games control great. DKC2 is a bit overrated, but DKC3 is underrated. The first one is my favorite in the SNES trilogy though.
And yeah, the music in all games is brilliant, amazing that's possible on the SNES.
When DKC Returns was announced it was like a dream come true. The game not only lived up to the hype for me, but I think it even surpasses the SNES original. Tropical Freeze continued in the same brilliant path. Hopefully Retro will turn this into a second trilogy.
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Nov 21, 2014 19:55:09 GMT -5
I'm playing the first game right now. Orang-Utan Gang is the most hellish level in the game. Especially if you want to get all FIVE Bonus Areas.
Kudos to Rare for that clever trick: A Bonus Area WITHIN a Bonus Area in Oil Drum Alley.
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Post by Nester the Lark on Nov 21, 2014 19:55:01 GMT -5
Personally, I think Seashore War from Tropical Freeze gives it a serious run for its money. So glad they got David Wise back!
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Post by alphex on Nov 21, 2014 21:52:35 GMT -5
Stickerbrush Symphony AND Aquatic Ambience are absolutely stellar compositions. Hell, the first two games have great music all across the board. Part 3 is not bad either, but you can notice that it's a somewhat different style.
Since this thread is about DKC1, have some great music:
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Nov 21, 2014 23:21:09 GMT -5
Just finished DKC1. The game still holds up extremely well for me!
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Post by jorpho on Nov 22, 2014 0:17:19 GMT -5
I'm playing the first game right now. Orang-Utan Gang is the most hellish level in the game. Especially if you want to get all FIVE Bonus Areas. I would say some of the ones in the last world are much worse. But the endless timed-barrel-firing puzzles are what really stick in my mind as dragging the game down.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 13:35:39 GMT -5
It's Stickerbush Symphony, not brush.
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Nov 22, 2014 22:59:48 GMT -5
Just finished DKC2. This was when the franchise started to get good. This game had the best soundtrack of the three games.
The DK Coin in Web Woods was always a real bitch to get. But I got it on the first try in this playthrough.
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Post by Scylla on Nov 23, 2014 3:24:27 GMT -5
This is as appropriate a time as any to give this relic of the mid-90s a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=stc0RuRv2RAAbout the uncertainty over the release date, the funny thing about the promo video is that the guy says it'll come out on November 21, but the text at the end says November 18. Either way it was definitely late November. All three SNES Donkey Kong Country games came out roughly around that time, banking on big Christmas sales. Anyway, happy anniversary Donkey Kong Country, I can't believe it's been 20 years. It's that promo video I linked to that got me ridiculously hyped up about the game. I wasn't expecting or trying to receive it, but Nintendo of America randomly mailed me the tape. They must've had my address from when I participated in the free Super Mario All-Stars promotion. I can't think of any other way they would've gotten it, considering I had yet to subscribe to Nintendo Power or anything (go figure, the catalyst for doing that was DKC2, since I wanted the strategy guide, and the subscription offer included with the game, offering a free copy of the guide with a mag subscription, seemed like a better deal than buying the guide alone at a brick and mortar store, as I had with the first DKC). So yeah, I got the tape, and I don't think I had ever even heard of Donkey Kong Country up till that point, but the tape completely won me over. I imagine I was a huge pest and going on about it endlessly to anyone and everyone after that because my grandma surprised me with a copy on the day of release. To this day I'm still really taken aback by the kindness and generosity of that act. That was the only time in my entire childhood I was given a video game as a gift for no special occasion at all. My grandma then proceeded to give me the two sequels for Christmas each of the following two years, and those were every bit as much appreciated too. I love all three games to death, and they'll always be tied to fond memories of my grandma. Sure, the first Donkey Kong Country isn't a perfect game, it's too easy and it's got those recycled bosses, just to name a couple flaws, but I still think it's an excellent platformer. I absolutely love how the games control, they hit that perfect sweet spot of European platformer design. They're not as rigid and stiff as Japanese platformers, and they're not as loose and slippery as American platformers (and lesser European platformers), they have just the right balance of fluidity so that they feel extremely natural and comfortable to play to me. (Not that I have a problem with the more pixel-precise controls of Japanese platformers, heck, I love the controls in the NES Castlevania games; I just think the DKC games do their style of controls about as well as any platformer ever has.) Great music in these games too, yeah, although I think Stickerbush Symphony and Aquatic Ambiance are massively overrated. I like both songs, but from how people on the internet talk, you'd think those are the only two songs from the series that anybody knows. I think their popularity is more a matter of lots of people being fans of ambient/trance/whatever music rather than those necessarily being so above and beyond the other songs. I'm not sure I could pick out a favorite track from those two games, since I like pretty much every track and strongly love many, but I doubt I'd go with Aquatic Ambiance as my DKC1 fave, or Stickerbush as my DKC2 fave. The DKC3 soundtrack I definitely don't like quite as much, but the soundtrack, like the game as a whole, is trashed more than it deserves. Honestly, I feel like people who love DKC1 and DKC2 but hate DKC3 are either hating it for really dumb, shallow reasons or have just plain barely played DKC3. I can't make sense out of it any other way because it plays so similarly. If you want to hate on a Rare Donkey Kong game, go after Donkey Kong 64. DKC3 is waaaaay better than that game. Although I think many people are a slight bit too hard on that game too, but still, it's very meh compared to the amazing DKC trilogy. I think I could sense that from the get-go. Even as much as I adored the DKC trilogy, I wasn't interested in the news about DK64 and paid the release no attention. I didn't own the game until years later when I received a cart as a gift. I'm sure as heck glad I didn't buy it at full MSRP myself. Kind of wrote a novel there, but what can I say, I'm passionate about the DKC series, haha.
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