![]() ![]() Gamers without an XL screen will have to strain their eyes to pick DK out of the background, but Donkey Kong's halcyon platforming days will find a lot to love here. Sliding into 3D for these moments alone gives the platforming impressive depth, but I can't imagine anyone navigating a challenging sequence so deep in the screen. Moving barrels shoot DK like a cannonball and mine carts speed him along perilous tracks, now with glasses-free 3D, much deeper into the monkey's giddy animated world. Enemies, moving platforms, bouncy platforms, platforms that crumble after you jump on them… the ground, the list of jumpable things goes on, but it's not the only way Donkey and Diddy get around. ![]() While a few notable changes have made Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D even better than the Wii version, there's still no question that Retro Studios and Monster Games have evolved the experience I fell in love with on Game Boy.įor those of you that have been living under a giant banana recently, Donkey Kong doesn't threaten plumber's wives or run people off the go-kart track in DK Country, he runs around, jumps on stuff, and collects bananas. ![]() I wrote to Nintendo and got a reply telling me where to find the precious collectable. Thankfully, it was 1995 and there was such a thing as writing a letter, so that's what I did. When Donkey Kong Land was released in 1995, it didn't take long to wear the yellow out of the cartridge's case, but no matter how much I played the game, I couldn't find a K.Īs in Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, a handheld port of a console-remake, collecting all four letters to spell "KONG" in DK Land allows you to save your game after every level, but one K evaded my eager thumbs, decimating my stock of lives in subsequent plays. We make connections with games directly, emotionally, through our lives and the people around us, but my love for Nintendo came in the mailbox. with your sibling, or your Nintendo 64 and Goldeneye 007 (and therefore you) dominated your college dorm. Maybe you passed the controller back and forth playing Super Mario Bros. I believe that anyone with a lifelong love of video games started that affair with a deeply memorable experience. ![]()
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