Well this is where the major nostalgia lies my first video game series. Obviously we will start with Donkey Kong Country seeing as it is the first in the series. This game was my first Super Nintendo game and helped me become the thick headed Nintendo fan boy I am today. As for story its simple the evil King K. Rool has stolen your hord of bananas and Donkey Kong wants them back and will do whatever it takes to get them. So him and his little buddy Diddy King are going to go beat the crap out of the not so good King. The game play is basic jump on the bad guys heads like in Mario but you will also use barrels ground pounds and summersaults to get through the levels that are very creative in design. Along the way you will run into other members of the Kong family.
Cranky: Donkey Kong's father said to be the original Donkey Kong from the arcade game
Funky: The surfer who also runs an airport
Candy: Donkey's love interest who runs the save booths which you can jump into to save your game
There are also animal buddies which are fun to play around with and all have some special abilities
Rambie: The Rhino with the mighty horn can dominate the evil Kremlings on the land
Engaurd: The sword fish which is like Rambie only under water duh
Winky: Winky is a big frog that will help the Kongs reach high places with his mighty jump
Expresso: He is an Ostrich and isn't the most helpful but he is fast and most small
Kremlings go between his legs and he can also hover in the air
Squawks: Is a little useless in this game all he does is hold a lamp for you in one level.
This game is good because its fun and atmospheric with fun levels and fun enemies. They are cool looking and have some good variation. The boss fights however are not that creative except for one and then K Rool of course. Most bosses are just bigger versions of normal enemies. There is one that is a bigger version of an enemy but he spawns other smaller enemies including the smaller Kremlings all the way up to Klump one of the bigger stronger Kremlings Dum Drum as I believe the name is was just a fun boss fight. So is K Rool but of course I can't give out to much on him so there :P
Donkey Kong Country 2 is said to be by a lot of people even by me to be the best game in the series. This one has Donkey Kong being captured by Capitan K Rool the lizard pirate and he is awesome. This leaves Diddy Kong and his girlfriend Dixy Kong to save him. The game play is basically the same only really adding the team up where Diddy can throw Dixy (and vise versa) to reach higher places. The levels are very cool in design from one world being a pirate ship, a volcano, a amusement park/bee hive, a swamp, a haunted hallow, a castle, and then a flying fortress. The game as more creative Kremlings including Crook (a hook handed villain that will throw its hands at you), Cloak (a haunted trench cloak that will throw obstacles at you from barrels, creates, and even enemies), and one of the coolest Cackle (who is a deadly skeleton Ghost who will chase you while you ride a roller coaster inside a haunted house). The bosses are more creative as well from giant birds, Giant living swords, a huge club wielding Kremling, a giant bee, the Ghost of the Giant Bird in the first world and the K Rool himself all of these fights are fun and that all to say about them just fun. There are new animals friends in this game including a couple old ones.
Rambie: He is back and has a new charging ability that will send him charging in a straight line killing anything in his path
Engaurd: Is back and has been given a move just like Rambie
Squawks: Is back and better he can now fly the Kongs around and also spit out coconuts as projectiles
Squitter: is a spider that you can ride around. He shoots two types of webs one is a weapon and the other forms platforms.
Rattly: is a rattle snake that has the strange ability to jump really high on his coiled tail
Clapper: Is a minor buddy who is only in about two levels he can cool the water making it safe to swim through
Glimmer: Is a fish that will light the way underwater for the Kongs
We also meet Wrinkly Kong who is married to Cranky and will help you save your game and also Swanky who runs bonus games.
This game is awesome it is so much fun to play with some real challenging levels so I would say this game is a game that everyone should play.
Then Donkey Kong Country 3 Dixy Kong's Double Trouble. The game isn't as good as the first two but it was still good. Donkey and Diddy have both been Kidnaped and its up to Dixy and Kiddy who is Funky's baby cousin I believe. This game is still challenging and fun the levels are still cool but just not as good as before. There is more technology in this game shown in the use of water vehicles like a boat, hovercraft, a jet ski, and then finally a helicopter. Now this one adds two more animal buddies so lets get into them
Ellie: She is an elephant who can use her trunk to suck things to it and also shoot water at enemies
Parry: Is a little bird that flew above the Kong's to collect items high in the air
As a whole this is a very good series. Even though basic in concept they were so fun and I love all three. There was a 100% chance that these games made the list and at the rank they are at. If this was top ten SNES games they would be number one on the list. So that is the greatness known as the Donkey Kong Country series
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