![]() DK Coins feel a lot less special if you're also hunting for a single solitary gold feather in every level, and most egregiously, they added Funky dropping a bomb on K. The throwing game from the SNES original was a hell of a lot better, and prepared you to fight Bleak. I especially hate that lame Sonic 2 thing that Swanky has in DKC3. The fact that they're required for 100% completion drives me up the wall. They're jarring, tedious, and in some cases, unnecessarily difficult, and none of them feel like they belong in a Donkey Kong game. They make some improvements (smoother animations, for one, and fixing the hyperactive Kong glitch from DKC3), but the majority of their additions diminish the experience in some way or another. The GBA ports are fun enough to take on a long flight, but I'd never choose to play them if the originals were also available. Jeez, none of you guys saw fit to inform Doggo that the Laylee avatar is taken? Some friends you are!Īnyway, the SNES originals win, hands down, no bones about it. Just because I don't think they come close to being "better", they ARE different, and therefore worth experiencing. That being said, as Joe points out, they're still worth playing for DKC fans. To me the difference between those two games come down to you personal preference of the soundtrack, but with the former two games, there's not even anything resembling a contest. The only one with a legitimate case of comparison is DKC3 because they did add a whole world, and a totally different soundtrack. If portability isn't a plus, then I'm forced to choose between Audio and visual quality, vs minigames, and I choose the former. They all DO have the novelty of being portable, which was awesome in the GBA days, but you can get the originals on 3DS now so they novelty is no longer unique. They look worse, sound worse, and control worse. The first two added a level each and the third one a whole world, plus there's mini games, but though there's more, the overall quality is significantly worse. The GBA ports prove that More isn't necessarily Better. The levels themselves do almost all look better too (though I do like the small things, like little mice walking around in the backgrounds of the remakes) and these have quite a significant impact on my enjoyment, which means that I like both versions almost equally I'd love to hear a SNES-level quality version of the Donkey Kong Country 3's GBA soundtrack. It's a big shame that Donkey Kong Country 3 did not have this feature, but then that game got a whole extra world, so it hardly got the short end of the stick!īut then, as much as I do love the extras in the remakes, when I play the originals the quality of the music is just a lot better. Also, finding the photos is a fun extra challenge. I love just looking through them, because the artwork you collect for them is fantastic. I am particularly fond of the photo scrap books in the first two GBA games as well. I'm happy that there are alternative versions of each of these games to play. I like the extra dialogue in the remakes and I like a lot of the new sound effects. ![]() Of course, that's an extremely subjective thing to enjoy. If you were to play the GBA Donkey Kong Country followed by Banjo-Kazooie, it's easier to imagine they're connected. If you were to play Donkey Kong Country and then Banjo-Kazooie, they'd feel very different and it's hard to imagine them as part of a shared universe. What I like about the GBA games is that they mesh very well with other Rare games of that time. I enjoy both sets as different experiences although I think I lean slightly more towards the SNES versions.
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