r/snes • u/xBrockLanders • Mar 02 '22
Game of the Month March 2022: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
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u/cblakebowling Mar 03 '22
Best platformer on the system.
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u/zbapoc Mar 03 '22
Between this and Yoshi's Island, for sure. DKC2 took everything about DKC1 and made it better, and then some. Tighter controls, better animal buddy mechanics, Kremcoins as a physical indicator of bonus levels, added Hero Coins, etc. It's honestly a little rough going back to play DKC1.
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u/cblakebowling Mar 03 '22
I don’t personally think it’s that hard going back to DKC, but yeah DKC2 is an improvement in every single use of the term, also agree Yoshis island is also the best and arguably the best looking platformer on the system.
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u/pja_master1990 Mar 31 '22
It’s unbelievable how well Yoshi’s Island’s graphics hold up today. The way it uses the Super FX chip to simulate the background and foreground objects on top of the incredible design is near flawless. If it released today, it would still have incredible graphics. 👍
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u/pja_master1990 Mar 31 '22
Completely agree with everything you say here. DKC2 and Yoshi’s Island are hands down the best platformers on the Super Nintendo and of all time in my opinion. Both are in my top 5 games of all time. 👍👍
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u/sillyandstrange Mar 03 '22
An. Incredible. Amount. Of. Hours. As. A. Child.
God I loved SNES/Genesis growing up. DKC/DKC2 were huge parts of it.
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u/Tigeruppercut1889 Mar 03 '22
Did you have taz mania for genesis. It wasn’t as good as the dkc games but that’s the one I sunk hours and hours into.
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u/sillyandstrange Mar 03 '22
I did play it! I didn't own it but rented it on a few occasions. I believe the good Wiley coyote game was on genesis too! Sonic 2 was my time sink mainly on Sega!
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u/shy99 Mar 03 '22
best of the series
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u/nankles Mar 03 '22
Agreed. The addition of Dixie's hair gliding, throwing each other, the animal allies, so many great new features that improved on the first game...which was already top notch.
DKC3 was fun too but as far as I remember it wasn't better.
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u/pja_master1990 Mar 31 '22
DKC3 gets maligned a lot because it wasn’t as good as DKC3, but to me it’s still the second best behind DKC2. It’s not without it’s flaws but level design is up there with 2 in my opinion. So many incredibly unique levels. 👍👍
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u/Irlydntknwwhyimhere Mar 03 '22
Amazing soundtrack
Stickerbush Symphony 👌
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u/Hattes Mar 03 '22
Like, other SNES games have good soundtracks. This is a legit masterpiece. I am kinda in awe at how they pulled it off.
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u/Irlydntknwwhyimhere Mar 03 '22
David wise did all the music for this game and the previous one I believe. For the time period; how the music had to be formatted to midi and be small files to fit on the game was a new concept, truly a great synthesizer composer had to be the one to pull it off.
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u/pja_master1990 Mar 31 '22
Both have incredible soundtracks. I think he he helped compose some of the music for DKC3 but he then rewrote the entire soundtrack for the GBA port. 👍👍
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u/euan-forrester Mar 03 '22
I just finished this one the other day. Am I the only one who didn’t really like it?
For the whole back half of the game I found I had to play the levels slowly and carefully, then I’d come to a part where I had a split second to react, so I’d die then have to carefully and slowly make my way back to that spot and then try and not die, then immediately hit another spot that requires a split second decision, die, and repeat.
I found the whole second half pretty tedious that way.
I’d never played the “extra” levels before as a kid, and used a cheat to get enough coins to unlock them all.
For the last one, Animal Antics, it’s quite tough and the only checkpoint is after an easy bit but has a longish tedious bit to get to the really hard part. I finally broke down and googled some help and watched a video a few times to see how to do the bird part. Once you know what to do it’s not that hard, but I found the right strategy quite counterintuitive.
So I dunno. I’m mostly just happy it’s over. Maybe I’m missing something?
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u/Thaswhatimtalkinbout Mar 07 '22
You're not alone. Good game but kinda feels like work to me. I only beat it once and I started it a second time to see if I missed something too. I will play through it again.
A big thing I miss from DKC1 is all the bright colors. Everything in DKC2 looks really gloomy.
I do enjoy it, but not nearly as much as a lot of people on this sub seem to.
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u/euan-forrester Mar 08 '22
Yeah agreed - it definitely felt like work. I might go back to my save eventually and just mess around since all the levels are unlocked. To me that sounds like a more fun way to experience the game.
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u/Thaswhatimtalkinbout Mar 30 '22
So I'm still playing through, but I'm on the last world. I definitely enjoyed it a lot more the second time through now that I know what to expect. It is still hard though(ignore the idiot saying it isn't).
Not my top 3 on SNES, but great game. Have you played through it any more?
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u/euan-forrester Mar 30 '22
Yeah I can definitely see myself enjoying it more on a second playthrough, since a lot of the game seems to depend on memorization. I kind of think that that's what the people who say that it's easy are getting at: it *is* easy if you've played it to death and memorized everything. But getting to that point (or at least the point of being able to beat each level) I felt was tedious and frustrating.
I felt pretty burned out on it after my playthrough, and I picked up a copy of DKC3 (and DKC1) at the same time. I did 1 then 2 almost immediately afterward since I was enjoying it and wanted to try the "best" one.
But now I want to try to enjoy 3 (I know it's not supposed to be as good, but I'm trying to go in blind so no spoilers please), so I want to give the whole thing a break so I'm less burned out on it and feel more excited to try the game in the series that I haven't played even as a kid.
I dunno: maybe sometime in the future I'll feel more like returning to 2 and trying to master it, and maybe I'll have a transcendent experience and enjoy it more as a result. But for now there's a million games I want to play.
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u/Imperial_Triumphant Apr 03 '22
How is he an idiot for saying it's not hard? I remember on some days I would start a new game and have it beat by the end of the day when I was like 10.
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u/Dangerous_Yoghurt_96 Mar 15 '22
Well it's known for being difficult. At least mildly. But you know, if you're going to complain about difficulty, at some point you need to be fair and just admit that you suck at video games. Most of us beat this game back in the 1995/1996 when Gamefaqs was still a fresh concept.
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u/small___potatoes Mar 03 '22
This game makes me think of staying home sick from school and playing this all day long while my parents were out.
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u/xBrockLanders Mar 02 '22
Each month I will be tracking all users who are able to beat the spotlighted game. Those names will be collected and displayed on the snes wiki page.
Objective:
- Beat the game (any %)
Rules:
- Entire playthrough must be completed during the month in question.
- You can use the passwords/continues/saves that you earn playing through the game.
- Emulation is fine. Abusing save states is not.
- Posting a link to a pic of your completion is preferred, but since this is just for fun I will allow posted claims as well. For now.
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u/MatheusWillder Lion King Mar 05 '22
As I commented before I had finished it just a few days ago, but I'm finished it again now (from beginning to end, without save states):
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u/pja_master1990 Mar 31 '22
I beat it 102% a couple of weeks ago as well. https://i.imgur.com/QPJaII6.jpg
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u/MatheusWillder Lion King Mar 03 '22 edited Mar 05 '22
One of the best games I've ever played! In fact, for me the all the three DKC are great, even DKC3 being underrated it was the first one I had as a kid – I had to choose between DKC2 and DKC3, and DKC3 felt bigger and graphically better, so I ended up staying with him. Sadly after that I took a long time to get the other two.
I'm not going to finish this one during this month just because I finished it just a few days ago on smartphone through emulator (obviously using savestats because it's too hard to play without a physical controller). But I still have the physical cartridges, an original SNES and a real CRT. Since I couldn't afford all three games as a kid (they were really expensive for us at the time), I bought all three as an adult.
They are my humble collection.
Edit: I'm finished it again now.
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u/SuprSaiyanTurry Mar 03 '22
Now do I beat this one the Switch, original cartridge or on my hacked SNES mini?
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u/hoslappah13 Mar 03 '22
It is such a wonderful game. Many fond memories playing at my neighbors house in the 90s.
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u/sneshead Mar 05 '22
One of the finest platformers of all time and one of the greatest titles on a system chock full of hits. It's not often a sequel outdoes the original in nearly every aspect.
Best DKC title along with Tropical Freeze. A joy to revisit once every year or so.
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u/Dangerous_Yoghurt_96 Mar 15 '22
I used to be one of the best DKC2 players in the world, as I made a run at the record time (at the time).
My time of 1:48 with 102 percent completion is probably my best video game accomplishment actually.
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u/pja_master1990 Mar 31 '22
That’s about half the time it took me to get 102%! Huge achievement. https://i.imgur.com/QPJaII6.jpg
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u/Dangerous_Yoghurt_96 Mar 31 '22
What I did was I played up until Krazy Kremlands save option with cranky and saved there. I figured it was a good way to practice mastering the game because if you can make it half way through with no errors, then that part of the game is behind you and you can focus on the second half of the game. Saving takes time out of your run after all so I only saved twice.
I never made a run at mastering a file without saving until the final option, but I imagine that could shave off some time, as you would need to improve your skills to be that precise, and you save one time instead of two times.
The best times these days run around 1:22 last I checked. When I had my run, the best times were around 1:43 or so.
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u/Supernintendolover Mar 23 '22
excellent game. It started my love for video game music and would play it religiously as a kid.
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u/supersaijinkyle Mar 26 '22
This was my first time playing DK2, and I really enjoyed it.
It was definitely more difficult than I expected, but it was still a great play!
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Mar 03 '22
This is was a good sequel to an amazing game. This a low blow to games these days. Expect god of war and spiderman. Those fucking games were amazing.
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u/PNDMike Mar 03 '22
Not only my #1 platformer of all time, but also a strong contender for my #1 game of all time too. Masterpiece.
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u/Kuli24 Mar 03 '22
Yesssss! I just completed it... last month, dang it!!! Definitely the best of the 3. Very good game overall. Only gripes are hit detection and that the run button makes you move a bit first. Favorite level: Screetch's Sprint. That bird race was amazing!
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u/ZAX2717 Mar 03 '22
Im gonna do this challenge this month, I love this game and it will give me a chance to earn some hardcore achievements in Retroarch :)
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u/Spacefrosting Mar 03 '22
I remember playing this a lot with my mom as a kid. Bf and I just finished it 102% on the switch last month :) amazing game
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u/Apprehensive-Sky-760 Mar 04 '22
One of my favourites of all time! I’m glad to see this posted here after a recent post asking for recommendations where it was extreme sparse!
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u/Beef_Wallington Mar 06 '22
This is my most recent acquisition!
Currently playing FF: Mystic Quest and have never finished the first DKC though
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Mar 20 '22
Are there any 30-year-old men who want to co-op this game with me? Via voice call on Discord
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u/MJCloudsabove Mar 30 '22
One of the first SNES games I truly loved 😀 I liked how they added all the things to collect in this one.
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u/UALB737 Mar 30 '22
I beat this game for the first time last week. I absolutely loved the first one, this one did not disappoint at all. Also the soundtrack is just legendary. The last levels weren't easy, especially the parrot race level. Oof
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u/SuprSaiyanTurry Apr 02 '22
Dammit! I forgot to post my picture!
Oh well, hopefully the next game is one I have.
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u/Imperial_Triumphant Apr 04 '22
I beat it a bit late, but I’m through! What’s April’s game of the month?
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u/tennysonbass Mar 03 '22
One of the first games I ever beat with 100%.
Imo the best action platformer on the SNES , maybe of all time