Plays surprisingly better on a portable format than on a regular console! :idea:
User Rating: 10 | Donkey Kong Country 3 GBA
I've never actually played "Donkey Kong Country 3" on the Super NES, probably just as well though. I heard that it wasn't a good entry in the 16 bit system's catalogue of games. I think it mostly had to do with the fact that as talented as Rareware was, they simply couldn't squeeze any more juice out of a 16 bit system or get any more performance out of it then what it could give. Yet the series needed to be continued, so Rareware did what it could do at the time, and what resulted was a game that was basically the same as the first two games before it with very few new enemies, no interesting new characters, and a very slow frame rate character wise and background wise. Nine years later, Nintendo picked up where Rareware left off and decided to do something ambitious and relaunch the game on the Game Boy Advance! Despite the system's compact size compared to the Super NES, the Game Boy Advance had more than double the power of it's home console counterpart, it could readily display 32 bit graphical power easily, and at it's best, could even mimic Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, and Playstation 2 graphics on certain occasions! And even though "Donkey Kong Country 3" underperformed on the SNES, it had muscle room to spare on the Game Boy Advance! Muscle room that it used very well! At long last, "Donkey Kong Country 3" could become the game it was always meant to be! The character graphics were more highly polished, they moved faster and performed much better, it was much easier to save and there were more fun minigames to play, including a 3D roaming mini-game similar in vain to "Sonic the Hedgehog 2's" mini-game mini-levels that was challenging and fun to play! There were even more new enemies, more new bosses, and the worlds and levels were more fleshed out and individualized then they had been before. And that includes the characters in the game to. Wrinkly Kong now has a Health Spa, Funky Kong has brand new mini-games, Cranky Kong gets back in on the action as a karate trainer, and several friendly bears lend a hand in defeating a new Kremmling menace who has captured both Donkey and Diddy Kong! Dixie Kong and young gorilla Kiddy Kong must work together in new ways to find hidden secrets, coins, balloons, hidden barrels, bonus areas, banana birds, and work together to find new, additional hidden items and defeat the new enemies! This new version of "Donkey Kong Country 3" proved to be the best new version of a re-releasing of the "Donkey Kong Country" trilogy, and finally became the best selling game it was always meant to be! So even if there are people who weren't impressed by the original version of "Donkey Kong Country 3," they should give it a chance on the Game Boy Advance and see that sometimes the best ideas aren't always the ones that are accepted at the time they are originally introduced. Sometimes like fine wine, they get better with age and are better tasting as well! And I enjoyed this game, and that's why I'm reviewing it! :idea: Enough said! ;)
