| nintendo_fanboy said: NOTE: I don't want this to be a discussion about which game is better because this is personal taste. As I already mentioned in another thread, I'm a little nostalgic today, therefore this thread about two platforming grandfathers. Anyways, I recently read a feature about Mario and his history, and one thing caught my interest in it. It was that apparently, Miyamoto was a little upset because Donkey Kong Country games sold better than Yoshi's Island, and he attributed that mainly to the superior graphics of those games. In my opinion, this is a little too simple because I personally prefer the three DKC games over Yoshi's Island, but as I said, that's not the thing I want to discuss about. The important thing for me is that I see all those four games on the same level of greatness more or less, but a lot of People seem to think that Yoshi's Island is way superior. So I ask what do you think? Is Donkey Kong Country also one of the platforming-masterpieces or is this title exclusive to Miyamoto's Mario games? |
I definitely don't think its exclusive to Miyamot's Mario Games, Sonic's pretty awesome too as a pure platformer (on the genesis at least) and you can't forget about Megaman or Megaman X. Super Metroid is also my favorite 2-D jumping oriented game of all time, but I don't know if you would call that platforming or action/adventure?
I liked the style of YI more and the many boss battles (2 a world) were a lot of fun. Both series are full of secrets and collectibles, but I think that on a whole there is constantly more to collect/do in YI between the 20 red coins and the 4 flowers than in DKC where there are longer stretches of more straightforward platforming. Not that straightforward platforming is bad. YI also had a lot of silly power-ups such as melons, vehicle transformations, and super baby mario whereas DKC has animals, so I think it comes down to your personal preference power-up wise. Challenge-wise YI had unlockable extra-hard stages and DKC2 and DKC 3 did as well? (I don't quite remember but I think that's right.)
