Donkey Kong Country 2.
It took everything that was ground breaking about Donkey Kong country and dialed it up to 11.
Better pre-rendered visuals, better audio, tighter controls and thematically a very unique setting.
...RARE even used sprite scaling on a per-scanline basis to produce 3D-looking visuals on levels like lockjaw's locker background... The first game made me go "what the fuck" in regards to the visuals... And Donkey Kong Country 2 managed that same reaction, somehow... And no special chips were included in the cart, it's all done on base hardware. - All at a solid 60fps.
RARE was a stupidly talented developer in the 90s.
And we can't forget the banging music such as mining melancholy... The tunes used to sound great on my old 90's 7.2 surround sound system.
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