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Donkey Kong Country 29 15.51%
 
Donkey Kong Country 2 50 26.74%
 
Donkey Kong Country 3 18 9.63%
 
Donkey Kong Country Returns 12 6.42%
 
Tropical Freeze 78 41.71%
 
Total:187
Nautilus on 21 April 2016

The first one that I played:Donkey Kong Country 3.Loved its stages, and specially the overworld.



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Peh on 21 April 2016

Donkey Kong Country 2 by far from the rare games.
Tropical Freeze by Retro Studio.



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KLXVER on 21 April 2016
curl-6 said:
NightDragon83 said:
DKC2 hands down. Followed by TF, DKC3 (very underrated), DKC1, and Returns.

Amen. I don't understand the hate for DKC3 at all.

I think Kiddy Kong is a shitty character, but other than that its great.



zippy on 21 April 2016

Tropical Freeze



curl-6 on 21 April 2016
mountaindewslave said:
curl-6 said:

Amen. I don't understand the hate for DKC3 at all.

DKC3 probably had the shortest development cycle of the original trilogy (it naturally sort of had to considering when it was released) and it shows a bit in some of the level designs.

I do think they were some extremely interesting concepts for levels in that game though, especially the timed 'race' ones that you needed to get a certain speed on to unlock certain things.

I think what hurts DKC 3 the most though is it is a bloated and confused. It has a lot of different things they attempted in it, from the different vehicles to manuever around the map in, to various different level types to unlock certain awards. Its a great game just maybe not as purely good at the other two

I do also think that a lot of people really don't like the 'baby' Kong character who constantly is crying and things in DKC3, I don't know, I find him a little annoying.

I think DKC2 gets a little too much praise, don't feel its as consistently great as the original in terms of mixing up level design and quality of the world map. I think its fairly obvious that people pick that as their favorite because you get to play as TWO light weight, easy to manuever characters, one with helicopter hair that makes for traversing levels easier

sure, Donkey Kong the character can be a bit of a pain to navigate with in the original game but I definitely feel that added something to the strategy and difficulty of the original. Having essentially two Diddy Kong's in DKC2 is a bit much imo.

I will give DKC2 credit for possibly being a bit more difficult than the original, but I still don't think its nearly as cohesively good of an overall experience as the first

I didn't find DKC3 "bloated" at all; about the only downside I find to it is that the music's not as amazing as the first two. (Though still good) And the only time I remember Kiddy crying is when you die as him, which Dixie does as well.

Having two light and mobile characters is definitely one of the reasons I love DKC2, but there are others; the immense variety in its level design, the stellar soundtrack and graphics, my favourite animal buddy in the spider guy, and the more "out there" locations compared to the original, like giant bee hives, inside a volcano, a haunted forest, etc.



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Jumpin on 21 April 2016

1. DKC 2
2. DKC 3 - I like most aspects more than 2, but it's the exchange of Diddy for Kiddy I didn't like.
3. DKC 1
4. DKC 64
5. DKC Returns
6. DKC Tropical Freeze

I didn't even bother finishing the last too games because I found whenever I played them I just wanted to go back and play the superior original trilogy instead. They lacked the fluidity and great level design of the original games. They should have just called them New DKC 1 and 2 because that's all they are, inferior later instalments.

The original trilogy is a classic, it was the best looking game series of the generation, some of the best playing games of the generation, the highest selling non-bundled home console game franchise of the generation, with DKC being the top selling game overall, and the game franchise that pretty much won the generation for Nintendo over Sega. In addition, the original trilogy revolutionized the gaming industry by introducing console developers to rendered sprites and backgrounds, particularly Square, who began experimenting with this strategy on SNES during Mario RPG and some other later games that never got translated to a European language, but mainly FF7 which got released in the next gen. 

The original trilogy is still, to this day, three of the best 2D platformers ever created.

If the original Dev team was around today and we're developing the games instead of those ex-Iguana guys, I wouldn't be surprised if DKC would be bigger than Super Mario at this point.



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fedfed on 21 April 2016

surprised by the results.



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JRPGfan on 21 April 2016

DK3 or Freeze.



Wyrdness on 21 April 2016

Freeze followed by DKC2.



AZWification on 21 April 2016

DKC2 or Freeze, probably the former.



                
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