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Isaiah GBA Champ

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: October 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok This Game Was On The SNES And It Was G-r-e-a-t Great I Can,t Wait Til It Comes Out For GBA

This going to be awesome!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: October 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I first played this game when it came out on the SNES. When they released the first Donkey Kong Country on the GBA, I knew this coming soon. This is a great game and passing it up will be a mistake.

DONKEY KONG THE MASTER AND RULER OF THE WORLD

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: October 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Get this when it is released. It is a great game that is very fun.

WOW! 10/10

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say is that DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 2: DIDDY KONG'S QUEST is the best game ever on the SNES. Now it's handheld! Donkey Kong kicks all the other games arses.

Great Game but a little easy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've loved donkey kong ever since i was a kid. it just really fasinated me for some reason. I remember getting Donkey Kong Land for the original gameboy. i was a dissappointed that it wasn't more like the game for NES but overall it was ok. then donkey kong land 2 came out. this was much closer to the game and therefore a lot more fun. now the orginial NES games are now for Gameboy Advance and i couldn't wait to enjoy the orginial stuff i hadn't seen in a long time. I still don't have the first game but i got the second game three days ago for christmas. believe it or not i beat the whole game in the period time. it was almost too easy. there were spots were i did get stuck, especially with the bosses. some of the bosses are different from DK land 2 such a the big muscle dude with the club and the dragon dude near the end of the game and some of the technics to bring them down are different as well. there are more enemies as well like the ghosts, the one guy with the large swords, and the cat that throws you all over the place. overall, great game. better and dk land 2, thats for sure. Wish it wasn't as easy though. oh well. i still recommend this game to anyone who loves DONKEY KONG.

Much, much better than the GBA predecessor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Donkey Kong Country trilogy proved to be one of the most successful ones ever crafted for the SNES, and one of the top few of the 90's. Although the port of the original DKC was faithful in its reproduction of the levels, graphics, and music, I was somewhat underwhelmed by it due to its dumbed-down difficulty level and ridiculously simple bonus games. However, it seems as though someone had either read my review or clearly taken my prayers and pleas to heart while making the DKC2 port, because many of the previous problems have now been dealt with in a satisfactory fashion.

The levels of DKC2 themselves are not harder than before in this version. They remain generally unchanged, and along with all the original challenges, they still retain all of their charming music and graphics. Although a hidden ostrich feather is tucked away in each level and photographs in certain others, the level layouts are the same, and there are no big surprises in any level--just the same fun you'll remember from 1995. (Except for *one* level in particular...you'll see when you get there.)

This was true of the GBA port of the original DKC also, but it was way too easy to get tons of lives in that game. But now, while you can still save the game anywhere with the number of lives picked up thus far, it is overall much more difficult to get lives. This is primarily because the bonus games themselves are much more difficult to play: instead of Funky's fishing game and Candy's dance game, Funky now has a flying game, and Cranky trains an ostrich that you can race. In the GBA version of the original DKC, the games required no skill other than simple timing, and would offer huge rewards (i.e. 3 extra lives) with every win. Now Funky requires you to navigate a rickety plane through craggy levels while fulfilling certain mission objective, and Cranky's Expresso races can prove to be as frustrating as the Chocobo races of Final Fantasy VII unless you play through the levels enough to find the hidden ostrich feathers. Plus, the reward for winning each of these games the first time is a Hero Coin (one step closer to beating the game 100%) and you won't get anything for winning again.

Wrinkly, Swanky, and Klubba also have new challenges of their own, but they put the game's Banana Coins to more use than the SNES version of DKC2 ever did. Swanky has his original challenges that take coins to play for lives and cannot be replayed, but now he also challenges you to pay 10 coins every time you want to re-fight a boss, with a promised prize of 6 extra lives if you win--ultimately, it's a quick but very challenging and expensive way to win lives that is far superior to the overly easy Animal Bonuses of DKC. Wrinkly offers the same advice as before, but now she has a new challenge of finding the hidden photos in the levels to fully complete the game, and each hint at the locations will cost you 10 coins. Klubba's game, however, is the most fun addition; for 5 coins, you get to run around his swamp picking up little red flying bugs, while also dancing around and hiding in little alcoves to avoid getting "clubbed". The game can prove to be hard on your fingers, and you'd need to pick up 10 bugs just to get 3 extra lives, but the rewards are much more fitting when compared to the simple timing of Candy's dance game, and the gameplay is much more complicated and fun.

Even the level gameplay not part of the actual game is superior to that of the previous GBA port, which was playing through the levels to get the highest score possible; now, you have to race through the levels as quickly as possible to get the quickest time. It was remarkably easy to get an "S" rank before; now, the only limits set are your own best times.

And finally, the most important fix of all; the Bonus Barrels are much better hidden than before. They were so easy to see before that they were no longer secrets; now, extra care has been taken to hide them off the screen and out of plain view. Overall, there are many reasons to buy this game and forget that the GBA version of the original DKC ever existed. Now I have high hopes for DKC3 for the Game Boy Advance!

AWESOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i just recently got this game for gba, and it kicks [...]!!!!! the graphics are awesome, and the plotline is so cool!!! this game is a must-get, and if you don't, you're really missing out.

Excellent sequel to the first game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This sequel is consistent in quality and extremely fun to play. The graphics are done well like the first game, and the gameplay is still just as enjoyable as ever. You won't be disappointed if you are interested in purchasing this game. Most sequels fall through the cracks and try to pass by on the success of their predecessor, but this game stands firm on its own. Interesting new characters, interesting new levels, and tougher baddies to defeat that will require a little more dexterity than the first game! Enjoy!

One of the best Video games I've played in my life ! ! !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You will rarely see one of my reviews about video games for I only review those who are the best of the best, like this one, for instance. If you have any doubts on buying this videogame, then shame on you. This is possibly top 5 in the list of best games in history ! ! ! ! Go buy this one along with SUPER MARIO WORLD and LEGEND OF ZELDA: CLASSIC NES SERIES. (that's what I did and it worked out really, really well. If you are looking for the best games on GBA than you should also buy MARIO BROS: CLASSIC NES SERIES. Another example of on of the best games in history. Go buy this one right....NOW !

Donkey Kong Country 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

WHAT HAPPENED ? . That monkey is on the loose again...This is one of the most intense and enjoyable games ever. My hat`s off to the monkey, Hours of FUN....Eric

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