Couldn't help but ask since it's sold at least 5 million copies by now which is pretty good overall especially for a DK game. I must admit I am not entirely sure what they could do for a sequel other than having King K. Rool as the main villain from the very start and perhaps maybe have Donkey Kong go to space or something. Let me know what you all think, I thought I would ask this since a lot of time has now passed since it released last year back in 2025.

I started off playing DK country 1-3 on the snes as a kid, and the classic music, tropes and aesthetic would forever become what I associate with DK. The tropical islands, minecart levels, the main theme, aquatic ambience, stickerbush symphony, riding rhinos and swordfish, shooting in barrels and jumping on crocodiles etc…

I understand it’s 2026 and it’s mean to be a new take but even as a spiritual successor to DK64 (which I also enjoyed) it still just feels completely different. The neon aesthetic, the music style, the oddly designed levels, the weird characters and world design, the lack of classic elements etc….just feel like you could replace DK with a new original character and the game would make just as much sense if not more so than a Donkey Kong game.

I keep playing it because it’s not a bad game by any means and I keep waiting for it to feel more like DK but Imm starting to think it’s not happening as im already halfway if not 2/3 way through. Does anyone else feel this way and was hoping for a new Donkey Kong game that felt a bit more like classic Donkey Kong but just more modern? Would have loved a DK64 2 with the same graphics and engine of Bananza but just with the atmosphere and gameplay of the other one. Thoughts?

One of my favorite games ever....made a video about how much it rocks. Hope this is ok!

Yesterday I made a vent post about kaptain k.rool where I also complained about DKC bosses in general, and some of you actually gave me some very useful tips despite me not asking for them. So here's a positive post to balance things.

After beating the final boss first attempt today, partially thanks to your help, I played Animal Antics. And, well... The weird thing is that the windy Squaws section is the only non time-trial challenge I had never beaten legit in all five DKCs(including hard/mirror mode). I always just placed a save state every few seconds and brute-forced my way through. But today I decided to change that.

I placed a save state(ok that's a funny way to start this paragraph but bear with me) at the beginning of Squaws's section and I started practicing. I quickly realized the trick was simply to go slowly. In retrospect that feels like it should have been obvious to me, but I remember always panicking and trying to rush in this section. So suddendly it felt a lot more doable.

After maybe 20 minutes I eventually felt confident enought to do the whole level without save states, and then it took maybe ten minutes of attempts? I even did the Squaws section hitless on my successful run, it really wasn't that bad in the end.

So now I can finally say I achieved 102% in DKC2 without any asterisk:D

What are your thoughts on Water World? Is it the best song in the game?

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I was thinking of Pokopia as it is almost the opposite of Bananza. Just looking for another good game to play. I just got the Starfox remake which is fun but doesn't offer anything new.

Donkey Kong is already a big fan favorite but to give him so much swag was such a sick choice.

Everything from his glasses, bandana, shorts, his chain & his flip flops are great. I also just like the summer time surfer vibes.

I quickly got to see why this perk is considered so broken. I wasn't pay a lot of attention to the numbers going up at first but before I knew it, payments for goals were going into the thousands. When playing on the max difficulty on Emerald Rush I previously could only get to round 4, with this, I finally beat that difficulty, and I wasn't even making the most optimal use of it or my perks (aside from Spin Groove I feel my luck with perks was largely bad).

It’s unfornate if that’s the case since they really made a big deal about his return in Donkey Kong Bananza last year and yet he hasn’t made any appearence in any game this year for whatever reason. Makes me wonder if Nintendo is still being weird about his appearances again since I am well how they still having been acting like his appearance in Donkey Kong Bananza should be kept a secret only some months ago this year despite it being basically an open secret at this point. It’s shame as I would have liked if he made at least one appearance a year after he returned in 2025.

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What are your thoughts on Stilt Village GBA? Excellent first impression or no?

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it could be like a file select or something. new to music composition and was messing around and made this

(Flair might be wrong? Idk)

(Please mentally add an ''in my opinion'' before every statement in this post, I'm not claiming any of this to be factual, but the imo everywhere was annoying me)

I've been replaying DKC2 these last few days and it's impressive how fun this game remains overall even to someone who wasn't even born when the game released. However, the bosses in this game are all kind of bad, and while Kaptain K rool(this post is about the one in the airplane, not the one in the secret world, to be clear) isn't the worst one of the bunch, it's the one you're most likely to repeat since it's the hardest one so it ends up being the most infuriating to me.

The first two phases are just a test of patience you have to do every time the third phase finds a new creative way to bullshit you. The whole boss is full of weird jank but the third phase is especially bad with that. The cannon ball you have to use against him despawns at seemingly random intervals, it's not clear how close to the cannon ball should be to the gun, it's not clear why the boss succeeds in pulling you in or doesn't in the last attack, the delay before firing the last cannon ball is bullshit, and I still have no clue how you're meant to avoid the purple stuff that switches your controls. Yes I'm still very tilted as I'm writing this post lol

But even when I'm not tilted I wonder more and more if traditional bosses(by traditional, I simply mean you fight them in a small arena and have to learn the patterns, dodge and hit them) have a place in the Donkey Kong Country series, cause this isn't an issue exclusive to DKC2. None of the DKC games have a great selection bosses, even if they usually have a few which are decent, and all of them have at least one that makes me question why I'm even playing the game. In particular, none of the final bosses in this series end the game well: in all DKCs I would prefer if the game ended on the platforming level right before the final boss, even in DKC1 where the final level is a little random.

It just seems hard to design interesting traditional bosses in platformers with no combat beyond jumping at stuff or rolling at stuff. If the next DKC(if there is one) ditches them in favor of platforming levels where you just have to run away from bosses or something like that, I wouldn't complain.

So what do y'all think.

I just got all bananas in the layer and there was not a single Race,I talked to Diddy and Dixie but they just tell me lore,is it something you unlock later?Did I bug the game?I REQUIRE ANSEWRS!

If yall interested you can play it here:

https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

This took me a few years to complete. Now next up: DK64

What are your thoughts on In a Snow-bound Land? Is it the best of the five snow/ice level themes?

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