I learned that sometimes a bonus barrel in the open is just that: a bonus barrel in the open. Often, I would make the “hidden” secrets MORE challenging by thinking it had to be something more complicated. DK2 had it right: the puzzles in the back end were themes off the ones in the beginning, just with new twists to make them more difficult to find.ĭK3, however, has nothing against putting barrels in plain sight. The fun is supposed to be in learning the logic of the game, how they go about building their puzzles, and progressing with those rules as it gets harder and harder. The game’s subtitle should have been “You are tired of finding these things, and we are tired of hiding them.” DK3 takes this idea to the extreme: not only are there more collectibles than they should, 90% of them are way too easy to find. Pair this with the mentality of “everyone gets a trophy” and you can start to see the deterioration of incentivizing hard work. There has been some studies that show that half of all grades given out in college now are an A.
Big Bird here doesn’t even get introduced until the very end. It felt like we were seeing the left over parts that didn’t make the cut from previous games thrown together in one stew. All this stuff seems out of place and was reminiscent of xbox achievements - a poorly devised incentive for replay value. Of course, there has to be a reason for you to have to collect these things, so the creators made a host of characters for you to show off your stuff to, like bears and birds. While DK2 upped the ante of things to collect, DK3 becomes your relative who is a hoarder ( please don’t get mad Aunt Marjorie, but you can’t even open the front door all the way now).
What is different is how many collectible things they are: there are bananas, lives, bear coins, bonus stage coins, DK Coins, banana birds, items, and gears.
Blue Kremlin with the physique goals.Īt its core, it is still a side-scroller with enemies to attack and tricky jumps to land. After rescuing them, they release a bunch of banana birds that sing to release a big-mamma, banana bird that puts King K. They eventually do: hidden in a robot controlled by King K. This is a good thing: DK3, while fun, is a step back from the other two installments on the SNES, mocking us with a false sense of achievement.ĭonkey Kong and Diddy Kong are missing! Dixie Kong (gf of Diddy) and Kiddy Kong (Dixie’s younger cousin) set out to find them. Because of this, it didn’t garner much attention as many people already moved to the new, shiny system. I never thought he would live to see the day where it happens to his own family.ĭonkey Kong Quest 3 (DKC3) was a very late installment on an old system - the N64 was released months prior when DKC3 was released for SNES.
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Dixie and Kiddy on a quest to destroy meritocracy.Ĭranky Kong is a prescient figure in the Donkey Kong Country series complaining of video gamers today, he warns how things to use to be harder and how easy we have it today. And the frail quilt of patched-together, leftover parts.
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