Rool ends up stealing the banana hoard and Donkey and Diddy are forced to go on a quest to retrieve it once again. Donkey and Diddy couldn’t let the Cranky win, so they simply went on to prepare themselves to prove the old ape wrong. Rool and his Kremling minions to steal the banana hoard all over again, and that everything would be set by the morning. The old man then said he would contact King K. Upon answering yes, the Kongs had fallen into a trap. When Donkey and Diddy stood their ground at the old man’s scoff, the old man asked them whether they would have succeeded had they been operating on a, say, 8-bit system like a Game Boy or not. The old geezer argues that back in his day, when things were 8-bit, graphics were primitive and music was beeps and blips, the Kongs would have failed miserably. Donkey Kong Land is much like that, but the plotline is actually hilarious.Īfter the events in Donkey Kong Country, the Kongs are relaxing eating their bananas when good old Cranky Kong, the Kong patriarch, makes a bold statement: Donkey and Diddy only managed to succeed with their previous game, Donkey Kong Country, because of its fancy graphics and modern music. You see, Donkey Kong Country barely had any plot at all, you would simply start the game and later find out that DK’s banana hoard had been stolen by the Kremlings and their leader, King K. It’s probably the most sincere, refreshing storylines I’ve ever seen in video-games. The story surrounding this game might seem uninteresting, but it really isn’t. You control Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong trying to thwart the plans of King K. DKC 2 featured a similar concept - and name - for its first world, but the first courses with the pirate theme were actually seen in Donkey Kong Land. The first world, Gangplank Galleon Ahoy, and as most people may have already known by now, was based on the ship which is King K Rool’s vessel. The game is composed of 4 worlds with differing number of levels in them - actually, all the worlds have 7 courses, while the first one is the one differing, with 9 courses. It marked the debut of a few features that were going to be better known when DKC 2 was released, but were out first in Land. So the world in which the second iteration of the Country series came to be was a world which had a Donkey Kong Land already. And as a game, it’s pretty solid.ĭonkey Kong Land came out in the same year as Donkey Kong Country 2, but it hit the shelves at the middle of the year, while DKC 2 came out at the end. It’s certainly not as incredible as a game, per say, to the console releases, but it’s incredible as a technical achievement nonetheless. It actually could deliver a portable experience that greatly resembles the Super Nintendo counterpart. It’s really quite an achievement what Donkey Kong Land managed to do.

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