70%Emulated

It has fun platforming and creative ideas, but I don't think it's a masterpiece of gaming that defines the platforming genre. Many of the levels are difficult to read and understand, and some of the "puzzle" levels have goals that are hard to understand. Anything involving the creature transformations was also frustrating because the game doesn't bother to instruct you on what their powers are.

And in the end, for a game about Diddy Kong I wasn't playing with him much. Dixie Kong feels easier to play because she can hover in the air for a moment, so platforming with her is more forgiving. The levels here are difficult and there aren't many checkpoints, so I found myself playing with her more because I needed the support. Its age shows, but when I did click with the game I had a lot of fun.

70%Super Nintendo

Solid game overall. 7/10
Diddy’s Kong Quest improves on its predecessor with more varied level designs, tighter controls, and a stronger sense of progression. While it builds on the foundation of the first game, offering similar platforming fun and memorable music, it also introduces new mechanics and a fresh dynamic with Diddy and Dixie Kong. However, the difficulty feels a bit more punishing, and the controls, while generally good, can still feel imprecise at times. Overall, it’s a solid sequel that refines the formula but doesn’t fully escape the occasional repetition that held the first game back.

70%Super Nintendo

Solid platforming, obscene difficulty

100%Nintendo Switch

Masterpiece

100%Super Nintendo

Great game. Platforming is excellent. Some of the levels are really tough, but it’s a good one. Only a few levels seem just outright unfair. Plenty of replayability if you’re looking to 100% too.

100%Super Nintendo

Best of the three original DKC. Diddy's Kong Quest looks like a clone at first, you can see how quick it came after the first one, but is everything but a rushed game. It actually brought most of the foundations for the series as we know it nowadays. It would be excessive to talk about a 'hidden gem' , but DKC2 deserves much better than being overshadowed by its overly popular predecessor, which it surpasses in almost every way, from controls to level design and, of course, pure fantasy.

100%Super Nintendo

Efectivamente. Es tan increíble como dicen.

85%Nintendo Switch

A SIGNIFICANT improvement over DKC 1. The levels were just overall more inspired and less boring than the first game. But I gotta say, this games was HARD. I originally played it when i was a kid on the GBA but for this completion, I played on NSO and I was so glad they had save states and the ability to rewind because I had such a hard time on some of these levels. Especially towards the end game. Not even mentioning King K Rool for the final boss. My goodness that was hard. But overall I liked it way better than the first one and making Diddy Kong distinct from Dixie Kong was a good move to keep the gameplay not only fresh but also unique.

80%Game Boy Advance

Simple Rating for now, I may comeback to make a full review.

5 = I want to play it again and I’m planning to do so. If I won’t play it again, the single experience was worth it!
4 = I would play it again, but I’m not planning on it
3 = I was happy I played it, but I do not want to come back to it
2 = I was not happy with it, but it was not a total waste of time
1 = This was a total waste of time and I will warn others to avoid it

Key take away: This is a solid port of the SNES version and a great way to experience DKC 2 on the go. The extra content gives those wanting more a little more to do and strive for.

90%Game Boy Advance

WOW that was good, why did I hold off on this for so long? A significant improvement over the original Donkey Kong Country, but I actually played the GBA version, while unlike a lot of the other GBA SNES ports, is a lot better. This time it servers as almost a mini remake with additional content. I'll go over the major ones:
* You can save and fly from anywhere... and for free
* Like DKC1 GBA, minigames are added for Funky Kong, Cranky, and even Klubba (though his isn't required)
* Wrinkly gives you a scrapbook, which shows pictures of almost all enemies and allies in the game. You collect these pictures by picking up photographs, a new collectable
* On the topic of new collectables, a golden feather is added to every level, which is used to upgrade Expresso in Cranky's minigame
* Not sure if this is present in the original, but you can buy hints from Cranky and Wrinkly for advice on finding secrets
* A new boss is added near the end of the game
* Graphics are significantly brighter than the SNES, and many night locations are changed to evening as well. I was wondering why they would do this, then realized it was because the GBA has no backlight so you could actually see
* There are 68 DK tokens instead of 40. They are earned from the minigames and photographs
* Co-op mode is still here, instead you just press select to change characters. I personally play this mode even solo as the pause after taking damage can help, and is a lot easier than switching between two SNES controllers
Personally I prefer the GBA DKCs and they're easily the best of the GBA SNES ports.

90%Emulated

Incredible game, and probably one of my new favourite SNES titles! Coming off of the original DKC, it’s amazing to see how many QOL additions were made to the gameplay / UI (more collectibles, an added bonus world, more transparency in progression, new level gimmicks). While it of course feels similar to the original, it’s a sequel that expands upon the basic formula in the best possible ways. With the exception of the save system, I’d argue it hasn’t aged a day in the nearly 30 years since its release.

Also, everyone talks about Stickerbrush Symphony being this life-changing piece of music (and it totally is, for the record, hearing it in-game for the first time was a surreal experience) … but the rest of the game’s OST is really something else. David Wise was at the top of his game for this one. So many memorable tracks, with so much weight behind them - it’s hard to believe he pulled this off using the SNES sound chip, of all things.

100%Super Nintendo

Platforming perfection

Good
- Kept all the amazing things about DKC1 and buffed it up with even more amazing things
- dixie's hair spin added a more dynamic to the platforming without making it overpowered
- A lot of new locations and environments that make it stand out from the first game
- carrying your partner on your back is a neat addition, allowing for creative shortcuts and more place for hidden secrets
- a lot of new enemies and new ways to interact with them, like the beetles, and barrel crocs
- a lot of new level properties, like honey climbing and being stuck in it. The ghost roller coaster.
- the bosses were more creative and fun to fight than DKC1
- it's easier to save as they're accessible more quickly after entering a world
- the game knows how to joke about itself especially when talking to cranky. Love how he breaks the 4th wall.
- the music is even better than the first game. A lot of memorable tracks.
- graphics look insanely good for SNES
- difficulty curve is perfect.

Bad
- nothing

100%Super Nintendo

Donkey Kong Country 2 is such a masterpiece. The sprites and beautiful backgrounds still hold up today and create such an atmosphere. The level design is amazing. Nearly every single level is fun to play. The platforming is so satisfying to master. It feels so good to blaze through the game after getting good at it. My favorite part of this game has to be the music though. This is my favorite soundtrack in any game. Every single song is memorable, thoughtful, and beautiful. The music is really what creates the atmosphere, and its incredible that they were able to create it on the super nintendo. I love every single part of this game so incredibly much

95%Nintendo Switch

Better than DKC1 except way less Dong so 0/10

90%Super Nintendo

Toxic Tower Can Eff Off

100%Super Nintendo

This game is what defines a perfect game. The level design is amazing. So many creative ways to traverse everything. It's hard as hell but not impossible. When you die, it's not really because the game is unfair. It has amazing graphics for it's time. I think it still looks great. It has arguably the best video game soundtrack of all time. Amazing all-around. There is nothing wrong with this game.

100%Game Boy Advance

10/10

Jogo incrivel!
Jogabilidade incrivel, graficos incriveis para época, curva de dificuldade ideal, musicas INSANAMENTE LINDAS E CATIVANTES.

Uma obra de arte cara, simples assim. Pretendo jogar novamente para tentar os 100% já que zerei dessa vez pela nostagia. Ultima vez que eu tinha jogado esse game foi a mais de 20 anos atrás. xD

85%Super Nintendo

I haven't played much of this one, but I hear it's better than the first game. I intend to revisit it some day.

80%Super Nintendo

Masterpiece in platforming design , I still can't believe the way this game managed to introduce a new idea for every single level it's impressive to say the least
But man this game can be extremely tough and unfair sometimes specially towards the end of the game it gets infuriating

95%Nintendo Switch

Very much disliked the level towards the end where you had to play as a few of the animal friends you have. Spider stinks.

Very good level design overall, loved the wind levels and the ones with the seals both freezing the water and cooling down boiling water.

Loved the bee boss that felt very unique from the rest.

Suck it King K. Rool!

100%Super Nintendo

Jogo mais foda da saga. Simplesmente perfeito! Eu sempre gostei da Dixie, mas o Diddy Kong é com certeza o melhor personagem, amassa!

100%Emulated

One of the best games ever made

90%Super Nintendo

Must be the most polished SNES game I've played yet. Quite the challenge to 100% complete (thank you save states)

90%Super Nintendo

The second game in a phenomenal trilogy. There's a reason this game ranks high on everyone's lists!

100%Super Nintendo

The original was a classic, but this one is a masterpiece. Best title in the DKC series, hand down.

100%Super Nintendo

O melhor da franquia, melhor trilha sonora. stickerbrush symphony

80%Super Nintendo

Loved this one to start and by the end the difficulty in trying to 100% complete it wore me down a bit. I think I still wish the camera was a BIT more zoomed out but I adore the soundtrack, the platforming feels good, the final boss battle was great and honestly the others were much improved from DKC 1 in my opinion; fun time for sure. Will I 102% this again in the future? Very unlikely.

100%Nintendo Switch

The original game may be the one I've played most, but DKC II is the reigning champ in the series. Just pitch perfect level design and art. The difficulty curve is sometimes ruthless, but the game keeps pulling you back in -- mark of a true classic.

100%Super Nintendo

+ Bande sonore magistrale!
+ 2 persos bien différents en gameplay
+ Monde perdu facultatif mais plus difficile
+ Transformations en animaux

100%Super Nintendo

Video Review - Vídeo de Análise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mWLqHvWKA

90%Super Nintendo

Alternative
13/11/1999
5h00min
92%

95%Wii U

The perfect sequel. Does everything DKC1 did better, added new stuff and so on. You still feel the age of the cold, brutal SNES times back then. "Rare" really wants to push their players to be the best if they want to beat this game. The game is both gameplaywise and graphically amazing to this day and recommendable. You see certain technical limitations causing problems here and there but it doesn't matter as much. One of the best Jump n Runs ever created.

95%Super Nintendo

Rare at it's peak. Excellent platforming, improves so much on DKC1 with the inclusion of DK Coins and Kremlin coins. Music is phenomenal and the level design is very creative. Areas are unique and provide a sense of wonder. Difficulty gets a big spike around the 5th world, which is when the game gets really great. The only gripe I have is the save system is a little too archaic at this point, requiring you to get 2 coins to save your game. Overall though, an excellent game all around, and one of the best platformers ever made.

85%Super Nintendo

A textbook sequel. It retains the tight platforming and rewarding learning curve from the first game and pushes the pre-rendered graphics further. We also get possibly the greatest soundtrack of the 16-bit era.

In the story Donkey has been captured so Dixie replaces him as a playable character. Her slow fall spin ability along with additional level verticality and mechanics adds a nice amount of gameplay variety that the 1st game lacked.

There's an oddity where some earlier level themes repeat in later worlds a little out of place. But all in all, it’s a superior game to DKC1. More variety and less repetitive, although DKC2 is noticeably more challenging towards the end.

The Donkey Kong Country series is remarkably playable for a 16 bit era platformer.

60%Nintendo Switch

It's not *bad* but its not as fun and well designed as the first one. Too many boring animal sections, too much pin point pixel perfect precesion platforming, the bee hive levels are horrible and the level where you have to dodge a moving pool of acid while you need to use the snake form's long jump which you need to wait 5 seconds as it RISES SUPER FAST is level design Hall of Shame worthy. I have played enough to know that I ultimately prefer the first game over this. The first game it actually feels like it is possible to move fast and jump without feeling like the game will kick you in the balls for doing so. This game feels it forces you to be absolutely perfect or screw off.

80%Super Nintendo

I might get some hate for this, but this is actually my least favorite of the SNES Donkey Kong Country games. I think a lot of it comes down to atmosphere. Everything is dark and dirty and creepy. I like the fun and light-hearted beginnings to the other games. That's not to say that there isn't a ton to love here. The game added tons of collectibles, more secret level types, secret worlds, and so many animal friends that you only get to see some of them for just one level. The level gimmicks are more pronounced and get a little harder than the first game. You could easily play each level 3 times trying to get all the collectibles in a level and still enjoy it.

90%Super Nintendo

naw this one of the best platformers of all time

100%Emulated

102%

90%Super Nintendo

Good improvement over the original DKC, but in comparison it's also a lot harder the more you progress, which I didn't really enjoy, so I used "rewind" a lot lol. I also preferred the original since I felt it was better structured thematically (snow world, forest world, etc.). In DKC2 every world has a little of everything. Because of those two things I gave it a 90% score. But overall you can notice this is a more complex game than DKC1 (more secrets, more elaborate bosses, more gameplay mechanics, better level design, a little more narrative), and you can call that a better game. Soundtrack is just as good as the DKC one.

100%Super Nintendo

Best game ever!

100%Super Nintendo

Donkey Kong Country was a fantastic, and some would argue revolution, entry to the platforming genre. You won't find many franchises where the sequel was superior in every single way, and yet DKC2 accomplished just that.

Graphics are incredible once again and David Wise's composed soundtrack is heavenly--one of the best in video game history. It's the game play, however, that elevates this as the best DK platformer to date (and, in my opinion, the 3rd best platformer of all time). The pacing is spot on, while retaining the difficulty of its predecessor--and in some ways being even more difficult. It is a pretty gradual slope in difficulty and there just aren't any levels that feel out of place. All the levels feel really unique and even ones that use the same tile sets stand out from one another. If I had to pick one bad level it would be Glimmer's Galleon and that mostly has to do with it being both an underwater level and having high darkness/low visibility.

The two Kongs complement each other extremely well and both are well rounded and situations make one the better choice of the other. Dixie Kong can use her hair to glide and cross large gaps easily while Diddy holds barrels in front and is faster at running and climbing.

Replay-ability is also very high. The levels contain loads of secrets of find and there is even an extra set of levels that are unlocked by collecting enough coins. The bonus areas are pretty much always unique additions to that level, unlike DKC1 where there was less variety. They are also much more fairly placed and often there will be small hints somewhere telling where those are, unlike DKC1 where often bonus areas were placed down pits or in the air without any tells and no way to know besides guess work.

All in all, DKC2 is a wonderful game that I've played countless times, and in my opinion Rare's best work.

100%Super Nintendo

Gosto bastante do jogo e da trilha sonora, conheci na infância me apaixonei, ainda tenho ele baixado, vou tentar zerar ele com um amigo e passa-lo pra lista dos concluidos.

80%Wii U

Donkey Kong Country 2, while a little dated in some aspects, is the pinnacle title of the series that helped confirm Nintendo’s place at the top in the 4th generation.

90%Super Nintendo

dat soundtrack

70%Nintendo Switch

+ Level design is much more focused and provides more room to breathe while still retaining a tough (and at times unforgiving) difficulty
+ Simply ethereal soundtrack

- Frustrating boss fights
- Overly punishing endgame

80%Super Nintendo

Not as good as the first one but still very enjoyable. I love the music after you beat every stage. Final battle was also pretty awesome.

90%Emulated

Even better than the first game. Both characters are fun to play as. The levels are varied and do not get repetitive. The background score is very good and each boss battle is awesome.

100%Nintendo Switch

Holy shit, this is a good game. The level design, with some minor exceptions, felt so much better and fair than the first game's did. The environments constantly shift and change, making no area's theme drag on for too long (although the game could have done with like 1 less of those beehive levels).

The bosses are all massively improved. Minus King K. Rool, all of DKC 1's bosses felt like grime scraped of the bottom of a deep fryer. They felt lazy and thrown in as an afterthought. DKC 2's bosses however, all feel like they receive the same level of importance as King K did.

The music to this game is on another level of existence itself. David Wise once again shows why he's a cut above the rest in terms of old school music composition. I recommend everybody who reads this to at least listen to Stickerbrush Symphony at least once. I have never heard anything like it in all my life and don't think I ever will again.

The only thing that keeps this game from being completely perfect in my book are the bonus challenges. The amount of them in this game felt pacebreaking. The reason behind is, in each world, you can spend the tokens you receive from those challenges to get the chance to play one level from the bonus world. While I think the idea is brilliant, the implementation of it unfortunately came at the cost of my immersion in the rest of the game's levels. Eventually I lost interest in trying to pursue a 100% completion and just wanted to enjoy the main game.

All-in-all, this game is an extremely fun platformer and the gold standard for what I've seen done on the SNES yet. The gimmicks don't feel forced nor do they overstay their welcome and the game is also a musical work of art. Hell, I even recommend trying for 100% if you do play it and see how it feels to you, as I know my feelings don't represent everyone else's. Cannot recommend this game enough.

100%Emulated

Sem dúvida é muito nostálgico jogar a trilogia dos DK, esse é o que tem as melhores trilhas e com certeza um dos meus games favoritos da era SNES.

70%Super Nintendo

Loved the over world! Some of the late game levels got a bit frustrating with the over the top precision platforming to extend playtime. Kiddy would of been better replaced with Donkey!