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elf help book posted:

can you refight bosses later on, theres a ton of challenge achievements for fighting bosses certain ways do they just expect you to restart if you mess them up

Quote posted:

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie's Double Trouble.

I played this game on a display SNES at Sears while my family was waiting to get out family portrait taken. Even at 12 years old something about the way it looked troubled me. It looked like plastic where the preceding two games looked like clay. It stank of the worst type of appalachian Americana. Who invited the Country Bear Jamboree?

Who would ever swap the jungle for this setting? The first world especially doesn't feel like DKC at all. I feel like I'm playing a cheap Salute Your Shorts tie in by Acclaim or Interplay. Donkey Lips Kong.

I remember my mother coming to check on me periodically at the demo kiosk. The year before I'd gotten lost in a blizzard and she went through a very protective phase. She was wearing a black dress and shiny earrings. This was 18 years before American politics snapped her brain and she created an unhealable rift between us.

"Is this something you'd want for Christmas?" she asked.

I shook my head and felt the stiff collar of my white shirt rub against my neck. I already had an N64. I had played Mario 64. This game, brand new, was already a relic.

The game stuffers without David Wise doing the music. The music that is there is servicible, but I can't help but wonder about the jug band bops and hambone beats that Wise would have written with the new setting. But even that would have been a poor balm to spread over uninspired levels. Never once did I get a wow moment. Never once was I pleasantly surprised by a new mechanic or the placement of a bonus barrel.

Why does Kiddy Kong exist? He brings no new mechanics to the game. He serves the same role as DK did in the first game. He's the heavy. We have a heavy. His name is Donkey Kong. The main character of the series is unplayable more often than not in the SNES trilogy that bears his name.

There is one thing that I will give the game credit for--i found all the secrets myself. The removal of bustable walls that are all but unmarked is to thank for this. It was a black mark on the original and I'm glad it's gone.

I can't recommend this game. I played it because it occupied a small space in my head for 20 years. Space that can now be cleared, ready to be occupied by some other skulking thing that took root when I was young and the world was magic.

103% 6 hours 12 minutes. Rating: Kool Kong

trying to jack off posted:

2 is ok, but i cant see myself going back

mysterious loyall X posted:

Spinds awesome. Sony does have the best 1st party devs and now that the dead weight of japan.studio is gone well get even mpre amazing experiences like this

fadam posted:

Lmfao

Frenz posted:

I beat it right after release

EmmyOk posted:

The only imp zone pioneer is the Naruto: Road to Boruto poster

extremebuff posted:

you gotta beat the game to post the game beat. come the gently caress on.

trying to jack off posted:

man that has beaten every ubisoft open world turd on release: i thought bringing achievements to the imp zone would make posting more fun

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

The last time someone posted about a game in here without having recently beat it. NSFL.

https://streamable.com/0bpr9d

net cafe scandal posted:

I think I speak for every imp when I say you will not soon be forgotten.

MrMidnight posted:

Hades.

Great game but jfc I couldn't stand Meg and her vocal fry as gently caress voice

fadam posted:

The rule typically seems to be reaching the credits = beating the game, but some games like Nier and RE2 make you watch the credits a bunch of times before getting the actual ending and I think most of us count getting there as actually beating the game. Not sure where I stand on Monster Hunter tbh...miss your thoughts?

Arrhythmia posted:

The ruling is Fadam needs to be decapitated with a scimitar ISIS style for introducing imp zone pioneer.

Evil Eagle posted:

Finishing Hub as Village monsters in this game have like no health at all

I personally haven't even marked MHGU as beaten even though I've played it for almost 400 hours but that's just on me.