Donkey Kong Country
An expanded port of the original Donkey Kong Country for the SNES. Includes extra collectables, remixed/remastered music and sound design, and additional game modes and minigames.
Donkey Kong Country is an adventure developed by Rare, released 6 June 2003 on Game Boy Advance.
What Donkey Kong Country is
Donkey Kong Country is an adventure game developed by Rare and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Game Boy Advance only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On a dark and stormy night in Donkey Kong Island, Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong's nephew has taken the weighty responsibility of guarding DK's precious banana hoard for one night, as a part of his "hero training". DK entrusts Diddy with protecting the hoard until midnight, when he would be relieved, while DK himself goes to sleep as he is tired. Everything seems to go smoothly in the hoard until Diddy hears some noises. Diddy hears some voices outside and gets scared, asking who's there. King K. Rool, who had commanded his Kremling minions to steal the bananas. Two ropes drop from above and suddenly two Kritters appear. Diddy cartwheels them both easily, but then a Krusha (Klump in the…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series
Donkey Kong Country is the 88th of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Doubutsu no Mori e+: D11 - Design Card: DK Logo in 2003. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Donkey Kong Country holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Donkey Kong Country launched on 6 June 2003, within three weeks of Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising and Viewtiful Joe. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Viewtiful Joe.
Cheats and codes
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