Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Country 2 logo
Studio	Rare
Publisher	Nintendo
Senior Developer	Tim Stamper (Director) Gregg Mayles (Producer)
Erstveröffent- lichung	November 20, 1995 November 21, 1995 December 14, 1995
platform	Super Nintendo , Game Boy Advance
genre	2D platformer
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer
control	SNES controller
medium	SNES module (32 Mbit)
language	including German and English
Age rating	USK PEGI
information	Donkey Kong Country 2 is also known as Virtual Console game for Wii and Wii U available. In addition, the Game Boy game Donkey Kong Land 2 based on DKC2 was released .

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (abbreviated Donkey Kong Country 2 or DKC2) is a side-scrolling platformer developed by Rareware and released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Nintendo released Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest in 1995 as a sequel to Donkey Kong Country .

action

Donkey Kong was kidnapped by the evil Kremlin boss Kaptain K. Rool. His best friend Diddy Kong and the nice monkey lady Dixie Kong immediately set off to free Donkey from the clutches of K. Rool. As they begin their journey, they find a letter from K. Rool that reads:

“I kidnapped Donkey Kong. Believe me, you'll never see that stupid guy again! He-he-he-he !!! Your favorite villain and king of all Kremlings, Captain K. Rool "

Diddy and Dixie have to assert themselves against countless Kremlings on their way and in the end defeat Captain K. Rool himself to save Donkey Kong. They are supported by Cranky Kong, Funky Kong and Wrinkly Kong.

Game mechanics

General

Compared to Donkey Kong Country, the game contains many new features. These include, for example, the hidden bonus barrels in which a task is always waiting for Diddy and Dixie. If this is done, you receive a so-called Kremcoin. There are three types of bonus levels. If the task is “Find the coin!”, The Kremcoin is hidden somewhere in the bonus level and must be found. For the task “Finish all opponents!” All opponents must be defeated, only then will the Kremcoin appear. In the third possible task in bonus levels, “Collect the stars!”, A certain number of stars must be collected in order to make the Kremcoin appear. All bonus levels are limited in time. In addition to the Krem coins, there is one of the rare DK coins hidden by Cranky Kong in each level. Finding these coins becomes increasingly difficult, which is intended to serve as a game incentive. In addition to the coins, the player must also collect other items such as bananas or Kong letters. Collecting 100 bananas or the four Kong letters is rewarded with an extra life. Banana coins must also be found, these are considered a means of payment . Another new feature is the ability to piggyback on your partner in order to climb higher places. Dixie Kong can also glide over long distances in the air by using her hair as a "propeller". In addition, there are barrels that can only be activated by a specific character. If you have finished all levels, bosses and bonus games and found all DK coins, you have reached the maximum score of 102%.

Game modes

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest can be completed by the player in three game modes :

• Single player: One player plays the game alone.
• Two-player contest: Here two players play against each other. If a player has lost a life or finished a level, the other player starts the game. The competition is which player can complete more levels in a given time.
• Two-player team: Two players form a team in which one player controls Diddy Kong and the other player controls Dixie Kong.

Game screen

In the level

Various indicators appear on the game screen during the game. However, these are not displayed permanently, but only appear if a corresponding item has been collected or an individual display is required. The following displays are available within a level:

• "Banana Counter": Displays the amount of bananas collected. For 100 bananas you get an extra life.
• "KONG letters": If you collect one of the four letters, this and those that have been collected up to then are displayed. If you find all four letters, you also get an extra life.
• "Kong Balloons": This display is shown when you collect a balloon or lose a life, and shows the lives available.
• "Timer": This is shown in certain levels and in bonus games. There is only a certain amount of time available for each bonus game.

On the overview map

The levels and contact points of the Kong family that have already been unlocked are shown on the overview map. A level that has yet to be completed is represented by a Kremlin head, a level that has already been completed with the head of the respective monkey who has actively reached the goal of the level. The Kong family's service locations, such as Kong School or Funky's Flights, are indicated by the Kong family member's head. The same applies to Klubba's kiosk. The boss of a world is represented by a golden head before the fight is successfully completed. For every selectable level or game world, the name of the respective level or game world is displayed at the bottom of the screen. If you have completed all bonus levels in a level, an exclamation mark appears next to the level name, if you have collected the DK coin, a DK symbol appears.

control

button	Function on the map	Function in the level
1 - control pad	Select level	Move, crouch (control pad down)
2 - Select	no function	Change partner, leave level (with activated pause and only if the level has already been completed once)
3 - start	Start level	Break
4 - B	Start level	Jump, swim
5 - A	Start level	Piggyback partner + disband team again, use animal helper's super trick (hold)
6 - Y	Start level	Hitting a roll (as Diddy) , using hair as a "propeller" (as Dixie) , giving up / dropping / throwing objects, running (hold)
7 - X	Start level	Jump off the animal helper
8 - L	no function (before the end of the game) , call up the DK coin statistics (after the end of the game)	Networks of the animal helper squitter use up
9 - R	no function (before the end of the game) , call up the DK coin statistics (after the end of the game)	Networks of the animal helper squitter use up

Game worlds

The game worlds extend over a single, tower-like island, the so-called "Crocodile Island". This is considered the home of Captain K. Rool and the Kremlings.

Gallionsplanken

The first game world Gallionsplanken is a pirate ship from King K. Rool's fleet. This is the pirate ship on which the showdown with the Kremlin boss takes place in Donkey Kong Country . The DK island from DKC can also be seen in the background of this game world. In the first level of Gallionsplanken you can find K. Rool's letter to the Kongs. The levels are relatively easy to solve and the bonus barrels and DK coins are usually easy to find. The world is made up of five levels and also includes Cranky's Monkey Museum, Kong School, Funky's Flights, and Swanky's Gold Mine. The boss of the game world Galionsplanken is Grow, a large pirate vulture that has to be pelted with his eggs. When this is done, the kongs can advance into the lava world crocodile kettle.

Crocodile kettle

The game world Crocodile Kettle is a volcanic landscape that consists of one large and several smaller volcanoes . The Kongs have to fight their way through several lava levels and brave the great heat. In order to be able to cross the lava lakes, they rely on aids such as hot air balloons or platforms in the shape of crocodile heads. All other kongs can also be found in this world. You can also visit Klubba's kiosk for the first time in the crocodile kettle and enter the first level of the lost world from there by paying 15 Krem coins. The world crocodile kettle consists of five levels. Then the player has to compete against a huge sword named Kleever and hit it with cannon balls at the right moment. If Kleever is defeated, you get to the next game world, Kremkai.

Kremkai

A rather gloomy swampy landscape in which a broken shipwreck has to be examined by the Kongs. There are six levels to be tackled in this game world, including a swamp level, an underwater level or a level on a pirate ship that has to be completed with the Rattly snake . At the end of the game world Kremkai, the extremely muscular Kremling Kudgel must be eliminated by throwing TNT barrels at him. All the kongs and also the Klubba's kiosk can be found in this game world.

Deep Kremland

A game world that resembles an amusement park in some levels. In it you have to complete two roller coaster levels, among other things, you also have to fight your way through a Zingernnest (Zinger = bees or wasps in DK) and a swamp. The world consists of six levels in total. The final boss of the deep Kremland is King Zing, the king of the Zinger, who has to be defeated with the help of the friendly parrot Squawks . Once this is done, the Kongs can enter the spirit world of Gloom Gulch.

Dire canyon

Eerie and scary game world that is haunted . The levels mostly seem gloomy and are quite demanding. For example, in the second level you have to escape from the dangerous Geisterkremlingen Kackle on rails or pass a difficult level with the spider Squitter. The bonus games are harder to find and collecting the DK coins is also becoming increasingly challenging. The game world consists of 5 levels, and the other kongs and klubba are also represented in the gloomy gorge. As a boss opponent, Geier Krow demands revenge, even if he now appears as a ghost. He is supported by several small vultures.

K. Rools realm

The six levels of the game world K. Rools Reich are all to be regarded as quite demanding. The player has to fight his way through a challenging ice level or climb a tower with the rattlesnake Rattly and other animal helpers, while a green and extremely dangerous poisonous broth rises in this. Cranky's Monkey Museum, Kong School, Funky's Flights and Swanky's gold mine can also be found in this game world. In addition, a level of the lost world can also be entered here through Klubba's kiosk. K. Rools' empire has no boss. In the last level there is only one cutscene in which the tied Donkey Kong can be seen.

Flying crocodile

The Flying Crocodile is Captain K. Rool's Flying Fortress. The game world consists of only one level, and the player in this game world cannot get any tips from Cranky Kong or enter Klubba's kiosk. Only Wrinkly and Funky Kong are available in this world. The final boss is Captain K. Rool himself, who keeps Donkey Kong prisoner in his flying ship.

Lost world

The lost world is very mysterious. It consists of five levels, which can be accessed from Klubba's kiosk from different game worlds. From each kiosk in a game world, you can challenge a level of the lost world. The player needs 15 coins at each kiosk in order to be allowed to enter the lost world from the respective game world. If you collect all the junk coins and finish all levels of the lost world, the crocodile head of the lost world opens, which in a way resembles a volcano, and you can complete the last level of the game called "Crocodile Hit". In this Kaptain K. Rool must be defeated a second time. Unlike the other levels in this game world, this level can be accessed from any kiosk. In the lost world there are no more coins to be found, but bonus games are. If you manage to do this, you get one of the 40 DK coins. In this game world only Cranky's monkey museum is available.

Characters

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• Diddy Kong: Diddy Kong is Donkey Kong's best friend. That's why he immediately sets off to save Donkey when he is kidnapped by Captain K. Rool. Diddy is rather small and shy. Nevertheless, he can easily take on the horde of Kremlins. Its trademark is a red baseball cap with the Nintendo logo.
• Dixie Kong: The monkey lady is a friend of Diddy and Donkey. She made her first appearance in Donkey Kong Country 2. Dixie can use the so-called "whirlwind", in which she uses her hair as a "propeller" and can slide it through the air.
• Captain K. Rool: K. Rool is the leader of all Kremlings, opponent of Diddy and Dixie and kidnapper of Donkey Kong. In the game instructions he is called King K. Rool throughout.
• Cranky Kong: Cranky Kong helps Diddy and Dixie rescue Donkey Kong by giving them tips on bonus keg locations in his monkey museum.
• Wrinkly Kong: Wrinkly Kong is a teacher at Kong School in Donkey Kong Country 2. There you can get general tips about the game and save the game.
• Funky Kong: Funky Kong operates Funkys flights like in Donkey Kong Country. There you can rent your keg and travel from game world to game world.
• Swanky Kong: Swanky Kong is a quiz master. In the so-called gold mine, he asks questions about the game. If you can answer three questions each, you will receive a red, green or blue balloon.
• Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong is the namesake of Donkey Kong Country 2, but plays a minor role. He is kidnapped by Captain K. Rool and is at the end of the game world "K. Rool's Reich ”can be seen briefly in a cutscene, during the fight with K. Rool and in the endings. Otherwise he is only mentioned by name.
• Klubba: The muscular crocodile Klubba owns a kiosk. From there he guards the entrances to the lost world.

Objects

Coins

• Kremmünzen: Kremmünzen are obtained by completing the task in a bonus barrel. These coins are required to gain entry to the lost world. For every 15 krem ​​coins, Klubba releases an entrance to the lost world. There are a total of 75 croissant coins hidden in the game. If you find all 75 and pass all levels of the lost world, the crocodile head opens in the lost world, where Captain K. Rool is waiting for a rematch.
• DK coins: Cranky Kong has hidden these coins in the individual levels. In the game instructions, they are also called "Cranky's Video Game Hero Coins". A total of 40 DK coins can be found.
• Banana coins: Banana coins can be found in many levels. They are required as a means of payment at Kong School or Funky's flights.

Barrels

• DK-Fass: Makes the lost partner reappear.
• Star barrel: Serves as a buffer in the individual levels.
• TNT barrel: Explodes when thrown. It opens secret passages and destroys enemies.
• Cannon Barrel: Throws Diddy or Dixie over long distances.
• Barrels with! Symbol: Makes the character invulnerable for a short time.
• Bonus barrel: Contains tasks for which you receive a croissant coin.
• Diddy or Dixie barrel: These barrels can only be used with the corresponding character.
• Rotatable barrels: These rotate into the position desired by the player.
• Steerable barrels: They can be steered in every direction.
• Check and X kegs: These kegs are very important at roller coaster level. A check barrel opens, an X barrel closes gates.
• Plus and minus barrels: These can also be found on roller coaster levels and increase or decrease the time of the kongs.
• Animal barrels: If the kongs jump into such a barrel, they transform into the depicted animal helper.

Others

• Bananas and banana trees: If you collect 100 bananas you get an extra life. One banana tree contains 10 bananas.
• Animal boxes : boxes in which the animal helpers are waiting to be used: the rhinoceros Rambi , the swordfish Enguarde , the parrot Squawks , the rattlesnake Rattly and the spider Squitter . Each of the animal friends has certain skills that are required to reach otherwise inaccessible levels, bonus barrels or DK coins.
• Balloons: Depending on their color, balloons give a certain number of extra lives. A red one gives one life, a green two and a blue three.
• Kong letters: The letters KONG are distributed in each level. If you find all four you get an extra life.

development

Like the other two parts of the Donkey Kong Country series for the SNES, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest was developed by the British video game manufacturer Rare and published by Nintendo . Director of the game was Rare founder Tim Stamper , as a producer today was creative director of the company Gregg Mayles used. Stamper also served as a director on the development of Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 3. Donkey Kong Country 2 was released almost exactly a year after its predecessor was released.

As for the SNES version, Rare was also responsible for the development of the GBA remake and the Donkey Kong Country 2 based Game Boy game Donkey Kong Land 2 . In the GBA remake, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, who died in 2015, was used as executive producer and Shigeru Miyamoto as producer.

Technical

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest uses a SNES module for data storage. This module has a size of 32 megabits . Donkey Kong Country 1 & 3 also use 32 Mbit modules. The handheld implementation of Donkey Kong Country 2 also uses a plug-in module, a so-called cartridge , for data storage.

Up to three saved games can be created in the game. The sound can be output in both mono and stereo . English and German are available in the language selection.

The Donkey Kong Country parts for the SNES are pure side scrollers , so only the parts of the level in which the Kongs are currently moving are displayed. The images always run horizontally from left to right or vice versa. The player always looks at the game from the side. The image is displayed in a 2D graphic. Donkey Kong Country Returns is also a side scroller, but this is already a 2½D video game. Here, two-dimensional data pass over to three-dimensionally structured data. In the latest part of the Donkey Kong Country series, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, 2D elements are connected with 3D elements. This is achieved by the fact that the camera sometimes moves in the background or rotates around some levels.

The first Donkey Kong game to be completely 3D graphics is Diddy Kong Racing , released in 1997 , followed by Donkey Kong 64 .

music

The official soundtrack (OST) of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest was released on October 1, 1995, before the game itself. It was composed by David Wise , who also wrote the soundtracks for Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! produced. A remix of "Stickerbrush Symphony" was also used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl . The original soundtrack CD from Nintendo is now considered a rarity and is sometimes sold for several hundred dollars at auctions. On March 15, 2010 OverClocked ReMix released a remix album under the name Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business . This includes u. a. Disco, rock, trance and orchestral remixes of many tracks from the original soundtrack.

It is possible to play almost all pieces of music in the game in the game modes menu. To do this, you have to start a new game in an empty memory so that the game mode selection appears. If you move all the way down to the selection “TWO Player Contest” and then press the control pad five times downwards, a secret selection called “Music Test” appears. In this selection, various pieces of music from the game can be played as often as you like.

With the Game Boy Advance version of the game, the music can be played by entering the password "ONETIME" in the cheat menu.

Trivia

• At the end of the game, when the number of DK coins found by the player is evaluated, the Nintendo characters Mario , Yoshi and optionally Link have a cameo .
• Both a DOS and a Virtual Boy implementation of Donkey Kong Country 2 were planned. But both were never realized.

Surname

In Japan, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest was published under the name Super Donkey Kong 2: Dixie & Diddy ( Japaneseス ー パ ー ド ン キ ー コ ン グ ２ デ ィ ク シ シ ー ＆ デ ィ デ ィ ー, Sūpā Donkī Kongu 2: Dikushī ). The GBA remake was released under the name Super Donkey Kong 2 . In China, DKC2 is called Dajingang Chengshi 2 ( Chinese大 金刚 城市 2).

Originally, Donkey Kong Country 2 should have the subtitle Diddy Kong's Quest (German: Diddy Kongsuche), but this was changed to Diddy's Kong Quest (German: "Diddys Kongsuche") before it was released . Kong Quest should allude to the English word Conquest (German: "Eroberung"). So the main objectives of the game, the search for Donkey Kong and the conquest of Crocodile Island, the home of Captain K. Rool and the Kremlings, should be clarified.

Units sold

In total, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest has been sold around 5.15 million times worldwide.

With this sales figure, the game ranks 6th among the best-selling SNES games behind Super Mario World , Super Mario All-Stars , Donkey Kong Country , Super Mario Kart and Street Fighter II . Super Mario World is by far the most successful SNES game and, with approximately 20.6 million units sold, reached almost four times as many as Donkey Kong Country 2.

From the original Donkey Kong Country series for the SNES, DKC2 is the second most successful game, after Donkey Kong Country with approximately 9.30 million units sold. The successor to DKC2, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble !, published in 1996, whose sales were also weakened by the in-house competition of the Nintendo 64 , which had just been released , reached a unit sales of around 3.51 million.

The Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 2 sold around 1.23 million units. It could not follow up on the success of the GBA remake of Donkey Kong Country, which sold approx. 2.04 million times, but went over the counter more often than the GBA remake of Donkey Kong Country 3. This was a sales figure of about 0.77 million. On the list of the most successful Game Boy Advance games, Donkey Kong Country 2 ranks 53rd. First place is Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Edition with around 15.85 million units sold.

Predecessor and successor

The predecessor of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest is Donkey Kong Country , released in 1994 . The first part of the series was very successful and was consistently praised by critics. Donkey Kong Country was the first SNES game in which one of Tim and Chris Stamper method developed was used, with which it was possible to play world and figures first as 3D objects on Silicon Graphics - workstations to model and in True Color to render . The first part is still the most successful of the Donkey Kong Country series.

In 1996, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! as the last part of the original Donkey Kong Country series for the Super Nintendo. The third part also met with a positive response. However, the sales figures fell compared to the predecessors.

Donkey Kong Country Returns was released for the Nintendo Wii 16 years after the first part . Donkey Kong Country Returns uses familiar things from the SNES predecessors, but also contains various innovations. For example, the Kremlings from the SNES parts have been replaced by the newly introduced Tikis. The fourth part does not come from Rare for the first time either, but was developed by the US video game manufacturer Retro Studios .

In 2013, Nintendo presented the fifth part of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze at E3 . This, too, was developed by Retro Studios and was released for the Wii U on February 21, 2014 .

Remakes

Game Boy

Donkey Kong Land 2
Studio	Rare
Publisher	Nintendo
Erstveröffent- lichung	September 1, 1996 November 23, 1996 November 28, 1996
platform	Game Boy
genre	Jump 'n' run
Game mode	Single player
Age rating	USK PEGI
information	The game is based on DKC2, but cannot be considered a direct implementation.

→ Main article : Donkey Kong Land 2

About a year after the release of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest for the SNES , a game based on Donkey Kong Country 2 for the Game Boy called Donkey Kong Land 2 was released . The plot largely corresponds to the SNES model, but the Game Boy can only output the picture in black and white. The music was also adapted to the Game Boy. Although the actions and most of the game worlds are similar, Donkey Kong Land 2 has newly designed levels and therefore, as is often wrongly assumed, is not a direct implementation of DKC2. In total, Donkey Kong Land 2 sold 2.35 million units. 1.41 million of them in the US alone .

Game Boy Advance

Donkey Kong Country 2
Studio	Rare
Publisher	Nintendo
Senior Developer	Satoru Iwata (Executive Producer) Shigeru Miyamoto (Producer)
Erstveröffent- lichung	June 25, 2004 July 1, 2004 November 25, 2004
platform	Game Boy Advance
genre	Jump 'n' run
Game mode	Single player
Age rating	USK PEGI

On June 25, 2004, an implementation for the Game Boy Advance was published under the name Donkey Kong Country 2 . In contrast to Donkey Kong Land 2, this version is a direct implementation of the SNES game from 1995. The plot and the gameplay were hardly changed here and largely correspond to the SNES version. The designs of the game worlds mostly differ slightly to strongly from the SNES originals, but the division of levels and the level designs remained largely unchanged.

However, in the GBA remake, the developers made other changes or additions to the SNES model. For example, the game world K. Rools Realm contains a boss and the number of life and banana coins is saved. The GBA remake also includes more DK coins, additional mini-games and new collectable items. In each level there is a feather from Animal Helper Expresso, which you have to deliver to Cranky Kong. With these springs you can "strengthen" Expresso. With Expresso, which does not appear in the SNES game, you can then compete in races, for whose winnings you receive DK coins. At Wrinkly Kong, you can hand in cameras that are hidden in individual levels and unlock photos in Dixie Kong's photo album. You can also get DK coins for this. Funky Kong again provides the opportunity to travel from game world to game world, this time in the form of a helicopter. In contrast to the SNES model, this can be selected at any time via the start menu, which means that Funky does not have to be visited every time. If you visit Funky in the GBA implementation, you can also complete new mini-games with him, which you in turn receive DK coins for completing them. In one of these mini-games, the Tiny Kong, which does not appear in the Super Nintendo version, has a cameo .

The Game Boy Advance contains various multiplayer modes . Donkey Kong Country 2 sold 1.23 million units, the majority of them in the United States.

Wii

From May 2007 to November 2012 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest could be purchased in the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console for 800 Wii Points. On November 25, 2012, Nintendo temporarily removed the games from the Donkey Kong Country series from the set of the Virtual Console. Memory images purchased up to that point were saved on the console and could be started and played unchanged, but they could not be purchased or downloaded again. Since October 30th, 2014 Donkey Kong Country 2 is available again in the virtual console of the Wii. Donkey Kong Country 1 & 3 as well. The game can be controlled with both the Wii Classic controller and the Nintendo GameCube controller.

Wii U

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest has been available for purchase in the Wii U eShop for € 7.99 since October 23, 2014 . Until November 6, 2014, it offered a 33% discount on Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze in the so-called “Donkey Kong Country Weeks”. Donkey Kong Country 1 & 3 are also available in the eShop. The game can be controlled with the Wii U GamePad , the Wii U Pro Controller , the Wii Remote Control and the Wii Classic Controller Pro .

Reviews

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest received consistently good reviews and ratings, with the SNES version mostly rated better than the GBA port.

“Like the first part, Donkey Kong Country 2 also had very nice graphics and sometimes very good music, which one or the other would give you an ear. Donkey Kong Country 2 is probably one of the few sequels that is clearly better than its predecessor. The levels are more varied and there are many more mini-games. Dixie also plays a lot better than the clumsy Donkey Kong. Due to its popularity, this part has also been reprinted a few times [...]. "

- toadtown.de

“In terms of play and staging, Donkey Kong Country 2 should surpass its predecessor and also the successor Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! remain untouched - even if only barely. Whether this makes the centerpiece of the trilogy the best part of the series, everyone decides for themselves. What is certain is that Diddy Kong himself is still leading in 1995 - shortly before the dawn of the 3D era and after years of 2D jump & run existence how perfect genre food works. "

- pixelbrunch.com

The current GameRankings rating is 89.81%, the rating website Metacritic assigns a Metascore of 80 for the GBA version of the game. The video game website GameSpot rates DKC2 with 8.0, with IGN Entertainment the rating is 8.8. At Nintendojo, DKC2 receives a rating of 9.9.

Awards

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest has won several awards:

• Number 65 of the "Top 100 Games of All Time" (by the American video game magazine Game Informer in August 2001)
• Best SNES Game of 1995 (from the American video game magazine Game Players in Volume 8, No. 13)
• Best 16-bit graphic from 1995 (from the American video game magazine Game Players in issue Vol 8, No. 13)

Playing time record

The world record for the shortest playing time of the SNES version of Donkey Kong Country 2 for a game progress of 102% is currently 1 hour and 27 minutes and was set by V0oid on February 17, 2017.

In the GBA version, the shortest playing time for a 100% score is 56 minutes. This record is held by James Conway and was set on April 15, 2005.

Others

In 1995 a special edition of Club Nintendo was published, which had a comic about Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest as the subject.

Some SNES games were sold together with the console in a so-called " bundle ". A limited bundle of Donkey Kong Country 2 was also released. The Donkey Kong Country 2 Bundle is called "Pirate Pack" and is now considered a collector's item.

An official game advisor has been published for the game with level maps, solutions and other game tips.

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a cheat mode officially integrated into the game by Rare . If you start a new game in an empty memory, the selection of the game modes appears first. If you move all the way down to the selection “TWO Player Contest” and then press the control pad five times downwards, a secret selection called “Music Test” appears. By again pressing the control pad downwards five times, the "cheat mode" appears. If you now enter the key sequence "Y, A, Select, A, Down, Left, A, Down", you get 50 extra lives by entering the key sequence "B, A, Right, Right, A, Left, A, X" the half-time barrels are removed to make the game more difficult.

literature

• Nintendo of Europe GmbH & Nintendo Co., Ltd. , Shigeru Ota (Editor): Official Nintendo game advisor for Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (detailed and complete game and level description, 112 pages, German)
• Club Nintendo : Volume 7, Issue 6, December 1995 - pages 32–39 (game presentation, German)

annotation

1. ↑ This letter can be found in the first level "Pirate Panic". A letter with the following content is quoted in the game instructions: “To the shaggy Kong family: Hah-arrrh! We have the big monkey! If you want it back, you have to give us your entire supply of bananas !!! King K. Rool "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Game Advisor to Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, page 26
2. ↑ Official electronic manual of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Virtual Console Version) , Chapter 2
3. ↑ Official game instructions for Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, page 14
4. ↑ Credits from DKC2 (SNES) ( English ) MobyGames . Retrieved January 4, 2014.
5. ↑ Credits from DKC2 (GBA) ( English ) MobyGames . Retrieved January 4, 2014.
6. ↑ General game information for Donkey Kong Country 2 ( English ) DK Vine. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
7. ↑ General game information on Donkey Kong Country ( English ) DK Vine. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
8. ↑ General game information for Donkey Kong Country 3 ( English ) DK Vine. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
9. ↑ Jochen Gebauer: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze in the preview . GamePro. July 5, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
10. ↑ NintendoOfEurope: Developer Direct Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze @ E3 2013 ( English ) YouTube . June 13, 2013. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
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Web links

• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest on Nintendo
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