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System: GameBoy Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Players: 1 Save: Battery Genre: Platformer

The Donkey Kong Land franchise returns to the Game Boy for another run of platforming fun. This game features and identical storyline to Donkey Kong Country 2. Diddy and Dixie Kong must rescue Donkey Kong from the evil King K. Rool.

North America: Sep. 1996
Japan: 11/23/1996
Europe: unknown

Screeshots: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5

It is mentioned above that this game has the same story line as DKC 2; it also has similar level designs. When playing this game, it is almost like you are playing a toned-down version of DKC 2. This may cause avid players of Donkey Kong Country to be unimpressed with this game.

However, some of the problems that were present in the original Donkey Kong Land have been addressed here; most notably the issue of viewing foreground characters has been improved greatly. It is much easier to differentiate between your character and enemy from the background and in that respect, DKL 2 is a superior game to DKL.

Score - 7.7

It's not a classic!

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02/28/2004