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

The Donkey Kong Land series continues to mirror its SNES cousins with its third instalment, Donkey Kong Land 3. After Donkey and Diddy Kong were rescued from the Kremlins, they decide to enter a competition to find the fabled Lost World. Dixie, left behind to baby sit Kiddy Kong, decides to enter the competition as well. Dixie and Kiddy are back for more platforming action. This game was developed by Rareware and published by Nintendo.

North America: Oct. 1997
Japan: 01/28/2000
Europe: unknown

Screeshots: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5

Donkey Kong Land 3 is the most impressive instalment in the Donkey Kong Land series. The graphics are similar to DKL2 in that the background and foreground elements can be easily distinguished on the GameBoy screen. This was an occasional problem in the original DKL. One of the drawbacks of DKL2 was that the level designs were nearly identical to the SNES DKC2, this made that game seem repetitive to players who had played DKC2. The level design of DKL3 is unique in that they are not explicitly based on DKC3. All in all, DKL3 is a solid handheld platformer for a handheld system.

Score - 8.0

It's not a classic!

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06/28/2004