Review of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Today while burning and freezing up in bed, I fancied at taking a look at good old Donkey Kong Country 2, a game that is the sequel to the totally masterful and classic platformer Donkey Kong Country on the SNES and is the prequel to Donkey Kong Country 3, the Country Donkey Dixie sequel Kong. Now, the first game is one that brings great comfort to me just to think of it, and it's one that I can always come back to when I am sad and need a good pick me up and it gives me the same feeling that I had with it when I was a kid. This time around the big Donkey himself has been kidnapped, and it's up to you as Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong to rescue him before nothing happens.. I have to be honest, even as a kid, I never liked playing as Dixie Kong, she has all those awesome abilities and I can't stand being awesome, I guess I'm just used to playing the big floppy Kong instead, with his rolling moves and slapping the dirt for bananas. But here you play as two small Kongs and you can do moves off each other, so that's nice. There are a bunch of new enemies to knock out, new coins to collect and new animal buddies to enslave and force to do your bidding. I approve of this manipulation of the natural virtual world. Mr David Wise who composed Donkey Kong Country returned to create the soundtrack for this game too, and that is too great because his music makes me want to eat pizza and Oreo cookies. This game is a fine platformer and is very good in comparison to the original, a lot of its fans find it to be a superior game but to me it is not quite up to par with the first game and really isn't as memorable to me, but that's probably because I ate too many pizzas and Oreos at the same time, in the same mouth, and it was mushy...anyway, back to the game, it makes me happy but not quite so as happy as the original Donkey Kong game, there are too many pirate ships, tree limbs, and annoying underwater levels and some of the areas are pure evil in a way that just isn't all that fun at all, I don't enjoy such ceaseless frustration when playing a game for comfort, so usually I play a handful of levels of this one and turn it off, it doesn't make me want to keep playing right to the end like the first game does. My apologies to anyone who thinks this is the best, but you are wrong and I am Oreo cookies :P X