Donkey Kong Land: Difference between revisions

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The game is often mistaken as a Game Boy port of ''Donkey Kong Country''. Although the two games play the same using the same engine, the storyline is different and ''Donkey Kong Land'' has different and/or unique levels, enemies, and bosses from the ones featured in ''Donkey Kong Country''.

==Story==

==Gameplay==

[[File:DKL Title Screen.png|thumb|left|The title screen for ''Donkey Kong Land'', as seen with the Super Game Boy adapter]]

[[File:Jungle Jaunt DKL halfway.png|thumb|160px|Donkey Kong near a [[Continue Point]]]]

Like in most platformer games, the goal is to reach the end of the level, without being defeated by an enemy or falling into a trap. The Kongs must make their way through each level carefully, or else an enemy may attack. When this happens, one of the Kongs in the group will run away. With one hero remaining, the player must be careful, as being hit by an enemy or obstacle results in losing a life. The missing Kong can be recovered from a [[Buddy Barrel]], which appears in every level. [[Star Barrel]]s were replaced with a different type of [[checkpoint]], the [[Continue Point]]s. Up to three can appear in a level. If the Kongs activate a Continue Point, their progress is temporarily saved at the point, and they would return to that point if they lose a life. Every level has a small portal for an end [[goal]], the [[end of stage]]. The Kongs must jump into it to exit the level.

==Playable characters and abilities==

The basic ability, jumping, can be done by both Kongs to defeat enemies, cross pits, or to simply jump to access higher areas. Both Kongs also have the ability to roll or cartwheel into foes. This can defeat the enemies much more easily than jumping on them, and it also gives the heroes an extra speed boost. Sometimes, the Kongs will find themselves requiring to cross a wide abyss too large to jump over. With their cartwheel and roll moves, they can perform a super-jump, making them roll over the gap and jumping in mid-air for an extra boost. Bouncing on a [[tire]] can give them an extra boost in the air as well.

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==Levels==

'''Note:''' Some musical compositions of the game are 8-bit arrangements of other compositions from ''Donkey Kong Country'', which were created by [[David Wise]]. They are listed with their original title in the "Music theme" sectors of the following table. Graeme Norgate also participated with several new tunes, also listed here. Their names are posted on [http://www.graemenorgate.com Norgate's website], and according to him, they pertain to the game's soundtrack filenames.

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==Staff==

{{main|List of Donkey Kong Land staff}}

===Main Programming===

*Paul Machacek

==Glitches==

If Donkey or Diddy fall with no visible ground below, the game will mistake the player for falling into a pit and will count it as an instant death, even if both Kongs are present. This includes being knocked back by enemies, but also can happen if either Kong falls to a platform below that is off screen.  

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In some levels, particularly jungle levels, there are [[Necky]]s that sit on platforms and spit nuts, hoping to hit the Kongs when they're below him. However, if Necky is on the top of the screen, the sound effect of spitting nuts can be heard, but no nuts are actually fired.

In some cases the player can obtain the second Kong from a DK barrel, but after getting hit it will still result in a death instead of the other Kong appearing in his place.

[[File:DKL SGB Title Palette Bug.png|right|''Donkey Kong Land'''s title screen on a Super Game Boy when the user overrides the palette.]]

When playing on a [[Super Game Boy]], if the game is on the title screen and the user overrides the palette (either by pressing {{button|snes|X}} to quickly toggle the palette, or {{button|snes|L}}+{{button|snes|R}} to open the palette selector), the screen has an inverted palette, causing graphical weirdness. This is because this screen has four palettes (for the logo, the Kongs, and Rambi), and the Super Game Boy only allows one background color to be shared across all palettes, which in this case is black (leaving only three colors left for each palette). Since the background color is black, the game inverts the Game Boy's background palette colors to work around this limitation, and then assigns the other colors in a way to hide the inversion. However, ''Donkey Kong Land'' does not block the player from replacing the colors, so many of the Super Game Boy's built-in palettes appear inverted relative to other games.

==Reception==

On release, Famitsu scored ''Donkey Kong Land'' a 24 out of 40.

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|align="left"|"''Going by that instruction book story, the idea that this game would prove [[Donkey Kong Country]] was more than just a pretty face is demonstrated rather nicely. Whilst visually it can't come close to the SNES title, by Game Boy standards these are definitely "fancy graphics", and that doesn't really matter as fans can rejoice in what is basically an extra 34 levels of DKC. Tight controls and a variety of locations and enemies make for an enjoyable platformer. Add in the challenge of finding everything and Donkey Kong Land is a fun game that will keep players occupied for some time.''"

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==Gallery==

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Fangfish 01.png|[[Fangfish]]

Hard hat 01.png|[[Hard Hat]]

==Media==

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==Names in other languages==

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