Donkey Kong Land: Difference between revisions

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==

As in the SNES game, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are the only playable characters. The stats of these apes both vary, just as in the previous game.  

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==Animal Friends==

Unlike ''Donkey Kong Country'', ''Donkey Kong Land'' has only two [[Animal Friends]], [[Rambi the Rhino]] and [[Expresso the Ostrich]], with each appearing in only four levels apiece. The Animal Friends here are unable to shoot through barrels, and they will suddenly drop to the ground once these obstacles are approached.

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==Enemies and hazards==

''Donkey Kong Land'' involves over twenty different enemies and hazards, although most first appeared in ''Donkey Kong Country''. Noticeably, many of them remain common throughout the whole game, not making a final appearance until the last world, the [[Big Ape City]].

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|align="center"|[[Army]]

|These armadillos roll at the Kongs on sight, and their quick and erratic movements can make them troublesome to deal with. Donkey Kong can jump on them to instantly defeat them, but Diddy Kong can only do so when it is not rolling; if he does so while it is, it will simply uncurl temporarily.

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===Bosses===

Throughout the Kongs' quest, they not only find the enemies listed above, but also several [[List of bosses|bosses]], who require a little more skill to beat. Each boss appears at the end of all the game's worlds, and must be defeated to allow the heroes to progress. Each one has a simple attack pattern, but their speed goes up considerably the more times they are hit.

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==Items==

Many items can be found around ''Donkey Kong Land'', and each help the duo complete levels or defeat enemies. Each item has a different purpose.

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===Mechanisms===

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|align="center"|{{conjectural|[[KONG button]]}}

|align="center"|Special switches only found in [[Kong Krazy]], where they turn the player's [[KONG Letters]] into platforms.

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|align="center"|[[File:DKL GB Rope.png]]

|align="center"|[[Rope]]

|align="center"|Vertical ropes can be climbed. Some can carry the Kongs horizontally, and others rise from holes in the ground and can be ridden to a [[bonus room]]. In [[Rope Ravine]] and [[Tricky Temple]], some ropes are instead swung from and in [[Skyscraper Caper]] and [[Oil Drum Slum]], they move the Kongs up or down automatically. In construction site stages, ones in the background are visually replaced by chains.

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|align="center"|[[File:DKL GB Tire half.png]] [[File:DKL GB Tire full.png]]

===Barrels===

Most of the barrels in ''Donkey Kong Land'' originate from ''Donkey Kong Country''.

!colspan=5 style="background:saddlebrown;color:white"align=center|'''Throwable barrels'''

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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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|align="center"|5||align="center"|[[Rope Ravine]]||align="center"|2||align="center"|Snow||align="center"|Ice Cave Chant

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|align="center"|7||align="center"|[[Riggin' Rumble]]||align="center"|2||align="center"|Ship||align="center"|Gang-Plank Galleon

|align="center"|21||align="center"|[[Track Attack]]||align="center"|2||align="center"|Clouds||align="center"|Sky

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|align="center"|23||align="center"|[[Sky High Caper]]||align="center"|1||align="center"|Clouds||align="center"|Sky

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.

==Nintendo eShop description==

==Reception==

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

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