/vr/ - Retro Games

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I feel like most of the people that shit on DKC3 or say it's the worst would change their minds if Kiddy were DK and Ellie were Ramby. Most of the complaints I hear about the game end up having "KIDDY SUCKS I HATE HIM" at some point, if not being the only point for why they dislike the game. If it were DK and Dixie saving Diddy, I'm sure a lot more people would open up to it.
That aside, I think DKC3 is the second best in the trilogy. I've heard some say that it has a really tough difficulty (which I would have agreed to as a kid, Mekanos was a major roadblock for my childhood) but I think it's pretty easy in the beginning and doesn't truly start to gain any noticeable difficulty until K3, with each world from there experiencing some stair-step difficulty. It's also got the best secret hunting I feel, it's the most fair with how it challenges you because rather than a bunch of jumping in death pits or looking for fake walls it usually hints you as to where the secret is or at the least just takes a bit of exploring to find. I played the trilogy back to back and didn't even need to use a guide for DKC3's secrets, where as I had to use it two or three times for DKC2's harder secrets and quite a few times for DKC1, which is probably the least fun to get all the secrets for because of how cryptic they can be. The post-game world is also fairly challenging without being Animal Antics hard. Cartoonish style and musical compositions aside, I think DKC3's got solid gameplay basis and is great for secret hunting, I still like DKC2 more but I think it's got better polish that puts it above DKC1, which is still great in its own regard despite being the least developed and polished due to being the first.