We Buy Them so You Don’t Have to – Special Edition

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We’re continuing our “We buy them so you don’t have to” series this week with Donkey Kong Country. I know many of you are making this face 0_o right now, but let me explain. I purchased this game with nostalgia fully intact, and it even lived up to my expectations. Hit the jump if you’re still baffled. 

Donkey Kong Country

Released:
Players: 1-2
RIYL (Recommended if you like): Donkey Kong Country, but hate yourself

This is a special edition, because DKC itself is a great game. Unfortunately, if you don’t own a classic controller, it becomes one of the worst games available on Virtual Console. Upon purchasing DKC, I used a gamecube controller for all my virtual console needs. Sure, the analog shoulder buttons can be annoying for some SNES games, but it worked well enough; passable. Then DK had to monkey on over to the VC, and groundpounded my gamecube control scheme firmly into the dirt. If you’ve ever played a DKC game before, you know that its pretty much about two elements working in tandem in order to succeed: running and jumping. You can not, for fear of the worst gaming hand cramp ever seen, run and jump adequately with the gamecube controller. Science will not allow it: A and X aren’t close enough on the purple gamepad. So, needless to say, I took my $20 EBGames giftcard and came home in classic style.

This game should be praised for getting me to buy the classic controller, though that’d make as much sense as Microsoft praising their extended warranty due to faulty hardware. The game itself is stellar. I need to stress that this score is if, and only if, you’re only means of playing DKC on the VC is using the gamecube controller. If you’re classicly fitted, though, I can highly recommend this game.

Score (If using Gamecube Controller)*

-63/-100

*Based on a -1 to -100 point scale. It’s opposite normal scales, as we’re dealing in negative numbers here.
-1 = Almost not bad
-100 = Seriously, this is ET-trash heap worthy



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  • potatoman

    i got 2 classic controllers so yay for me =)

    p.s. floating world please add me as wii friend 0316-2235-5738-6160

  • Anza

    Why would you want to use a gamecube controller on any VC game when the classic controller works 95% better?

    that was just stupid.

  • http://wiinintendo.net/index.php?sFloating20%World Floating World

    If you actually read it, I didn’t own a classic controller until after I purchased the game

  • Kaneco

    the Gamecube controller is better for Star Fox 64, believe me.

  • silentchuck

    I used a PS2 controller (w/ GCN converter) to play Link to the Past and didn’t notice anything was off because it had been so long since I had played the game.

    When Mario World hit, however, I realized my PS2 controller was just as bad as the Gamecube controllers in playing the game. Running and jumping are key to these games, like you say.

    End result, Nintendo 1, Me -$20 for a classic controller.

  • BG

    Silentchuck said, “I used a PS2 controller to play Link to the Past”

    Is there not some kind of law against that? If there’s not, there should be. PS2 controller for a Zelda game? Blasphemer!