Dark Aspects of Donkey Kong Country: The Complete SNES Trilogy Analysis - Thane Gaming

[@MasterTPK]

Replayed them all last year and DKC3 has the best overall ”theme” ever in platformers. Also, the worldmap music is just pure art. I could listen it for hours, while driving around.

[@kauagabriel3956]

Donkey Kong Country trilogy is absolutely gorgeous. Rareware did a freaking good job by making these games. Not only because the "3D" graphics that were running in a 16 bit console, but for it's phenomenal music and ambient. A complete masterpiece.

[@miamimagicians]

From 1994 all the way to 1996 we were living in a donkey Kong country

[@michaelhockaday6474]

Agreed.

[@cattime2044]

very well said and they hold up remarkably well. i played them again after a very long time and had so much fun just as i did playing for the first time as a kid. i feel the OST are sooo underrated and just not talked about enough either. 10/10

[@claytonoakley8677]

The Donkey Kong Trilogy define the SNES era rareware pushed everything they could graphics, amazing music this is when real music started to come to be in video games, challenging rewarding gameplay that has serious replay value. I define them as some of the best games ever made.

[@reloadpsi]

You've nailed what I enjoyed about DKC3: it was more whimsical and wondrous in its intro, because you'd played two games already, it was time for something new. You then uncover what's going on and things get as dark as the previous games, but they don't start there.

[@coleharding9439]

I cannot thank you enough for giving dk3, esp it’s ost and that gorgeous aquatic track, the respect it deserves. The fact that it’s industrial revolution themed is something I never picked up on and that little factoid totally blew me away.

[@katrinhafthordattir7497]

DKC3 is so underrated and my favorite since I was a child. Never understood why it never got the respect it deserved back then. Kudos for giving the game and Eveline Fischer (sorry idk how to spell her current name) the respect they deserve. My favorite little thing are the bears in world 7 named Benny and Björn. No idea why they'd make an ABBA reference in 1996 but as a retro music junkie I love it!

[@ZsH85]

same!

[@prehistoricgentlemanbird9131]

It’s mostly because when DKC3 came out, Nintendo 64 had already been out for a few months and it was just simply overlooked.

[@ZsH85]

@@prehistoricgentlemanbird9131 yes, and for somenoe who would be overly happy even with a snes back then,had the chance to be let in a kind of VIP as for the brilliance of dkc3

[@JohnDoe-wy1zt]

@@prehistoricgentlemanbird9131 that, and most of the original developers putting their entire focus on rare made games for the 64. If I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure the majority of the DKC3 staff were newcomers.

[@Frilleon]

DKC3 was also a masterpiece, though obviously Kiddy wasn’t that good, and the first world is by far the least inspiring of the series, which wrongly colored people’s impressions Also the enemy design was great except for the rat. For some reason the rat was just…idk the design just wasn’t right

[@michaelhockaday6474]

The DKC3 theme is "Canada" I believe. Especially when you play World 4 of Donkey Kong Land 3 (kind of a spin-off game for the Game Boy.) World 4 in the game is called "Great Ape Lakes" referencing the Great Lakes in Canada

[@namingisdifficult408]

@@Damon1987 as well as Superior, Erie, Ontario, and Huron

[@michaelhockaday6474]

@@Damon1987 most bodies of water of the Great Lakes are in Canada

[@michaelhockaday6474]

@@namingisdifficult408 Lake Superior is entirely in Canada and so is Lake Huron and Lake Ontario. Lake Erie and Lake Michigan are shared between Canada and the U.S.

[@michaelhockaday6474]

@@Damon1987 go look at a map

[@michaelhockaday6474]

@@Damon1987 I just did. 244,000 square miles of the great lakes are in Canada and 94,000 square miles are in the USA.

[@ThaneGaming]

Dark Aspects update: I have just one more updated compilation planned before I release part II of the Skyward Sword episode, and a follow-up to my Kirby video! I know it’s been a while, so thank you all for your patience--I wanted to make these longform videos as an entry point for all the new subscribers that’ve come from my Dark Aspects of MOTHER project 😊

[@Snake-sg7yc]

Ohhh :O

[@Hueyhuman]

Since I've played this game so much I forgot that feeling of fear of the unknown I had playing it as a kid so many years ago. Wow, thats exactly what made the game feel so intriguing, it felt like you really had to be careful because the game just threw what seemed so wild and random at you. Wish I could replay these games with a clean slate

[@OmniTorch]

"Since I've played this game so much I forgot that feeling of fear of the unknown I had playing it as a kid so many years ago. " My thoughts exactly.

[@hushmychild6745]

I love, love, love donkey kong country on the snes. I was a little too young when it came out, but in the early 2000s I developed a deep fondness for this franchise during my younger teen years. I still regularly indulge in its music and history while I work, write, draw, or relax.

[@ThaneGaming]

Whether you watched these back in 2017 or are here for the first time, thank you and welcome! I put a lot of work into revamping these episodes by replacing low-quality clips with better footage, fixing mistakes in the narration, and adding more detail when necessary (as an example, I’ve now pointed out the mounted Kremling head/Taxidermied Winky the Frog in Cranky’s Monkey Museum, and the idea that Diddy & Dixie’s prison in the DKC 2 game over screen could be an oven. Mr. X and Kerozene make brief cameos too, hinting at their roles in the game. See if you can spot them)! I adjusted the audio as best as I could without re-recording, by cutting away clicks & pops in the voiceover (I used to edit without headphones, so I wasn’t aware of these annoyances at the time lol). I corrected as many of these as I could individually, then ran the entire MP3 through Audacity’s Spitfish & normalized the track. The end result is OK and much better than the original uploads, though I know it isn't perfect. Sorry to audiophiles listening to this! Despite that, I am still happy with the overall script and a lot of the original editing from these episodes, so I hope many DKC fans can experience the Dark Aspects of Rare’s trilogy for the first time.

[@ericanightshade]

The stop and go kremlings in dkc1 genuinely scared me as a kid. But now I am really good at Red Light Green Light.

[@HaydenTheHistorian]

This was interesting. Really like the analysis on DKC3. That game is super under appreciated.

[@miamimagicians]

Not really everybody that I had known that either rent it or owned it loved it it was a great game

[@XXXXX8]

No it isn't. Everybody says it's a great game. It's just not as good as dkc2, which is fair.

[@miamimagicians]

The RPG elements of donkey Kong country three I feel make it stand out

[@XXXXX8]

@@miamimagicians What roleplaying elements are there in dkc3?

[@Somethingaboutthat]

Played through the trilogy on switch. 1 and 2 are much better then 3. 3 lacks the polish of the first 2 games. There are a few levels and boss fights in 3 that didn't fit in with the rest of the game. The giant barrel and the waterfall for example. They needed a bit more work. 3 felt rushed. Still a good game but not a great game.

[@Aaaa-g6u8e]

I wished Nintendo would double down on producing Donkey Kong Country titles like they use to do years ago. It's baffling how a series has more care and better fluid/dynamic platforming than New Super Mario, but too many people sleep on the games just because they treat it like a Mario clone. Also the various DK side games; Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, King of Swings, Diddy Kong Racing, etc Those were great as well.

[@dripgodsenju9566]

The donkey kong games are better than the mario games

[@jeremyscout3464]

The intro music for DKC1 brings back a flood of memories of nearly 30 years ago. Although we never had an SNES in our house I had friends that did. The early to mid 90s feels like a Renaissance for video game advancement. I can only imagine what a DKC game would've looked like running on n64 hardware

[@RavenFilms]

DK3 was a disappointment to me when it came out, mostly because of the music, it didn’t hold up to DK2 or even DKC, but your take on this has shown it in a whole new light and I’ve found some much deserved appreciation for the entry.

[@lolzorz3]

Great video. I really enjoyed your explanation of DKC3, and it’s theme being tied to the Industrial Revolution. Its theme definitely makes sense to me now. I absolutely love the DKC trilogy. In fact, I have all 3 games CIB for the snes, and even a sealed copy of DKC2. To this day, I still play through them at least once a year.

[@PressStartToContinueYT]

Great video! Dude, I hated the game over screen so much I can't even tell you how much I avoided it as a kid!

[@ThaneGaming]

Hey good to see you here! Haha which game over screen was your least favorite? There's something uniquely unsettling about each one...it's hard to choose 😅 they all freaked me out, I'm pretty sure DKC 1's made me run out of the room the first time I played it as a kid lmao

[@PressStartToContinueYT]

@@ThaneGaming Yep, my nightmares were from donkey Kong country 1!

[@Focalors21]

I start the video and I see the game over screen from DKC 3. Right in the nightmares. Seeing the compilation takes me back to when I watched the videos and I wrote back about the nightmare fuel that was DKC 3's error screen when the console fell off.

[@mariarjs.9281]

I really love the analysis you gave. Dkc3 has a very special place in my heart and my first videogame so thank you so much for appreciate the game (bc it's really underrated) Great video.

[@josh984gamer5]

I distinctly remember one time playing DKC3 at 3 a.m. when I was a kid and I accidentally encountered the error screen for the first and only time and it scared the crap out of me. I love these games

[@Dylan_-tu7zk]

FINALLY Someone else acknowledged how good Water World is! It’s been my favorite track in the series for how well it suits the tone of the game. If I’m being honest that song kind of summarizes my feelings toward DKC3. The muted color scheme and oddly cartoony but menacing designs of the enemies mixed with what is strangely the most atmospheric music of the trilogy, come together to create a presentation that I found to be… uncanny valley. The third boss, squirt, was also really creepy. A slugs mug hidden behind a waterfall is just… no thanks. The game does not really creep me out anymore but It can still sometimes be a bit off feeling.

[@bubbythebear6891]

My thoughts exactly. DKC 2 has a more threatening theme, and is arguably darker, but the third is creepier. It's kinda like how people are creeped out more by things that are meant to be friendly rather than scary. Like a ventriloquist dummy vs a Jason Voorhees Spirit Halloween animatronic.

[@BloominOnion1]

Fun fact, David Wise composed the music for "Pirates!" on NES. He then reused/remixed that theme song for the final boss K. Rool battle at the end of DKC. When I was a kid, I had both those games and was wondering what that catchy pirate song was that all these games were using. I spent years trying to find out (no internet) before I later discovered it was unique to the games.

[@diddytacos1359]

First Mother then dkc. This channel keeps getting better.

[@ThaneGaming]

Thank you, I'm glad it's content you can be excited about! Love the name and the profile pic btw 😆

[@diddytacos1359]

@@ThaneGaming thanks a lot. It's pretty much my two favorite things.

[@maccamachine]

amazing games and amazing music playing these games just feels like the 90’s

[@FloRiLLAZ]

17:35 I remember the time in my childhood when i was sick and played Donkey Kong land 3 and heard the water world music. I had the feeling i got even more sick because of the music of this game. It was a strange feeling wich i cant really describe.

[@Spookyn.]

OMG I LOVE THIS TYPES OF VIDEOS! Awesome work :D

[@nathangarcia1992]

DKC 3 was super underrated imo. It was definitely the most fleshed out game in the trilogy. I loved the aesthetics and the overworld worked really well for the time. I’m against the general consensus by saying it was my favorite, and that’s perfectly fine with me!

[@OmniTorch]

It's my favorite as well.

[@darkninjafirefox]

Donkey Kong land 2 is one of my oldest and favorite games and the game over screen always made me feel somewhat unsettled

[@themanwithsauce]

I've been fighting the good fight and trying to convince people that DKC3 is good for the past few years now. Your comment on the theme of exploration helps me clarify it even further! I've been arguing that DKC3 is "a DKC platformer....pushed as far as it can into being an adventure game" - think about how sprawling some of the maps are. How often you'll criss-cross around the maps in later levels, or just find cool things in hidden corners for no other reason than to encourage exploration. Plus with the map, overworld secrets, the brothers bear, there's just so much....adventuring to do! And you point out that the music and themes encourage it too - this is a new land to explore and there's a story of industrial encroachment unfolding throughout. I know it's not as technical of a platformer as DKC2, but I love 3 so damn much for being so weird. It absolutely made my christmas day haul in 1996 and it still brings a smile to my face to this day.

[@lalocompi]

An analysis that doesn´t underestimate DKC 3? That´s refreshing

[@_Suwiya]

Bro what? only 500 views? i figured you would have been a channel with 100K subs. Great video!

[@ThaneGaming]

Haha I wish--I'm grateful to have recently hit 10K though! Thank you for the comment 😁

[@seanwilkinson7431]

You really missed the mark on DKC3 by not talking about the enemies: Bees with sawblades implanted in their spines, Kritters with surgically implanted spring tails, cyborg Necky Jr's that shoot fireballs, living bulldozers, Kremlings with helicopter blades for hands, giant blue Kremlings that roar like their distended bellies were filled with diesel engines, malformed eugenics/cloning experiments, fish that are probably part torpedo,.... Implicit or explicit, that is way more body horror than one would expect to find in a childrens' video game.

[@cinegoth4144]

I always had a theory that the villains in that game came from a lab.

[@AlexDown1]

Love the content! and donkey Kong country are some of my favorite SNES games besides Earthbound of course.

[@ThaneGaming]

Yes for sure! These games have such an unforgettable atmosphere, and they share (with EarthBound) a soundtrack that pushed the SNES to its absolute limit. They are all must plays on the system--I try to revisit the series once a year!

[@rise8604]

I play DKC2 at least once every couple years and it's wonderful

[@tictac8556]

This has to be the greatest video I’ve ever seen on KZbin! It’s revolutionary, insightful, and game changing! Oh… Sorry. I was talking about 3:04

[@CATTSICA]

you are so underrated!!! this whole analysis was amazing x

[@runningoncylinders3829]

DK has a particular meme well suited to that DK Land ad.

[@Oracle_insight]

Diddys conquest is my favorite. I can play that one over and over.

[@wtfsamusidk7574]

This channel is about to explode.

[@hazelv.a.7976]

Your channel is very interesting. Glad to be watching your videos.

[@ThaneGaming]

Well thank you for saying so!

[@mrtree1368]

I'm surprised the secret world in dkc 2 was glossed over it had a feeling of you don't belong here

[@TheObicobiHD]

Great video mate, I adore the donkey kong country games new and old. Wonderful level design and artstyles, and the music is beautiful and unforgettable 🎶💜

[@Justin-rv7oy]

DKC3 may not have the best level design, but I think it has the best theme, love the whole "temperate woods - northern territories" theme.

[@michaelkaduck1915]

Happy 30th Anniversary to Donkey Kong Country! Thank you for all these years of beautiful music, engaging levels, and experiences that make you feel alive. Thank you to RARE, the Stamper Brothers, David Wise, Evelyn Novakovic, and Robin Beanland. 🌴🦧🍌

[@TroyBlackford]

This is my first video of yours I've seen, but I really enjoyed it!

[@CookiePrince52]

Great video! I loved the analysis you did on all 3 games.

[@sureleyyy]

well done, you got a sick channel dude

[@jonathanhargraves2241]

I'm curious to see what dark stuff is going to be here. Bravo man 👏

[@Fluffy-Rose1993]

Before video: What's so dark about Donkey Kong? After video: Understood, thank you for your time.

[@emalinedickinson7492]

I am so glad that someone else mentioned the somehow disturbing error message screens. They freaked me out as a kid, legitimately making my hair stand on end and everything.

[@AsureyX]

Duude, I remember those aspects from back when I played 2. This video speaks to me since no one has pointed out those unsettling details you have mentioned. I would like to add those tunes that play, whenever you lose a life in a level. I still get a reaction from them everytime I play.

[@DepressedMicaiahASMR]

That game over screen was the scariest thing to me as a kid along with the first minecart level since I sucked at it and had my older sister do it or else i get to see that screen. Had to rush the snes everytime and turn it off or hit the cartridge to make it freeze

[@theoriginalamvgirl]

With error screens, the second game uses the castle music, which makes it feel like the police are gonna march in and arrest you for potentially pirating your game. The third game using the *boss battle theme* makes it feel like something is going to go SERIOUSLY wrong with your game and possibly your entire console if you don’t turn the power off quickly. (Before the police storm into your house and arrest you for allegedly pirating your game). Also dark is the original theme that the creators came up with for the mine levels in the first game … type in ‘Misty Menace 1994 E3’ and see what I mean … think the Skyward Sword Guardian theme slowed down, and with a creeping sense of dark terror . . .

[@hzafary]

Great video!

[@mathprodigy]

Very entertaining, you earned a sub 👍

[@N3Selina]

as a german i can tell you that "allerlei geschrei" technically means "various screamING" well...in my interpretation that is at least :) it's a super awesome video otherwise :) i enjoy your content and can't really criticise any of it so far :) good job mr :)

[@BewegteBilderrahmen]

This, it can also means “a lot of noise (about something)“

[@N3Selina]

@@BewegteBilderrahmen yes now that you mention it !

[@blenderpanzi]

While Various Screams might be a good translation for Allerlei Geschrei, I think it could also just be read as "much ruckus" or something like that. Maybe. Schreien means both to scream and to shout.

[@alexanderstilianov]

An explanation for the red eyes in DKC3 is that everyone is smoking dank kush in the Northern Kremisphere.

[@ryuuakiyama3958]

Huh, I can't believe I never picked up on the "Industrial Revolution" motif, at least not consciously. While I've heard and made the joke that it's Canada-themed, during the Industrial Revolution, Canada *was* a part of the British Empire, which was the first industrialised power of all. There might be some theme of the Kremlings "colonising" the area, too.

[@BriceTerry04]

Donkey Kong Country 3 (The GBA remake) was my first Donkey Kong game, I played it on the Gameboy SP, and lost all my lives... Oh boy! I was not a happy kid! And I never came across the Game Over screen again until 2015 via a 5 scary moments in Mario Games video on KZbin.

[@tysondennis1016]

The creepy game over screens are definitely something

[@miguelgarces8946]

I shared a new Donkey Kong game idea where the Kong family travels to an island for a vacation, only to find King K. Rool and the Kremling Krew plan to take it for themselves. DK, Diddy, Dixie, Tiny, Kiddy, Lanky, and Chunky are all playable, while the other Kongs lend their services like in the DKC trilogy. One of the users thought it was a good idea to have, but wasn't sure wether Kiddy should come back since lots of fans hate him for, almost no reason. I can forgive Smash Bros, since it's a crossover, but it saddens me that even in his own franchise, poor Kiddy isn't allowed to return.

[@GamingsGud]

cool video i grew up with this series

[@LMC764]

I couldn't find the kaptain k.rool from the thumbnail backround in the description, i really want to know where you got him from, please answer, he looks so sweet

[@ThaneGaming]

That was my favorite bit of artwork as well! I did adjust the colors in photoshop, but the original image (which is still really, really cool) can be found here on DK Vine: www.dkvine.com/?p=gallery&album=artwork&page=dkc2&start=27 scroll down until you see an image of Diddy & Dixie carrying a "DK2" logo--he's in that one!

[@raven0565]

11:17 DKC version of Mortal Kombat stage Fatality. :)

[@starlight381a]

What happens in DKC3, what Baron K. Roolenstein does to DK and Diddy, and many other factors, are VERY similar to what happens in the Sonic The Hedgehog series... Moreover, the shoes of sonic himself, appear in DKC2 .....

[@AlmyTheAlien]

Imagine someone lying on their deathbed days before Donkey Kong Country 3 released, just staring at their hands one last time and thinking "I wish I'd learned what these were for..." 😢😭😭😭😭

[@arcuscotangens]

"various screams" is a very poor translation for "Allerlei Geschrei" imo. No translation that captures the multiple meanings of the German phrase springs to mind immediately. But one meaning is "a lot of screaming" / "many screams", and another meaning would be "pick-and-mix of screams"

[@TheBeird]

Nice vid. You should do Return and Tropical Freeze!

[@lane3398]

DKC, teaching kids the harmful effects of technological progress since 1994.

[@ThaneGaming]

The original return to monke

[@antwilder]

Donkey kong country trilogy remastered would be insane...dkc4 would be incredible...and donkey Kong country maker would be sick

[@antwilder]

Well shouts out 2 David wise cus he created 1 of the best ost of all time

[@graveyardsmash2711]

DKC3 was always the misunderstood black sheep of the trilogy, I thought it was a fantastic game and I liked it more than the first personally. I adored the aesthetic of it. I would highly recommend checking the dark aspects of Donkey Kong 64 before doing the Retro Studio games, because… there's a lot to cover.

[@pizzahighfive2612]

Dude, dkc3 is my new favorite. The graphics are literally out of this world for super Nintendo. It looks better than playstation 1 did. Look at dkc3s world map, it's so underrated cause it may actually be the best.

[@reinforcedpenisstem]

What was so misunderstood?

[@BluejayStudios334]

Yes I love this review of monke

[@miamimagicians]

Let me set everybody here straight. Donkey Kong country three is one of the greatest platforms of all time, it's literally better than probably every single platform or on the PlayStation and N64 do you like that?

[@PorkyMinch]

The red game over meant the virtual boy port WAS inevitable

[@elliotburing87]

King K Rool only has ONE bloodshot eye???!! How have I never noticed that?

[@seasonembrace3624]

Hey was wondering if your doing rayman 2 that game has some creepy moments and atmosphere

[@Cetra29]

I hate when prople say "Kay Rule" instead of "Cruel" to K. Rool. It is "cruel." Because, you know, he has a pun name as a villain.

[@Bluegirl12345]

Actually DKC3 was in the only game I was able to 103% complete

[@MrXMysteriousX]

Nice work, looking forward to more vids.Minor correction early on, the story being in the strategy guide may be true (i have no idea on that) but i'm certain it was included in the Instruction manual too. You sound relatively young but you may already know all of this, please ignore if thats the case.If not i'll give you a pointer on retro games. It was very common for most, if not all story to be included in the instruction manuals. I can understand why you'd think some of the images for DKC were exclusively in a guide or magazine as promotional material but it was all in the instruction book too. With DKC 1 i remember it even had Cranky Kong on a bunch of pages, doing his usual thing of mocking either the devs or the player but i think he gave a few hints too, as a sort of reward for reading it. Sometimes in retro games , very rarely you'd get a cutscene if you left it on the title screen, for example LTTP did, which is fascinating to watch btw but LTTP also had some expanded story, which basically tells the beginning portion of the game but in detail, complete with hand drawn art to immerse yourself in it's instruction book. As you might have guessed the reason it was common to have story in booklets was that data space was often extremely limited plus many games simply didn't suit a cutscene not warrant the time or effort. Another game, one we all likely know, Super Mario Bros ,includes info such as "the mushroom people were turned into blocks by King Koopa (Bowser)" which would technically mean Mario killed lots of Toads lol One of the best Instruction Manuals on SNES would be F-Zero.In that one, it was basically a comic book following Captain Falcon and his bounty hunting attempts and his reason for entering the deadly race. As you can imagine by this essay (sorry! Lol) i grew up back then and reading instruction manuals was a big part of my gaming experience. I'd buy a game from my local town which was a hours journey away by bus and in that time i'd slowly, deliberately and carefully examine each page, look at it's art, reading it's story, learning the controls......it was like an appetiser. Of course, these days most games have tutorials built in and the need for manuals means they are all but obsolete. As you dig into other games for review purposes, remember to check the manuals, as most have been scanned online for preservation purposes.

[@ThaneGaming]

Ah thank you, I misspoke! I meant to say instruction booklet--that is a scan of the one you're talking about with Cranky popping in with sarcastic comments & hints. I also used to read instructions manuals on the way home, and even at night before I slept just to take in more of the game worlds, I loved them. Though I'm 26, so I don't remember actually reading the inserts until N64 & GameCube. Wario World was a fun one, it had a two-page spread detailing the anatomy of Wario with commentary by Wario lol I'm really happy they're archived online too, even Nintendo has PDFs to download for a lot of NES and SNES games on their site. Did not know F-Zero had an especially cool manual, I'll have to check it out!

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmm yes deep lore of donkey Kong country

[@tempest6027]

"arguably the most climactic final boss theme of all time" excuse me? has this guy even lived?

[@BuddhaJesusSoul]

And DK64 is even more dark

[@tiburondrogado7612]

Are you gonna do a video on Donkey Kong 64? That game also has a lot of dark sh#t!

[@timdavis7758]

Especially Mad Jack

[@tiburondrogado7612]

@@timdavis7758 Yup,Especially this mofu...

[@timdavis7758]

🤣🤣 the laugh is creepy as hell

[@tiburondrogado7612]

@@timdavis7758 Yup,I used to be scared as fuck of Mad Jack when i was little playing this game but at the same time he was always my favorite boss in a kinda weird and twisted way 😅

[@jmt_productions]

11:32, isn't that a framed photograph of Winky the frog? Cool analyses, nonetheless. I feel like DKC3 is the darkest one of the series.

[@aristotelisvenieratos6109]

The darkest thing of all is that creating a n action movie based on DKC trilogy scenario, would be so brutal and violent even adult people could have hard time watching it despite all trilogies are based on action movies such as Terminator, Die Hard, Indiana Jones etc

[@goeatlnola]

What a great video!

[@AizaBreathe]

my childhood games 💜💜💜

[@antwilder]

Dkc2 is legendary

[@lamiamekni2802]

Donkey Kong Country, known in Japan as Super Donkey Kong

[@ultraspinalki11]

I was hoping that your videos on the first 2 games would mention the subtle hints of the Kremlings and Kongs being a parallel to the Europeans arriving in America and their effects on the Natives. The low number of Kongs, the empty tree top villages, the old Kremling temples, etc. One can theorize that the Kremlings' ancestors had invaded before and wiped out the majority of Kongs. The Kremling temples may have been built (willingly or unwillingly) by the inhabitants who believed the more advanced invaders were gods (like how some Native Americans saw the gun-wielding Europeans). By DKC1, K.Rool steals the banana hoard to potentially wipe out the last few remaining Kongs so he can start properly colonizing the Island and take all its resources. Truly a dark aspect hidden underneath the first 2 DKC games.

[@pizzahighfive2612]

DK Country trilogy are games I can genuinely call beautiful and life changing. It's not dark.. I would not agree with hat comment whatsoever.. I'd call it realistic. The villain is like a dictator and he's truly evil. Which that's a good thing, cause it helps children distinguish what is good and what is evil. You wanna teach your child how to be and how to not be. These video games are made for kids in the end, so I'm glad they always kept responsible in teaching kids simple "be good, and don't be evil" stories. Today's stuff is seriously dark, you see kids stuff being about worshipping evil very regularly, or at least about giving evil a chance. There's this show called Descendents that's seriously f'd up if you read their lyrics to their songs. Stuff that brings confusion to kids, raising them in a unsure grey area of what is good and what is evil.. instead of good/evil being crystal clear to children. I feel like these older games like dkc and others teach kids what is good and what is evil so much better than modern.

[@ThaneGaming]

Hey I appreciate your comment, it's clear you care a lot about this topic! I don't want you to think that by talking about these games' darker elements I'm trying to suggest they shouldn't be played by children, or that they're immoral in any way. I love this trilogy and think it's perfectly fine to experience at any age! I just enjoy talking about family-oriented media that isn't afraid to take on a heavier tone. I use "dark" in reference to the scarier & melancholic themes of these games (which are beautiful, as you mentioned), not in the sense that they're blasphemous

[@gameboy8425]

SM64 has a lot of dark stuff as well. Maybe you could do a video about that.

[@pizzahighfive2612]

Mario Odyssey is dark. Mario's new power in this game isn't a cape, it isn't a cool dinosaur.. it's mind control, where he puts a hat on their heads and then you can control them, it's like you brainwash them, and when they return they're all puzzled and confused. That's Mario's new power, that's kinda weird bro. There is more details but it's a lot to type. The game also has this weird air about it, that it wants me to feel for Bowser in a way.. without making it obvious clearly. And in the end sure enough you play AS Bowser, they designed it to feel and be awesome. Bowser is not a anti hero, he is a villain, like King k rool. These modern games are pushing nothing but darkness and confusion. There's so much more, but it's way to much to type. People aren't being paid to expose the games of modern. Games of the past are the competition of games of modern, and people are being paid to give negative narratives to games of the past. Some even attempt to change history by making up or adding details that aren't true. Lots of real life dark stuff going on currently.

[@abelmontoya5]

DK3 was too underrated, but it might be because the Nintendo 64 was around the corner.

[@hardarmorff]

Donkey Kong games on the SNES were just the absolute best donkey Kong games. Dk64 was pretty good too but I don't know how or why it fell off?? I never played any of the Wii or further on DK games. I even watched the donkey Kong tv show as a kid.

[@ThaneGaming]

I couldn't play Donkey Kong Country Returns on Wii 😬 I was fine with waggle in pretty much every other game but that one. I enjoyed it on 3DS though! Tropical Freeze on the other hand is a must play modern DK, I'd recommend it for sure! I've actually never played DK64 myself, besides an hour or so. I'll have to pick it up on Wii U Virtual Console--I've heard mixed things about it but that generally it's good?

[@hardarmorff]

@@ThaneGaming I have only the switch now, I'll have to give It a chance if you're saying it's good, I've seen tropical freeze but never went out of my way. I personally thought dk64 was quite good, though I did play it as a child, so perhaps I was quite forgiving of any flaws. I thought there was a lot to explore. I thought it was cool everyone had banana guns and could do different things and I found it to be really challenging. I hope you do give it a shot, perhaps give a review of it aswell!

[@johnathanegbert9277]

Actually, both DKC2 _and_ DKC3 use their respective GAME OVER screens as anti-piracy measures. Strangely, though, not DKC1.

[@paperplate7999]

wtf was that commercial at the beginning of the dkc3 video!

[@ThaneGaming]

My eyes went wide in shock when I saw that for the first time, I'm really surprised it aired 😅 who was that commercial for?

[@ThaneGaming]

My eyes went wide in shock when I saw that for the first time, I'm really surprised it aired 😅

[@darrenmorfoot1052]

Best games ever made and I mean all 3 not just the first 2.. Returns and tropical freeze are great games to But they don't capture the magic the original 3 give

[@antwilder]

They definitely dropped the ball with dkc3

[@VampyreBassist]

I agree with TGC, there was an essence in DKC3 that could've went into a scary science fiction direction. The more you go in, the more concerning things are. But since it's played like a Saturday morning cartoon and with the anticlimax that follows, it feels like the game just couldn't stick the landing.

[@pizzahighfive2612]

I'd love to run through dkc3 2 players some time soon. That game is too good, and it has that happy Saturday morning feel like you say lol