Donkey Kong Land 2
Donkey Kong Land 2 is a 1996 platform video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. Part of the Donkey Kong video game series, it is the sequel to Donkey Kong Land. It was enhanced for the Super Game Boy with different shades of color, as well as a 16-bit banana border on the edges of the television screen.
Also recorded as DKL2 · DKL 2
Donkey Kong Land 2
- Model
- Donkey Kong Land
- Date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Genre
- platformer
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Like the original Donkey Kong Land, it came packaged in a banana-yellow cartridge. The game was followed by Donkey Kong Land III, which was released in 1997. The game has since been re-released via the Nintendo 3DS' Virtual Console and the Nintendo Classics service.
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Donkey Kong Land 2 • Developer — Rare • Publisher — Nintendo • Designer — Lee Schuneman • Programmer — Robert Harrison • Artist — * Keri Gunn • Dean Smith • Composer — Grant Kirkhope • Platforms — Game Boy • Series — Donkey Kong • Genre — Platform • Modes — Single-player
Gameplay
Gameplay
Nintendo Power described the game as a conversion of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
Plot
Plot
Donkey Kong Land 2 stars Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong in their quest to rescue Donkey Kong from Kaptain K. Rool and the Kremling Krew. While its stage names and world themes are borrowed from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (except for Castle Crush, which became Dungeon Danger, and Haunted Hall, which became Krazy Koaster), the level designs are different. Donkey Kong Land 2 had the same storyline from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. The manual contains a simplified version of the story from its SNES counterpart - K. Rool has kidnapped Donkey Kong and is at Crocodile Isle, and it's up to Diddy and Dixie to save him.
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1996
Donkey Kong Land 2 published.
1996
Donkey Kong Land 2 is recorded as published in 1996.
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Reception
By 1997, 1.5 million units had been sold worldwide. Nintendo Power praised the gameplay and graphics but criticized the similarities between the levels and those of Donkey Kong Country 2. GamePro was positive to the game's side-scrolling action, hidden areas, music, and graphics. Donkey Kong Land 2 was rated 79% at GameRankings based on five retrospective online reviews in the 2000s. Nintendojo gave the game 8.5 out of 10, but was critical of its save system. Nintendo Life praised the Virtual Console re-release, stating that the amount of content Rare managed to cram into the game but criticizing it for being similar to Diddy's SNES version.
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- “Donkey Kong Land 2”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2733190: Donkey Kong Land 2
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