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Beautiful graphics! The gameplay was awesome too! You can jump, roll, slam, duck, swim, climb, bounce, swing, float, fly, and more! With a partner on your back you gain two more hearts and gain a special ability, attack, and screen clear which would kill all enemies on screen and replace them with something useful. The world's were unique! Autumn Heights, Bright Savannah, and juicy jungle with juice and jello! There were also some classic worlds; sea breeze cove with water levels but also wind to deal with! Lost Mangroves was the first and it had all the classic elements plus some amazing surprises with the environment! Drop down platforms, vines, hanging from grass above! Then the final world is all fost which changes how bouncing platforms work and adds breaking platforms, and more.

There are also many special levels that do something really surprising but only in that one level. There's a Sea breeze Cove level that's underwater as usual, but then it's dark and you can only see silhouettes of everything! There's a Savannah level that is jumping across animal puppet heads that is awesome! There's jello to bounce through in one level in Juicy Jungle, there's a blizzard level with fast paced platforming in the final world(Donkey Kong Island) which is frozen over by the bad guys. There's falling leaves to platform across in Autumn Heights. A fire starts in Bright Savannah! There's an octopus to contend with in Sea Breeze Cove! A factory with chopping and spikey berry picking to dodge through in Juicy Jungle! Tornados in Brights Savannah! A sawmill to kart and boat through in Autumn Heights!

There are also amazing bosses! They all require you to memorize their move sets! They are all different animals just like previous Donkey Kong Country games! There a seal that slides and throws fish, an owl that swoops and throws feathers and strong wind your way, three baboons that a so much fun to face co-op!! and will swing and bomb in many ways, a pufferfish that.... sucks and blows both literally and figuratively.. I hate this boss... He puffs up so large you can barely avoid him!, a polar bear that swings a hammer and flings ice in many forms!, and I Walrus that charges you and uses ice and lava! He fires ice squids and lifts lava, and shoots ice dragons!! He also requires you to throw enemies at him as he tries to avoid and it's hilarious!

There were a few annoying things like the game doesn't explain well that you can clear all of the enemies on the screen by pressing L or R. I didn't use it the whole game because I didn't know about it until the end. Also it doesn't explain that you need to continuous press X or Y or make the rino run! That caused a lot of deaths. These were minor and didn't cause too much trouble overall. The ability to visit the shop and buy lives helped make up for this so much!

Besides these things there's also mine Cart levels, rocket riding levels, rino riding levels, and barrel blasting levels in each world!

The most fun part of the whole game is the co-op with my 6 year old. She loves gaming with me and we had so much fun playing this game together as she learns to play and we laugh together!!

Great precursor to the GTA games I know and love. I loved the funny radio stations, the health an shields being floating pickups was nostalgic, the varied missions from escort missions to kill missions, to races, to robbery. The Italian mob story was cool but then there's a twist and then your working for Yakuza. The old graphics reminded me of being a kid and the simple controls too. There were some janky parts due to the age of the game and I got hung up on the last mission to fight through many enemies with low health after being ambushed. Finally shooting down that chopper and watching credits rolls was great though! I loved the cars, the city, the weapons, the boats, the payphones! I hated the sound of the damn drawbridge, the inaccurate shooting, and the old control scheme. Other than that though this was awesome!