Rool kidnapping both Donkey and Diddy Kong, forcing Dixie to team up with her toddler cousin, Kiddy Kong, in order to rescue them and bring down K. The story centres around the evil King K. Set in the Northern Kremisphere, the game sees the return of Dixie Kong, although this time she is the lead character rather than just playing backup to her boyfriend, Diddy Kong. Whereas the first two DKC games were generally standard platforming games where you moved from map to map in linear nature (excluding the special “Lost World” in DKC 2), Donkey Kong Country 3 has a slightly more open hub world and sometimes gives you a choice in what order you tackle each world. Originally released the autumn/winter time of 1996 for the Super Nintendo console, Donkey Kong Country 3 is a direct successor to the previous two games in the series, although it takes a slightly different approach to those releases. Did I enjoy myself? Read on, and you might find out! Well, Donkey Kong Country 3 got added to the SNES emulator just in time for Christmas, so I sat down over the holiday period and finally worked my way to the main boss for the first time ever. However, Nintendo has recently been adding each of the DKC games to its Super Nintendo emulator on the Switch, so I made the decision that if Donkey Kong Country 3 was ever added that I’d sit down and take the time to give it a proper playthrough to see if Young Mike had been out to lunch all those years ago when he decided to give the game a miss. For whatever reason the game just never captured my imagination, and as this was back when I was still in school and didn’t have a job, I decided not to pester my parents for it and save that pestering power for other games I liked the look of.

However, despite my love for the first two games in the series, I never really took the time to play Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! back in the day. I’ve gone into detail in the past here on Gaming Respawn for my love of the first two Donkey Kong Country games, with Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest still currently holding the mantle of being my favourite video game ever.

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