I came into Donkey Kong Country with the mindset that through beating this game I could prove to myself I am good at video games. Well I both am good and am not good as this game has proven to me. So it's one of the best platformers of all time near the absolute peak of SNES games and it has a soundtrack that is not only important to videogame music but to music as a whole and it pioneered an important and unique style of displaying graphics. But how is the gameplay? To put it simply it's the roughest of the SNES trilogy it's got genius inventive ideas and a genuinely fun feeling to nearly every interaction you can have in this game but it's also marred with annoying gimmicks and Barrel timing CBT, and you could say this is my fault for being bad at the game and that's probably true this is a game that's all about trial and error and I find no problem with that but at the same time I died less in the minecart levels than I did on the first level of Gorilla Glacier. Finally after having beat this game I came away satisfied though also relieved. 8/10 classic game but I'm not sure if it could beat DKC2.