Nice short game.
much better than the original in my opinion
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Parte 2 — Los 80: Caída y Resurgir
Juego 45: Donkey Kong Jr. (1983)
¿Estoy loco si digo que me ha gustado más que el primero? He entrado mucho más rápido en la dinámica y mecánicamente me ha parecido mucho más interesante. Ojalá tuviera más pantallas.
Parte 2 — Los 80: Caída y Resurgir
Juego 45: Donkey Kong Jr. (1983)
¿Estoy loco si digo que me ha gustado más que el primero? He entrado mucho más rápido en la dinámica y mecánicamente me ha parecido mucho más interesante. Ojalá tuviera más pantallas.
Honestly pretty good and deserves more credit! The mechanic where you're faster climbing up when using a hand on two separate vines but faster climbing down with both hands on one vine is really neat. The four levels aren't all that interesting and it is shockingly easy for an old arcade game though.
today has been shit my dog fucking died
That was WAY easier than the original.
I hadn't played any Donkey Kong arcade titles besides the first one and just beat DK Jr. on my first try. Does the "Junior" imply that it's for little kids?
I hadn't played any Donkey Kong arcade titles besides the first one and just beat DK Jr. on my first try. Does the "Junior" imply that it's for little kids?
Tale of the cruelty of Man and the cage we all hope to be set free from by our own children
1/4 SMTDR
best pre-country donkey kong game, fight me
This one made the DK formula good. If i was a kid when it was new, I would've dropped mad quarters on it for sure.
Perhaps marginally more interesting than Donkey Kong, in the variety it has, but is hardly attractive for more than an hour. The movement nuances are not well thought out enough to offer a very effective spectrum.
Classic simple arcade game. Controls still feel stiff but the vine climbing is cool, no less. This is such an old game that it feels like it belongs in a class of its own and shouldn't exactly be measured against modern standards but it's still fun.
A fun game still but it literally has like 4 minis on content then loops. If thats your thing then more power to you but an nes game it cannot hang at the top. It has all 3 stages from the arcade game which is nice, but is that really something worth praising??
Enjoyed it more than the first one, mainly because this port actually had the second level in it, wtf happened to you Nintendo?
La continuación del anterior juego pero otra vez la conversión en vez del original (es mas fácil de emular, no me miréis así). Se nota la mejora al anterior, los niveles son mas originales y hay mas diversidad. Esta vez Jumpman es el malvado
A decent game from the '80s, although it is pretty short compared to the likes of Mario 1 for instance
Has more variety than the original but I never liked the way Jr. controlled. He just felt a bit stiffer than Mario did in the original Donkey Kong.
Short and nice donky gonky game.
This game is truly fantastic
Some of the mechanics are interesting (I like the way climbing works and feels) but the jump arcs feel really bad and the fact that falling too far kills you is a MAJOR design misstep
Interesting concept and climbing on the vines is fun, like donkey kong, it can get a little repetitive though even by arcade standards.
The game and watch version of this was the first video game I ever owned. I loved the simple loop and that combined with the speed increase as you beat levels turns it into a hypnotic rhythm game. I completed the G&W version by getting the score to reset to 0 when I went over the max possible score.
Mario Jumpman must pay for his crimes.
Just wish there were more levels.
Just wish there were more levels.
Now this is some dark mario lore
Donkey Kong Jr. feels like the one that's easy to pick on. Maybe it depends on the person but as someone who likes to watch people do Youtube videos on old games, I usually see this one not praised much.
I can totally see why though, if there's one thing DK Jr. suffers from is the fact that the levels aren't too creative and have a path you usually always go through. I will say the mechanics for the game are pretty good and a great way to differentiate from the first game.
Despite some of the hate I've seen, I still enjoy it. In fact I'd say I like it more then the first DK game on the Famicom. I think a big reason for it is because this game's port actually keeps all four levels which makes it feel more complete to me. I've also just always felt more satisfied playing this one. The vine movement is pretty good and it's way better then Mario's slow ladder climbing.
Of the three launch games of the Famicom, this has to be my favorite. While it's barely higher then the original DK game for me, it's still a game I rather replay to get a high score for if I was given the chance. It's a shame Junior wouldn't find too much success after this game. He's only in like four other games on the top of my head and three of them are spinoffs.
I can totally see why though, if there's one thing DK Jr. suffers from is the fact that the levels aren't too creative and have a path you usually always go through. I will say the mechanics for the game are pretty good and a great way to differentiate from the first game.
Despite some of the hate I've seen, I still enjoy it. In fact I'd say I like it more then the first DK game on the Famicom. I think a big reason for it is because this game's port actually keeps all four levels which makes it feel more complete to me. I've also just always felt more satisfied playing this one. The vine movement is pretty good and it's way better then Mario's slow ladder climbing.
Of the three launch games of the Famicom, this has to be my favorite. While it's barely higher then the original DK game for me, it's still a game I rather replay to get a high score for if I was given the chance. It's a shame Junior wouldn't find too much success after this game. He's only in like four other games on the top of my head and three of them are spinoffs.
I actually enjoyed playing a few rounds of this one more than the first game. Pretty much the same amount of levels and repetition, but I liked the strategy built around movement speeds on the ropes.
Honestly I kinda like this one even if it took a couple of rounds to really have it click with me. The vine climbing mechanic is an excellent way of de-emphasising the really janky jumping controls that continue over from the original Donkey Kong, and the spots where they have to be used feel a lot more fair due to the way it's all telegraphed significantly more clearly than before. My favourite thing here really is the level design and the way they're each able to accomplish such different things that all play into the nuances that even a game this simplistic can have, taking full advantage of every capability of the player in the higher difficulty levels especially. There doesn't feel like a waste of space on that front this time around where a single level will feel like a pointless time sink or something relatively redundant, each bringing their own unique challenges to the table.
The first stage does a great job at setting the game up for the player, requiring them to fully utilise and understand the limitations of their mobility while also needing to properly understand the patterns of the small crocodile things. Meanwhile, the 2nd level's greater focus on more precise, timing based sections is an amazing example of risk-reward, not just with a nicely timed spring jump allowing you to skip half the level, but with the entire final section being one you can either take methodically or make it through guns blazing if you pick the right moment. The final 2 levels are really chaotic but in a way that plays to the strengths of the game mostly, with the platforming challenges of level 3 being ones that are telegraphed and predictable, but often balanced the out by having a lot going on in order to force the player to pick the right moment and pay constant attention. This feels significantly better compared to the more reaction focused gameplay that dominated the original Donkey Kong's core experience, as the entirely committal jump arcs and the generally sluggish, clunky movement made it pretty frustrating to die to something that you could only see becoming a problem a split second ago.
This more reaction-heavy gameplay is instead reserved for the final level and its big focus on the climbing mechanics, which I personally find to be a really fun experience in comparison due to the way it all works. The completely frantic nature of having to be dodging so many birds while constantly making decisions about whether holding onto two vines for better upward climbing speed or whether you instead want to sacrifice this for a quick drop down to avoid something is a neat dynamic that is really engaging once you become experienced enough at the game that the slightest daunting situation is no longer instant death. I think it would have been cool to see a game on the NES that took from this vine climbing gameplay style but applied it to the conventions of a home console experience as opposed to an arcade one, because I feel like there was some decent potential here to craft some more intricate, long levels to elevate the systems at play here that the arcade structure does not accomplish. I'd have also liked this even more if there weren't a couple of spots that felt like pretty consistent run killers for frustrating reasons, the little runways at the end of the first 3 stages especially, where the precision you required to get over the enemies felt a bit too much. Still, pretty pleasantly surprised with this one, definitely a fun game to put on for about an hour once in a while even if I also find it to get a bit overly repetitive pretty quickly too.
The first stage does a great job at setting the game up for the player, requiring them to fully utilise and understand the limitations of their mobility while also needing to properly understand the patterns of the small crocodile things. Meanwhile, the 2nd level's greater focus on more precise, timing based sections is an amazing example of risk-reward, not just with a nicely timed spring jump allowing you to skip half the level, but with the entire final section being one you can either take methodically or make it through guns blazing if you pick the right moment. The final 2 levels are really chaotic but in a way that plays to the strengths of the game mostly, with the platforming challenges of level 3 being ones that are telegraphed and predictable, but often balanced the out by having a lot going on in order to force the player to pick the right moment and pay constant attention. This feels significantly better compared to the more reaction focused gameplay that dominated the original Donkey Kong's core experience, as the entirely committal jump arcs and the generally sluggish, clunky movement made it pretty frustrating to die to something that you could only see becoming a problem a split second ago.
This more reaction-heavy gameplay is instead reserved for the final level and its big focus on the climbing mechanics, which I personally find to be a really fun experience in comparison due to the way it all works. The completely frantic nature of having to be dodging so many birds while constantly making decisions about whether holding onto two vines for better upward climbing speed or whether you instead want to sacrifice this for a quick drop down to avoid something is a neat dynamic that is really engaging once you become experienced enough at the game that the slightest daunting situation is no longer instant death. I think it would have been cool to see a game on the NES that took from this vine climbing gameplay style but applied it to the conventions of a home console experience as opposed to an arcade one, because I feel like there was some decent potential here to craft some more intricate, long levels to elevate the systems at play here that the arcade structure does not accomplish. I'd have also liked this even more if there weren't a couple of spots that felt like pretty consistent run killers for frustrating reasons, the little runways at the end of the first 3 stages especially, where the precision you required to get over the enemies felt a bit too much. Still, pretty pleasantly surprised with this one, definitely a fun game to put on for about an hour once in a while even if I also find it to get a bit overly repetitive pretty quickly too.
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The best of Miyamoto's arcade era.
I don't really know what it is but this game never really hooked me like the first Donkey Kong game. It's still a pretty solid arcade platformer, and the "vine climbing" mechanic adding here is definitely a good addition... but I dunno, I feel like I always just preferred the more straightforward platforming of the original. Plus the second stage never really sat well with me with the moving platforms and vine things going up and down while moving left to right.