Well, who could have guessed it, Nintendo has just released the third Donkey Kong Land game on their Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy app. Right after releasing the other two! Why, it must have taken a genius to predict this turn of events! Oh, what’s that? I predicted it? Uh… never mind then.
Anyway, let’s have a look!
Here’s what I thought of this game:
Game Boy App
| Game | Genre | # of Players | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donkey Kong Land 3 | Platformer | 1 | C+ |
tl;drIt’s derived from the worst game in the series, but it’s still a better take on its source material than the first Donkey Kong Land. It’s a decent Platformer, but you have many better alternatives within the series. | |||
I previously reviewed this game last year on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, although unlike the original Donkey Kong Land, the Nintendo Switch release doesn’t get a boost from the improved Game Boy Color palette, as it didn’t suffer as much from the compromised color palette as the first game did.
Once again, Donkey Kong Land 3 suffers from being derived from a much better game you can also play if you subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online, via the Super Nintendo Entertainment System App, although this time I think the game it’s pulling from is a the worst of the trilogy. In any case, I don’t see much reason to waste your time with this inferior game, except perhaps as a curiosity. Or, I guess, if you’ve already played through the entire SNES trilogy and are anxious to play another game that’s sorta’ similar to those.
As a side-note, I have to say I think it’s almost criminal that we got this trilogy before the absolutely incredible Donkey Kong ’94, one of the best games ever released on the original Game Boy…
tl;dr – The Game Boy app gets another Donkey Kong Land game, which is another worse, alternate take on Donkey Kong Country 3… which you can already play on the Nintendo Switch Online’s Super Nintendo Entertainment System App. In other words, it’s a worse version of the worst game in the original trilogy. So… there’s just not much reason to play this game, except as a curiosity.
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