Donkey Kong Land - 8-Bit Bliss - IMPLANTgames 

Yeah lol, Donkey Kong: Sons of Liberty has always been my favourite

Fantastic, thank you!

Music appreciation elective knowledge bomb!

With very minimal flickering, too.

It's not that difficult to pull off, actually. Just takes up a lot of graphics space.

Mind blowing graphics for a gameboy, on gameboycolor those snow stages looks even better, whereas on the supergameboy those temple and underwater levels do look better.

@@alexman2598 if you showed this game to someone who'd just played through Super Mario Land in 1989 you'd have to have a new pair of underwear to give them.

@@blakfloyd Likely

Same

Thank you for the kind words!

Was 10 years old in October 1995 with saved up money in my bank account used to get this sucker.

@@rezterralico4369no 10 year old child has a bank account.

The sequel is such a good port from a Snes to gameboy title (the optional unlocked levels).

If you have a 3DS I think 4 dollars US/CAD a piece.

I rather enjoy TGC, but every once and a while I feel like he is playing some other game haha :)

The reason a great critic is great isn't that you always agree with them, but that they explain their reasoning so well that even if they hate something, you know from their reviews that you'll like it, and you really get to know the reviewer and their general opinions and quirks, over time. Roger Ebert talked about this a lot, and it's true, he explains his reasons so well that the score is almost irrelevant, you can tell you'll like the film or not based on what is in the review, not the score at the end. Totalbiscuit talked about this a lot too. And so it makes sense that both this channel and The Geek Critique are great critic channels and both can disagree with each other without either being "wrong". Because you guys both explain everything so well that people should be able to tell how much they will agree once they play the game themselves. The absolute best critic for you might be one you almost always disagree with, if they're good enough at explaining their opinions well enough with evidence and logic.

@MultiTarded nope, wrong is not wrong. There's no such thing when it comes to art. You can't be wrong about something that is 100% subjective. If you find a critic that disagrees with you 100% of the time then fantastic, because you can just do the opposite of everything they say and you'll get a good result. You seem to be referring not to actual critics, but people like all the "angry reviewers" who don't critique games, they just trash them and say childish swear words about them. The only one of them I can stand anymore is AVGN. What I'm referring to is actual game critics, who get really deep into the game mechanics, the graphics, the gameplay, the level design. Not doing it for entertainment first, but to have a genuine critique first and foremost and the entertainment comes naturally out of that because intelligent analysis of art is very interesting to a lot of people. This channel is an example of a genuine critic channel. There's no hyperbole, not really many jokes if any at all, it's all just a great analysis and discussion of games with evidence and reasoning and logic. Mr Implant doesn't do a skit at the end of each video where he fakes pooing on a game or shoots it with a gun or breaks it with a hammer. It's just mature analysis, and I love that about this channel. Someone who makes a living off just trashing classics and not really critiquing, they're not what I'm talking about. It reminds me of that one movie critic who is known for being the most contrarian critic in the world. He ALWAYS goes against what the popular consensus is on a film. He trashes the good films and praises the terrible ones. His name is Armond White, go look him up, it's hilarious. He makes a career out of being contrarian and controversial, and it works, people get mad at him for hating on There Will Be Blood while saying G.I. Joe is one of the best films ever. That gets him a hell of a lot of clicks, and a lot of money But he's not a real critic. You see what I mean? In terms of games, check out say Matthewmatosis and hbomberguy. They both made feature movie length videos on Dark Souls 2, both absolutely fantastically argued and a lot of evidence for every point, but they disagree with each other on almost all of the points. In fact hbomberguy's video was made partly in response to Mathewmatosis's video. He also did a sidebar video like an hour and a half long just on bloodborne to expand on one point he made in the dark souls 2 video, instead of adding it to the dark souls 2 video and making it 3 hours long. Anyway, they're both fantastic critics, and they disagree with each other on that game, and it's worth watching both of the videos because they are just that good as critics. They compliment each other I even think every other game critic on RU-vid needs to watch Matthewmatosis's and hbomberguy's videos just to see how serious and academic game critique can get. Matthewmatosis's 3 hour video on Viewtiful Joe recently was amazing. He got down to the frame by frame animation and how it affects the gameplay, it was so so deep and great. It's 3 hours long but its some o the best 3 hours you'll ever spend if you choose to watch it. Here's the link to that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HkPMaRAjfc8.html And hbomberguy recently did a 2 hour video on the game Pathologic which blew my mind several times, it's such good quality. Here's the link to that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JsNm2YLrk30.html Seriously, go watch both. We're all quarantined right now cos of the virus anyway, you've got a lot lhg time to watch them. Like I said, this is academic level, this is the stuff they actually teach at universities nowadays.

@@michaelwireman6282 bro I had the lime green game boy color as well! Lol I also had Pokemon Blue and Yellow. I miss the 90s man...great time to be a kid.

Thank you for the kind words! I honestly haven't played much Crash TBH... But it is a series I'd like to get to for sure!

@@implantgames Yes! Would love to see you do videos on the Crash GBA games similar to your Donkey Kong Land-videos!

Man I really need to revisit the first Wario Land game...

I'm not sure you can call them "hidden gems" when they're some of the most celebrated gameboy, gameboy color and gameboy advance games ever. But yeah they are still worth some videos on. Warioland 4 is my favourite because I don't like puzzle platformers much either, and that one is the closest to a regular platformer out of all of them. Plus it has genuinely some of the best 16-bit graphics ever, the pixel art is beautiful, with the shading and the characters that have these really expressive faces, just like the best cartoons do with their characters. Imagine if the Ren and Stimpy games had this level of character in the art, to match how expressive the characters on the TV show were.

I love how Nintendo always treated the Game Boy as a major system, which it was. Metroid II, Kirby, DKL, Zelda Link's Awakening, Pokemon... so many quality titles. And then other companies treated it like a shovel ware receptacle. Game Boy Toy Story is still one of the most laughingly bad titles I've ever played in my life.

@MultiTarded you're kidding right? This is not better than Tropical Freeze, not even close. Honestly Tropical Freeze is the only DKC game I've ever really loved as opposed to just enjoyed (I've not played the other one retro made). I know I'm a bit unique in that opinion, but surely most people can see how good the new ones are? Tropical Freeze has some of the most perfect 2D platformer level design ever, it's been widely lauded all around for that reason. There's nothing like the hiccups DKL has. DKL is a great achievement and is still fun enough to play but Tropical Freeze has no BS or anything like that, it's just pure great platforming.

Thank you very much!!

Once you can deal with the pigs, it isn't so bad. Either by setting up the platforms under them, or near the top where bopping them won't spring a Kong into the air. Still, a very frustrating level to learn!

Memories make us rich :)

Damn. I wish. My Ma said no video games in the doctors office (as I waited for 1.5 hours doing nothing....). Glad you at least had that to help you out.

Welcome to the party :)

I could be wrong, but I assume this would be right up your ally Austin! Difficult, but short. Something I am oddly enough... starting to enjoy. Damn Castlevania...

@@implantgames Yeah, I played it when I was younger and enjoyed it. Loved the first DKC especially and this seemed like a pretty good effort for a Game Boy game, all things considered.

The animation is quite impressive!

Thanks J! It looks nice on an SP but I just cannot get used to that D-Pad...

I honestly don't remember that much about DKCR. But I did review it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FahgeqXaziU.html

@@implantgames Thank you! I'm going to check it out.

Glad you enjoyed the video Lucas! The instruction manual story is terrific haha :)

The "falling" to death, when there is clearly a landing below, is pretty silly. I didn't bring it up specifically in the video, as I guess one could argue missing a jump should punished, but yeah. It was very surprising the first time it happened!

Are you just looking for someone to vindicate your negative opinions on a game? Why not make a video of your own, then?

Bard88 no I don’t think the game is bad but it has plenty of issues that I’ve yet to see any youtubers point out. Because most of them are biased towards it. Especially Socallmejohnny

@@wistful3631 Johnny prefaces his video with an anecdote about not liking the game upon first impression. What problems are you talking about here?

Bard88 just look at the avgns review on the game he shows all the problems the game has

@@wistful3631 James Rolfe is the definition of a biased reviewer.

I am curious about it for sure, but don't own it at the moment.

A trick I used is by getting the 4 letters on a later level (maybe a previous level) it will still save the game. Like if you passed a difficult level but didn't get all the levels.

I have actually beaten Toy Story on the Game Boy. It has a custom border but no custom pallette, so I'm not clear on how this is a good example. It is also one of the worst games I have ever played. Absolutely dreadful version of Toy Story. Are you trolling me?

@@implantgames I beat it too back when my aunt bought me it for a gift in a game Boy carrying case bundle new, so I guess the nostalgia is the reason why I'm biased and because of one other reason. Regardless it is still a crap game. The main issue is the game's clunky engine and even worse controls. Lots of slowdown and not very well optimised at all. Interestingly, I asked the game developers about the game about 7 years ago, but I lost it all when their forums went down, though Mark Ortiz did give me his music workfiles and source code for all of his games. I'm not going to ruin the third SGB surprise this game offers.

I haven't played the DKC games since I reviewed them a year and a half ago... and I'm already feeling some Deja Vu as I start through DKL2. Not saying this is good or bad... but it gives me additional appreciation for DKL, which felt fresh to me.

@@implantgames Yes, DKL2 and 3 attempt to stay closer to the original games than DKL did. Not ports, exactly, but closer. But this is what we wanted back then! A portable 'version' of the SNES games.

It is a different bonus room. They created different multiple Super Game Boy color palettes for each set-piece, which is pretty cool!

@MultiTarded The new ones feel more realistic to me though. Firstly, I wouldn't call it slippery, or jerky like DKL. The character has a lot of weight to them instead, which I think fits a giant gorilla rather well. The original DKC games as much as I enjoy them, are strangely floaty to me. It looks... Off in a way that's difficult to describe. There are a number of reasons why I prefer the newer games, to the point where I could probably make an entire video out of it, but at least on the subject of controls, this is why I prefer the newer game's physics.

I love them all :) I still think nothing is smoother than Rayman Origins though...

Haha, I would have given up back in the day for sure :)

Easier layout on DKL2 and DKL3 were they adressed this background issue using lighter coloured backgrounds.

That's not a health bar tho

@@Spaghettaboutit Whoosh 🛫

Silver Acid ah, I miss read the comment - okay, let me give a better reply - a health bar would really go against the core of makes DKC, DKC. Super Mario Land 2 also is a 2 hits and you are dead kind of game. Everything else, especially the bottomless pits thing, would be welcome though.

@@Spaghettaboutit The two most recent DKC games both utilize a life bar. DK has two hit points by default in Returns and Tropical Freeze. It doesn't go against some design philosophy.

Bard88 having both Kongs in DKL means you have a 2 hit life.

I find DKL 3 to be the best one.

@Joshua J then ill say more. the original gb, no backlight, contrast wheel. gamecube controller, tiny dpad, smaller than og gameboy, and button layout awkward for run n jump platformers that already have momentum issues.

Even a stock Game Boy Player is questionable with the input lag... I couldn't imagine attempting Track Attack or Sky High Caper without a GBA SP, Super Game Boy, or the Game Boy Interface software for the GB Player.

Apparently the second game is much better

@@callumdonnelly1718 not really. DKL 1 is better than DKL 2