I have a confession to make: I really don't like the Donkey Kong Country games. None of them. Can't stand to play them at all.

It's the controls that bother me to be honest. There's a crisp responsiveness that pretty much every Mario game has and which every platformer should have, which just isn't there in the DKC games. I'm not sure why, but it always feels like there's the slightest delay between button press and action and every single action just feels wrong to me as a result. Even worse is that I sometimes find myself fighting with the game as a result.

I want to like DKC. I love the characters, the level design, the exploration and everything else about them, but the most fundamental interaction with the game feels so incredibly wrong to me that I can't enjoy them at all.