Ughhhhhhh!!! I can't stand this freaking game. It's so boring and annoyingly difficult that I find myself more frustrated playing this than anything I've played so far - even Halo. I've reached the level of "controller spiking fury" a good five or six times and each time I find myself saying "That's so STUPID!" The frustration isn't coming from my inability to beat a level, it's coming from lazy level design.
The worst thing about this whole game is how easily you can die in bottomless pits. For example - I just finished a level called Barrel Blast where you have to propel yourself from barrel to barrel - launching as if from a cannon. The issue is that these barrels are spinning and if you're a centimeter off your desired angle, you will send DK and Diddy to their untimely - and unbelievably infuriating - deaths. Eventually, I beat the level by accident:
I had launched my characters straight down from a particular barrel. Just as the profanity was building up behind my teeth, and just as my hand was raised in the air to spike the controller into the wall, I saw DK and Diddy fall into a hidden barrel at the bottom of the screen. This "cleverly disguised secret" propelled me all the way to the exit, and gave me 50 bananas during the ride. I bet the developers thought "Yeah, people will be really excited when they find this" - I wasn't. I didn't think it was clever or have any sense of discovery for finding that thing - the only way anyone would ever find it is by accident! All I said was "thank God I'm done with this level..."
I will admit, there have been two or three levels that weren't bad, and the game seems to get progressively better as I go forward, but only by very little. As of now, this is the worst and most despised game in my collection.
Eat my crap Donkey Kong Country.