I just wanted to say that this is my most cherished game of all time.  I have this game and I still play it today.  This is the first game that I owned that I actually played all the way through, and I still enjoy playing through it to collect all the different items.  I am sure that there are better games out now, but for the time this game did a lot of things right and was a fresh experience.  If you like 2d platformers, then you will enjoy DKC 2!