13th February 2012, 6:44 PM
Dreamland 2!
This game is another great example of SGB coloring, up there with Megaman V. I'd still rank it a bit behind Gameboy Donkey Kong though, for the singular reason that DK made a pallet choice to always keep two colors the same (or almost the same) across all maps to make sure Mario and DK kept the same colors no matter which level they were in. However, this game does have some really nice uses of color, such as how the level select "greys out" the islands you aren't on, so any one island gets a unique color pallet when selected. I'll add that this is probably the only game to actually make the border feel like an extension of the game screen rather than a border.
Oh, and the game itself is really fun too. I wish Kirby's animal friends would appear in more games. In the same way one could "combine" powers in Kirby 64, combining different powers with different animal friends results in unique abilities.
This game is another great example of SGB coloring, up there with Megaman V. I'd still rank it a bit behind Gameboy Donkey Kong though, for the singular reason that DK made a pallet choice to always keep two colors the same (or almost the same) across all maps to make sure Mario and DK kept the same colors no matter which level they were in. However, this game does have some really nice uses of color, such as how the level select "greys out" the islands you aren't on, so any one island gets a unique color pallet when selected. I'll add that this is probably the only game to actually make the border feel like an extension of the game screen rather than a border.
Oh, and the game itself is really fun too. I wish Kirby's animal friends would appear in more games. In the same way one could "combine" powers in Kirby 64, combining different powers with different animal friends results in unique abilities.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)