Sequelitis- Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3

Sequelitis- the disease that franchises get whenever there is a needless sequel green lit and produced. The trope was codified by the Land Before Time movie franchise. The original film, The Land Before Time, was a classic animated film by that guru of animation, Don Bluth, about five dinosaur children that seek to find their families while avoiding being eaten alive by a T-Rex. It is a surprisingly dark film, brilliantly animated, and one of the greatest films of all time. Land Before Time 2 was a direct to video sequel that was about those same five children discovering a T-Rex egg, and returning it to its parents. The sequel was...not as good. And then they made another film that was a little worse than that one. And another. And another. By the time I was in college, they made the eleventh film in the series. None of these sequels were truly needed, and were made only to make a quick buck. But I digress; this blog isn't about Land Before Time, this entry is about the classic Super Nintendo game, Donkey Kong Country, and its sequels.