The nods to classic DK games don't stop there. TNT barrels are the most dangerous, for obvious reasons. Wooden barrels smash open when attacked while steel kegs cannot be punched and should be avoided. Throughout every track, you can expect a plethora of barrels of various kinds, taken right out of Donkey Kong Country. Attacking is also used to clear your path of the various enemies patrolling the courses, and you can even swat away some incoming items from opponents.įurthermore, the courses are absolutely littered with obstacles that can help or hinder you depending on quick thinking. If an opponent cuts you off, you can simply punch the sucker out of your way. One great feature is the ability to attack while racing, regardless of what items you have. It's easy to pick up, but takes practice to master. The controls are both functional and precise, and any collisions are due solely to the player's own reaction time. Those who have said that the player must endlessly flail their arms at all times during a race were gravely misinformed. Flicking both hands upwards at the same time makes the character jerk upwards in a midair “jumping” motion, which can be prolonged by drumming during the jump's descent. Once at the maximum speed, further drumming of the Wii Remote shifts the character to the right, while the Nunchuk edges to the left. Any collision will slow movement to a crawl, and players will need to charge up again to reenter the fray. Turning around corners happens automatically, and this is where the game exits the standard “steer yourself around a race circuit” fare, and begins to show a unique, strategy-based style. From this point on, the character will enter a kind of cruise control, automatically following along the track until they collide with something.
To start off a race, players must alternate between left and right drumming for a few seconds to build up power and reach their Max Speed.
Later cups revisit these areas, but fortunately the track usually takes very different turns, or visits completely new parts in subsequent visits, most often with more numerous and dangerous obstacles to dodge in the later cups. It may be initially disappointing to find that there is only a handful of course locations, such as a jungle, a temple, and a volcano.
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Additionally, there are three speed options in the form of Rookie, Pro and Expert, akin to the engine sizes in Mario Kart. There are four cups to select from, with an increasing number of courses depending on the cup difficulty. The main game mode, Jungle Grand Prix, is set up as one would expect for a racing game. All racers have different stats to match different playing styles, but are fairly evenly balanced. Players can choose from the standard fare of Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong, as well as other members of the Kong family, or choose between some of the more memorable soldiers in the evil Kremling army, alongside four new reptilian villains. The character lineup is certainly true to the series. These packs propel the characters when they are drummed on, and the front of them incidentally resembles the aforementioned bongo controller.
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The general premise is that the Kongs and Kremlings have decided to compete in a series of races throughout the various locales of DK Island using barrel-built jet-packs. Instead, players shake their hands up and down in a drumming motion using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, and the overall experience is surprisingly similar to slapping the bongos, with the Remote speaker even filling in for the drumming sound.
The game is, at its heart, still a GameCube game, and heavily focused on the idea of bongo drum controllers. If any game is worthy of being called underrated, it's this. Ultimately, it was released for Wii sans bongos.
Known as Donkey Kong Jet Race in Europe, Donkey Kong Barrel Blast was originally intended to be a late release on the GameCube, using the DK bongo controller that was used in various unique Donkey Kong rhythm and adventure titles earlier in the console's life.
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