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First I'm 13. This game is not a must have but if you can get it for $20 you should buy it. This game has plently of replay value and it's fun to play with friends. I'v had this game since it was out and I like it a lot. It will not take more then a couple of hours to beat but when your done with the game you can try to beat you high scores. If you own this game and you whant games other like it try Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
The reviews here are pretty right on. Even the levels they've already beat are fun to go back to and play all over again - to try to beat the high banana score or beat a time limit. My kids are 13, 6 and 4 and all of them love this game equally as much, AND -- it has so many new levels that it has yet to be boring and we've had it over 6 months. I must say, there are not many things I take time to write a detailed review on, but this one had to be done. If you are like me, you buy or rent many games that are whipped within a week. Bottom line - WELL WORTH THE MONEY.
Who'd have thought that bongos (and clapping) would be a good interface for a platformer. The multipliers with the fruits are a great device -- run over a banana and it counts as one, run over 5 and they count as 5, but jump into the perfect position to clap and collect them all at once and you can score 20.So I'm clapping and banging on the drums and it's a total blast, and I realize I'm actually working up a sweat playing the game. You clap which makes DK clap, which sends out sound waves in a certain radius that can affect other things.So simple, yet so good. Not me. I played this in a store and was hooked pretty quickly.The interface is great - multiple taps on the left bongo to go left, right to go right, and both at once to jump, along with a few other combos. And like most Nintendo first-party games, the gameplay is near perfectly solid, the gameplay is set up in that toally addictive Nintendo style where you don't want to stop.
For anybody who happens to be a Gamecube owner, add Donkey Kong Jungle Beat to your collection and bongo the night away.Graphics: B+Sound: BControl: C+ for using the Gamecube controller: A- for the specialty bongo controllerFun & Enjoyment: B 1/2+Overall: B+ It is much easiier to use those against so many bosses and wild nutty characters in the jungle. But, that really is a little more difficult to manuever Donkey Kong around. The game features over 40 different levels to unleash, including boss levels with Hogs, Kongs, and gigantic birds. However, that has definitely all changed with the pounding of the bongo drums.Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, is a wild and wooly game, where Kong must try to collect bananas and beats to unlock new worlds and challenges. Nevertheless, he keeps coming back for more, and even better too. Donkey Kong has been one of those very few characters that has really brought down the house so much since his beginnings from Nintendo. But so many, just missed a return to his classic era from the Donkey Kong Country days for the Super Nintendo.
The music is also very upbeat, and definitely makes you want to go ape over.Although you can get the game seperately, I really suggest you buy the game with the packaged bongo controllers. When Donkey Konga came out for the Gamecube last year, it was alright, but not nothing to rave about. The specialty bongos from the Donkey Konga game, really hit the spot to control our hero around. Unless you have either one of the Donkey Konga games that included those bongos, then this would be alright.
You can actually play the game without the bongos, by using the regular Gamecube controller. The graphics are amazing, and really portraited as a return to the style that made Donkey Kong Country a sensation. Yet, that was captured awhile ago, but there just wasn't anything for Gamecube owners to beat on. The control however is a mixed point for some.
This game right now is arguably one of the most innovative games ever developed by Nintendo.
But anyway, the game also looks nice to the eyes and for all the GCN owners out there, I recommend buying this game. When I got to play this game, I thought to myself, "Wow." Basically you use a controller that looks like a bongo and you have to skillfully "play" the bongos to get through the levels. It's pretty fun and its funny when you get to the end of the levels, before the boss, and you have to eat the bananas (If you hit the bongos fast enough, it looks really funny IMO). It's really enjoyable and will keep you playing for a while.
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