Sort of like those pesky Pac-Man ghosts are. The Tiki Taks are obviously imbued with a kind of animating magic. Throughout, crabs, bats, a big mole, a chicken and all manner of other jungle denizens-not to mention the Tiki Taks-take their best shots as Donkey and Diddy make their way to the final showdown with the final boss: Tiki Tong.Īll in all, it’s beautifully rendered platforming fun that increasingly demands your full attention if you hope to keep progressing and liberate all those pilfered bananas. The game progresses from the forest to a gear-filled factory-esque level to a volcano. A rhino friend named Rambi even offers Kong an exhilarating rumble through the jungle at one point. Others find him rocketing around in a mine cart or a rocket-propelled barrel. ( Ground pounding involves vigorously shaking the controllers up and down, which creates an earthquake-like effect that can disorient foes.) Either way, though, your goal is the same: Nab bananas, balloons, puzzle pieces and the letters K-O-N-G, among other things, while avoiding, bopping or “ground pounding” the many enemies that try to impede your progress. In the two-player game, the pair are separated. In single-player mode, Donkey Kong is sometimes joined by Diddy, who rides shotgun and enhances the big guy’s abilities. Or you can go newfangled and opt for a combination of that controller plus the Wii Nunchuck. You can go old-school, holding the Wii Remote horizontally and working on your left thumb’s calluses. Players can opt for one of two control schemes. But thanks to the Wii’s intuitive gaming controls, I had that ol’ monkey running and jumping past obstacles and bopping Tiki Taks on the head in no time. for the ColecoVision in my early teens, if you must know. I hadn’t played a Donkey Kong title since shortly after the franchise’s inception in the early ’80s- Donkey Kong Jr. ![]() In a gaming world where bloody, gory, profane and sex-saturated games garner most of the attention and the lion’s share of sales, it’s delightfully refreshing to play through a game as simple and old-fashioned as this. Which quickly prompts our hero to go bananas … and then go after those dastardly, thieving Tiki Taks. Kong and his youthful sidekick, Diddy Kong, squaring off against a hoard of tropical, mask-like musical miscreants known as the Tiki Tak Tribe.Įrupting from Donkey Kong Island’s central volcano, these pesky, magical meanies hypnotize the island’s animals and compel the woozy beasts to steal Donkey Kong’s beloved hoard of bananas. The latest old-school scrolling platformer to star Nintendo’s famous ape (an homage to 1994’s Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo) finds Mr. And that, in a nutshell-or in a banana skin, I should say-is the token plot in Donkey Kong Country Returns. Especially if you happen to be an ape whose initials are D.K. It stinks when someone steals your bananas.
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