DK Bongo Blast Resurfaces

According to IGN

Am I alone in thinking this sounds like a BAD idea? I don't want to have to race by shaking my arms up and down, it's painful enough in Rayman for a few seconds, let alone around an entire track.

Not to mention that shaking the remote would kinda loose that whole "rhythm" concept used with the Bongos.

Nintendo is killing Donkey Kong ;_;

I want a f**king platformer dammit, and a non-gimmicky one at that. All the Donkey Kong games that came out for the Cube used the effing bongos.

dkjb was a blast tha first time around though

...isn't there any way they could make it use the bongos? At all?

Yea, they are trying to be 'innovative.' I'll admit that for most games the controls sound weird but once you play it they are comfortable, but these controls sound down right awful.

ATTN: Nintendo

The Wii Remote is great and all but leave this game with the ****ing bongos. That's why it's called BONGO BLAST.

Your pal,
Larry.

Nintendo needs to occationally stay with the norm so not to completely derail every game series.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a GOOD idea? Seriously I can't wait for this.

So you WANT to have to swing your arms up and down rapidly for a good 2 or 3 minutes around each course?

If the mechanism relies on faster shaking for better speeds, then yes that's retarded.

But as it is, I'm imagining more of it being rhythm oriented still, looking more like you're imitating a drumming motion rather than flopping your hands around like a tardo. That goes out the window if faster shaking means faster speed, but if it's just a steady shaking then you're not going to have to swing your arms wildly.

This post has been edited by Mugenmidget Prime on Apr 12 2007, 10:35 PM

Steady shaking is going to be a problem when you want to turn a corner, and even steady shaking to move is a poor mechanic in a racing game.

I'd assume it'd be fast and rhythmic, since it's still based on the same game and in DK Jungle Beat you had to tap pretty darn fast just to move...

The mechanics for this sound really poor and un-fun. Heck the game looked rubbish to begin with, but I can't see this as being a fun game to play.

On the bright side it means I can beat people who aren't willing to keep it up. Anyone can hold an A button to accelerate.

Actually, thinking of the motion this reminds me of World Class Track Meet for the NES. That was awesome in two player.

This post has been edited by Mugenmidget Prime on Apr 12 2007, 10:41 PM

Some scans from the Famitsu article:

Splash page
Some gameplay crud

You can see some new Kremling characters there.

Nintendo needs to prove that they can make a DK platformer game without Rare

This is why I wish Rare got Donkey kong Racing out faster before they got bought.

I WANT to have a DK game that actually uses locations and characters from the Donkey Kong COUNTRY franchise, thank you.

yse plz.

I'm a bit disappointed that the chances of Krunch making a comeback look grim, but I still like that they're doing something with the Kremling Krew, even adding the first female Kremling (which looks like it'll be Dixie's Kremling counterpart, and there could be another one for Tiny).


Also, Paon is the company behind the game people, the same people behind DK King of Swing. This is not the same group who made Jungle Beat (Nintendo EAD Tokyo) or the Konga games (Namco).

I like to think of this more as being developed a last hurrah for the bongo controller (well, when it started as a GCN title) and Paon's way of trying to substitute for the lack of Donkey Kong Racing, not trying to keeping up a trend of gimmicky DK games. I'm not going to complain that it isn't a platformer, and there's a chance Paon might try that out in the future.

Though I'm hoping the game at least allows you the option of using the Bongo controller.

This post has been edited by SuperSonic Yoshi on Apr 16 2007, 02:41 PM

I know this is a double post, but woah, it's Rambi and Enguarde!

Enguarde being in the game was already revealed, but still.

This post has been edited by SuperSonic Yoshi on Apr 16 2007, 02:39 PM

I'd get it. But 16 courses across 7 worlds? what?