![]() Otherwise, this is Donkey Kong Country through and through. It's a little on the spurious side - you could easily have done either with a button - but in the context of the game it works pretty well, while feeling like a nod to the great ape's efforts in the bongo-powered Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat. Playing with the Remote and Nunchuck (not quite the authentic approach, but the one we'd recommend), you can waggle the two alternately to make DK slap the ground, or do the same and press right to make him roll. There are, inevitably, some attempts made to remind you that you're playing on the Wii. It's a classic platformer in the vintage mould, and the kind of game that leaves you feeling that, sometimes, we don't really need to reinvent the platform gaming wheel. DK runs from left to right, the screen scrolls with him, there's a whole lot of banana-collecting, along with enemies to be jumped on or rolled over and various deadly objects to be avoided. ![]() DK and his son, Diddy, are off to get them back - and that's all there is to it. Basically, some weird flying tiki masks have nicked DK's bananas and mesmerised his jungle-living chums. Both groups are going to have a ball.ĭKCR also takes us back to the days when games didn't really need some kind of intricate plot nor heroes any real motivation. Like New Super Mario Bros before it, DKCR seems to have been designed to hook the generation that played the original some 16 years ago, along with a new, younger audience that might be seeing DK for the first time without party games, a racing kart or bongos. Instead, it's an unashamed trip into nostalgia-land, giving us the DK we remember, the gameplay we remember, and a Wii update of the visual style that - hard as it is to understand these days - once knocked the gaming world off its feet. This isn't an attempt to reboot the DK franchise or make it work in full 3D or rebuild the whole game for motion controls. (Pocket-lint) - There are many things to love about Donkey Kong Returns, but one of the biggest is that it knows who its audience is, and why this series matters. ![]()
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