Donkey Kong jumps, runs, climbs, swims and fights brazenly and frantically in a glowing color environment.ĭonkey Kong Jungle Beat uses essentially few but immediate commands: knocking your hand on the right or left bongo will go in the same direction, hitting both of them the gorilla will jump, while a beat of hands will stand up or be tied to a series of specials events. The game is divided into four worlds (plus a final level) and each game world is divided into three distinct platform sections, the third of which ends with the boss of the world, for a total of thirteen levels. It was stated by game director Yoshiaki Koizumi in an interview in response to the game's minimal story that ' The only thing Donkey Kong needs is to be the best, and to become the king of the jungle.' Īn expanded storyline was added in the Wii re-release.Īs it did in the past, Donkey Kong will have to do a new adventure by gathering more bananas and drowning the wicked King Gorilla emerging on the jungle's fate in a series of clashes. Pound anything that gets in DK's way as he conquers the kingdoms and becomes the king of the jungle lands!!! Their next game, Super Mario Galaxy, in 2007, was much more successful. This was the first game created by Nintendo EAD Tokyo, and was a sleeper hit. In the game, you take control of Donkey Kong by drumming on the bongos, and clapping with your hands. This is one of the few games to use the DK Bongos, and is the only one to take it to either an action, or platformer game, with the others either being music or racing.

Due to the change in developers, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat was very different than the Donkey Kong Country games in gameplay, characters, and, perhaps most notably, the personality of Donkey Kong, who is shown to be more aggressive than in the past titles. The game's main gimmick stems from the use of the DK Bongos controller, previously affiliated with Donkey Konga, as the recommended controller, though a standard Nintendo GameCube controller may still be used.ĭonkey Kong Jungle Beat is the first console Donkey Kong platformer since the release of Donkey Kong Country to not be developed by Rare, since the company, which lost the rights to the Donkey Kong series due to the fact that it was trademarked by Nintendo, was bought out by Microsoft.

Romaji: Donkī Kongu Janguru Bīto) is a 2.5D platformer game for the Nintendo GameCube that was first released in Japan in December 2004. Scripts Donkey Kong Jungle Beat ( JP Japanese: ドンキーコングジャングルビート.

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