Instantly, the gorilla gains a yellow aura, grows more agile, and becomes impervious to damage. If you don’t mind sacrificing twenty, you can press the A button to trigger Donkey Kong’s “Going Bananas” technique. Donkey Kong can only tank three hits, but pressing the B button restores one heart at the cost of ten bananas.
Your secondary means of retaliation is grabbing and throwing rocks or bombs, and aiming these while you’re rotating along pegs becomes an essential skill.īananas are plentiful and an invaluable resource. This launches Donkey Kong a little farther than a standard jump, too. Releasing them while he’s emitting a red glow causes him to spin forward, bashing any baddies or breakable objects he connects with. If you hold down both shoulder buttons, Donkey Kong charges an attack. Mechanically, King of Swing is closer to Nintendo’s Clu Clu Land series than any prior Donkey Kong title. While standing on solid ground, you can press both buttons to jump. Upon releasing the shoulder button, Donkey Kong will leap in the direction he’s facing. Holding the L or R button causes the gorilla to hold onto a peg and spin counterclockwise or clockwise, respectively. Respectively, they correspond to Donkey Kong’s left and right hands, and each stage demands you alternate between pressing them as you climb floating pegs. It and Jungle Beat both employ unorthodox control schemes, with Swing ’s revolving around the Game Boy Advance’s L and R buttons. Rare complemented each Country title with a Game Boy followup, an example King of Swing unintentionally sort of follows. And third-party studio Paon helmed three humble Donkey Kong spin-offs (among other collaborations with Nintendo), the first of which we’re discussing today. One of Rare’s teams developed imperfect ports of the Country trilogy and Diddy Kong Racing for Nintendo’s handhelds. Bandai Namco made three Donkey Konga rhythm games. A number of other studios worked on the property during the Aughts, too. Nintendo brought it in-house for Jungle Beat, the series’ big, mainline GameCube outing, and an arcade-era throwback in Mario vs.
Those intervening years were a strange time for Donkey Kong. Both games are lean and thoroughly explore their core mechanics. Although DK: King of Swing doesn’t approach its highs, it brings Klonoa: Door of Phantomile (which developer Paon later remade ) to mind.
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