New Play Control! Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat

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Zephyr 30.06.2009#1

The only thing I didn't really like about this remake were the motion controls... It felt like they made you just randomly waggle the Wiimote every 5 seconds to kill an enemy.

Good review!

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Darkflame 30.06.2009#2

Yes, I loved this with the Bongos.
I can understand remakeing it for Wiimote+Nunchuck, but removing backwards support for Bongos was just pointless.
(The bongos hits, incidently, just corispond to standard Gamecube/Classic controller button press's)

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jesusraz 01.07.2009#3

Zephyr said:
The only thing I didn't really like about this remake were the motion controls... It felt like they made you just randomly waggle the Wiimote every 5 seconds to kill an enemy.

But then again the alternative was having to constantly bang on the bongos and clap previously...I personally thought the controller shaking was less effort.

Good review!

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Darkflame said:
Yes, I loved this with the Bongos.
I can understand remakeing it for Wiimote+Nunchuck, but removing backwards support for Bongos was just pointless.
(The bongos hits, incidently, just corispond to standard Gamecube/Classic controller button press's)

I do agree with this. I know it's a 'New Play Control' title, but leaving in the classic method might have been a nice idea, even hiding it away in the options so as to not confuse newcomers too much.

I should add that this has been faring very well in the UK charts since release, doing much better than the two Pikmin games. Mario Power Tennis may have been the best-selling one so far, though - not sure. It'll be interesting to see how Chibi-robo does IF Nintendo brings it over here (remember that the DS game was a limited release in the US and skipped EU altogether Smilie ).

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xXxTin Can ManxXx 05.07.2009#4

Christ, I remember reading about this in the non ONM magazine.

I feel old.

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jesusraz 06.07.2009#5

Haha, it's only from about 4-5 years ago - don't worry about it Smilie It's when you remember the hype building up about the original Chrono Trigger release...that's when you've gotta start thinking 'Day-um...' Smilie

I'm really pleased to see this version doing FAR better than the original. Sadly the original barely scraped into the UK Top 40 and stayed there for two or three weeks maximum because the GameCube did AWFUL over here. This Wii update was riding high in the Top 20 for a few weeks and is still lingering around.

Great news indeed! Hopefully it spurs Nintendo on to let the EAD Tokyo team crack on with a new Donkey Kong game...like the talked about, but now forgotten, Donkey Kong World 8)