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DK: Jungle Beat Wiimake in June News
Wii News by Robert Purchese
Nintendo has announced a 5th June release date for New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.
This is another of the GameCube remakes for Wii, following the likes of Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis from earlier in the year. The best up to now, for our money, is definitely Pikmin 2.
DK: Jungle Beat comes back to life with two extra stages plus the mandatory Wiimote controls. The GameCube original had a bongo peripheral to pound in time with musical prompts, which rewarded you with banana points depending on your accuracy.
Jungle Beat was short but refreshingly unique, and scrapping the need for the expensive bongos could make this Wiivamp worthwhile.
Head over to our review of Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat on GameCube for our thoughts, or wait a little while longer for the Wiimake review.
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spidermanalf
05/05/09 @ 10:49
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How will it cope with the clapping bits? Later levels I had me on bongos and my brother clapping!
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university_zippy
05/05/09 @ 10:50
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Surely this would be like remaking guitar hero without the guitar peripheral? It would lose part of it's appeal and would just slip into a myriad of other remote shaking games? Yes it still has the winning Nintendo characters but without the bongos it just feels a little too generic.
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Der_tolle_Emil
05/05/09 @ 10:52
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Although I missed it on the cube I'd be happier if we would get an ExciteBots or Punch Out release date rather than this.
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FairgroundTown
05/05/09 @ 11:17
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Will it use WiiMotion Plus? That would have much SUCH a difference to Samba de Amigo.
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paul_haine
05/05/09 @ 11:41
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Expensive bongos? I seem to remember them being about Ł20 plus game for most of the time they were on sale.
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kinky_mong
05/05/09 @ 12:05
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@20charactersmax: That video spends ages discussing how the game having 6 save files rather than 3 is a major selling point. You can even copy and erase save games! Day 1 purchase for me!
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Wastelander
05/05/09 @ 12:33
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I've still got two sets of bongos plus all the DK games. They were practically giving them away a couple of years ago. I bet I got my new Cube/game/bongo package for less than this remake will go for at retail.
Love the bongos though, I'm not usually into peripheral games but there was something great about them. |
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I can understand some of the reaction for this game, the bongo's were a unique and fun control method and the game may be diminished by the lack of them, but at the same time vring the game to a whole new audience.
What's disappointed me mostabout wii play releases is the negative reaction of some posters on this site. They say that is just releasing old games but for the Wii, but let's face it, the Gamecube was a fantastic console, blessed with loads of great exclusive games that NO-ONE bought. Surely releasing them for the wii with a potential for reaching a much wider audience is good not only for some of the masterpieces that were released on Cube but also for gamers as a whole that did not catch them first time around or for an entirely new audience that did not know these games existed. Eternal Darkness, Luigi's Mansion, resi remake, F-Zero and Rogue leader please. |
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