Donkey Kong: King of Swing

Donkey Kong: King of Swing
Original title	ぶ ら ぶ ら ド ン キ ー
transcription	Burabura Donkī
Studio	Paon
Publisher	Nintendo
Erstveröffent- lichung	February 4, 2005 May 19, 2005 September 19, 2005
platform	Game Boy Advance
genre	puzzle
Age rating	USK PEGI

Donkey Kong: King of Swing ( spelling : DK: King of Swing , Japanese.ぶ ら ぶ ら ド ン キ ー, Hepburn Burabura Donkī) is an action game for Game Boy Advance released on February 4 in Europe and May 19, 2005 in Japan .

Game mechanics

The Game Boy Advance that Donkey Kong: King of Swing originally appeared on.

The game is divided into the game modes adventure , 1-player jungle party and multiplayer jungle party .

adventure

In the adventure mode, the actual game story can be played: The jungle king should be chosen through the jungle party, for which various medals were prepared by the kongs . Antagonist King K. Rool ambushes the Kongs and steals these medals. The aim of the game is from now on to get back the medals - which K. Rool distributes over the levels - and to defeat him in the end. DK: King of Swing is divided into five game worlds (jungle, wild west, water world, ice world and K. Kreuzer) and contains 24 levels.

In each level there is a medal to be found, a total of 24 (eight bronze-colored, eight silver-colored and eight gold-colored). In addition, there is a crystal coconut in every level (with the exception of the final boss), a total of 20. These coconuts are partially hidden in barrels or are protected by opponents who drop them when you defeat them. Often they are also included as a reward for a successfully completed bonus barrel. Outwardly, these bonus kegs are similar to those in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! However, the task in DK: King of Swing is to collect a certain number of bananas in a given time.

The levels themselves usually run from bottom to top. Donkey Kong can jump by pressing the L and R buttons on the GBA and grab hold of brackets - called branches or boards - and hold onto them. The left hand is controlled with the L button and the right hand with the R button. If you press both at the same time, Donkey Kong, standing on the ground, performs a jump, if he hangs on a bracket, he again charges himself with energy until he starts to glow red. If you then let go of the keys, Donkey Kong carries out an attack attack with which you can destroy barrels, defeat opponents and jump higher. If you only hold on with one hand, Donkey Kong swings clockwise or counterclockwise in the respective direction .

In the levels you can collect bananas, of which Donkey Kong can carry a total of 300 pieces. On the one hand, these can be used to fill up the heart bar (costs 10 bananas). This serves as a life energy indicator and contains a total of three hearts. If you touch an opponent or fall into an abyss, you lose one of them. On the other hand, the so-called banana berserk can be used (costs 20 bananas). This makes you invulnerable for ten seconds, kills opponents with a simple touch and leads a higher attack jump.

After each game world, a final boss must be defeated, for which you receive a gold medal. The final boss is King K. Rool . If you can defeat this too, the Diddy Kong mode is unlocked, in which you can complete the adventure mode again with Diddy Kong , whereby there are no more crystal coconut nuts to get and no more freely collectable bananas.

Jungle party

In the jungle party modes, you can gradually play unlockable mini-games. You can also unlock medals, but they are independent of the adventure mode. There are a total of five disciplines : When climbing , a given course must be completed first; also when climbing hurdles , although this is made more difficult here by obstacles. In the combat climbing discipline , whoever can hit opponents with an attack attack most often wins, in the barrel fiasco category , whoever can destroy the most barrels in a certain time. Ultimately, the discipline of color catching is playable, in which as many boards as possible must be marked in the color assigned to the player.

The following characters can be selected:

character	Availability	Jumping properties	Attack properties
Donkey Kong	from the beginning	3/5	3/5
Diddy Kong	from the beginning	4/5	2/5
Dixie Kong	from the beginning	5/5	1/5
Funky Kong	from the beginning	2/5	4/5
Kremlin	from six gold medals in the jungle party modes	3/5	3/5
Wrinkly Kong	from collecting all 20 crystal coconuts	5/5	2/5
King K. Rool	from twelve gold medals in the jungle party modes	1/5	5/5
Bubbles	from completing Diddy Kong mode with collecting all 24 medals	4/5	4/5

development

Satoru Iwata, who was the executive producer on Donkey Kong: King of Swing.

The developer of Donkey Kong: King of Swing is the Japanese video game company Paon , which, in addition to its work on Donkey Kong: King of Swing, Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber and Donkey Kong Jet Race, was best known for its work on Super Smash Bros. Brawl . DK: King of Swing was published by Nintendo , while Toshiharu Izuno was the producer and Satoru Iwata executive producer.

Most of the music has been newly composed, but some of the pieces are based on the soundtrack by Donkey Kong Country , DK Jamz, composed by David Wise , Robin Beanland and Eveline Fischer .

reception

With an estimated 240,000 units sold, Donkey Kong: King of Swing ranks 322nd among the best-selling Game Boy Advance games. The reviews were average. The rating website Metacritic awards a Metascore of 70/100, IGN Entertainment has a rating of 7.8 / 10 and GameFAQs gives a rating of 3.65 / 5.

successor

Successor Donkey Kong: King of Swing is the 2D platform game for the Nintendo DS Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber ( jap.ドンキーコングジャングルクライマ, hep. Donkī Kongu Janguru Kuraimā, in the United States as DK: Jungle Climber appeared).

Republication

Donkey Kong: King of Swing was on 22 January 2015 for the eShop of the Wii U re-released. The game can be controlled with the Wii U GamePad , the Wii U Pro Controller , the Wii Remote Control and the Wii Classic Controller Pro .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} DK: King of Swing . Nintendo . Retrieved March 28, 2018.
2. ↑ Official game manual of Donkey Kong: King of Swing, page 31
3. ↑ Official game manual of Donkey Kong: King of Swing, page 32
4. ↑ DK: King of Swing ( English ) Giantbomb. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
5. ↑ sales of GBA games (Rely on estimates) ( English ) VGChartz. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
6. ↑ DK: King of Swing ( English ) Metacritic . Retrieved December 25, 2018.
7. ↑ Craig Harris: DK: King of Swing ( English ) IGN . September 16, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
8. ↑ DK: King of Swing ( English ) GameFAQs . Retrieved December 25, 2018.

Web links

• DK: King of Swing at Nintendo
• DK: King of Swing at MobyGames (English)
• DK: King of Swing in the Donkey Kong Wiki