Apes on barrels: Donkey Kong Barrel Blast fact sheet

Since its announcement for the Nintendo GameCube last year, Paon‘s DK: Bongo Blast has gone through not only a platform switch but a few name changes as well.

Now known as Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, what hasn’t changed is the game’s underlying fun factor. Players choose from a stable of characters headed by Donkey Kong and blast their way to the finish line in this apes-on-barrels racer.

The controls are simple, too: shake the Wiimote and Nunchuck to accelerate and shake one or the other to turn. With either a single button press or a shake, players can also jump, use items or attack with a range of weapons and moves.

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Since its announcement for the Nintendo GameCube last year, Paon‘s DK: Bongo Blast has gone through not only a platform switch but a few name changes as well.

Now known as Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, what hasn’t changed is the game’s underlying fun factor. Players choose from a stable of characters headed by Donkey Kong and blast their way to the finish line in this apes-on-barrels racer.

The controls are simple, too: shake the Wiimote and Nunchuck to accelerate and shake one or the other to turn. With either a single button press or a shake, players can also jump, use items or attack with a range of weapons and moves. The game also includes a few other game modes aside from the usual straight-up race including:

• Grand Prix: Race solo in 12 different cups across a variety of courses and difficulty levels.
• Time Trial: Pick the course and try to set a new record. Players can even save their best times in the form of ghost data.
• Practice: Race across any track without the pressure of time limits or other racers.
• Candy’s Challenges: Help out Candy Kong by taking on 32 unique challenges, such as grabbing 1,000 bananas, beating a course in a certain time or staying in first place wire-to-wire.
• Cranky’s Flight School: Learn how to play from Cranky Kong himself.
• Multiplayer: Players take on up to three friends in a high-flying free-for-all as they bash, smash and rocket their way to victory. Multiplayer is not a separate mode; players can simply choose to play the other modes with additional people.

There are also quite a few power-ups and items scattered around the various courses in Donkey Kong Barrel Blast. These include:

• Wild Moves: Each course is littered with bananas. If players grab 50 of them, they can perform a Wild Move by pushing down on the control stick and then releasing it. Wild Moves propel racers forward at an insane rate of speed for a short period of time – they also allow them to run over enemies, other racers and most obstacles. Skilled players can extend the lives of their Wild Moves by hitting objects to create combos.
• Style Barrels: If players fly into a red Style Barrel, it will fire them high over the course. While in flight, an animation of the Wii Remote will appear on-screen and ask players to shake it in a certain direction. Each time players do so successfully, the rider will pose and get showered with bananas!
• Items: There are 15 crazy items that players can use – everything from offensive weapons like Backward Barrels and Pineapple Launchers to helpful power-ups like Banana Fairies and Crystal Coconuts. Using items effectively can turn the tide of a race.

Looking forward to the game? Don’t worry, you won’t have to wait long. Donkey Kong Barrel Blast hits North America on October 8.