played the japanese version. the songlist is pretty weak and the timing feels way too strict. nah!
This was silly fun. Super childish track list, but that's okay. It's called Donkey Conga for Christ's sake.
the ape is jammin :D
Eu queria muito ter jogado esse jogo com os Bongos originais porque provavelmente muito da graça dele vem com isso. De resto, é um jogo rítmico que funciona, por mais que eu ache que o tempo das notas é meio estranho. Jogar no controle funciona legal até, mas realmente não é tão divertido. A falta de mais conteúdo single-player pra ir desbloqueando e principalmente de mais músicas também dá uma caída nele...
If you didn't like Donkey Konga, you had no childhood
I just don’t want to bongo to Black Eyed Peas
Played this while drunk with friends on new years. Best time of my life
This is like, the ultimate "not for me" game despite being an entry in one of my favorite franchises. Hitting the drums and slapping the sides along to covers of popular music is something that I get nothing out of. I wondered, at the time, why they could not at least have used more actual DKC music, famous for being great, instead going with the most boring Nintendo nostalgia choices and Rock Lobster. Blegh. Not even the minigames were good.
It’s got blink-182 what’s not to love?
This is one of the strangest games I've played in a very long time.
This was a weird rhythm game that used the bongos. Weird song choices too.
Innovative and fun game and it honestly introduced me to a lot of banger songs as a kid that I would've not known about otherwise
This should be remade with the only song being Outkast's BOB.
This game taught me how to play drums. Maybe you can learn how to play drums too with donky kon
Own the game, but too scared to ask my family to borrow the bongos.
My mom hid this game from me :(
A rhythm game with literally 3 actions. It works though and is actually a fun time. The music selection hurts the game though as some of the songs are flatout throw aways. More licensed music or nintendo tracks would of really bumped the score up. If you got 4 bongo's and 4 players it is a fun yet chaotic time.
amo los bongos
Fun Taiko inspired game if you have the bongos, not worth a play without them tbh.
Also who the hell approved this tracklist?
Also who the hell approved this tracklist?
Es un juego de ritmo original gracias a los bongos, pero tiene poca variedad de canciones. Cuanto más juegas, más repetitivo se vuelve.
Great concept! The bongos are a blast to play, but the song selection is atrocious, and all the cover versions are really corny. This could have been a great game if any licensing had gone to better jams.
Like, there's a Kidz Bop-style version of the nursery rhyme "Bingo" in here.
Like, there's a Kidz Bop-style version of the nursery rhyme "Bingo" in here.
banging tracklist
Honestly fun as fuck if you're smashed or baked with friends
So I bought a pair of DK Bongos recently, because I needed to prove I'm a true motherfucking Gamecube-head. Three games were released in North America that are compatible with the bongos, this being the first one released. This and Donkey Konga 2 are rhythm in which you hit the left or right drum or clap in time with the music, while the last one is Jungle Beat, a platformer controlled with these three options, and I gotta say I hope Jungle Beat is a lot better than this.
Playing these bongos in tune with the music is really awkward, mostly because slapping the bongos like you would an actual bongo isn't the right way to play this. If you play like that you'll lose once the notes start getting faster, so instead you have to basically "click" on each drum like a big button, which isn't nearly as fun as what I thought it would be like to play them. This game also has a weird idea about how long it takes to go from pressing the bongo to clapping, and it really feels like it expects you to be hovering over the bongos ready to smack them like actual bongos, making it easier to go into a clap, when in reality I have both hands and the bongo ready to "click" them. It's to the point that there were some songs where shouting into the mic that registers the clap is easier than going into a clap. I was completely ready to admit that maybe my setup wasn't great for a rhythm game, and the lag was all my fault, but then I played the game with a controller and did better with the timing than I ever did with the bongos, so I think the bongos might just be bad for a rhythm game.
As for the tracklist, it seems like Nintendo was aiming extremely for family friendly, as it's a lot very boomer-core Oldies But Goodies stuff from the 50's and 60's. I need less of that and a lot more The Impression That I Get and Rock Lobster. Also this game has several tracks that are just a bunch of nursery rhymes in a row and like, you know what keep those, having the nerve to make my play my bongos to Happy Birthday is just funny. The Pokemon anime theme song and Kirby Right Back At Ya theme song are also appreciated.
Overall, this is kind of a not great rhythm game, where the funny peripheral you've been given doesn't really feel that good to play with the music. It's fun to play and laugh at with your friends, but trying to get actual enjoyment out of it is tough. The bongos are just a fun item to own though, I don't regret buying these bongos.
Playing these bongos in tune with the music is really awkward, mostly because slapping the bongos like you would an actual bongo isn't the right way to play this. If you play like that you'll lose once the notes start getting faster, so instead you have to basically "click" on each drum like a big button, which isn't nearly as fun as what I thought it would be like to play them. This game also has a weird idea about how long it takes to go from pressing the bongo to clapping, and it really feels like it expects you to be hovering over the bongos ready to smack them like actual bongos, making it easier to go into a clap, when in reality I have both hands and the bongo ready to "click" them. It's to the point that there were some songs where shouting into the mic that registers the clap is easier than going into a clap. I was completely ready to admit that maybe my setup wasn't great for a rhythm game, and the lag was all my fault, but then I played the game with a controller and did better with the timing than I ever did with the bongos, so I think the bongos might just be bad for a rhythm game.
As for the tracklist, it seems like Nintendo was aiming extremely for family friendly, as it's a lot very boomer-core Oldies But Goodies stuff from the 50's and 60's. I need less of that and a lot more The Impression That I Get and Rock Lobster. Also this game has several tracks that are just a bunch of nursery rhymes in a row and like, you know what keep those, having the nerve to make my play my bongos to Happy Birthday is just funny. The Pokemon anime theme song and Kirby Right Back At Ya theme song are also appreciated.
Overall, this is kind of a not great rhythm game, where the funny peripheral you've been given doesn't really feel that good to play with the music. It's fun to play and laugh at with your friends, but trying to get actual enjoyment out of it is tough. The bongos are just a fun item to own though, I don't regret buying these bongos.
Something about naming a bunch of preschool songs like The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Row Row Row Your Boat "Diddy's Ditties" just feels like a massive own aimed at what was once one of the biggest platforming stars of the SNES era.
Also the PAL version of this game gets 99 Red Balloons and the opening to Super Smash Bros. Melee so anybody who played this game in the United States got the inferior version.
Also the PAL version of this game gets 99 Red Balloons and the opening to Super Smash Bros. Melee so anybody who played this game in the United States got the inferior version.
i said yep, what a concept.
My hands hurt
stupid amounts of fun when you have the bongos
look at him go