There are moments playing Jungle Climber that are as close to the sparks of delight routinely scattered by Yoshi's Island as we've come since. Helping to vary the environments is a silly warp-jumping space banana, who seems awful to begin with (banana fanana!) but ends up transporting you into the midst of some excellent levels, like the one where you have to beat up fruit and vegetables to create networks of pegs. Sometimes you need to line things up across the screen border, but it's not much of a problem.Įlsewhere, a ghostly level sees DK swinging past spectres that will spook him off his perch if he's caught moving (basically "What's The Time, Mr Wolf?" for monkeys) and pumping switches to blow up temporary peg lattices, while an underwater one has him caught in currents and trying desperately to cling onto reeds. If DK grabs hold of a peg that exists on one screen but not the other, the mirror cracks and he has to start again. A level where DK finds himself mirrored on top and bottom screens in a crystal palace challenges you to keep an eye out for differences between peg layouts in the otherwise identical scenes above and below the fold. Not content with that, Paon throws loads at the DS' two screens, and far more of it sticks than not. Early examples include a big stone ball made of pegs, whose momentum you have to build and sustain by swinging alongside it grabbing pegs on the falling edge.
For instance, if you lose purchase and start to tumble, you can reach out and grab something to check your descent.īut the reason Jungle Climber does so well isn't just that platforming with your hands is implemented well - it's far more to do with the excellent way Paon applies the upside down approach creatively to the game's levels. The strength of the controls' implementation is evident from the fact it takes less than half an hour to really get the hang of playing like this after decades of concentrating on your feet instead. This allows you to launch yourself around the jungle like Tarzan, who is surely overdue for some sort of parkour royalty cheque anyway.
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You use the left and right shoulder buttons to grab pegs with Donkey's left and right mitts, and when he's got hold of one he swings around it leading with his free hand.
In Jungle Climber's case, it's worked out very well. Like, why isn't there a FIFA where you can play as a referee, or a Sonic game where you can get run over by a lorry? It's taken them 25 years to think of that, which makes you wonder what else we're missing. Like King of Swing before it, Jungle Climber is a Donkey Kong platform game where you use your hands instead of your feet.
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