These are known as Surprise Panels, and they summon a wide variety of items after being touched. Players also encounter some wooden panels with a red !-mark on them. Normal barrels are weak obstacles that are essential to Wild Move combos, Iron Barrels significantly slows down a player who bumps into them while Launcher Barrels can be used as shortcuts. Several types of barrels are also present, each with a different purpose. The former two pits the player in a small bonus game were they can obtain more bananas and use the bonus area as a shortcut, while the latter allows a player to break through obstacles. Additionally, players can perform a jump to avoid obstacles.Ī unique feature in this game is the ability to ride a Toboggan, a Minecart, as well as Animal Friends. Players are also able to attack obstacles and other players, and any player hit by an item loses ten bananas. The player with the most amount of points at the end of the set of races is the winner.ĭonkey Kong riding in a Minecart on Scorching Canyon.īananas are found on the racetracks and are used to fill up a gauge that contains Wild Moves, which give players a small speed boost when used this move can be extended by repeatedly crashing into barrels, certain enemies like Zingers or other players, making them lose ten bananas. When a race is completed, players receive a certain amount of points depending on which position they finished a race in. Additionally, also drawing inspiration from the Mario Kart series, more powerful items are awarded to racers who are further behind players in first place are likely to get either the weaker Banana Bunches or Backward Barrels items, while those near last place may get a Crystal Coconut, Mega TNT Barrel or Quawks. During a race, players can obtain items from balloons and use them to interfere their rivals progress, which draws inspiration from that of the general Mario Kart series. As with all racing games, players pick a character with varying stats, strengths and weaknesses, and race around an obstacle filled course in an attempt to finish in first place out of eight competing racers. The vehicular form of transportation in Donkey Kong Barrel Blast are rocket-powered bongos due to their aerial nature, the racers are unaffected by the course's grounded terrain, but they move slower underwater and automatically reach their top speed inside a wormhole and when entering a Launcher Barrel. This game requires twenty-two blocks on the player's Wii system to save game data, and the game data can also be copied and moved to an SD card or transferred to another Wii. Jungle Grand Prix, the main mode of the game, features eight racers in a multi-lap race to the finish line on a given race track. The game supports up to four players, but only in the Jungle Grand Prix and Single Race modes the other game modes are for only one player. The game makes heavy use of motion control during the race, where players are required to use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk accordingly to perform various moves, such as accelerating or jumping. The items are used to give players advantages over their competitors, similarly to the Mario Kart series, though the game has various other elements unique to it, such as using Wild Moves to gain a speed boost or riding on Animal Friends to smash through obstacles. Players race around courses using rocket-powered bongos, and during a race, players are able to use items, Wild Moves and shortcuts in an attempt to reach first place. This racing game, unlike most other racing games, takes place in the sky, where three dimensions of navigation are used rather than two. The game was developed by Paon, who previously developed DK: King of Swing and its sequel DK: Jungle Climber. Initially announced for release on the Nintendo GameCube with support for the bongo controller, it was released for the Wii in mid-late 2007 in Japan and North America and early 2008 in Europe and Australia. Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (known as Donkey Kong Jet Race in European languages) is a racing game in the Donkey Kong franchise.
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