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Nintendo and Namco team up and place the
legendary simian known as Donkey Kong in a
rhythm action game. Cranky and Donkey Kong
Junior also join the big ape as rhythm
protagonists. The play mechanics in Donkey Konga
are similar to Namco's Taiko no Tatsujin game
where cues roll down a conveyer belt towards a
target circle. When the circle frames each
moving cue dead-center, its time to slap the
conga and receive your props. A microphone
located dead center betwixt the two drums
detects claps which are also part of the
gameplay. Here's the scoop on the cues and
actions:
Screen Cue and Pavlovian Action
Red Circle - Smack the left drum
Yellow Circle - Whack the right drum
Pink Cirlce - Thump both drums simultaneously
Electrical Spark - Clap your hands everybody
Ratings are
posted up for each action on the top or bottom
of the screen, depending on which player you're
scoping out. Slap the drum or clap at the
perfect moment and you'll be graded highly.
Perform less than perfect and you'll get rated
Good, Okay, Bad or Miss.
Up to four
players may join the fun at once although you'll
need an extra conga drum for the third and
fourth drummers. Two players may cooperate on
one conga (One manhandles the left drum and the
other takes charge of the right drum) as a team
and watch as the respective cues slide in.
Update: December 10, 2003
Nintendo/Namco include one conga drum
controller with the game but additional conga
drums will also be available for sale from NCS
in the next week or so. Unfortunately, the
additional controllers were short shipped to
distribution partners in Japan.
Due to the
shipping costs for bringing this game in, NCS
has priced the game bundle and extra controllers
accordingly. |
