THE GOOD: Totally unique game experience, you won't get this on any other console from any other game.
THE BAD: After a short while, you HAVE to play with friends. Single player isn't the most long-lived thing ever, and the extra bongos aren't cheap.
SUMMARY: Guys: imagine a music-based game. You're probably thinking of a dance mat or a karaoke game. And now you're thinking "girls game, don't touch". Well lads, there is a macho alternative. And this is it. Not only is a pair of bongos the coolest thing ever to be attatched to a console, the tunes are all great (a selection of old hits, fairly current chart toppers, and classic Nintendo themes).
The basics of the gameplay are laughably simple, and it's here that the game gains so much appeal. The game throws a series of symbols at you. Red circle is the left bongo, yellow circle the right, a pink circle is both at once, and a star is a signal for you to clap. These simple but natural...
THE GOOD: Good Music Selection, Very Sweet Bongos, Awesome Multiplayer
THE BAD: Crap Graphics, Repetative, Not Enough Songs
SUMMARY: Controllers are overrated. I mean, really. Each game for your Cube uses that same controller. Purple or black. Orange or silver. Wireless or corded. It's the same thing. Don't you ever wish you could, oh, I don't know, use a set of bongos? You've come to the right place, my friend.
Donkey Konga (Get it? Instead of Donkey Kong?) is a music game using a set of massive plastic bongos. When you select a song, you either hit the left bongo, the right bongo, both bongos, or clap. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is. But it's more fun than a barrell of... well, monkies.
Donkey Konga has approxiamtely 30, all varying. You could smack those drums to songs like "All The Small Things", "Dancing In The Street", or even "The Pokemon Theme". I'm not making that up. Each song has a diffrent speed and a diffrent...
THE GOOD: You get to play with cool-looking Bongos. Decent variety of music. Lots of stuff to unlock.
THE BAD: Not enough music or variety of songs. Some control sensitivity issues with the Bongos. Single player play really isn't as fun as it could be.
SUMMARY: Loosely based on such popular games as Dance Dance Revolution, Nintendo goes down a different road with Donkey Konga. The game is similar to other rhythm games but it revolves round using hand-sized drums called Bongos, which are played in rhythm to various beats from all kinds of different songs. The graphics aren't really much of a factor here, but overal they are generally simple. The icons are easy to see and the backgrounds aren't too detailed, which is fine because they are irrelevant to the actual gameplay. Sounds are one of the strong spots-there are lots of unlockable "sound sets" that let you change the Bongo sounds when you play to sounds that vary from unusual to...
THE GOOD: Comes with Bongo drums. Great fun single and multi-player.
THE BAD: No real storyline.
SUMMARY: Donkey Konga is a great game with a nice style of graphics. This game is all about the music and getting to the rhythm of it with the bongos. The songs are from famous bands such as Queen and some old Nintendo originals such as the Super smash brothers theme tune. The multi-player is really good fun to play and you don't have to play with the bongos although it is a lot more fun if you do. You can customize the sounds of your bongos and many other things on the game. The bongos come with the game so you don't have to go out and try and find them separately. The way the screen is laid out, nice and big is really neat so you don't get confused like on other games I know like this. There isn't much of a challenge on the game and there isn't much of a storyline to do, just loads to unlock.
THE GOOD: Very Original Good selection of songs Well constructed drums Play with friends in a duet. Good mini games.
THE BAD: Not enough modern songs. It can take a long time to buy new songs. Occaisionally confusing. The DK (C)RAP
SUMMARY: I had this at Christmas 2004 and can't stop playing it, it just has the kind of fun that I havent seen from Nintendo in recent times. It has a very good selection of songs, including 99 Red Balloons and Wild Thing, and can be absolutley frantic at times. The bongos have four in game functions, Left Drum, Right Drum, Both Drums and Clapping (via a sensor in between the two barrels. Prepare to be confused, because the games commands can be spaced very close together, but this can be fun sometimes though, because you are constanlty moving.
THE GOOD: New style of Play, Bongo Drums included, Multiplayer, and Donkey Kong.
THE BAD: Only comes with one set of Bongos, Not a lot of songs, Shop is too expensive, Can cause pain after a while.
SUMMARY: Alright lets begin, Donkey Konga is a game that has you drumming to the beat of the songs this game has. There are three modes: Monkey, Chimp, and Gor... uhh the big black ape kind. Picking a mode will determine if you play the song on easy, normal, or hard mode. This is a very fun game, you may find yourself drumming the same song over and over again! Its like the DDR of gamecube. Everytime you finish a song-(if you mess up a lot, you lose on the song)-you get coins depending on how well you drummed to the song. You use these coins to enter the DK Town and buy the harder version of the songs, minigames, and new sounds for the drums. Now this game also includes multiplayer so your friends (if any) can join in and play. If you have no...
There are many different game modes, so you cannot get bored.
You can play over 30 songs in the American and European version.
The three difficulty levels are great!
You can play some cool mini-games.
THE BAD:
The game is not that fun if you play it alone.
If you're not going to try on the three difficulty levels, you will get bored pretty quickly.
Free Style mode is pretty difficult, especially on Gorilla level.
SUMMARY: Donkey Konga is Nintendo's new (and first) musical game, featuring Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. It's one of the funniest games I've ever played, seeing as you don't use a normal controller - you use the kongas, or Donkey Kong Bongos, if you prefer calling it that way. There are many different game modes you can try out, and three difficulties. But this game is mainly a multiplayer game, so you might get bored...
THE GOOD: The game features a wide variety of tunes, the Mini-Games are hilarious, and the control system is original and fantastic.
SUMMARY: I have to admit it - when I first heard about this game being a music game, I had my doubts as to how good it could possibly be. However, when I heard about the Bongo control system, I became more interested in the game, and things were looking up.
Now, having played the game, I can honestly say that this game is the best music game out there. It is impossible to find a better game or control system of this genre. The game is so unique that it could even be classed as being in a genre of its own.
Icons appear on the screen indicating that the player must hit one or both of the Bongos or clap over the sound sensor to play the note correctly. Successfully completing a song will earn you Coins, which can be used to purchase alternate Sound Effects for the Bongos, more difficult versions of available songs...
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