#DONKEYKONG JR FREE#

The final stage sees Junior working to finally free his father by unlocking off of DK’s bindings. The third stage, Mario’s Hideout, is like a power plant where players have to dodge sparks. The latter half of this stage tries to teach players to watch out for birds that come across some vines horizontally, which is different than the vine-descending foes from the first stage. The second stage is similar to the first aesthetically but has a cool springboard to jump off of, which skilled players will figure out can help you skip a portion of the level too.

The first stage is in a jungle-like setting and has vines and enemies that climb or drop down them. Because of this, I may prefer the Japanese release but usually stick to playing the English version because that’s the version people from this part of the world seem to compete competitively.

The Japanese version lets players tackle all four stages in order and on repeat, while the English release takes an odd route where you have to sort of earn two of the stages after looping through what has been given to you before “unlocking” them. The differences I saw were similar to the differences in the original Donkey Kong as well. The Arcade Archives version contains both the Japanese and English releases of the game. is comprised of four stages, just like the first game, and the goal is to get the key, or keys, in order to free Donkey Kong from his cage. Solo vine positioning is also important as you can hang from the left or right and doing so will impact your ability to dodge enemies.ĭonkey Kong Jr. The benefit of holding one vine is that Junior can drop quickly this way. It’s also possible to straddle two vines which allows Junior to climb up faster, but it will take longer to climb down in this state. Junior can grab on to a single vine to climb up and drop down. A major gameplay element is climbing up and down vines. Though it really does make you think about the perspective of everything in life.ĭonkey Kong Junior controls similar to Mario in the original game retaining the ability to walk and jump, but the little ape has a few new tricks as well. While this may have seemed normal for the time, it is weird to see Nintendo’s main protagonist play the role of heel. So in this title the player takes control of Junior and is trying to rescue his dad. Sure the ape probably deserved it for kidnapping Pauline, but what we didn’t know is that Donkey Kong has a son, Donkey Kong Jr., waiting back at home. This time Mario, the protagonist from the original, is the jerk who has captured Donkey Kong. Like its predecessor, Junior has a narrative tone.

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