Banana Kong Blast comes long after the first episode of the series, that Banana Kong that blatantly paid homage to the character and lore of Donkey Kong catapulting us into a horizontal scrolling endless runner with various platform elements. Well, if possible, the homage is even more obvious this time, because the new title of FDG Entertainment takes the sections with the wooden barrels of the Nintendo franchise on an equal footing and transforms them into an experience in itself, in fact a spin-off. that abandons the endless structure in favor of something more sophisticated, in this case standard missions with increasing difficulty that take place within six different worlds.
The game is proposed on App Store e Google Play in the traditional freemium format, downloadable free, and it is possible to play without spending money as long as you accept a bit of a wait if the five available hearts run out, each of which takes ten minutes to restore. Sometimes it is possible to watch an advertising trailer to refill the energy meter or agree to unlock the premium version for 5,49 euros and thus obtain infinite lives and no ads. A move certainly to be evaluated if the Banana Kong Blast gameplay convinces you, after all, it only takes a few minutes to understand its mechanics and potential.
Gameplay and structure
As anticipated, Banana Kong Blast differs from the previous Banana Kong, released in 2013, and does something different: it takes the sections with the typical Donkey Kong wooden barrels and transforms them into the main game mechanic. Our character, a nice gorilla, therefore finds himself jumping from one barrel to another collecting bananas and coins, useful respectively to buy aesthetic objects with which to furnish the protagonist's house and to obtain the best evaluation in each stage for the purpose of progression. . The control system touch supports the simplicity of this formula by asking us to make a single touch on the screen to take the jump or a continuous pressure where it is necessary to perform particular maneuvers. Everything else depends on our reflexes: if the first levels present themselves as the proverbial health walk, moving forward in the campaign you come across rather difficult sections, in which you have to calculate the times very well because the barrels move, rotate, alternate with vines, multiply creating alternative routes and so on.
There is no shortage of obstacles along the way, and every misstep is punished with the loss of a heart, even if the game continues exactly where we came from: forget the frustration of having to repeat the entire journey from scratch. Although tending to be repetitive, the action of Banana Kong Blast manages to propose variations sufficient to keep interest alive, challenging us to complete increasingly complex traits while being chased by a tornado to give a further boost to the challenge. From a technical point of view, the developers have created a world that is very pleasant to see, colorful and well animated, diversified in its settings, which flows smoothly on the screen while the soundtrack keeps us company with not unmissable but nice tunes.
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Tested version iPhone (1.0.8) Digital Delivery App Store, Google Play Price Free Resources4Gaming.com8.0
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Banana Kong Blast is a simple and immediate title, which takes Donkey Kong's traditional wooden barrels and transforms them into a game capable of proposing an interesting challenge, which increases as you progress through the levels of a fairly full-bodied campaign. A touch of the screen is enough to control the jump: the rest is up to our reflexes, because in the game all the elements move and we must therefore calculate the times very well to avoid crashing into a wall or falling into the void and thus losing one of the hearts. available. Ultimately a product that is certainly not original but very fun and well packaged.
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- Simple and immediate
- Very accurate graphics
- A good number of levels
- Anything but original
- A little repetitive
