Review on New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

Developer(s): Nintendo EAD Tokyo
Publisher(s): Nintendo
System(s): Nintendo Wii
Genre(s): Platforming
Release Date: (NA) May 4, 2009 (EU) June 5, 2009
Rating: Everyone 10+

Gameplay:
If for some reason you absolutely do not know what the New Play Control! series is yet it's a list of Gamecube remakes (that specifically have to be made by Nintendo) that have been ported to a Wii disc and having their Gamecube controls replaced with new Wii motion controls. Now that that's out of the way.... Donkey Kong Jungle Beat originally had very creative controls with the currently uncommon Donkey Kong Bongos made for the game, Donkey Konga, an uh... alright music party game that I will do a review for one of these days. But annoyingly they had replaced the awesome bongos with crappy, under sometimes overly sensitive Wii motion controls. Another thing about Jungle Beat is it's very short! it took me exactly 1 week to beat this game not even counting the weekend either, 5 days is all it took to beat this game. But it still is very good. At the beginning of the game it is very unique but after the first many bosses Nintendo apparently runs out of ideas for them. They keep using the same bosses the only difference is each boss is slightly harder and has a different color scheme but other than that not one thing different even though some of the bosses are pretty fun, even more then one time like the Tusks, which are mechanical Mammoths that you throw bomb pineapples at its laser trunk and when the pineapples blow up its heart comes out of its chest and you throw more pineapples at it, or the Rocs, giant birds that carry HUGE black eggs that you jump up on at the right moment and you scratch its egg by shaking the Wiimote and Nunchuck. But the last boss I swear is one of the most easiest bosses in the whole game. I mean I got the highest medal you can get from that one boss not any other level. Still on the page of bosses there is one boss stage that is only in the Wii version of the game that stage is "Kong of the Mountain" where you fight each main boss Dread Kong, Karate Kong, Ninja Kong, Sumo Kong, and Ghastly King (Also known as Cactus Kong) consecutively. Let's now move onto Animal Buddies. There are 4 new Animal Buddies: Hoofer, a wild bison that is used for running through levels, Flurl, a flying squirrel that turns into a parachute allowing Donkey Kong to drift down, Heliberd, a large bird that drifts in the air a lot like Flurl but it goes up instead of down, and then there's Orco, a rambunctious orca whale that is only found in water and can jump super high! The goal of Jungle Beat is to collect as many bananas as you can and getting medals for them which can unlock special levels near the end of game.



Graphics:
Well graphics I don't know if they are any better then the Gamecube version because I have only played the Wii's game so far. The graphics are pretty detailed though even more detailed then Donkey Kong Barral Blast for the Wii in Jungle Beat you can actually see the fur better on Donkey Kong then in the anticipated racing game for the Wii. Even the side-scrolling backgrounds are very detailed.




Rating:
Great game! Good graphics, fun but repetitive bosses, and above all it's little too short. This game gets an 8/10!

Review on Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks

Message Before We Start:
Sorry, I haven't posted a video game review in a while I'm caught up with School and other crap I have to put up with during the day that keeps me from doing this and other things that I would do if I had time.

Developer(s): Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s): Nintendo
System(s): Nintendo DS
Genre(s): Action-adventure
Release Date: (NA) December 7, 2009 (EU) December 11, 2009
Rating: Everyone 10+

Gameplay:
This game is a sequel to the 2 games, The Legend of Zelda Windwaker and The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass though it is much more like Phantom Hourglass. The game features many challenging puzzles and other things that give it that fun all time Zelda title we all know and love. In the last two predecessors of Zelda Spirit Tracks, Link had some kind of transportation which were two different boats in this game though the boats are replaced with a train. As you go through the game there will be many enemies on your train tracks that will keep you from going to your destination in the beginning they're large animals that you have to blow your horn at to scare them away but as you advance through the game the enemies will become harder and you will most likely have to bomb them to kill them.

Story:
At the beginning of the game the game is telling you a story of how one day in ancient times the evil Demon King, Malladus, was sealed away underground for eternity (or as they thought) it was revealed that train tracks are supposed to be shackles and the Tower of Spirits (a tower near the Hyrule Castle) is their lock. When the story is done with it turns out it was narrated by Link's... somewhat old roommate Niko who accidentally put Link to sleep with his story. About a second later Link's mentor, Alfonzo, comes in shaking Link awake informing him to meet him at his train station so that Link can drive his train to the Hyrule Castle so that Princess Zelda can give him his Train Engineer certificate. Once you get to the entrance with the guards keeping you from coming in Zelda's Chancellor, Chancellor Cole, will come and make them let you in he is a obnoxious, mysterious, small man who has a creepy evil smile and where's two hats. Chancellor Cole thinks the ceremony for Link is a waste of time. When you come in Zelda immediately walks in and introduces herself she gives you your certificate and a letter she tells him quietly to read it later and to beware of Cole. Once Link reads his letter from Zelda it tells him how to get to her room when you walk into her room you find her playing a magical instrument passed down to her from her Great-Grandmother. Anyway Zelda wants Link to take her to the Spirit Tower because the Spirit Tracks seem to be vanishing and she wants to see what's happening to them. She also thinks Chancellor Cole is up to something. She gives Link a guard's uniform so that they think he's one. That's apparently how he got his green tights but we're not talking about that now. After Link sneaks Zelda past the all the guards they are caught by Alfonzo who wonders what is happening it turns out that he used to be a castle guard and Zelda convinces him to help Link and Zelda go to the Tower of Spirits. When they are close to the tower the train tracks they are riding on suddenly disappear and that minute the Tower of Spirits is surrounded of thick, dark, purple clouds and the large structure immediately breaks apart and another thick group of black clouds come and turn into a giant evil train. Chancellor Cole then comes out and greets them, blowing off his two hats that reveal two large horns. It turns out he's a demon who is trying to kill Zelda and release the Demon King so he can enter her body. When Link and Alfonzo try to protect her, Cole's magical evil henchman, Byrne, comes in and beats both of them with one hit each. After that Cole shoots a ball of darkness at Zelda the kills her. Then Byrne picks up Zelda's body and walks away, unconscience Link watches them as they carry Zelda's body away. Link wakes up in the Castle sleeping on a bed beside Alfonzo greeted by Zelda's teacher. Once you go to Zelda's throne you'll find her ghost trying to talk to the guards but they can't hear her or see her only Link can. She sadly goes into her room so you'll have to go into her room to let her know you can see her. She'll let you have her Spirit Flute (the instrument she was playing earlier) which will allow you to do many magical spells. You go back to what was rest of the Tower of Spirits and the find a magical woman that doesn't walk so she always sits in a cart like seat that is her only way of moving, she belongs to a race of witches and wizards that move in those little carts the species is called Locomotives. Since your train was landed of the tracks she gives you the Spirit Train after you complete the first dungeon so you can travel around the map.

Graphics:
Yet again the game is like Windwaker and Phantom Hourglass but instead of with the gameplay it is with the graphics.... duh. But the graphics are just like these two games mainly because of the type of Link they use. He's basically the same thing as Young Link except he looks slightly different and a little less detailed also he made an appearance in the last Super Smash Bros. game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, even though anybody who reads this will definitely know who it is so I'll just say it right now, Toon Link. Also Toon Zelda which is also a younger version of another important character in The Legend of Zelda series.

Rating:
Great great game full of puzzles, action, RPG like adventure, and almost everything a Zelda title should have and a new concept too. This game gets an 8/10.

Review on Tetris

Developer(s): Nintendo R&D1, Bullet-Proof Software
Publisher(s): Nintendo
System(s): NES, Nintendo Game Boy
Genre(s): Puzzle
Release Date: (NA) August 1989
Rating: Everyone

Gameplay:
Tetris is probably the most simple video game ever made but it is so addictive that it still has you coming back to it at least once a week. You have many different shaped blocks and the object of the game is to stack them the perfect way each time where you can get a straight line consisting them. When you do this the line disappears and gives you points. What a great idea you might ask? Well, Nintendo didn't actually come up with the idea. It was really programmed by Alexey Pajitnov from the Soviet Union who named it "Tetяis".

Graphics:
Well Graphics are decent for a Game Boy and NES game, flat and old.

Extra Features:
Whats pretty cool about this version of Tetris is it has a multiplayer option on both the NES and the Game Boy. Tetris games with the Game Boy you need a friend with a Game Boy and a copy of Tetris and you need a a link cable to hook up to both of your Game Boys so you can play 2 player unless you have the NES version.

Rating:
Decent game not very fun but not very boring either, pretty addictive this game gets a 6/10.

Review on Metroid Prime

Developer(s): Retro Studios
Publisher(s): Nintendo
System(s): Nintendo Gamecube
Genre(s): First-person shooter, action-adventure
Release Date: (NA) November 19, 2002 (EU) March 21, 2003
Rating: Teen

Gameplay:
This game is full of great fun and adventure. Sometimes frustrating, this game is full of many puzzles and fighting skill much like Legend of Zelda. This game is basically a futuristic first person shooter but also an adventure game. throughout the game you will have a lot of data to scan from enemies you see for the first time, to computer data. You can even scan bosses if you ever get a chance without getting hit by it. Something I do not like very much about this game though is that you have to keep playing until you find a room that allows you to save.

Story:
It all starts when Samus Aran lands on the Space Pirate Frigate, a ship that orbits around the planet, Tallon IV, after hearing a signal of distress about its crew that had just been slaughtered by the space pirate's experiments. On the Space Pirate Frigate after she defeats the Parasite Queen the giant extraterrestrial monster falls to the core of the ship quickly dying. This causes the space ship to countdown to its self-destruction, giving Samus only a couple of minutes to get out of it so she can survive avoiding enemies and space pirates on the way. half way out of the ship she meets up with her old pal, Ridley, except this time Ridley has been transformed by the space pirates into a cyborg beast renamed, Meta Ridley, due to being damaged so badly from last time Samus defeated it, flying away, Samus quickly gets out and starts chasing Meta Ridley, but loses it. She lands on the planet Tallon IV and that's when the game really starts.

Graphics:
Metroid Prime is the first 3-D Metroid game in the series and had very good graphics at the time. They are very well designed and there is a lot of depth in them. I also enjoy how they make them so detailed at times if you look at close ups on Samus's head inside the robot suit you can see her face through the green glass.

Extra Features:
A special extra feature has been added to this game too. If you own any kind of Gameboy Advance with the game Metroid Fusion (Beaten). Then with a Gamecube and a special cord called, the Link Cable, that allows you to connect the Gamecube with the Gameboy Advance along with Metroid Prime and the beaten game of Metroid Fusion in each system and you can acquire the NES Metroid game playable on Metroid Prime.

Rating:
This is a very fun Gamecube game I love it. It gets an 8/10 recommended to any kind of a gamer.

Cheatcodes:

NES Metroid Cheatcodes
All Power-Ups and suitless Samus- JUSTIN BAILEY
Suitless Samus- 000000 000020 000000 000020
Infinite health, ammo and upgrades- NARPAS SWORDO 0000
Hard Mode- 999999 999999 KKKKKK KKKKKK
Debug Mode- BOMBS_MISSLE SCREW_ATTACK

*Old School Game Reviews* Review on Donkey Kong Country

Today's review is of Donkey Kong Country. Well, to start off with this game is a very great game the gameplay is amazing it is maybe one of my few favorite SNES games. The bosses and levels are awesome and of course there is going to be a great soundtrack of 90's video game music. The story of the game is King K. Rool has once again stolen something from the DK's the bananas that belong to Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong and you have to run throughout the game tracking down King K. Rool. While going through levels and worlds. You always bump into Donkey Kong's friends that help you on your way like Candy Kong, Funky Kong, and Cranky Kong. They each have specific jobs to do on your way for saving the game, bringing you to a certain location in the game, or just explaining unreasonable, boring stories to you. The game's multiplayer is pretty cool too. You can play as one player playing as Donkey Kong or Diddy Kong depending on how you die or you can play as two players and you can either work together with your friend or just play against each other. Now to the graphics, they are actually kinda ahead of the SNES's time it wasn't 3-D but the characters in it actually looked 3-D they were great just like this whole game! I give it a 9/10

Reviews Soon to Come *Updated*

Well, I have finally gotten myself a Gamecube memory card and controller so I will have a review on Metroid Prime pretty soon and also I have bought many more pokemon movies and episodes at that flee market I went to last week so the movies that will also have a review sometime too are:

1. Pokemon: The Movie 3

2. Pokemon: 4Ever

3. Pokemon: Charzard!!

4. Pokemon: The Final Badge

So once again look forward to these reviews on these two updates and more! Keep in mind that other reviews I may not tell you about they'll just have to be a surprise.

Reviews Soon to Come

I just wanted to make a little notice of reviews on games and game related products you may want to look forward to so here are some reviews that I plan on making soon

1. Review on Metroid Prime for Nintendo Gamecube.

2. Review on Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition

3. Review on Pokemon 1: The First Movie

4. Review on Pokemon 2: 2000

Reminder: I got all of this stuff at a Flee Market except for World Records 2010: Gamer's Edition book also the Metroid Prime game is my first Gamecube game because I never owned the original Gamecube so until I get a Gamecube controller for my Wii I will not be posting the review on this game, however I will inform you when I do soon get a Gamecube controller.