MARSUPILAMI - HOOBADVENTURE

[h1]The DKC Comparison:[/h1] I picked up this game because it resembles the Donkey Kong Country series, Returns & Tropical Freeze in particular. You have a jump and a roll attack. You don't technically have the ability to jump out of your roll at any moment, but there is a very forgiving coyote time in this game, so you can effectively roll-jump everywhere. You can actually roll forever on the ground by rapidly pressing the roll button. If you are standing still and press the roll/attack button, you will do an attack that breaks boxes. You also have a ground-pound for breaking certain objects and floors, and you can wall-jump. There are birds you can pull yourself to that act like barrel cannons. There are three playable characters, but they all play the same and are just a cosmetic choice. The main game is made up of three worlds and the 'Hidden World' expansion was added about one year after launch, making four worlds in total. The main unique ability you have in this game is you use your tail to pull yourself to various rings placed throughout the stages. When you are in the air and a ring is nearby, it will glow and you can press the attack button to quickly pull yourself to it. It won't do this while you are on the ground so it doesn't activate accidentally when you want to roll. The regular blue rings you just grab and hang onto. Sometimes they are attached to arrow lines that move the ring while you are attached to them. Red rings will instantly disappear and fling you into the air a bit. The Hidden World features some new rings like ones that pop out of the ground temporarily when you ground-pound certain spots and green rings with leaves that act like Dixie's float while you are holding onto them. [h1]Collectables:[/h1] Instead of bananas, you collect this other fruit (sorry I don't know it's proper name) and collecting 100 of them gets you an extra life. You also end each stage by taking bites out of a giant fruit and it is done like Returns and Tropical Freeze's button mashing into the barrel to get multiple rewards and in Marsupilami you get more fruit. Instead of puzzle pieces, you collect feathers (dinosaur eggs in the Hidden World). Collecting enough of these will automatically unlock an extra stage in each world. There is one bonus challenge room hidden in each stage. Beating the challenge will give you a ticket every time and a special rock the first time. I don't actually know what the rock does, maybe just completion or unlocks gallery stuff. But the tickets are used to enter 'Treasure Rooms' which are just bonus rooms accessed from the world map that are filled with fruit to farm lives. It costs tickets every time you want to enter though. If you are replaying a stage, you can quit in the middle of it to keep any other feathers/eggs you've collected, but you must finish the level to keep the bonus level rock thing, which is weird. In regards to the bonus challenge rooms: in the main game they are all pass through the rings style challenges. I like how you can see the next ring coming up after the current ring so you can plan your movements. But some of the rooms are reused and ring patterns repeated. The Hidden World improves upon this by having different challenges like defeating all enemies in the room, grabbing all the fruit, destroying all the boxes, and surviving for a set amount of time against an onslaught of hazards. The Hidden World stages in general are also longer and filled with double the number of eggs to collect compared to the feathers in the main game. Once you beat a stage, you have the option to play it in time trial mode. I usually don't play time trial modes in platformers. I prefer the secret finding parts. I cannot get any golds in DKC Returns or Tropical Freeze. However, I found the gold medals in Marsupilami very reasonable to achieve. I usually would beat the gold time by 10 or 20 seconds on my first try. In the Hidden World, after beating all the stages, you unlock Catastrophe versions of each of them which are harder versions where the sky is falling. [h1]Conclusion:[/h1] I do recommend this game to fans of DKC and platformers in general. The overall difficulty of this game is lower than the DKC games and that's not a bad thing, but since the game uses a lives system, I reached 99 lives by the end of the second world and fruit was then worthless. I think there needs to be a different use for fruit, but I'm not sure what. There is also difficulty options which can be changed any time from the options menu on the world map, but the options are invincible (easy), three hits (normal), or two hits (hard). I played the entire game on Normal difficulty. Thanks for reading to the end.

this game is very underrated if you like donkey kong and crash games this game has the best of both worlds the only downside is the short length of the game and the very bad optimization the frame pacing is horrible and it lacks some important graphical settings

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