flip13lolb's reader review of Diddy Kong Racing DS for DS

Diddy Kong Racing DS Reviews

7.0
good

If rare just ported the game and took out Conker and Banjo it could have been better

Posted Apr 15, 2008 9:07 am PT

Difficulty:: Very Easy
Time Spent:: 10 Hours or Less
The Bottom Line:: "Disappointing"

Diddy Kong racing for the N64 was pretty good...this is one of those games where they could have just ported and it would have been fine but instead they added things specifically for the DS which is pretty tacked on. Racing itself is very easy and the game is only difficult on the boss fights for certain reasons. The game has an overworld which leads to warp rooms of different types tha revolve around a theme. For instance on of the warp rooms revolve around dinosaurs so you'll be racing in areas that have lava and dinosaurs. To unlock warprooms( or the races in them)you need to get a certain number of balloons which can be done by completeing races, solving puzzles, and or beating a fat elephant genie who is you guide in a race. Once you unlock the warprooms then you fight a boos the boss has a first race a second race then a special challenge. To race him the first time all you have to do is beat all the races. The 2nd time you race him all you have to do is go back to every course in the room and instead of race you get on the fat elephant's magic carpet and pop a certain number of balloons and drag coins into your bag with your stylus which is really fun and addicting. Then you race him and win again to unlock the specail challenge. The special challenge for some bosses are almost impossible if you are in a car you'll have to turn a wheel with the stylus in the bottom right hand corner then after that you'll need to draw your path with your stylus and if your are sarting to deacelerate you'll see the wheel come up and you'll need to turn it again. That is for 2 of the challenges the other two are pretty easy. For one you go down a hill and must beat the boss and you can't accelerate at all and for another you must steer your plane using a stylus which isn't all that hard. There are 3 types of vehichles to race on a car,hovercraft and a plane. The stupidest thing with them is to get started at the beginning of a race is to either spin a wheel blow in your stylus or spin the propeller and it makes it very awkward to transition from spiunning a wheel to racing. I mean you have to drop your stylus or put it back in the slot really fast but that is why they made the game so easy I guess. One good thing about the game is six players online which beats MKDS by 2. Do yourself a favor and pick up mariokart ds instead. thumbs down

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