The game is a revival of the classic Donkey Kong Country series and features Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they try to retrieve their stolen bananas from the villainous Tiki Tak Tribe. This is different to the GameCube game, which merely resolves around Donkey Kong becoming king of the jungle. Donkey Kong Country Returns is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii console. The game follows Donkey Kong on his mission to defeat some powerful intruders and restore peace to the Jungle. This version of the game also includes two exclusive kingdoms Kong of the Mountain and Banana Banquet. This version of the game also doesn't require the player to earn crests to open new kingdoms as the kingdoms will unlock one after another once beaten. These bonus kingdoms made up the original games B barrel. The fourth kingdom in each barrel needs to be unlocked by collecting all of the crests in a letter barrel's kingdoms. There are now only 3 kingdoms per letter barrel. This means that several levels have had minor design adjustments made, some bosses appear in different kingdoms then they did originally, and Donkey Kong now has 3 hitpoints before he loses a life (as opposed to the original game, where his score would be reduced instead). The original Wii game was later released for digital download on the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U on January 21-22, 2015 in all regions except North America. New Play Control!: Donkey Kong - Jungle Beat is a re-imagining of the GameCube game designed as a more traditional platformer that can be played in a standard control scheme and without the DK Bongos.

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