This upgrading is also made easier because if you run into another balloon of a different type your item will not change. Picking up balloons allows for power-ups, if you collect two of the same power-up in a row it goes to a upgraded one such as a even more powerful boost or rockets spinning around your vehicle. The racing component MOSTLY remains the same with zippers along the floor, in the sky and in the water for whatever you are driving. This challenges need to be done on all the levels but thankfully you dont need to tap all 50 balloons.īoss levels remain the same except for the third time you go up against them which utilises the touch screen, but more on that later. Its not competitive, but it is a pain to control, with the player needing to slide the stylus to move the camera and then tap. This mode has you flying on Tajs magical carpet around the track popping balloons. This mode replaces the silver coin challenge as the second event on the tracks within the worlds. Each world has 5 levels which can then be completed once with a race, then again with a new Touch Challenge mode. With an over world to explore, you can drive, fly or hover your character to each different world. The best thing DKR brings over from N64 version is the story mode.

While most, if not all of the N64 features remain intact to make it more handheld friendly and to utilize the Nintendo DS, Rare have mixed it up a bit, which has not been as successful as it should be. Fast forward 10 years and the situation is much the same Diddy Kong Racing hits the DS after Mario Kart DS and again while it has its good aspects, it failed where Mario Kart succeeded.ĭiddy Kong Racing DS can be thought of as a remix of the original game. And while in some respects Diddy Kong Racing was superior than Mario Kart 64, some aspects prevented it from being better overall. Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo 64 came out during the glory days of Rare, at a time when they could do little wrong.

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