YMMV / Donkey Kong Barrel Blast

• Awesome Music: This game does have quite a few great music tracks, to name a few:
  • DK Jungle, which was reused in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
  • Mt. Dynamite, were you race around and inside a volcano.
  • Cranky's Flight School, which is a remix of Cranky's Cabin from Donkey Kong Country.
  • Training, a relaxing remix of DK Island Swing from Donkey Kong Country.
  • Scorching Canyon really fits the desert atmosphere it is located in.
  • Cosmic Highway, were one part of it is a remix of the opening theme from Donkey Kong.
• Critical Dissonance: Fans generally consider this game to be decent, with a few even thinking it is good or even amazing. Professional critics generally consider it to be mediocre, bad, or awful due to considering its controls to be full of Waggle; an opinion which other fans share (though not to the extreme extent of dismissing the whole game due to its controls like the critics either).
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Kalypso is extremely popular with the Furry Fandom for her Ms. Fanservice looks, being a Humanoid Female Animal in the same style as Candy Kong.
• Game-Breaker: Once you unlock Ultra Barrel DK, almost every race is a walk in the park. Luckily, he can't be used by CPU's.
• Memetic Mutation: Thanks to Scott The Woz, the game has developed an ironic following proclaiming it to be the pure embodiment of sex appeal.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Many fans aren't fond of the game's controls. The game was intended to be played with the DK Bongos and it shows, the Wiimote and Nunchuck can not be responsive fairly frequently, leading to some notorious and annoying Waggle.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The final confrontation with King K. Rool in this game is a very weird one. You race him in Alpine Peak, a snow-filled course that's not very fitting for the longtime villain, with background music that's far too cheerful. Why they didn't put him in a place that's more fitting, like Salty Sea or Mt. Dynamite, is anyone's guess.

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