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Donkey Kong series

DK: Jungle Climber

DK: Jungle Climber is the sequel to DK: King of Swing (2005) for the Game Boy Advance, featuring similar gameplay. However, the visuals have been designed to more closely resemble Donkey Kong Country and add…

80 9 August 2007

DK: Jungle Climber is a platform developed by Nintendo, released 9 August 2007 on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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What DK: Jungle Climber is

DK: Jungle Climber is a platform game developed by Nintendo and released in 2007. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber, also stylised as DK: Jungle Climber, is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed by Paon and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS, a handheld video game console. It was released in Japan on August 9, 2007, and in western territories later that year. It was re-released for the Wii U's Virtual Console in Japan and North America in July 2015 and in Europe and Australia in August.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series

DK: Jungle Climber is the 133rd of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was DK: Jungle Climber - Rolling Panic in 2007. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

DK: Jungle Climber holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

DK: Jungle Climber launched on 9 August 2007, within three weeks of BioShock, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Rome: Total War - Collection and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: BioShock, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Rome: Total War - Collection, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations.

Cheats and codes

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When did DK: Jungle Climber come out?
DK: Jungle Climber was released on 9 August 2007 for Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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