Random: Players Share Bananas Gameplay Of New King Kong Game, And It's Not Looking Good

My favorite from the above was the second one, and how the crabs just kind of...skated..around whenever they moved. lol

The ape in the thumbnail picture looks more like Sasquatch than King Kong! 😂

Hmmm, best wait for a sale?

It wasn't the airplanes.....it was Game Reviewers killed the beast

"It's a complete scam" sounds better than "It's an incomplete scam." Therefore, day 1 buy, 10/10, take my money.

In all seriousness, gamemill ruins everything. I'd love a decent goosebumps game, but they destroyed that too. The modern day LJN is the perfect comparison

Did folks actually think this was gonna be good though? Every single trailer and promotional material they released it showcased exactly what this game was... a cash grab

Released at the same time as Assassin's Creed Mirage, EA FC 24, Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Wonder, and at full price. This must be some kind of investment or tax swindle ala The Producers.

Games like this should be forbidden from being published.

I want to know what kinda person pre-orders a shovelware King Kong game the same week Mario Wonder and Spider-Man 2 release.

Lord of the Rings: Gollum is top quality compared to this...

@xDeckardx I agree with you, but there is something amusing about calling this a "cash grab".

Interesting thought here... you know how the eShop charts can be manipulated by putting your game on a 99% sale and then returning to full price after a week when you're in the top position?

Imagine if a developer made a game specifically with that intention in mind... sell nothing at launch. Drop it by 99%. Return to full price and earn a fortune. Pretty shameless.

I’m convinced this isn’t an official King Kong tie-in and is just a terrible attempt to look like one to boost sales. I’d sure they would have used more movie assets and references if it was.

This looks like Deadly Premonition levels of good bad. Ugh, I feel so dirty knowing I'm going to buy this and love it.

I picked up Avatar the Last Airbender: The Quest of Balance when it came out about a month ago. Everyone was complaining about it looking like a PS2 game with stiff animations, but as a massive fan of the show, I tried to be optimistic.

I made it all the way to chapter 16 of the game's 20 chapters when the game randomly decided to wipe all my progress after chapter 4. As you can imagine, I was more than a little upset. I reached out to GameMill via their Twitter DM's and have gotten no acknowledgment. They haven't communicated at all whether they're working on a patch or anything.

This isn't an isolated incident as another Twitter user had the same problem with their data being wiped in the Switch version. I know this because they also complained about it in the comments of GameMill's ad for the game. But of course, they didn't acknowledge that one either. It's especially a shame because some of GameMill's other publications like NASB and Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 and 3 are really solid. They clearly have talented developers they're partnering with, but they aren't given the time and resources they need.

The end result is just... embarrassing. GameMill went from being just another Outright Games, churning out unfinished and unpolished licensed games, to actually releasing a few quality products, and now back down to shovelware again. The lack of communication is what is particularly egregious and makes me not want to support their future products even though NASB 2 looks really good.

I remember reading an article here on Nintendo Life back in like 2017 or 2018 about how Nickelodeon renewed their partnership with THQ to deliver more licensed Nick games like they did back in the early 2000's. The only thing we've gotten out of that is SpongeBob games. The contract stated THQ would have the licensing rights to pretty much all of Nickelodeon's legacy shows. What happened? I guess Nickelodeon cheaped out and decided they would partner with a complete nobody instead to save themselves a penny. Of course, that's just going to cost them sales in the long run.

SpongeBob: BFBB sold several million copies because it's a faithful remaster of a fantastic sandbox platformer. (It had a few issues at launch that gave since been patched, but on the whole, I think it's a great game.) These other games? No. Nickelodeon and these other corporations need to stop underestimating the intelligence of their audience and thinking they'll be happy with the bare minimum because they don't know any better. Consumer trust is such a fickle thing.

The movie tie in game on the PS2 looks leagues better than whatever this is.

I refuse to believe that the bit where the crabs dance around then pose together isn't a reference to The 3 Amigos.

Has similar energy as life of black tiger.

i can't with the first clip with the static .jpg of the dinosaur

how do you even mess up your cutscenes so badly

Released in the same week as Wonder and SM2? Two of some of the biggest games this year? Yeesh, it's like they wanted people to rip this to shreds.

It still looks like it plays better than the GameMill Avatar game. I had very low expectations for that title, but I should have gone even lower.

What a waste of a cool concept for a game.

they have the opportunity to add bananas and balloons to this game and maybe a mine cart level

Damn looks like they did not have time to finish :/

I can feel the square, square, triangle gameplay just watching this junk. And bless those people for suffering so we didn’t have to.

@Woderwick An Excalibur avatar and a three Amigos mention. You’re a cool person in my book 👍

I feel disappointed that the game turned out bad but I didn't have much faith to begin with. On the plus side, these videos actually made me laugh. The dinosaur photo on the first one in the middle of a cutscene almost made me burst out laughing.

Looks like a ps3 game and plays like a ps2 game

At least his tiny legs and running animation are adorable.

This is why I don't buy games that are published and/or developed by GameMill.😒

Well at least the crabs got nice models. Mashing the same combo over and over into giant creatures with no health bars, looks like Monster Hunter!

People were hating on Balan Wonderworld, but that's a fine game.

I don't see a problem tbh, it looks and runs like Pokémon Scarlet/Violet.

In all seriousness though, King Kong as a game has so much potential but no one has got it right.

I mean, if it were like $5 no one would care. It's just massively overpriced.

Gamemill sounds about right. A puppymill for games

This. Is. Brilliant!

@Goofonzo

Yeah, I'm sitting there being like, "at $10, I'd pick this up in a heartbeat. This had better never go on sale. "

Nintendo should pull this from the store. Shovelware should not be allowed to be sold on their eshop.

The Lord of the Rings Gollum looks like Citizen Kane compared to this.

GIANT ENEMY CRAB!

Just think, this dreck is a result of Universal Pictures losing their trademark lawsuit against Nintendo over Donkey Kong. Anyone can make a Kong game, and it looks like anyone has.

My deepest sympathies to whoever bought this thinking it might be good. (Seriously what even is that first cutscene?)

This was hilarious...at first. Then I felt the player's pain when more enemies rushed in, and that was like a trauma memory of The Quiet Man.

Wow, this does look awful...

It has giant enemy crabs! What more do you people want?

This has been my issue with Gamemill. They seem to push out these licensed games much too frequently. Like in a span of 5 years , they've released three Nickelodeon kart racers. We have a Nickelodeon All Star Brawl game which is already getting sequel so soon after the original. Add King Kong and that DreamWorks racer and I have to wonder if, as a publisher, they rush these things out. Although I do wonder if Nickelodeon play a role in it too.

@tektite_captain To be fair, Warner Bros own the rights to King Kong these days.

So…when are you guys going to review it? You know…for science?

@NinjaNicky the movie tie in on PS2 was awesome and I'll die on that hill

The trailers already screamed "low-effort cash-grab" but they managed to set the bar even lower with the actual release. Amazing.

Then again, what else did we expect from a company that literally admits it's a "game mill?"

Someone at NintendoLife should buy this game and do a video on it...HEY ALEX!!!

Anyone else not know of this game's existence until posts and articles like this decided to give it free publicity?

ANOTHER GOTY CONTENDER!?!?!? Man, 2023 is OFF DA CHAIN, YO!

Selling a bad game does not constitute a scam. People are throwing the word scam around way too much and I’m taking a stand. Words have meaning.

Oh, and this game looks like an absolute riot. I kind of want it.

I fell for their scam that is "Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx" and I swore to never buy a GameMill Entertainment video game ever again, ALL of their games are overpriced garbage!

Shame. I was unironically looking forward to this.

@Dpullam Suburban Sasquatch, maybe.

This week is the 'busiest week' of the year for Switch?

Man, nothing of interest for me is this week. P5 Tactica and DQ Monsters are my big Switch games this fall

Wow, someone back when this was announced said this would be trash. Spot on.

Maybe you should've been off watching Netflix's Skull Island, that was the one who deserved more attention than this!