Stage Types
Each island represents a theme with different level types. Learning each terrain type masterfully will help you along through the dreaded temple levels, where things really get interesting.
Standard Level
You must complete these to progress through the game to each island’s boss battle.
Alternative Paths and Secret Exits
Now, don’t go breezing through each level. Some stages have one or even two hidden pathways that lead to alternative routes. It takes a keen eye to spot some, while to access others you need a specific supporting character. To fully complete each island, it is imperative that you find and unlock each one of these.
Bonus Rooms
These rooms can be well hidden by trap-door platforms and breakable shield walls or accessed by bonus barrels. Once they’re accessed you must gain every banana before the time runs out, which will allow you to gain the hidden Puzzle Piece that becomes the prize in each one of these rooms. Falling off the platforms will also forfeit the prize, ensuring that you will need to replay the level over again. In order to complete the game 100 percent, every hidden bonus room must be found and the Puzzle Pieces acquired.
Temple Stages
By and away, the temple stages are the most challenging levels in the game. However, the relic you gain on completion will help you fully access all the challenges available. The only way to access these incredibly challenging temple stages is to find every KONG Letter in the respective Islands. If you complete every temple stage and receive the relic, then the final island will become available to you. Each island’s temple level is different and furiously frustrating in its own way. The one consistent characteristic of these levels is the precise timing you must develop in order to even make it through to the end. They do not have checkpoints, and rarely do they give you a character for support. Either use purchased items or true grit to overcome these trials.
Boss Battles
The boss battle. The true test of the skills you have gathered up to this point. There are no silly hidden Puzzle Pieces or KONG Letters here. Everything rides on this fight, and after the torture you may have endured to get to this point, you will need all your wits about you. Each boss has its own strengths and weaknesses, and some are frighteningly gigantic.
Funky Shops
Everyone gets bested at some point. It’s all right to come to that realization. It takes a big, big man/woman to admit when you have had enough. Funky Kong has what you need, from extra hearts for a bigger damage buffer to crazy birds that live to help you find Puzzle Pieces. The prices are humble and the selection is vast. Just don’t come to Funky for emotional stimulation, because he is not exactly an intellectual heavyweight. But he does have a surfboard, so that counts for something. Do you have a surfboard? I didn’t think so...
Funky Inventory A full description of each inventory item from Funky Kong’s shop is in the “Important Items and Objects” chapter of this guide.
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