{"id":113683,"date":"2020-06-01T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/donkey_kong-inspired_platforming_awaits_in_castle_kong_coming_to_switch_next_month"},"modified":"2020-06-01T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:30:00","slug":"donkey-kong-inspired-platforming-awaits-in-castle-kong-coming-to-switch-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/01\/donkey-kong-inspired-platforming-awaits-in-castle-kong-coming-to-switch-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong-Inspired Platforming Awaits In Castle Kong, Coming To Switch Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/52467c610ffc8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/52467c610ffc8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Launching next month on Nintendo Switch is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/castle_kong\"><strong>Castle Kong<\/strong><\/a>, a retro-styled arcade platformer that takes more than a little inspiration from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/donkey_kong\"><strong>Donkey Kong<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to replicate the retro feel and addictive one-more-go-style gameplay seen in Nintendo&#8217;s classic, the game features 22 levels spread out over four different stages. You only have three lives to beat the entire game, so this really does sound like a true, retro-like experience.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be available on Switch from 4th July and for a limited time, you&#8217;ll be able to buy it for $10.04 \/ \u20ac8.70 \/ \u00a38.03, down from the usual price of $14.99 \/ \u20ac12.99 \/ \u00a311.99.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Castle Kong\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/52467c610ffc8\/castle-kong.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/52467c610ffc8\/castle-kong.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Castle Kong\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Interestingly, if you also like to buy games on Steam, that version will be launching a month earlier with <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drowningmonkeys.com\/castle-kong-bounty\">a tantalising challenge<\/a> for its players. The game&#8217;s developer is offering a reward of $5,000 to whoever can complete the game first, with additional prizes for high scores (Switch players will likely miss out on the $5,000, but the high score challenge is available to all until 5th September):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First to the kill screen: $5000 (Only valid until 6th June, Steam only)<\/li>\n<li>Highest Score (other than the winning contestant): $1250<\/li>\n<li>2nd Highest Score: $1000<\/li>\n<li>3rd Highest Score: $500<\/li>\n<li>4th-9th Highest Scores: $250<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>As ever, feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Launching next month on Nintendo Switch is Castle Kong, a retro-styled arcade platformer that takes more than a little inspiration from Donkey Kong. Aiming to replicate the retro feel and addictive one-more-go-style gameplay seen in Nintendo&#8217;s classic, the game features 22 levels spread out over four different stages. You only have three lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}