Complete Part 36 of Donkey Kong Country, including Bobbing Basalt and Moving Melters, with puzzle piece locations and KONG letter tips.
Walkthrough
- 1In an area with spinning banana circles, collect all bananas to earn a puzzle piece.
- 2Break the gear without damaging the adjacent platform. Dismount, climb to the puzzle piece that fell from the ceiling, then remount Rambi and proceed right.
- 3Pass Checkpoint (an auto-save point you restart from on death) #2.
- 4Jump through lavafalls with precise timing. To grab the 'N' after the second lavafall, jump slightly earlier than usual.
- 5Run across a long, curvy, crumbling platform. After a gap on the next similar platform, perform a short hop to collect the 'G'.
- 6At the exit barrel, jump off the right side to a platform with a puzzle piece. You may need to dismount Rambi for this jump.
Level: Bobbing Basalt
Walkthrough
- 1Ground-pound the vase left of the starting point to find a puzzle piece.
- 2As you cross moving platforms, watch for orange platforms that sink entirely into the lava.
- 3In the first area with walls emerging from the ceiling, jump off a tiki doom's head to reach a puzzle piece above it.
- 4The rocks in the next area move erratically. Jump between them to grab the 'K' positioned above the platform.
- 5Ground-pound the DK platform to drop a sinking slab. Quickly climb it to collect items and earn a puzzle piece.
- 6Jump and grab the 'O' as it reaches the top of its trajectory on the wall.
- 7Pass a checkpoint. Leave the DK barrel for now.
- 8Jump off the sinking platform at its apex to reach a blast barrel leading to a bonus area.
- 9Carry the DK barrel through subsequent areas. At a path split, take the upper path. Get between fireballs and follow their pattern right. Drop to the platform near the wall and throw the barrel to break the wall, revealing another bonus area.
- 10Return left to a windmill. Blow on it continuously to make bananas and a puzzle piece drop.
- 11Head back to a platform with two tiki goons. Take the lower path on sinking platforms to find the 'N'. Return to the top path and proceed right.
- 12After sinking platforms, blow on the right helicopter plant on a stationary platform to reveal a puzzle piece.
- 13Past more walls from the ceiling, roll-jump off the first sinking platform to grab the 'G' and reach the next platform. The exit barrel is at the top.
Level: Moving Melters
Walkthrough
- 1Bring the barrel to the long platform in the lava. As it breaks apart and floats right, smash a suspended bag with the barrel to make a puzzle piece land on the platform ahead.
- 2Be aware that most platforms in this level move and will eventually sink.
- 3Jump up to grab the 'K' above the wheel.
- 4Below the next set of moving platforms, roll-jump left off a wheel to get a puzzle piece located under a platform.
- 5After the row of wheels, jump to get the 'O' above the top platform. Blow out the char-char.
- 6Stay on the large wheel for almost its entire duration to grab a puzzle piece that pops out.
- 7After the checkpoint platform, jump left and blow on the windmill to access a bonus area.
- 8Pass a checkpoint.
- 9Fire from the barrel cannon through the set of fireballs to find the 'N'.
Tips
- In Bobbing Basalt, if you can manage to get every single item inside the sinking slab area, you will be rewarded with a puzzle piece.
- In Bobbing Basalt, when you reach the windmill, bananas will drop from the top of the screen, and eventually, a puzzle piece will join them.
- In Moving Melters, stay on the large wheel for almost as long as possible to get a puzzle piece.
- In Moving Melters, after the checkpoint, blow on the windmill to reveal a platform that takes you to a bonus area.
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