Nikoderiko: The Magical World - 106% completed with Treasury fully unlocked.

What I did in the game: 106% completed with Treasury fully unlocked.

The One Picture I have taken: Treasury screen.

A Donkey Kong Country inspired game with a LOT of love puts into it. The game is gorgeous to look at, both docked and undocked. The music is really catchy. And the gameplay is just a perfect mix of Donkey Kong Country and Crash Bandicoot. It follows the DKC formula to a T, you have the NIKO letters to find in each stage along two bonus to get bonus keys, and a purple gem which is like the DK Coin of the game. You then use those in a Secret World to finally have access to the True Final Boss once you have obtained everything. One thing to note here is that from what I've read the Secret World was not included in the initial release, only in the Director's Cut update, which is what I've been playing. Which is weird because then, everything you've been collecting would be 100% useless without this Secret World.

Only 2 bad things I would have to say about the game. One is the VERY long load time (on Switch at the very least) in between everything. Entering a stage in particular, which may be almost 1 minute of load time. It's atrocious, but once you're in the stage, nothing else load anymore, even when you die, it's instant respawn. So I'm guessing they're loading and deleting everything from memory in between each transition from map to stages. Next is only for completionist. Getting to 106% include unlocking the entire Treasury, and doing everything in the game will not be enough to get what you need in terms of currency for the Gacha system. So you will need to grind if you want full completion (I would suggest 5-2 for that). But if you can stomach those 2 points and you like DKC, you'll have an amazing experience on Switch. Highly recommended!

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