YMMV / Donkey Konga

• Americans Hate Tingle: The game was popular enough in Japan to make it up to a third installment, but in the West, only two of the games were released, and the games were widely considered a part of Donkey Kong's Audience-Alienating Era. The main problem was the track selection. While the Japanese tracks were a mix of Nintendo tunes, anime openings, tunes from The Anime of the Game for Nintendo's respective franchises, and other popular Japanese songs (typical of a Taiko no Tatsujin game), the Western releases had track lists that were mostly pop hits in their countries, with only the occasional Nintendo songs (the NA release of Donkey Konga 2 was particularly bad about this, because it had no Nintendo or game music other than the game's own opening theme). The result was that the series came off as In Name Only, not helped by Taiko games not being widely known outside of Japan.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: With all of the iconic tracks of the Donkey Kong franchise, one would think songs like DK Island Swing, Stickerbrush Symphony, or even tunes from the pre-Country days would make it in. The only recurring DK-related track from prior games is the DK Rap. And even tracks from other Nintendo franchises are few and far between.

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