Blast & Bounce

Blast & Bounce is the thirty-seventh level in Donkey Kong Country Returns, as well as the ninth and final level in the Forest world.

This is one of the secret temple levels. The temple has a few platforms, but the bulk of it requires the use of bouncing off Tiki Buzzes and using Barrel Cannons. The Kongs need to get good aerial gain from the Tiki Buzzes if they want to jump from one to the other. The Barrel Cannons are also surrounded by many Tiki Zings. If Donkey Kong or Diddy Kong are to hit one of these while blasting through the air, they are likely to fall into the pit below. There are a few tires in the level.

Puzzle Pieces

 * 1) The first puzzle piece is right at the beginning of the level. The player needs to hop on the three Tiki Buzzes, with the last one they high bounce on. They need to avoid the first barrel, and fall in the abyss between the first two barrels. They'll land on the puzzle piece, and enter a barrel, which shoots to the second one.
 * 2) The second puzzle piece is hidden within the barrel gear area. The player needs DK to shoot through all the barrels until the penultimate one. There they need to shoot DK towards the upper right, which will lead him to a new barrel. The new barrel will propel DK through bananas and the puzzle piece, and then the next barrel leads him back on track.
 * 3) The third puzzle piece is after many Tiki buzzes. DK needs to high bounce on top of the penultimate Tiki buzz that is hovering over another Tiki buzz and the barrel in order to reach the puzzle piece.
 * 4) The fourth puzzle piece is after a set of tires and some Tiki Zings. The player will have to have DK bounce off of the tire just to the left of a pair of spinning tikis in order to bounce harmlessly in between them. In between them is where the fourth puzzle piece lies.
 * 5) The final puzzle piece is hidden behind some Tiki Zings in the last set of barrels. The player needs to shoot DK out of the second barrel when it is at its highest point in order to harmlessly make it to the puzzle piece.