Are the keys or gems for anything, or just collectables?

[Adeon]

They are listed as currency, but nothing in the game appears to use or require them.

[Kitten Shady]

Have you played a lot of the game? I also don't understand yet what they are for, but I'm at the beginning.

[Adeon]

Originally posted by Kitten Shady:

Have you played a lot of the game? I also don't understand yet what they are for, but I'm at the beginning.

I got to the end of the game and saw the credits, now I'm going back for keys, gems, and letters that I missed.

Fireflies, Jars, & Coins has uses, but Gems and Keys did not appear to have any function. Still collecting them anyway, though.

[[FR-CM]Halth]

Hi Adeon!
You have Steam Achievements behind the Diamonds and Keys!
You need to collect all the keys and 29 Diamonds for both achievements.
It's purely for completionists!

[Andy Journey]

Originally posted by FR-CMHalth:

Hi Adeon!
You have Steam Achievements behind the Diamonds and Keys!
You need to collect all the keys and 29 Diamonds for both achievements.
It's purely for completionists!

Keys would make sense as collectibles, if they unlocked bonus/extra levels.

[Chibs MG]

Originally posted by Andy Journey:

Originally posted by FR-CMHalth:

Hi Adeon!
You have Steam Achievements behind the Diamonds and Keys!
You need to collect all the keys and 29 Diamonds for both achievements.
It's purely for completionists!

Keys would make sense as collectibles, if they unlocked bonus/extra levels.

We will forward that to our dev team as well!

[EggFame]

I would be nice if you collect all NIKO Letters in a World. Then you unlock a new level that is a littel harder then the main levels. For the Gems they are for a forbidden world like DKC2. You must spend the gems or keys to unlock a new level in each world to the end a final secret boss. Maybe in the next game

[RikuGx]

Shame that they are just collectible, i saw a lot of things that remind me of DKC and thought i could get extra levels by collecting the keys too.
Maybe later as an addon / DLC / patch or something. But the game is a blast, a very good DK spiritual successor, love it!

[Kao Nocturatzu]

Originally posted by Chibs MY.GAMES:

Originally posted by Andy Journey:

Keys would make sense as collectibles, if they unlocked bonus/extra levels.

We will forward that to our dev team as well!

That's good, cause yeah.... we've all played Donkey Kong Country Returns/Tropical Freeze as well as DKC 2, and in those games, when you collect these objects, you usually get a reward of some kind like bonus levels or bonus content to let the player feel rewarded for completing all the challenges. It's kind of the key to making these games so memorable, when you get all the collectables, you "discover" a new "treasure" hidden in the game. Personally like the Puzzle pieces of Returns and Tropical Freeze, I'd have put the artwork and music and stuff behind getting the bonuses and make the shop actually have useful stuff for the adventure instead of the Gacha system.

You all made a great game and you're SO CLOSE to being there, but it's really not hard to look at what DKC Returns/Tropical Freeze did and go "Yeah.... we should probably do that too". Don't need to make new content if you're all done, just put a lot of the rewards like music, art and statues behind collecting all the unlockables and ... get rid of the gacha chests..... let us spend the currency on useful things like "extra health" or "Temporary invulnerability", it doesn't really make sense to have 3 kinds of currency all used for pretty much the exact same thing.