History VideoGame / DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Rocket Rush, the final stage of the game, contains next to zero platforming. Instead, you control a fautly old rocket as it rises to the top of the volcano Krematoa. You have extremely limited fuel, so a single mistake usually means death.

** The only exception is Kopter--he's Kutlass from ''Donkey Kong Country 2,'' carrying helicopter blades instead of cutlasses (keeping the IndustrialRevolution motif). This is hard to catch on to because his walking and attacking animations, which showed him using his blades like the swords from the previous game, [[DummiedOut went unused.]] In the finished game, he's only ever seen flying.

*** [[SmashMook Knocka]] (Klobber)

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: None of the original Kremlings or animal mooks from the first two DKCs make a reappearance here. In their place is an entirely new army of baddies, a handful of whom share more than a few of their predecessors' characteristics. Some examples:

* TheDragon: KAOS.

* GainaxEnding: The 103% Completion ending. So K. Rool, who in that game had been presented as a mad scientist, had actually cast a magic spell to trap the Mother Banana Bird, who lives in the clouds. The only way to visit her is to get all of the DK coins, which somehow allows Funky to build a Helicopter that you use to find the last of the Banana Birds trapped in the "Simon Caves", at which point the Banana Birds magically free her and she drops a giant egg on K. Rool as he tries to escape on your Hovercraft. This ending goes to show that it's possible to have a GainaxEnding in a game that's already pretty weird, so long as you include the necessary Gainax elements of introducing a bunch of weird new elements that hadn't been mentioned that really don't fit in with the game's already established weirdness.

* TrickShotPuzzle: Some [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt clever planning]] and [[AwesomenessByAnalysis carefully timed]] [[BoomerangComeback steel-keg throws]] will be needed to separate Koin from a DK Coin. [[hottip:* :The Kremling's shield will always prevent the usual direct assault. He can almost immediately turn around or raise the shield overhead, in order to defend from any direction; i.e., he will always face a nearby Kong. He does not move from his spot in each level]]; [[TookALevelInBadass Koindozer]], by contrast, is [[FoeTossingCharge not so shy]]. Sometimes it's necessary to throw the keg and then sucker Koin into facing away from the advancing weapon. Barrel Cannons and [[PinballProjectile walls]] will occasionally play parts in the solutions to these puzzles. (Bananas will mark a few of the correct positions.)

* ViewersAreGeniuses: The K3 boss is a large snowman, decked out in the usual carrot nose and top hat but also sporting a long scarf and shirt cuffs. Yes, the battle is only [[GimmickLevel a snowball]] [[LighterAndSofter fight]], but the wintry boss himself is quite an angry-looking fellow. Rare kept to the JustForPun level-naming by calling this one "[[Creator/CharlesDickens Bleak's House]]".

* LighterAndSofter: Especially compared to the second game.

* MisguidedMissile: One of the steps to beating Barbos' Barrier in [=DKC3=] is redirecting seashell-shaped missiles to hit the Lurchins blocking her.

* MinecartMadness

** Bleak

''Franchise/DonkeyKong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble'' is a {{platform game}} made by {{Rare}} for the SuperNintendo, released in 1996 (though it has since been ported, with some changes and additional content, to the GameBoyColor and GameBoyAdvance). It's Rare's last ''DonkeyKongCountry'' game and, of course, the third in the series.

* ArtEvolution: This game features a much broader, cartoonier art style than its predecessors. It's a point of contention for many fans of the series. RetroStudios more or less perpetuated this style in ''DonkeyKongCountryReturns''.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: None of the original Kremlings or animal mooks from the first two [=~DKCs~=] make a reappearance here. In their place is an entirely new army of baddies, a handful of whom share more than a few of their predecessors' characteristics. Some examples:

''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble'' is a {{platform game}} made by {{Rare}} for the SuperNintendo, released in 1996 (though it has since been ported, with some changes and additional content, to the GameBoyColor and GameBoyAdvance). It's Rare's last ''DonkeyKongCountry'' game and, of course, the third in the series.

The game featured better graphics than its predecessors (it is a ''[[SceneryPorn gorgeous]]'' game), but also made several changes. It had a broad, cartoon-like art style that disappointed many fans of the previous games' realism, and instead of a piratical / nautical theme, it featured motifs from the {{industrial revolution}}. It even took some musical and aesthetic cues from JamesBond (Rare was also working on ''GoldenEye'' at the time).

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: None of the original Kremlings or animal mooks from the first two DKCs make a reappearance here. In their place is an entirely new army of baddies, a handful of whom share more than a few of their predecessors' characteristics. Some examples:

*** Kobble (Kritter / Klomp)

*** Krumple (Krusha / Kruncha)
*** Knocka (Klobber)

*** Bristles (Spiny)
*** Sneek (Neek)
*** Nibbla (Snapjaw)

After the events of ''Donkey Kong Country 2'', the Kong clan goes on vacation to the Northern Kremisphere to celebrate their victory over [[BigBad Kaptain K. Rool]] and the Kremlings. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong decide to go exploring together, leaving Dixie to nap alone on the beach. But the pair has not returned by the next morning, and Dixie suspects there's evil afoot. Along with her enormous baby cousin Kiddy, she ventures into the wilds of the Kremisphere and discovers that the Kremlings are up to no good once again, this time under the rule of an unseen, mysterious leader named KAOS.