History VideoGame / DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble

* FeedItABomb: The first boss is Belcha, a giant barrel. He is defeated by throwing the beetles he spawns into his open "mouth", causing him to crunch them up and then [[ShapedExactlyLikeItself belch]] so hard he is blown backwards and ultimately falls into a pit on the right-hand side of the screen.

* FeedItABomb: The first boss is Belcha, a giant barrel. He is defeated by throwing the beetles he spawns into his open "mouth", causing him to crunch them up and then burp so hard he is blown backwards and ultimately falls into a pit on the right-hand side of the screen.

Has the distinction of being the final ''Donkey Kong Country'' game produced by Rare, as well as the final game in the original trilogy. A back-to-basics follow-up, ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', was released by Retro Studios 14 years later, in 2010.

* PushyMooks: Koindozers will use their shields to push you into hazards.

* PushyMooks: Koindozers from will use their shields to push you into hazards.

** The Chairlift operators in Razor Ridge are named [[{{Music/ABBA}} Benny and Björn]]. {{Lampshaded}} by Benny when he tells you to “take a chance on me”

** In Krack Shot Kroc, one of the bonus levels has you control Krosshair, where you need to shoot down Kremlings.

** The Chairlift operators in Razor Ridge are named [[{{Music/ABBA}} Benny and Björn]].

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[[caption-width-right:285:Trekking on like Dixie Kong!]]

* RealityEnsues: At Lightning Look-Out, as in real life, it is a bad idea to be swimming during a thunderstorm, as you'll be shocked regardless of if the actual lightning bolt hits you while underwater.

[[caption-width-right:285:Trekking on like Dixie Kong]]

* DropTheCow: In the 100% ending, the Banana Bird catches K.Rool by dropping a enormous egg on top of him.

* GuideDangIt: Unlike the previous game, where all you needed to do was access and beat the secret world and beat K. Rool there in order to get the best ending, in this game you need to get to the secret world, beat K. Rool, ''and'' get a 100% completion rating. [[note]]This means all 41 DK Coins, which itself requires finding all Golden Bonus Coins, because Boomer Bear accepts no other payment to open the way to the remaining levels in Krematoa. It ''also'' requires all Banana Birds, which is itself quite a headache due to the many different ways they can be obtained, though most are simply from the Simon Caves.[[/note]] The game doesn't tell you this unless you actively look for secret conversations and if you beat K. Rool without getting absolutely everything in the game, you'll just get kicked back to the map screen when you beat him in the secret world, without any hint of what you did wrong.
* HarderThanHard: Available via the "TUFST" secret cheat code. It removes all checkpoint barrels and nearly DK barrels from the game (whereas "HARDR" only removes about 20% of the DK barrels), but allows you to attain up to 105% completion, the title of Immortal Monkey, and a Cranky Kong trophy on your stats screen.

* NoFairCheating: In Riverside Race, if you use the Warp Barrel to skip to the end, the stopwatch will max out, preventing you from beating Brash's record time (or your personal record if you've beaten his time).

* PowerUpMount: The animal buddies, as usual, including newcomer Ellie the Elephant.

''Franchise/DonkeyKong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble'' is a {{platform game}} made by Creator/{{Rare}} for the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, originally released in 1996. A port (minus the subtitle) was released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2005.

* HolidayMode: The "MERRY" cheat, sadly not available in the GBA port. Inputting this cheat makes all of the bonuses have Christmas themes, with green bananas replaced by little presents, stars replaced by ornaments, and the regular bonus music replaced by a composition called "Jangle Bells" that sounds like an {{Expy}} of Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree".

* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The GBA port doesn't use any of the music by Eveline Novakovic, containing an entirely new score by David Wise.

** Swanky Kong's mini-games involve moving back and forth to hit targets in some carnival game. It can be considered practice for the [[SlippySlideyIceWorld K3]] boss, Bleak, whom you engage with in a snowball fight. In the GBA port, the shooting gallery mini-game is replaced by a "half pipe" game reminiscent of the bonus levels from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2.''

* Nerf: In previous games, the wooden barrel only breaks after hitting a wall. In this game, however, it breaks after hitting an enemy.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: The 103% Completion ending. [[spoiler:K. Rool had 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 makes Funky pay out on his bet and gives the Kongs his Helicopter. Thiz lets you travel to the clouds, where the Mother Banana Bird tasks you with finding all of the Banana Birds 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.]]
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The giant bandsaw in "Ripsaw Rage" that cuts down the trees here and that the Kongs must elude by climbing upwards. Landing on it will automatically lose the Kong in lead.

* BalanceBuff: As stated over [[http://www.dkvine.com/interactive/forums/index.php?showtopic=10539&pid=381901&st=0&#entry381901 here]] and [[http://www.dkc-atlas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2129 here]] - in-comparison to the previous game, Dixie now walks as fast as Diddy (although her running speed is unchanged). Kiddy - on the other hand - walks and runs as fast as Dixie in the previous game.

* BlackoutBasement: The stage Floodlit Fish. It's a dark coral reef stage, and all illumination comes from bio-luminescent fish.
* BombardierMook: Karbines are owls armed with cannons. They appear only in the level Fireball Frenzy, where they hover in the background and periodically launch fireballs. They cannot be defeated and are found in large numbers, forcing the kongs to constantly keep moving to avoid them.
* TheBusCameBack: Steel kegs return for this game after being absent from ''Diddy's Kong Quest'', making them one of the few gameplay elements to appear in [=DKC1=] ''and'' [=DKC3=] but ''not'' [=DKC2=].
* CaveBehindTheFalls: There's one if you enter the "WATER" cheat. It holds a "repeat the sequence" mini-game that's normally reserved for Banana Birds, and if you complete it, you get all 85 Bonus Coins immediately.
* CheckpointStarvation: If you input the "TUFST" cheat you can ''[[SelfImposedChallenge eliminate checkpoints entirely]]''.

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:K. Rool certainly pulls-out all the stops this time around. He uses KAOS as a [[TheHeavy Heavy]] to hide behind; abducts Donkey '''''and''''' Diddy as a precaution, as well as to get {{Living Batter|y}}ies for KAOS; seals away the Banana Bird Queen to prevent her interference; and scatters her fellow Banana Birds, the only ones who can free her, all over the place via hidden caves with complex security sequences.]]
%%* CreditsMedley: In the GBA remake.
* CrosshairAware: Krosshair, an unseen enemy that shoots fireballs at you in Krack-Shot Kroc. Luckily, the crosshairs stay still for a second right before each shot is fired.
* CuttingTheKnot: Fish Food Frenzy's gimmick of feeding Nibbla with the correct food on pain of being attacked by him can be skipped simply by [[SpeedRun swimming at full speed and never stopping at any point]], since he'll be too busy eating enemies to catch up.

* DownTheDrain: Some levels take place in a drainpipe. Dixie and Kiddy either ride a bobsled, jump through the tubes, or swim in liquid.
%%* TheDragon: [[spoiler:KAOS.]]

* EternalEngine: Mekanos is a word full of factory levels.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Not this time. Lemguins are enemies, and [[GoddamnedBats irritating ones]] at that.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
%%* FeatheredFiend: Booty Bird, Swoopy and Karbine.

* GetOnTheBoat: You have to change vehicles four or five times over the course of the game.
** The overworld setting is a somewhat-vast lake. Your first vehicle is a boat. Then you switch to a hovercraft that can bypass rocks protruding from the water. After that is the Turbo Ski, which, in addition to the hovercraft's ability, can jump up waterfalls, somehow. After you collect all of the DK coins, you get a fancy helicopter that allows you to travel over any and every obstacle, including the land itself, and is required for [[HundredPercentCompletion 100% Completion]].
* GoombaStomp: Squitter can defeat enemies by jumping on them, unlike the previous game. Dixie and Kiddy can do this to enemies, too.

** A minor example: In the level "Bobbing Barrel Brawl", it's necessary to use Ellie's water squirting ability to kill some enemies. But the game never properly teaches you how to get water in the first place, so many a player who didn't have the manual had to perform a lot of trial and error to figure it out. A large part of the ''WebVideo/JamesAndMikeMondays'' episode where they played the game revolved around this.

* HenpeckedHusband: Implied: [[spoiler:the Kongs having defeated KAOS, Baron K. Roolenstein yells at them for doing so, saying that his wife will kill him because he used "all her best pots and pans" to make it. Related to HijackedByGanon below.]]

* HitboxDissonance: Or something. In the GBA version, the collision of the stars in Swanky's Dash are '''significantly''' wider than they seem. If you want to have any hope of getting all the stars in a given tube, you're going to have to abuse this as hard as you can, effectively going beside them to get them, or else you'll never be able to reach them all.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The helicopter. It's a cool ride that allows you to explore anywhere on the map; unfortunately, by the time you acquire it, the only things left to find are a couple of "Simon Caves" and the game's GoldenEnding.
* InterfaceScrew: Remember the purple liquid Kaptain K. Rool shot out of his musket in the previous game? The one that reversed your controls? In this game, there's a stage called Poisonous Pipeline ''completely filled with it.'' It's the final stage before you get to Kastle KAOS. [[NintendoHard Have fun with that.]]
* JungleJapes: There are three levels with a jungle setting in this game. The first two are Konveyor Rope Klash and Koindozer Klamber in KAOS Kore. The last one is Stampede Sprint in Krematoa.
* KingMook: Barbos, the boss of Razor Ridge. She's a giant version of the smaller Lurchin (urchin) enemies.
* TheLeader: Dixie Kong. Her name is in the subtitle this time.
* LighterAndSofter: Especially compared to the second game, though some individual levels such as Poisonous Pipeline and Ripsaw Rage go against this, and a lot of the music is relatively subdued.
%%* LiveItem: The Banana Birds.

%%* TheLostWoods: Kremwood Forest.
* MisguidedMissile: One of the steps to beating Barbos' Barrier is redirecting seashell-shaped missiles to hit the Lurchins blocking her.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Villainous example. The Banana Bird Queen offhandedly mentions K. Rool using a magic spell to lock her up behind an "evil barrier". This despite K. Rool's in-game persona revolving entirely around science and machinery, with no hint whatsoever of sorcery in any of his boss fights.
* NightmareFace: All the boss levels, save for Squirt's Showdown in Cotton-Top Cove, have this in the world map.

* PunnyName: The animal buddy, Parry. He's a ''parrot'' who travels ''parallel'' to the Kongs.
* RealityEnsues: At Lightning Look-Out, as in RealLife, it is a bad idea to be swimming during a thunderstorm, as you'll be shocked regardless of if the actual lightning bolt hits you while underwater.
* RingOutBoss: Belcha is defeated by knocking him into a hole.
** Squirt is an inversion; he tries to ring you out.
* SeaHurtchin: The Lurchin enemies, sea urchins that can open up to reveal the creature's grotesque, angry face. They, of course, are harmful on contact and can only be defeated by Enguarde (only when their shells are open) or the Nibbla (which can eat them but will be pretty pissed off about it).

** K.Rool states he would've [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.]]
** The Chairlift operators in Razor Ridge are named [[{{Music/ABBA}} Benny and Björn.]]
** Bazaar will tell you about [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda a kid wearing green who tried to buy something from his store. The kid didn't have any bear coins, but Bazaar liked him and let him pay in "Rupees" instead.]]

* TrickShotPuzzle: Some [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt clever planning]] and [[AwesomenessByAnalysis carefully timed]] [[BoomerangComeback steel-keg throws]] will be needed to separate Koin from a DK Coin. [[note]]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[[/note]]; [[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.)
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Rocket Rush, the final stage of the game, contains next to zero platforming. Instead, you control a faulty old rocket as it rises to the top of the volcano Krematoa. You have extremely limited fuel, so a single mistake usually means death.

* YouMeddlingKids: Said by K.Rool himself, an obvious ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: The 103% Completion ending. [[spoiler:K. Rool had 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 makes Funky pay out on his bet and gives the Kongs his 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.]]

* GuideDangIt: Unlike the previous game, where all you needed to do was access and beat the secret world and beat K. Rool there in order to get the best ending, in this game you need to get to the secret world, beat K. Rool, ''and'' get a 100% completion rating. [[note]]This means all 41 DK Coins, which itself requires finding all Golden Bonus Coins, because Boomer Bear accepts no other payment to open the way to the remaining levels in Krematoa. It ''also'' requires all Banana Birds, which is itself quite a headache due to the many different ways they can be obtained, though most are simply from the Simon Caves.[[/note]] The game never actually tells you this, however, and if you beat K. Rool without getting absolutely everything in the game, you'll just get kicked back to the map screen when you beat him in the secret world, without any hint of what you did wrong.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Villainous example. The Banana Bird Queen offhandedly mentions K. Rool using a magic spell to lock her up behind an "evil barrier". This despite K. Rool's whole character revolving around science and machinery in this game.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Banana Bird Queen offhandedly mentions K. Rool using a magic spell to lock her up behind an "evil barrier". This despite K. Rool's whole character revolving around science and machinery in this game.

* BombardierMook: Karbines are owls armed with cannons. They appears only in the level Fireball Frenzy, where they hover in the background and periodically launches fireballs at the kongs. They cannot be defeated and are found in large numbers, forcing the kongs to constantly keep moving to avoid them.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The giant bandsaw in "Ripsaw Rage" that cuts down the trees here and that the Kongs must elude by climbing upwards.

* BambooTechnology: All of Funky's inventions.
* BearyFunny: The Brothers Bear.

* CreditsMedley: In the GBA remake.

* DeathMountain: Razor Ridge.

* DoorClosesEnding: The GameOver sequence has this.
* DownTheDrain: The pipe levels.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:KAOS.]]

* EternalEngine: Mekanos.

* {{Gasshole}}: Belcha, the boss of Lake Orangatanga, and a gigantic living barrel. His name speaks for itself.

* GoombaStomp: Squitter can defeat enemies by jumping on them, unlike the previous game.

* LiveItem: The Banana Birds.

* TheLostWoods: Kremwood Forest.

* RingOutBoss: Belcha.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: K3.
* SnowballFight: Dixie and Kiddy battle Bleak, an evil snowman, this way.

* ThrowABarrelAtIt: Used to damage mooks, break open chests, and in this game, get DK coins from aptly named Koins.
* TreeTrunkTour: The tree levels (Barrel Shield Bust-Up, Springin' Spiders, Ripsaw Rage and Swoopy Salvo).

* UnderTheSea: Cotton Top Cove.

* VolcanoLair: Krematoa, the secret hideout of KAOS and [[spoiler:K. Rool]].

* EekAMouse: Stereotypical "scared elephant" version, which makes Murky Mill interesting. Some of you may have wondered why Ellie doesn't freak out when a Sneek's under a nearby light but she's not; her apparently poor eyesight explains the short range of vision, too. This anti-rat panic also sets up the [[spoiler:frustrating challenge of Stampede Sprint!]]

* FeatheredFiend: Booty Bird, Swoopy and Karbine.

** The Chairlift operators in K3 are named [[{{Music/ABBA}} Benny and Bjorn.]]

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:K. Rool certainly pulls-out all the stops this time around. He uses KAOS as a [[TheHeavy Heavy]] to hide behind; abducts Donkey '''''and''''' Diddy as a precaution, as well as to get {{Living Batter|y}}ies for KAOS); seals away the Banana Bird Queen to prevent her interference; and scatters her fellow Banana Birds (the only ones who can free her) all over the place via hidden caves with complex security sequences.]]