General Donkey Kong Thread

I do have a soft spot for the DS game. Back in the day, it was a fresh revival of the 2D games, it even incorporated moves from the 3D games (wall-jumping and ground pounding). It also introduced three new powerups (well, two if you see the Mega Mushroom as a modified form of the Super Mushroom from Super Mario 64 DS). It also has some very interesting bosses (my two favorite are the Tank Mole and Lakithunder), and also added the Star Coins to enhance the extra content. It's just that Nintendo capitalized too much on its concept; with only the Wii game having some substantial additions.

Also, the sales reports as of June 30th are in, and Tropical Freeze has already officially surpassed the million mark, becoming a greater success in Switch than in Wii U. It's a shame it took this long for a brilliant 2014 game to achieve this, but better later than never.

I've only played the console New Super Mario games and I think they're pretty good, but other recent 2D platformers (Tropical Freeze, Yoshi's Woolly World, Rayman Legends, Shovel Knight, etc.) utterly dwarf them in creativity.

K. ROOL CONFIRMED FOR SMASH ULTIMATE

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

He has basically everything I wanted to see, and something I didn't know I wanted to see (the belly counter).

Here's K. Rool's reveal trailer since the video I put above is only his moveset.

That Dedede fakeout was a+.

My favorite part is DK and Rool galloping at each other on all fours, then colliding fists so hard the jungle gets obliterated by the shockwave.

It's like a shonen anime starring a big smelly gorilla against an eye-twitching crocodile with dissociative personality disorder.

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Aug 8th 2018 at 9:28:16 AM

I hope some of the Boss music from Tropical Freeze makes it in. The snowmads had some bad ass themes.

Haha, their eyes pop out when K Rool shows up, just like when Diddy and Dixie see a boss in DKC 2.

Shattering glass with your eyes has to be painful.

I don't think he has a tail. Why does K. Rool's tail keep disappearing and reappearing?

I love how triumphant that version of Gangplank Galleon is. It screams "Back from the dead, assholes!", especially when the trumpets kick in.

Uh I don't think he has ever had a tail.

He has a tail, it's just very stubby and hard to see with the cape in the way.

Yeah, DK and K Rool charging at each other on all fours with that music hitting its high point was the coolest thing.

Edited by Moth13 on Aug 9th 2018 at 9:21:01 AM

He HAS had a tail in the Donkey Kong Country trilogy and Donkey Kong 64 but he does NOT have a tail in the Donkey Kong Country cartoon, Donkey Konga, DK: Jungle Climber, Donkey Kong Barrel Blast or Mario Super Sluggers.

He actually does have a tail in Smash Ultimate. You can see it when he's in free-fall, right before he uses his recovery. It's shorter than I'd like it, but it's there.

Anyway, I'ma swing over to the Smash thread proper and share the rest of my feelings there. Short version: WOOO!!!

GREGG MAYLES SHOWCASES SOME EARLY KING K. ROOL CONCEPT ART

Quick Note: I wish we got Hooter and Miney as Animal Friends.

Gangplank Galleon remix for Smash Ultimate by ACE

Well I guess I didn't quite call it, but still, it's quite satisfying.

Do you guys think K. Rool is, um, how shall I put this? Crazy as a soup sandwich? Like, something about him always struck me as off. In DKC2 he thinks he's a pirate captain and in DKC3 he's now a mad scientist. No reason given, this all just seems to come out of nowhere. That eye tic of his does not help. I just can't shake the feeling that there's something not right upstairs.

Edited by WillKeaton on Aug 26th 2018 at 10:14:34 AM

Oh, absolutely. He's nuttier than squirrel shit.

And we love him for it.

His constant reinvention of himself always evoked to me the image of a hammy thespian auditioning for imaginary roles in wildly different genres of theatre. He's like Tobias Funke minus the constant innuendo.

Also there's a certain irony to how in DKC1 he's a king whose base of operations is a pirate ship while in DKC2 he's a pirate captain whose base of operations is a medieval castle.

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Aug 25th 2018 at 2:46:25 PM

I think his madness actually makes him more dangerous than Bowser. Somewhere out there it says that K. Rool has a "penchant for overkill." A good example of this is DK 64 where he builds a machine to blow up an entire island, just to kill DK. There were probably a bunch of his own troops there too that he would have blown up. Like, if Bowser got his hands on a doomsday weapon that could wipe out all life on Earth/whatever planet they live on, he'd probably threaten to use it, but K. Rool? Guy would probably mash the activation button and blow up the whole planet just to get back at DK.

Also, anyone know why K. Rool stole the banana hoard in the first place? I can totally see K. Rool overreacting to something really minor and doing it out of pure spite.

Given that the Returns game featured powerful Golden Bananas capable of teleporting the Kongs, its not a huge stretch to suggest either bananas have some sort of power to them, or at the very least K Rool thinks they do.

Bananas yield Extra Lives, so there must be something about them.