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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#1276: Jun 30th 2025 at 7:33:28 PM

What kind of identities would you like to see K. Rool take on if he ever returned as a regular antagonist?

Kount Drakrool. Give him a whole vampire castle and a cloak and stuff, and have him dress his kremlings in little monster outfits.

I'm a little sad they didn't call his boxer identity something Sugar Kay Roolinson or Cassius Krool or something.

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#1277: Jun 30th 2025 at 7:36:23 PM

The best thing about K. Rool is that his earlier characterization justifies making him any kind of villain archetype you want. The guy just seems to love cosplaying bad guys. K. Rool is the worst kind of villain: he's rich and bored and holds a grudge.

Edited by M84 on Jun 30th 2025 at 10:37:21 PM

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#1278: Jun 30th 2025 at 9:33:54 PM

I thought it'd be neat if a game had him show up more than once as a world boss, in a different persona each time.

Like one world might be a western desert and canyon, and have him show up as Kwickdraw K. Rool, a gunslinging outlaw, while another might be based on a Japanese bamboo forest and feature the wicked Daimyo Kuruuru.

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#1280: Jul 1st 2025 at 7:09:19 AM

Holy shit lots and lots of previews! And wow my entry in Diegetic Soundtrack Usage is vindicated! AND WE GET DIFFERENT BANANZA MUSIC FOR EACH FORMS YEEEEEEES!

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#1281: Jul 1st 2025 at 8:59:49 AM
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#1282: Jul 1st 2025 at 1:46:01 PM

Has anyone made the obligatory "Bananza Slamza" joke yet?

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#1283: Jul 1st 2025 at 8:45:37 PM

VGC Bananza gameplay preview.

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#1284: Jul 2nd 2025 at 3:08:04 AM

I wonder why the press version doesn't have Zebra Bananza. I guess the ice level was not part of the reveal.

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#1285: Jul 2nd 2025 at 1:15:32 PM

Is it specified anywhere what monkey species Void Kong and Poppy Kong are? I think Void looks like a tamarin (small, long-tailed monkey with big eyes, pointed ears, and large tufts of hair on the head), and Poppy looks like a colobus (medium-sized, black-and-white monkey with a tufted tail).

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#1286: Jul 3rd 2025 at 5:05:26 AM

[up]Uncle Al compared Void to a Three Eared Macaque.

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#1287: Jul 3rd 2025 at 5:33:52 AM

Six-Eared Macaque. Six-Eared.

With that said, the Journey to the West comparisons are so forced. Like the whole "fire type zodiac is true, gators = bull" shit.

dragonfire5000 from Where gods fear to tread Since: Jan, 2001
#1288: Jul 3rd 2025 at 7:53:49 AM

Like the whole "fire type zodiac is true, gators = bull" shit.

That was especially egregious since the Japanese word for male animals doesn't fit any ox puns, so the "bull term is a reference to the ox in the zodiac" explanation doesn't really make sense from a Japanese development point of view.

And if anything, the crocodile in question would have been the Dragon in the zodiac since the Japanese word for crocodile, "wani," has been used to refer to dragons before (and sharks too, funnily enough).

As for Journey of the West comparisons, I'm not really seeing any that make sense at the moment, but I'll wait and see if the full game reveals anything a bit more concrete other than flimsy surface-level stuff.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jul 3rd 2025 at 7:57:46 AM

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#1289: Jul 3rd 2025 at 9:18:57 AM

Has this new ad for the game been shared yet?

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#1290: Jul 3rd 2025 at 9:35:21 AM

Not here, no.

I love the visual of DK and Pauline pounding their chests together, while DK does it correctly and Pauline does it incorrectly.

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#1291: Jul 4th 2025 at 2:18:11 AM

I had the idea of K. Rool being a hunter akin to Elmer Fudd or Clayton from Tarzan. He could be revealed to have spent his off time having gone hunting with his victims being villains from other Nintendo franchises like Porky Minch, Ridley, Thales, etc. with maybe some Non-Nintendo villains also falling to him like Clockwerk, Dr. Doom, All for One, Darkseid, Frieza, and The Joker for examples who for the sake of Lawyer-Friendly Cameo are subjected to Desecrating the Dead by K. Rool.

I brought up the idea of K. Rool as a hunter who hunts other villains for sport on a Discord server in a discussion about possible K. Rool personas and this was one response I got

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0960_4.jpeg

I wonder what K. Rool would put in a Trophy Room if he went villain hunting.

Edited by MisterZygarde64 on Jul 3rd 2025 at 11:19:59 PM

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#1292: Jul 4th 2025 at 3:47:24 AM

Sorry, but even for a not really serious franchise like this the idea of King K. Rool taking out Frieza and Darkseid is too silly.

Desecration of bodies is also something that doesn't fit this franchise like in the slightest.

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#1295: Jul 4th 2025 at 8:00:03 AM

Also, we got us a whole new swathe of Donkey Kong memes that are about to be made.

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#1296: Jul 4th 2025 at 8:49:41 AM

Think if this game does well, we’ll get more DK games in this mold?

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#1297: Jul 4th 2025 at 8:52:00 AM

Maybe? But we said that about DKCR and that only got the one sequel before just getting a million rereleases instead.

dragonfire5000 from Where gods fear to tread Since: Jan, 2001
#1298: Jul 4th 2025 at 8:53:56 AM

[up][up]It's possible, though it's just as likely that the next big Donkey Kong game might follow a different formula. Kind of like how Super Mario Bros. Wonder didn't follow the same formula as Super Mario Odyssey.

Bananza does look really fun based on the trailers that were released, so I'm rooting for it to do well and inspire future games.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jul 5th 2025 at 8:44:45 AM

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#1299: Jul 4th 2025 at 7:16:10 PM

I especially want Bananza to be the basis for the Donkey Kong movie staring Seth Rogan.

…Jenna Ortega as Pauline, maybe?

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#1300: Jul 4th 2025 at 7:18:20 PM

Pauline had a minor role in the movie as the mayor in the human world. I think she was voiced by Jessica DiCicco?

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