We haven't seen inside of the pipe yet. There's still hope! There's also a chance that Ellie and the other non-Retro DKC characters appear in the queue for Mine Cart Madness since the Mario Kart and Yoshi ride queues were filled with Easter eggs, but that's just me coping.
I assume K-O-N-G letters weren’t included because the 3D levels of DK64 aren’t exactly linear like the levels in the 2D games, and having the letters be placed throughout a level in order is key to their design (so if you find the “O” first you know that you missed the “K” somewhere before it, for example). Without linear levels, you may as well replace them with something else (which DK64 essentially did in multiple ways, lol).On that topic, isn't it weird that DK64 didn't use the K-O-N-G letters? Has that ever been addressed? Finding all four in each level would have seemed like a no-brainer for a collectathon.
The DKC section of Super Nintendo World being a footnote in a Mario-centric presentation would be incredibly dire. It's bad enough that Mario vs. Donkey Kong, a game that depicts DK as a brainless antagonist, is the only multimedia tie-in that the park expansion currently has going for it. I want a video of Shigeru Miyamoto frolicking around the park and eating banana-flavored ice cream.
You're easy to please. I want that, AND for Miyamoto take a moment of the video to personally apologize to me by my full legal name in English for a whole decade of no DK games.
Honestly, I've made it a goal of mine to just not look into anything DK until we get something definite (like with the parks) and just go into other series instead. This is especially important for me when I only really have TF and the replay of the SNES games (as well as MvsDK) to go into.
Oh boy I can't wait for a game that uses DKC1 assets with none of the control improvements from DKC2 or 3.
It'd be a brand new game. If there's anything they sacrifice it'd the first game's janky controls and hit boxes.
F-Zero 99 changed the boost style to the one used from X onward and improved the collision, but didn't even change health recharging to start as soon as you get on the recharge pads like every other game in the series. You still have to wait for the recharge drone to show up even if it's thankfully much faster. They would not have you pause midair when you throw something if they did a DKC SNES inspired game.
Watch as the 2D action game from EPD ends up being Ice Climbers, instead.
We were never not in this, but I don't blame people for being skeptical. It's been ten damn years! I don't even know how my brain will be able to process a new DK game announcement since it's been so long. It's going to feel surreal.
I have points where my faith wavers, but clearly we need our own version of trusting the process
Trust the Donkcess
Good-Feel pulled a Retro dumped Yoshi after two games. Though, unlike Retro, I have a feeling they'll return to that series sooner.
Maybe a new Diddy Kong Racing would be a better fit for them.
Good Feel is not really that great, not suited for the legacy that Rare and Retro built tbh. EPD8 definitely is.
It's a little strange to never acknowledge the guy who's in one of the best selling games on Switch because he's not "current". I feel like it's a little too late to reintroduce the guy who got one of Nintendo's most viewed trailers ever, and got the gist of "He's Donkey Kong's villain" down immediately to anyone who would have no idea what DKC is. He's been reintroduced, Nintendo's just being weird to re-reintroduce K Rool for... basically no reason.
I don't think that was intentional. After Superstar Saga, the Koopalings disappeared for another 6 years before their proper reintroduction in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They didn't acknowledge them much, but to be fair, they didn't need to. I don't think they were saving them for a grand reintroduction -- they just felt to reintroduce them in NSMBW, and since NSMBW shaped the Mario brand for the following years, they became a mainstay in spin-offs too. Had Wart been a minor boss in NSMBW, we would have had Wart in Mario Kart.
They removed the Kritter goalies from Strikers for Battle League. Not exactly K Rool, but he definitely could have shown up in a Mario spinoff or two.
If K. Rool had been owned by Rare, Microsoft's name would have appeared on Smash Ultimate's copyright before Banjo's arrival.
Never had been the case;
Yeah, they probably set some internal guidelines for DK midway through the Wii era. But it's hard to tell what is and is not included in "the mandate". Was Dixie "banned" before Tropical Freeze, or was she always part of the current brand and just went unused in Returns? Hard to tell.
They're actually pretty well-suited for it I think. As crocodiles, they have long flat heads built in (literally used as platforms in some levels), and DKC2 does make a noticeable effort towards visually clear enemy designs including with its Kremlings, compared to the murkier shapes of many things in the original game. DKC1 Kremlings have uneven, often hunched over postures, but DKC2 Kremlings tend to stand straight and give clearer indication of where they're open to be hit while better exaggerating their key traits. Even with their busier and more "frivolous" designs compared to what Retro did, they're pretty successful at conveying how to interact with them. Can't quite say the same for the enemies from the other two games, though...
