#Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

[suppermariobroth]

The Wii U kiosk demo for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze contains a text file called dummy.txt in its data that contains only a single line of text: "i'm here for perforce".

While this is very likely referring to the Perforce enterprise development suite, which was likely used by the development team to manage the project, a humorous alternative to this is that the developers could have meant "I'm here for performance" and simply misspelled the word.

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[retrogamingblog2]

[thepipeplaza]

Fact: Nintendo exists as an entertainment company within the Mario universe. They frequently sponsor events such as Mario Kart Grand Prix races.

They also create video games featuring Mario characters and appear to collaborate with WarioWare, Inc. on certain titles.

Source(s):

9-Volt, Employee Showcase, WarioWare, Inc., Nintendo Co., Ltd. website

Wario Blog, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Nintendo Co., Ltd. website

[video-game-jams]

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Alpine Incline (Lowlands)

[skillbattle]

bro literally don’t tell me what to do 😒😒😒

redraw of this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Bowling Bird

Debut: Donkey Kong Country Returns

Hey. Have you ever been in the world? I have, and let me tell you. There's something you should know. In the world, there are Funny Birds. They're basically everywhere. Some people in the world, they might say "I don't see any funny birds. Just regular birds." These people are wrong and are fools, because every bird is funny, and if you don't think a given bird is funny, you just need to get better at perceiving birds!

That being said, some birds are inherently more funny than others. Bowling Bird is one such bird. Species. It's a species.

See? Look how many! SO many! And so funny! They're like a bunch of bowling pins! That is why they are called Bowling Birds. You may be aware that Donkey Kong has a Rolling attack, in which he curls into a ball... uh oh! Bowling Birds exist all for a silly visual gag, and it is quite whimsical, but it's sad that so many funny birds must be sacrificed for it. And yes, they die! They puff into smoke after being knocked away! I think they should land in the water and bob like buoys, but they don't. Maybe they do offscreen? I hope so!

Delightfully, and surprisingly, Bowling Birds are not just ambiguous seabirds, but their Japanese name reveals that they are DODOS! Between these, and Dozy here from Tropical Freeze, Retro Studios clearly has some Dodo Fans. Hooray! This also obviously indicates that, in the Donkey Kong universe, dodos never went extinct, and in fact have continued to give rise to endemic subspecies, around DK Island and further around the world, like in Lost Mangroves! Some stayed pretty similar to Classic Dodos. Some became bowling pins. Clearly, being bowling pins has worked for them, so don't judge!

On the topic of these speculative surviving Dodos, I am now finding Dozies, and their more aggressive variant, the Sour Dodo, to be quite fascinating! Dodos didn't need to adapt any flight or even swimming, and this would eventually be their demise in our world, but THESE dodos have life preservers. I don't know where they got them, but they have them! Already, there's a way to get away from terrestrial predators, at the cost of merely getting their feathers soaked. Now that is indeed preserving their lives! Looking at Sour Dodo, we can also see they are capable of getting aggressive, so maybe they can even fight off threats now!

As usual with DKC enemies, I feel the need to point out that all of these dodos are larger than a gorilla. Even Bowling Bird is! Hooray for island gigantism! Did you know dodos were are pigeons? We all love pigeons!

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[dixieforsmash]

There IS a banana bird queen in the sky and she DOES love us! 🙏

Dixie's model from Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze was just added to the Models Resource website!

Big thanks to the submitter DogToon64. Check it out and do creative things with it: Wii U - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Dixie Kong - The Models Resource (models-resource.com)

[game-boy-pocket]

I'm glad they kept it consistent that Dixie Kong's musical instrument of choice is an electric guitar, but I miss her silly hair metal playing stance.

[raingal6]

I find it absolutely hysterical that out of all of the Nintendo franchises fucking DONKEY KONG has the most kickass OST. Like you’re just a monkey riding a swordfish and the most gorgeous music you’ve ever heard in your life is just there. You’re fighting a seal and you hear the most intense metal ever. It makes no sense and I love it for that.

[quinsixtridrupled-k]

my favorite character achetypes in media

[suppermariobroth]

From a commercial for an official Canadian 2014 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze contest where the entrants were asked to estimate the number of bananas in a giant ice block.

In the footage, the host asks "how many bananas do you think are in there?", before Donkey Kong hands him a calculator that reads "BANANAS".

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[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

The Kong Archipelago Location

So in an old developer interview from 1994 found on shmuplations, Miyamoto claims that "The Mushroom Kingdom looks to be on the outskirts of Donkey Kong's homeland, as seen in the game's ending…" in reference to DK 94's ending. So that seems to make it an open and shut case, DK's home is near the Mushroom Kingdom. Wellllll.... probably not. So with newer information from other games this piece of info in this interview has effectively been retconned. Thus DK's Tower is either not part of DK's homeland, or they went to the Mushroom Kingdom for the ending of the game. Why do I say this?

It's because in Donkey Konga 2 you can seen in the background of the menu, and from a scene from the story mode there appears to be a city in the distance across the water from Donkey Kong Island. In addition we actually see parts of this place for some of these levels for this game. This is more than likely the shoreline of the Metro Kingdom and would lead to Big Ape/ New Donk City. This would place the Kong Archipelago near the Metro Kingdom. Interestingly enough there is 2 sets of Islands on this Odyssey map near the Metro Kingdom that could fit the bill.

This would explain some other things. In Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze we see Stanley's Greenhouse from Donkey Kong III in the level Fruity Factory. This makes some sense, DK Snr. traveled on this island and gave Stanley trouble while on his way home. This also explains why it was so easy for the Kongs to get to Big Ape City in Donkey Kong Land. With that being said due to the trees I believe Mario Bombs Away would take place on one of these islands as well.

[thepipeplaza]

Fact: In Super Mario Bros. 3 Bowser uses wooden tanks that resemble his Airships.

One of these tanks can be found in the level Frosty Fruits from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. It’s possible Bowser’s army was once active in the archipelago Donkey Kong Island is part of.

Source(s):

Land of Koz (website)

Land of Koz (Blogspot)

[video-game-jams]

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Current Capers (Aquatic Ambience Returns)

[walynas]

King K. Rool