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Fri 10/06/05 at 22:58
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Yes, I know it’s Cranky, not Kranky, but I can’t be bothered to go back and change it all now.

The Donkey Konga games aren’t bad, they’re pretty decent even, but let’s be honest, we’d have all preferred a new DK platformer. Even the DK Racing game that we were promised would have been preferable. All in all, Nintendo have wasted the big ape during this generation and I know a lot of you would say that DK64 was poor but hey, I liked it. Anyway, here we go with my perfect DK game.

Ok, scrap Lanky Kong, Chunky Kong, and all of those other impostors, just DK and Diddy in this, with the odd appearance from Kranky. Everyone likes Kranky. Oh, and yes, you can play two player, DK Country stylee.

The game starts in a similar way to DK64, big fat monkey boy lazing around in the jungle eating bananas. A loud explosion is heard outside, the brave hero runs outside where we see Kranky who is charred and has his hair sticking up in classic comedy style, hoho. Nintendo, you are geniuses. The camera cuts to DK who laughs and then the camera returns to Kranky who now, miraculously, looks as good as ever. He walks towards the centre of the crash site and a green gas is emitted causing him to choke and fall to the ground.

DK runs through the fumes, picks up Kranky’s body, and carries him to the safety of a Jungle Hut, Kranky’s jungle hut no less. DK looks worried, his hands are too fat to check for a pulse so instead he violently shakes Kranky, so if he wasn’t dead before he is now. Diddy runs in and asks what has happened (by oooing and aaaing, obv.). DK puts his head down and escorts Diddy outside to tell him. Diddy sits down and cries. DK laughs at him and calls him gay. The big emotionless ape walks back into Kranky’s hut but oh noes, the corpse has gone, but where? DK gets mad, he doesn’t take kindly to corpse stealing scum. He’s a bit dim so let’s out his frustration by making a huge mess in the lab. In doing so he smashes a wall, revealing a secret staircase. Hmmm.

DK calls Diddy in and they make their way down the stairs. What’s down there? A good old fashioned mine cart. First chance for some actual game play here. A simple run down a mine track, no enemies to dodge, no bananas to collect, and just a couple of simple jumps. At the bottom they crash. A letter can be seen, addressed to DK. He looks puzzled but opens it. Yes, he can open an envelope even with those chubby fingers. The wonders of technology, eh. It reads:

Dear DK (and probably Diddy), I knew you’d find this considering DK is such a clumsy oaf, hopefully you found it fairly quickly. I am now dead. The gas that killed me was sent by King K. Rool *shock, horror* and it will kill any living thing that it touches, the time it takes to do so will depend on the frailty of the life form. I am old so went quickly, you DK, if you are reading this have obviously survived. Do not let Diddy anywhere near it. He will last longer than me but will almost certainly die eventually. Tell tale signs of having been infected are a bad cough, which releases a green gas.

Diddy coughs, releasing a green gas. DK continues to read.

If he has caught something you will have to get the serum. It won’t take long. Make your way deeper into my lab and you will see it on a shelf. I have of course set up a few defence mechanisms to stop just anybody getting in. Go there, get the serum, then come back and read the rest.

You take control, complete a few training level style tasks and make your way back with ease. Diddy is cured (Yes, it really is that easy). DK continues to read.

Now then, as I said, the gas will destroy all life forms. By now it will have probably diffused and be harmless but it will have also destroyed our home, the trees and the bananas will be gone. The gas may well have released in other forest areas. You must stop King K. Rool. To do so you’ll have to collect a specified number of gold bananas in classic platforming levels, which will grant you access to his lair.

DK and Diddy sigh.

Only kidding. Just walk on in, it’s that simple. Promise. Now go. Go!

You take control of DK again and make your way back down the mine cart tracks and into the jungle, which is now dark, the trees are shrivelled, and rain is pouring down. A small creature appears and is followed by many more. You must guide DK and Diddy through the jungle defeating the little critters as you go. Punch them, jump on them, I don’t care. Escaping the jungle will lead to a clearing. Just as dark and depressing as before though. You walk to the centre and fall down a hole. Diddy makes a sarcastic comment about how simple it was supposed to be. You are in a dark passage way made from stone, with torches (sticks with fire) attached to the wall giving some light.


Walk down and you encounter an imp like creature that sends you on a little sub quest. This will involve jumping, punching, running, dodging, and making your way to the end of the level. DK Country in 3D really. Once you’ve done a level you can go back in as many times as you like, whenever you like just like any good platform game. Oh, and there are no bananas, at all!

This pattern continues for a while until you reach King K. Rool. Make your way through the palace, beat him up, and then watch another nice video. DK is about to finish KKR off but then he says something, “Donkey Kong, I can help you fix the jungles and forests. You must find the golden palm tree and plant its fruit across the land.” DK asks why it has to be golden and is told that it is because all of the important items in Nintendo games are golden; it’s the law.

And with that they leave. Repeating the previous formula as they go through the depressing landscape and there’s the chance to ride the rhino on the way. I like the rhino.

The golden palm tree is located on an almost bare island and the green gas can be seen biting away at it. DK charges in and shakes the tree, bringing a load of golden bananas crashing to the ground. He starts choking though, it all looks like everything will fail. But then, the gas begins to disappear, OMG! Guess who it is, Kranky Kong with a new contraption. You didn’t think Nintendo would have a character actually die did you? They’re not as hardcore as Disney. Everybody hugs. Awww. Ready to spoil the moment though is a rejuvenated KKR. Ultimo mega battle commences, DK does some beating and then he’s finished off with a slap over the head by Kranky. Teamwork is popular in Nintendo games (Double Dash? Final battle in WW? Peach handing Mario a mushroom in Super Mario World? Master hand and Crazy hand?).

After the battle, everybody goes around planting seeds and the sun rises, trees grow and flowers blossom. All is hunky dory. Happy ending.

There’s also a mini challenge involving the rhino. Getting full points on it (which is almost impossible) will unlock a very rare level, designed by RARE! This involves running around, collecting gold bananas, taking photos of fairies, and spending 50 hours trying to get a bloody Nintendo coin. The plan is that Microsoft will never know RARE have gone off to do this because it’s so hard to unlock that nobody will ever notice.

So that’s that. Yeah, the Mario one was better.

How Nintendo should make games volume 1: Mario
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Sun 12/06/05 at 13:18
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Started off well but then it got weaker and weaker and weaker :P
And I liked DK64 too :D
Sat 11/06/05 at 11:05
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Sounds rubbish.

:-)
Fri 10/06/05 at 23:33
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It's short because I got bored halfway through and couldn't be bothered to come up with anything else. And when did Cranky die? Why didn't anybody tell me?
Fri 10/06/05 at 23:30
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TBH it sounds like the shortest game ever. Also Nintendo would never have that much text in a platform game. Apart from that (and the fact that Cranky is already dead), it's all very imaginative! Good work, although your Mario game sounds moe like something I'd want to play.
Fri 10/06/05 at 22:58
Regular
"0228"
Posts: 5,953
Yes, I know it’s Cranky, not Kranky, but I can’t be bothered to go back and change it all now.

The Donkey Konga games aren’t bad, they’re pretty decent even, but let’s be honest, we’d have all preferred a new DK platformer. Even the DK Racing game that we were promised would have been preferable. All in all, Nintendo have wasted the big ape during this generation and I know a lot of you would say that DK64 was poor but hey, I liked it. Anyway, here we go with my perfect DK game.

Ok, scrap Lanky Kong, Chunky Kong, and all of those other impostors, just DK and Diddy in this, with the odd appearance from Kranky. Everyone likes Kranky. Oh, and yes, you can play two player, DK Country stylee.

The game starts in a similar way to DK64, big fat monkey boy lazing around in the jungle eating bananas. A loud explosion is heard outside, the brave hero runs outside where we see Kranky who is charred and has his hair sticking up in classic comedy style, hoho. Nintendo, you are geniuses. The camera cuts to DK who laughs and then the camera returns to Kranky who now, miraculously, looks as good as ever. He walks towards the centre of the crash site and a green gas is emitted causing him to choke and fall to the ground.

DK runs through the fumes, picks up Kranky’s body, and carries him to the safety of a Jungle Hut, Kranky’s jungle hut no less. DK looks worried, his hands are too fat to check for a pulse so instead he violently shakes Kranky, so if he wasn’t dead before he is now. Diddy runs in and asks what has happened (by oooing and aaaing, obv.). DK puts his head down and escorts Diddy outside to tell him. Diddy sits down and cries. DK laughs at him and calls him gay. The big emotionless ape walks back into Kranky’s hut but oh noes, the corpse has gone, but where? DK gets mad, he doesn’t take kindly to corpse stealing scum. He’s a bit dim so let’s out his frustration by making a huge mess in the lab. In doing so he smashes a wall, revealing a secret staircase. Hmmm.

DK calls Diddy in and they make their way down the stairs. What’s down there? A good old fashioned mine cart. First chance for some actual game play here. A simple run down a mine track, no enemies to dodge, no bananas to collect, and just a couple of simple jumps. At the bottom they crash. A letter can be seen, addressed to DK. He looks puzzled but opens it. Yes, he can open an envelope even with those chubby fingers. The wonders of technology, eh. It reads:

Dear DK (and probably Diddy), I knew you’d find this considering DK is such a clumsy oaf, hopefully you found it fairly quickly. I am now dead. The gas that killed me was sent by King K. Rool *shock, horror* and it will kill any living thing that it touches, the time it takes to do so will depend on the frailty of the life form. I am old so went quickly, you DK, if you are reading this have obviously survived. Do not let Diddy anywhere near it. He will last longer than me but will almost certainly die eventually. Tell tale signs of having been infected are a bad cough, which releases a green gas.

Diddy coughs, releasing a green gas. DK continues to read.

If he has caught something you will have to get the serum. It won’t take long. Make your way deeper into my lab and you will see it on a shelf. I have of course set up a few defence mechanisms to stop just anybody getting in. Go there, get the serum, then come back and read the rest.

You take control, complete a few training level style tasks and make your way back with ease. Diddy is cured (Yes, it really is that easy). DK continues to read.

Now then, as I said, the gas will destroy all life forms. By now it will have probably diffused and be harmless but it will have also destroyed our home, the trees and the bananas will be gone. The gas may well have released in other forest areas. You must stop King K. Rool. To do so you’ll have to collect a specified number of gold bananas in classic platforming levels, which will grant you access to his lair.

DK and Diddy sigh.

Only kidding. Just walk on in, it’s that simple. Promise. Now go. Go!

You take control of DK again and make your way back down the mine cart tracks and into the jungle, which is now dark, the trees are shrivelled, and rain is pouring down. A small creature appears and is followed by many more. You must guide DK and Diddy through the jungle defeating the little critters as you go. Punch them, jump on them, I don’t care. Escaping the jungle will lead to a clearing. Just as dark and depressing as before though. You walk to the centre and fall down a hole. Diddy makes a sarcastic comment about how simple it was supposed to be. You are in a dark passage way made from stone, with torches (sticks with fire) attached to the wall giving some light.


Walk down and you encounter an imp like creature that sends you on a little sub quest. This will involve jumping, punching, running, dodging, and making your way to the end of the level. DK Country in 3D really. Once you’ve done a level you can go back in as many times as you like, whenever you like just like any good platform game. Oh, and there are no bananas, at all!

This pattern continues for a while until you reach King K. Rool. Make your way through the palace, beat him up, and then watch another nice video. DK is about to finish KKR off but then he says something, “Donkey Kong, I can help you fix the jungles and forests. You must find the golden palm tree and plant its fruit across the land.” DK asks why it has to be golden and is told that it is because all of the important items in Nintendo games are golden; it’s the law.

And with that they leave. Repeating the previous formula as they go through the depressing landscape and there’s the chance to ride the rhino on the way. I like the rhino.

The golden palm tree is located on an almost bare island and the green gas can be seen biting away at it. DK charges in and shakes the tree, bringing a load of golden bananas crashing to the ground. He starts choking though, it all looks like everything will fail. But then, the gas begins to disappear, OMG! Guess who it is, Kranky Kong with a new contraption. You didn’t think Nintendo would have a character actually die did you? They’re not as hardcore as Disney. Everybody hugs. Awww. Ready to spoil the moment though is a rejuvenated KKR. Ultimo mega battle commences, DK does some beating and then he’s finished off with a slap over the head by Kranky. Teamwork is popular in Nintendo games (Double Dash? Final battle in WW? Peach handing Mario a mushroom in Super Mario World? Master hand and Crazy hand?).

After the battle, everybody goes around planting seeds and the sun rises, trees grow and flowers blossom. All is hunky dory. Happy ending.

There’s also a mini challenge involving the rhino. Getting full points on it (which is almost impossible) will unlock a very rare level, designed by RARE! This involves running around, collecting gold bananas, taking photos of fairies, and spending 50 hours trying to get a bloody Nintendo coin. The plan is that Microsoft will never know RARE have gone off to do this because it’s so hard to unlock that nobody will ever notice.

So that’s that. Yeah, the Mario one was better.

How Nintendo should make games volume 1: Mario
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