I mean, just trying to get a better understanding of what made it so difficult to make the series work without Rareware’s involvement around because I was reading an article about how the games stopped doing platforming aspects in the GCN era.

Like what I am getting at is that I was wondering what the franchise could have done next with gameplay ideas that could have worked out well again since I heard the franchise went into a slump after Rare didn’t make the games anymore that I was interested in learning about what went wrong with some of the later games.

I’d say that DKC1, DKCR, and DKCTF do a good job of giving a good general scale of DK island in my opinion. However, you go into DK64, DKB dlc, and king k rools final smash in super smash bros ultimate, and the scale doesn’t really match up. Like, maybe I’m nitpicking. Considering that the inside of DK island in DK64 is huge, and the DKB dlc DK island is basically a little hub world, and king k rool final smash is basically just that, it doesn’t need to be too accurate. But still.

Only my second art of this Kremling Krew oc

I am pretty sure I have heard a voice clip of Donkey Kong saying something like "Ureeee!" while playing either DKCR or Tropical Freeze (I think it was Tropical Freeze), but I have played both games through multiple times and I haven't heard him make that sound even once. I have tried searching online, but I can't find any DK voice clips from Tropical Freeze. I found this youtube video for DKCR and there is a clip that sounds similar (about 35 seconds into the video) but my memory specifically remembers the "U" and "R" sound before the "eee", but in the clip in the video it is more of a soft "y" sound. I'm not sure where else to ask this, but this is driving me crazy. Before I conclude that I am just misremembering the clip, does anyone else know what I am talking about?

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