Why is he so beloved, and not just here but literally everywhere

I genuinely have no idea. He's not funny or interesting, and his design is 5/10.
I'm assuming it stems from his design evoking memories from that period of anon's lives, unrelated to the character itself.

he's really fun to play in smash ultimate

He's in good games. You wouldn't get it.

>>715713158 (OP)
because of the cartoon

>>715713158 (OP)
I like his jiggle physics in bananza

>>715713158 (OP)

It’s entirely because they didn’t use the Kremlings in Returns and Dong Freeze.

It's because he's an ideal DK villain. King of the jungle vs self-proclaimed king, nature vs technology, brawn vs brain.

None of the other villains they've tried have the same level of energy to match DK. The villains in Returns and Tropical Freeze are ones you'd see in a filler episode and lack the same degree of presence or freak.

Green Bowser

>>715713158 (OP)
K. Rool and the Kremlings are a big part of DK’s identity and people miss them.

Because he's Bowser with an actual personality

>>715713158 (OP)
Forgive my zoomer lingo but outside of the genuine charm coming for his maniacal personality and general nostalgia for the rareware dk games, he has been effectively aurafarming for the last decade between smash ultimate, return to krocodile isle, and now donkey kong bananza. This guy has been getting tons of hype moments whether official or unofficial to the point where I feel that even the people who didn’t care about a decade ago would love this bastard, possibly even becoming more interested in playing the rareware dk games as a result.

>>715713158 (OP)
He was fun in the tv show

>>715713158 (OP)
Crazy fat sophisticated schizo croc. Need I say more?

>>715713158 (OP)
First off, the name King K. Rool is just a funny name that works well

Secondly I think this anon >>715714213 really hits the nail on the head. He's a gross, ugly crocodile that uses gadgets and trickery to get ahead of others, which is a nice contrast to DK who is all muscle and would never trick someone

In a way he is kinda just a green Bowser, but i think or what Donkey Kong as a serious is, there's nothing that can really beat K. Rool

>>715714596
*for what Donkey Kong as a series is
jesus i'm retarded

>>715713158 (OP)
Funny charismatic villain in good games
What the fuck more do you need

>>715714408
As someone whose sexual awakening was K.Rool in DKC, I'm quite happy with this new model.

>design is extremely western (deranged-looking anthropomorphic animal) so japs like it
>design is nostalgia bait, comes from 3 of the best games on the SNES
>design is versatile, he can literally put on costumes to fit the story and it suits his persona
>design suits his nemesis, DK is a dopey yet powerful gorilla while K. Rool is a fat and insane-looking crocodile
>design has potential to build upon, Smash Ultimate gave him excellent animations and facial expressions, looks even better in Bonanza
>design's most prominent feature is solid gold, a thing people had conquests and fought wars over

>>715713158 (OP)
(who)

coattail rider

>>715713158 (OP)
He has a catchy theme song

>>715714942
DK
DONKEY KONG
DK
DONK-AAACCKKKKKKKKKK

I think a big part of it is he's just compelling to look at. It's fun seeing him do things, kind of like DK. Those Smash Ultimate trailers were so much fun because you could see DK and Diddy just be monkeys and K. Rool shares a lot of that goofy animal energy.

>>715714942
christ this version is ugly

i want him in mario kart.

BREED

Because he has pipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttK_pBRtKes

>>715715218
At this point, his chances along with Diddy Kong and even young Pauline are higher than ever.

The way Banana brings back a villain who’s been absent from the franchise is the best I’ve ever seen. So much love and fanservice, completely BTFOing the main antagonist and taking over the plot, the fake out Kredits, the final transformation, it’s all so good. SEGA tried to do the same with Fang in Sonic but it failed miserably.

Kremlings are just that fun to fight.

>>715714213
>The villains in Returns and Tropical Freeze are ones you'd see in a filler episode
For the life of me I can't even remember what they looked like or their names, and I played the games. All I can recollect is that they were generic tiki mask things.

>>715715441
Don't do Fang dirty like that, it's not his fault Superstars was mediocre and barely did anything with him.

>>715715441
Fang never had as much draw as k rool, even ignoring the fact that he had already showed up in mania even if just as an illusion, there were also the archie and idw comics keeping him around unlike k rool

>>715715441
the problem with fang is that his boss fight went on too fucking long. that's not an issue a sonic 2d game should have.

>>715714213
/thread

Though to add on to all that, he also has a really fun design and personality that fits with the quasi Looney Tunes inspired look that Rare would forever cement into DK while still being fairly threatning.

>>715715493
yeah the kemling designs are just really appealing.
i don't hate you boom boom but you'll never beat best goalie

>>715715621
>his boss fight
Which one? The fang mech boss might be the worst in the entire franchise which is saying a lot, it goes on for nearly 40 minutes

>>715714213
I agree about the tikis but the snowmads feel more like a villain for a movie based on a kids show, what with them taking over dk isle and forcing the kongs on a whole adventure spanning multiple islands

>>715715795
>The fang mech boss
that one. Don't know what sega was thinking with that mess.

>>715714846
>Fat, lazy and out of shape, but strong
>Greedy and Tech obsessed, wants complete and total rule over everything
>Tiny crown so you know it's a comedy, but K.Rool takes himself seriously, is never outright goofy
>K. Rool aka Cruel, a smart pun used to describe his character. Not evil or murderous, just a me me me character
It's a 10/10 Genius design; simple but there's a lot in the background if you take a second to think.

>>715714332
Fuck you, both are great.
Bowser works well as "Jerk with an actual goal and a soft side for the people he cares for" and K. Rool the "Unrelenting jerk that does what he can out of pure spite".

>>715714213
The snowmads are actually good villain, the problem is that their boss is a boring cheap copy of K. Rool. Frederick needs a serious overhaul.

>>715713158 (OP)
He has a very fuckable belly

>>715714332
hey now let's not drag bowser into the mud. dude's a good father jr

>>715714332
The opposite, Bowser is K.Rool with a personality.

>>715715441
In a very rare moment Nintendo gained fucking self-awareness of both what they have and what their audience want and treated it like the big deal it deserves.

That is a blue fucking moon.
They LITERALLY destroyed Mario Kart World with a patch out of pure spite to their fans. I didn't know self-awareness was in their god damn vocabulary.

>>715716393
>I didn't know self-awareness was in their god damn vocabulary.
DKB was made by the Odyssey team under Koizumi. Those guys know their shit. The Mario Kart team has always been absolutely fucking retarded, as evidenced by the fact that the games have played like absolute shit since they moved away from all of Double Dash's genuinely good changes.

I’AM KREMLING
I’AM KING

>>715715948
>>715716339
Like every other Mario character, Bowser only has a personality in the RPGs.

He is a good design who naturally flows with DK. Even now having DK power up by pounding his chest like a drum, K Rool having a pot belly lets him do the same.

Even unintentionally their designs and compliment each other while being distinct

>>715716393
>Sakurai puts out fan poll for the next Smash Bros character
>last poll got like 200 votes total
>this one gets a million
>Sakurai hands over results to his fellow Nintendo higher-ups
>says "rel o el rook attu dis shitto" while pointing out K. Rool got enough votes to populate a prefecture
>also Ridley did too for some reason
>Nintendo shrugs and chases the cash
My point is its not overly surprising

>>715716705
except sticker star

>>715715441
Somehow Triple Trouble utilized Fang better than Superstars did. Superstars censored his name to start with, then they didn't really showcase his goofy personality, and you don't even encounter him in special stages. You don't get to fight him nearly enough. And since he was the big comeback character he could have gotten his own campaign, like Knuckles did in S3K, but for some reason they gave that to the generic new character instead.

>>715716853
why does the generic new character's super form look similar to the final boss?

>>715716853
They gave his goofy and clumsy personality trait to the new character. Superstars was a mess.

>>715716773
It normally should be that simple but again, they are currently going out of their way to break their launch title game cause dirty gaijin's are playing their game wrong.

The bare minimum for most is too much than what I can expect from Nintendo.

>>715713158 (OP)
>literally everywhere
me when I make shit up

>>715716996
>Superstars was a mess.
It was fucking Arzest trying to realize Christian Whitehead's plans to follow up on Christian Whitehead's game. Nobody but Evening Star (and Iizuka) should have made it.

>>715714726
Same, I wish his final transformation looked better, his first form is pure sex though. Can't wait for model rips

>>715716705
And Super Mario Bros Wonder
And Odyssey
and the Mario Party games
and every other game where he has dialogue.

>>715717246
He doesn't even LIKE bananas.
He's just an asshole.

>>715714332
Bowser has more going on than K. Rool, get over yourself.

>>715717246
>Can't wait for model rips
you're not getting those for a long while probably.

>>715717246
>those belly jiggles

>>715717246
WHY IS HIS BELLY SO FUCKING HOT

>>715717531
He likes them rotten
Because he is rotten

>>715713749
I want your bussy

>>715717531
He does like bananas, but only when they're rotten and mushy.

K. Rool is fun because he's incompetent.
Half the games he loses because his underlings go turn coat. He's generally making scrap monsters to fight DK's crew. The entirety of the DK64 final battle is him constantly cheating trying to win.
It strange to see a villain so incompetent.

Hopefully Void Kong gets used again, despite being a red herring he was a good villain

>>715713158 (OP)
I just think he has a cool design, the belly made out of gold, the king clothes, the crazy eye with blood veins he is a better Dingodile

>>715715932
>Tiny crown
he had a big crown in the Rare games but I do think the tiny crown looks better

>Villains in other media these days are mostly misunderstood, tragic, sympathetic, secretly good guys, an opposing viewpoint, have understandable motives and are redeemable or any combination of the above
>K. Rool is just a fat racist piece of shit with literally no good qualities
I like bad guys that are just bad guys.

>>715717568
There are retards on earth actually believing this shit. Wow

>>715717246
>belly armor cracking his belly is so bloated
MY DICK

>>715713158 (OP)
Nintendo hates him. /v/ is contrarian, so they will like King K Rool.

Outside of this community, K rool has an underdog streak to him since he was neglected by Nintendo. The more nintendo bared him from getting into DK games, the more the DK fanbase rooted for him.

>>715718265
>There are people who think one of the most explored characters in video games has more going on than a copy of him with a costume gimmick.
Yes. Please get over yourself.

>>715714332
K. Rool and Bowser are very different villains actually.
Bowser is a family man. He's a lover. He's a tyrant but he earns the admiration and loyalty of his goons with his attitude. He's willing to set aside his differences with Mario when it comes down to it.
K. Rool is a brute. He's crazy. His men follow him out of fear more than anything. Rather than fighting through pure physical power like Bowser he often uses gadgets like his copter and his blunderbuss. Hell, he's more often willing to kill everyone unlike Bowser, who's content with just ruling the world.

>>715718402
He was only absent in like 4 DK games after DKC. The narrative that they hated him is so stupid.

>>715713158 (OP)
He's hot

>>715717917
Easy to carry, for personal reasons

>>715713158 (OP)
He's like really hot

I don't care for pic related but this guy had a better boss fight than Rool had in this game.
Seriously what was the point of bringing him back, giving him two new designs, and the equivalent of the DK triforce if you're not going to do anything with him? 90% of his moveset consists of him spamming the musket that throws giant balls at you with the remaining 10 percent being banana diarrhea meteors falling all over the place and those giant mush hands that approach you slowly.
What a letdown

>>715716773
It's not just them chasing money. Someone very high up in the Bananza dev team genuinely loves K. Rool and wanted to include him in the game. Just look at how Nintendo treated Ganondorf in ToTK vs K.Rool in Bananza. ToTK was clearly just piggybacking off Ganondorf without giving him any respect.

>>715713158 (OP)
Imagine the bellyfucking

>>715717917
bratty onahole

>>715718887
What respect did K Rool get in this game? He spend 99% out of it and when he appears it's just out of nowhere for the final fight? Even Ganondorf did a lot more in TotK, and he did nothing, but at least his bossfighr wasn't as mid as this one.

>>715718887
The DKC games were as succesful in Japan as anywhere else and it's very likely the younger guys at Nintendo grew up playing them and have an attachment to the character the older guys who used to be in charge of the Donkey Kong games didn't.

>>715719153
>He spend 99% out of it and when he appears it's just out of nowhere for the final fight?
you mean like DKC3

>>715719153
>What respect did K Rool get in this game?
He got to appear.

>>715719226
that and bananza having a few stealth banjo references scattered around

>>715719263
Such an honor wow.

>>715713158 (OP)
People like oafish comic relief underdog villains, it's not complicated.

>>715713158 (OP)
Big belly

>>715719441
Let me guess, you want more.

>>715713158 (OP)
He was the series villain, then went missing in DKCR, people wanted the thing they know back

I was surprised by the throwback to the DK64 boxing ring

>>715720080
>Surprised that the Odyssey team would make a bunch of references.
Super Mario Odyssey was filled to the brim with "remember X from previous Mario game!?"

>>715718449
nta but you have to be a bowserfag to believe he has actual depth beyond "the big guy who has a soft side" trope . Fucking Wario has more depth than those two characters

>>715720225
Even mario kart world has the moai head niggas from super mario land

>>715717917
would be interesting seeing him trying to take revenge but he's literally alone and with his gadget stoled by King K

>>715720327
They should've been playable

>>715720520
honestly

>>715720225
Mainly I was surprised because the DK64 final boss fight was pretty dumb. On the other hand so was DK rap and that hasn't stopped it from being reused in many places

>>715717568
Bowser is the Bluto to Mario's Mickey Mouse. At this point the character bears more resemblance to a retiree than any character going through an upward trend or little renaissance. Rool is definitely mooning while Bowser is old and busted.

>>715713158 (OP)
He was gone for a long time and his character design is charming as is typically the case with Rare designed characters. Lots were happy to see his inclusion in Ultimate.

>>715714213
>King of the jungle vs self-proclaimed king, nature vs technology, brawn vs brain.
The last two only really applies to how K. Rool presents himself in the DKC2 and 3. His debut he was pretty much all brawl, and in 64 he went back to being a brawler.

K. Rool uses other methods to give him an edge, otherwise he is a ruler through physical strength, like Bowser is.

>>715720679
>Bluto to Mario's Mickey Mouse
nigga are you retarded
read what you just wrote again

>>715715441
I'm not really sure how you would even compare the two.
K Rool was the main antagonist for numerous Donkey Kong games, even when DK himself was missing from the protagonist role. Fang has only ever been a side antagonist in a couple 8-bit titles. Fang was never going to make the same impact when most people assumed he was a new character from the get-go, and Sega was probably aware of that.

The way Bananza brought back K Rool is closer to how Sega brought back Metal Sonic as the main "twist" antagonist way back in Heroes.

>>715719781

>>715720679
you mean pete.

>>715713158 (OP)
I'm not sure I'd say beloved, he was just benched for a long ass time so people really wanted to see him again.

>>715720902
>>715721086
I think that was the joke retard-kun

Because he’s Bowser if he was a legitimately insane hater who will go to any lengths to ruin DK’s life at the minimum

>>715717531
>>715717691
>>715717743
K Rool liking bananas was always his motivation since the first game.
Hating bananas was a stupid retcon/translation error on the english localization for Jungle Climber

>>715713158 (OP)
>not one, but TWO memorable theme songs
>crafty, dons several personas and aliases between games
>comparably memorable minions and setpieces
>not one, but multiple cool designs (lone fucked up eye and gold-plated belly are unique to bing bing villains, pirate, scientist)
>genuinely psychotic in contrast to the usual greedy "frenemy/rival" of bing bing villains
Hits all the right notes.

Will Nintendo make Klump and Krusha from the show canon next?

>>715721506
>anything from the show being canon
kwab

>>715721506
Klump was in every DK Rare game in some incarnation (They would have a diffrent name 2 and 3 but they did that with all enemies and is just the same dude with a new look or slight gimick).

Krusha is a bit more on and off. I don't think they appeared in 3 and 64.

>>715719153
>He spend 99% out of it and when he appears it's just out of nowhere for the final fight?
You never played a Donkey Kong Country game have you.
Why do people who know absolutely nothing always speak when they should be learning?

>>715721861
Krusha is an unlockable multiplayer character in 64 actually.

>>715713158 (OP)
cool and sexy

>>715722037
Didn't know that, neato.

>>715721506
>Klump and Krusha from the show
They already existed before the show.

>Mario's archnemesis is a huge muscular dragon
>DK's archnemesis is a fat frog

>>715722216
>frog
retard

>>715721506
If we're bringing back random Kremlins, give me titty lizard.

>>715722203
I think he means their dynamic, like how klump was k.rool's right hand man and krusha was the dumb brute who would get his hands dirty when k.rool orders him to

>>715722317
>stupid
>violent
>enslaved
>their leader is a kang
>women have afros
Wait, are Kremlings black-coded?

>>715718829
Mario games usually have underwhelming boss fight, since this was made by the Mario team it's expected.

>>715714332
>slandering bowser like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyvcIPYfR4M

My man has fucking soul on his side, don't gimme that non-sense.

Odyssey, Bowser Fury, 3D world, 64, it's all there.

>>715713749
>I'm assuming it stems from his design evoking memories from that period of anon's lives
Bingo. Middle aged men yearning for their past in the mid-late 90's. He's a discount Bowser.

I like Bowser AND K. Rool. Get fucked.

>>715719153
>What respect did K Rool get in this game?
Let me spell it out for you, he:
>got a full new map that brings a shit ton of DKC enemies back with a statue of honor for him standing tall in the center of it all
>got to the game's mcguffin before you and abused the shit out of its wish granting properties
>even taking over all of New Donk City in an instant thanks to the root
>turned the city into a big callback to the original arcade game
>also filled it with billboards, neon signs and posters themed after him to rub more salt into the wound
Regardless of how shit the boss fights are (which I won't deny, making his final form take even more damage than the first is retarded), they objectively set this all up to be a glorious comeback of sorts and it sure as shit is a lot more grandiose than what Rare used to do with him before DK64

>>715713158 (OP)
King K Rool is really, really Kool. DuhhhHhhhh

>>715721937
I'm talking about this game specifically retard and how it supposedly gave K Rool "respect" according to you idiots.

>>715723079
You forgot
>Gets to do funny fakeout kredits meme again
>One shots the new villain in his introduction

Fact is Bowser does not have something as fun as fakeout Kredits. That's such a fun gimmick it was still funny in Bonanza.

>ACK

>>715713158 (OP)
>Why is a charismatic character popular among the fans?
We will never know...

>>715713158 (OP)
The only people who hate K rool are Ashleyfags

>>715723453
lmao

>>715723293
>I tolerated tikis, I vicariously lived through vikings
>But I will NOT be replaced by a manlet

>>715716296
See? This is why King K. Rool is more popular. Bowser is barely a villain. They made him an anti-hero. He has worked with Mario so many times already. He's a good father. And when he's evil, his evil is like a pg 12 cartoon. King K. Rool on the other hand? He's pure evil, and he loves it.

>>715714213
As a concept the Kremlings as a whole are the perfect counterpart for the DK family too. You got a huge tight knit family vs a bunch of violent loosely related hillbillies basically. Clan vs. clan.

>>715723453
Ashley's not even the best Wario character

>>715713158 (OP)
He's a diva, he likes the show and makes things happen.

>>715721420
He never liked bananas. He invaded Kong Island in DKC 1 to loot it of its natural resources. He actually stole DK's bananas out of pure spite and pettiness.

>>715715142
The GBA wasn't backlit when this remake was made, please understand the indie company.

Because Miyamoto/Nintendo hates him. He's in Smash because it's full of third party characters anyway. They don't consider him a Nintendo character. You'll never ever ever ever see him in DK again.

>>715724091
I think Bonanza even references this by having him spawn bananas just to make them rot. Why? Because DK's wish is bananas.

DKC123 are just good games, you guys have to overcomplicate everything.

>>715724165
....what?

>>715715493
Do you ever ponder the implication that Diddy and Dixie are attempting to dismember this Kremling by physically ripping out his appendages?

Then you remember the Kremling is named Klomp because he already has a peg leg and you realize they're coming back for seconds.

>>715724276
I'm going to complicate it even more.
2>1>3.

>>715716339
My liege K.Rool has a wife and is not a incel like Bowser

>>715724276
>3

>>715718507
>>715716339
>>715717568
Bowser is an incel.

My liege Kaptain K.Rool is happily married.

>>715722216
>muscular
>dragon
when was this

>>715724372
Sex with Dixie (and Tiny) Kong until I lose feeling in at least one leg

>>715724569
Dixie is for loving and nurturing.
Tiny (DS) is for impregnating and proclaiming.

>>715724670
I choose to impregnate both apes

>>715724523
He is not, the wife thing was a joke.
K. Rool doesn't need a partner, he is always together with the greatest person in the world - himself

I thought DKC3 was fun....

>>715724945
wromg

>>715724670
Dixie is older than Tiny, though

>>715724373
>Claims to complicate further
>Post factual truth
???????????????

>>715713158 (OP)
He's Bowser if Bowser was a genocidal narcissistic sociopath. Dude just wants everything to rot out of fucking spite.

>>715724945
>K. Rool sometimes mentions his wife
>every Kremling is too scared of him to ask if she's a delusion or what

>>715724949
It's fun. It's just the weakest of the trilogy, but it is still a masterpiece. It should have been Dixie + Donkey Kong instead of that loser kong nobody remembers.

>>715724945
Nah, his wife is even crazier which is why he never spends time at home

>>715725069
I find the "Eating rotten bananas" thing to be a weeeee bit flimsy

>>715720891
Toxotransmosis moment.

>Mfw his final form in Bananza gives him TWO Crazy Eyes

>>715725004
>>715724373
3 is better than 1, no matter how you look at it

>>715725241
I do like how deranged he looks in that form

>>715722689
I am so fucking sick of 3D World callbacks whenever Bowser is brought up.

>>715723637
Ironic considering Void is as tall as DK

>>715725314
his 3D World theme is sick though

Would (you) work for the Kremling Krew /v/? Is K Rool a good boss?

>>715725228
I was referring to just generally rather than Bananza. He wasn't going to do shit with DK's banana horde besides just let it rot to starve the island.

>>715725382
No, it's not. It's fucking typical Disneytendoification. You want a good Bowser theme? There's a lot of them, actual themes that fit his character.

>>715725241
>>715725292
I really like that form, he looks like Satan

>>715713158 (OP)
he has a pretty good design desu

>>715725463
He legit just could've said
>I'm going to rot every Banana in the world just out of spite

Do foids find him attractive

>>715725228
>>715725463
Rotten bananas are sweet to a disgusting degree, I think it fits his character in a weird way that he'd want to eat bananas at their "Tastiest" despite how disgusting it is.

>>715725396
I would, because I love K. Rool and I'd do anything for him. And he is the best boss, because he is K. Rool.

>>715725396
>Would (you) work for the Kremling Krew /v/?
Absolutely on feeding and belly rub duty, of course

>>715725676
He has nice arms in addition to being fat.

>>715725686
If you want to think too deeply, could argue it fits the hostile industrialization theme of the Kremlings too. Let everything natural rot and die to harvest the "sweetness" of their industrialization.

>>715725676
No. It's all gays lusting for him.

>>715719119
he's just an old man and a manelet anon leave him alone
>>715725598
>Banadium root resembles seraphim
>K. Rool is Satan
Donkey Kong being a biblical allegory confirmed

>>715725686
He just has a sweet fang

>>715726058
>he's just an old man and a manelet
even better

>>715725686
Luckily, freezing a banana does increase the fruit's sweetness without making it inedible. Makes me think K. Rool should've teamed up with Lord Fredrik.

>>715723293
I don't even think K. Rool registered who Void Kong was, its just that his natural Kong Reflex kicked in and he punched the nearest primate at full force hoping it was DK.

>>715726058
His v-shaped eyebrows make for good handlebars

>>715723293
Krool's up tilt isn't THAT powerful in smash

>>715726264
He's so racist I love him.

why is this the best animal form theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxAQ_hEodKY

>>715726264
>k. rool goes up to the human world and is disgusted by all the mayo kongs

>>715718887
King of Rot is literally just K. Rool doing a Demon King Ganondorf cosplay at the end of a game where you travel deep underground fighting undead Kremlings and finding him right at the bottom.

>>715726264
>Kong Reflex kicked in and he punched the nearest primate at full force hoping it was DK.
I love the idea he just smells apes and his body is moving on its own to commit a hate crime.
God do I love a reptile v mammal feud

>>715726581
>mayo kongs

>>715724992
So?

>>715725686
I always figured it was because at that point it's fermented. You can turn bananas into alcohol but it doesn't transport well
Dude was going to turn the world into a neverending kegger party for himself. Dude probably hasn't been sober since DK64

>>715716705
He had a heartfelt moment with Jr in sunshine.

why did he put on pants

>>715713158 (OP)
he looks like a nortubel character

>>715726980
>>715726264
>Trapped frozen in whatever prison hell he's in
>Is only broken free by his body being so repulsed by monkeys that it forced him out of his stasis cause it reflexively punched the nearest ape nigga
IS THAT FUCKING FRIEZA

>>715726264
I fucking can't

>>715726581
>Klump, why did all these DISGUSTING primates remove their fur?
>Good lord they're gross. Some of these freaks have more folds than Wrinkly Kong.

>>715713158 (OP)
Because the DKC trilogy are arguably the best platformers ever made and K. Rool is a prominent character in all of those games.

>>715725396
>Is K Rool a good boss?
No, that's the big thing separating him from Bowser (unless they didn't get the memo)
K. Rool is like a more psychotic Captain Hook
Goofy, bumbling, but is still dangerous and ruthless
https://youtu.be/-qsA0b4t9kA?feature=shared

>>715713158 (OP)
I think it's undeniable that skipping the Retro Country games and the general DK drought that followed gave him a aura of mysticism and both Smash Ultimate and Bananza were very good at capitalizing on it.

>>715725686
That and just to spite DK

>>715713158 (OP)
>/v/tards are making some every dk thread about the last 15 minutes of the game because of the Bowser character.
Metacritic trolling was better than this.

>>715725686
Strictly speaking, overripe bananas are actually better for smoothies.

>>715713158 (OP)
Is he? I never see anyone talking about him, and even this thread is just furfags.

>>715713158 (OP)
Its so fucking stupid that they had to do a ballot to figure out the main antagonist of a popular franchise was beloved, a lot of the people making these games are out of touch with the fans

>>715727813
>Nintendo
>out of touch
No! Say it ain't so.

>>715727215
We really need a drawfag to redo this but with Krool

>>715727707
>Furfags
>He has no fur

>>715713158 (OP)
He is one of the last major characters Rare created Nintendo owns, so it's nice to see Rare represented in a much larger way again.

He's also really fun to play in Smash Ultimate.

>>715727967
"KONGS could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this layer before. There could be KONGS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his gold belly. "I HATE KONGS" he thought. Crocodile Cacophony reverberated his entire prison, making it pulsate even as the rotten bananas circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of Apes near his body. "With a propellerpack you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.

>Chris Seavor, former video game designer at Rare and voice actor of Conker, claims that Wizpig was internally referred to as "JizzPig" by "unkind people" at the company.

>>715713158 (OP)
Same reason Bowser is.

>>715724165
>MY SNOY NARRATIVE! NINTENDO HAAAAATES RARE! BELIEVE ME!
HAVE A ROTTEN DAY

>>715728296

i still remember when people swore he'd be a bowser clone in smash bros.

>>715717917
He at least had the Wario gimmick more than I can say for those Temu Aku Aku masks in Returns

>>715726264

>>715713158 (OP)
Same reason as Bowser, he fits the Godzilla niche.

>>715717917
the only thing I don't like about him is his name. the fuck kind of name is Void Kong?

>>715728859
Void of charisma lmao

>>715728859
A bad one for a businessman since he literally can't write checks to pay his employees.

>>715713158 (OP)
god i want him so badly you guys have no idea

Remember that Returns interview people point out to?
The one where they dismissed the Kremlings as if they're essential or not to a DKC game?
I think the way that came out sounding so dismissive to people was what fueled a lot of people's enthusiasm for K. Rool
I'm not saying he wouldn't have been clamored for had that interview not had happened but people positioned K. Rool and the Kremlings as an underdog of sorts ever since that interview (which was bolstered when he wasn't playable in Smash 4 despite being one of the most popular requests since the Brawl era).
Sure it got annoying when people used to reinforce disproven rumors that Nintendo and Miyamoto were resentful towards Rare but frankly it made his return in the series proper all the more worthwhile.
But as for K. Rool himself, he's a fun, memorable mascot platformer villain.
Making the hero stand out is one thing, making their villain memorable is another.
It's inherently a harder thing to do.

>>715727707
>I never see anyone talking about him
He has made like 2 new appearances these past 10 years so it's a given discussion surrounding him would die out during such a drought, but it certainly isn't nonexistent, the moment this shot leaked in /v/, every thread about the game switched to nonstop debates over whether it was real or not to the point that it pretty much completely overshadowed any other point of discussion surrounding the game, thirst posts for Pauline and lorefagging are still present but ever since the 13th it's mostly been K Rool this, Kremlins that, so yeah, I'd say there is an audience for the guy (even if a good chunk of it is indeed composed by furfags, gotta face the facts there).

Does his original theme get remixed in his boss fight

>>715729356
what about Mario

>>715729425
Yes, the entire end of the game is like
>Look at kool K. Rool is holy shit dont you want to beat his ass?

>>715729425
Yes, for phase 2 after another round of fakeout credits

>>715729356
Does Wizpig count, or no?

>>715729425
yes also crocodile cacophony plays in a cutscene

>>715729425
They do the fake credits thing again as his theme plays, with the beat drop having him go ape shit and go for another phase.

>>715729568
That's Diddy's villain.

>>715729425
Gangplank Galleon gets a new remix and it's pretty damn good

>>715728393
I love those blokes

>>715729462
A

>>715729594
You can also hear dkc2 intro theme in phase 3

>Rare bought by Microsoft in 2002
>Nintendo continues to use Rare's DK design in literally everything for 23 years
>continues using Rare-made characters and music in everything as well, including Mario spinoffs, Smash, the Mario movie, and an amusement park
>brings back K Rool for Smash Ultimate, his moves and animations are filled with love and attention, then later doing a "Rare Reunion" during Banjo's trailer
>Bananza is filled to the brim with callbacks to the Rare games, including the grand return of the king

>there are STILL people who insist Nintendo hates Rare

>>715713749
I never played the DKC games, and only know about him due to Mario Super Sluggers having him as a playable character.
I didn't mind him getting into Smash Ultimate, unlike fellow Rare alumni Banjo, who I actively did not want in Smash, and I'm excited to see him back in Bananza.

>>715730069
>unlike fellow Rare alumni Banjo, who I actively did not want in Smash
nigger

>>715727813
Ore wa, SUPA BEJITA

>>715729356
I don't even remember who the enemies in Tropical Freeze and Return are. Like, I have no idea who the last boss is either.

>>715730012
>>brings back K Rool for Smash Ultimate, his moves and animations are filled with love and attention, then later doing a "Rare Reunion" during Banjo's trailer
To be fair, Smash Bros technically isn't made by Nintendo and Sakurai doesn't work for Nintendo so you can't really credit Nintendo for how K. Rool's moveset turned out
They still chose the DLC and okayed K. Rool's inclusion though so yeah, Nintendo doesn't hate Rare.
They still worked with them on DKC remakes on GBA and the Diddy Kong Racing remake on DS.
They only stopped working together because the handheld division at Rare got absorbed and they rejected the DS DKC4 pitch for a fairly understandable reason.

>>715730012
That sounds to me more like new gen of dev's showing love to what they grew up with. Even if Nintendo during that period never hated DK, you can tell they didn't know what to do with him either and pawned him off to Retro since they figured a Western company might know best at that time.

So Wario is coming back soon, right?

>>715730523
Possible?
Yeah
Likely?
Eh......
They're are rumors of EPD restructuring which is why 3D Donkey Kong now apparently has a dedicated team but one thing doesn't guarantee the other.
The existence of bigfoot wouldn't guarantee the existence of the loch ness monster

>>715730295
they didn't only choose the DLC, ALL the characters were chosen by Nintendo in a big list.

>>715730012
miyamoto hates rare.

>>715717917
He's fucking dead

>>715730523
I hope so

>>715715635
this. he was insanely memorable. especially his portrayal in DK64 with his voice. i still remember it despite not having played it since i was a 6 year old little ESL.

What color are Pauline's panties?

>>715730678
>miyamoto hates rare.
He fucking loves Cranky Kong, signed approval for Donkey Kong's Rare design, and see pic related

>>715730330
I don't know if I'd say pawned off. Miyamoto worked pretty well with Rare on the first DKC game. He helped with designs and gave ideas for levels.
Rare just kept making DK games because the first game sold 10 million copies and a lot of SNES consoles, it's what pulled the SNES ahead of the Genesis in the US. Rare earned the right to keep using DK.

>>715730897
i can feel the hate radiating off him

>>715730859
White as a child.
Black thong as an adult.

>>715730897
Looks like he needs a cigarette

>>715720495
Yes please

>>715730678
Miyamoto only "hated" Rare as much as the other inhouse Japanese devs at Nintendo did. The dirt sheets say that a lot of Nintendo felt westerners were impeding into the company, specifically Rare with how successful their games were becoming. Yamauchi seemed to really like Rare and depending on what you believe (if you believe any of this) would ask why his proud Nipponese game devs couldn't do everything Rare could. Overworked salary culture in Japan probably sucks a lot of ass when your boss won't stop drooling over gaijin sneaking 3D graphics into their games.

>>715730916
A lot of people were not alive for that era, please understand.

>>715730916
I was talking about Retro but funny enough this also describes Retro/Nintendo/DK relationship too.

>>715715441
dont care until there is another game where i can play as lanky kong

>>715721351
Not a very good one then.

>why is the monkey vs lizard trope so popular
Truly, a mystery we will take to our graves

I LOVED the small detail of the Kremlings building and worshipping a statue of K.Rool.

It means that they never gave up hope for K.Rool returning to save them from the underground.

>>715730897
He looks like Khan from King of the Hill whenever he aired his disgust for his upstanding neighbors.

>>715730330
I'm starting to think that's why Pokemon Legends is even a thing. Pokemon Legends is literally what every kid wished Pokemon could be like back in the day. Turn based combat is really braindead, it's why Tactics games are dying as well and DQ is getting a revamped combat system.

>>715713158 (OP)
Nostalgia and gay men.

>>715713158 (OP)
The ladies love him

>think Nintendo turned the vultures into ghosts because too much time passed since they got stuck underground and they all died out and started haunting the final layer

>they are actually covered in mud and wearing dumb masks.

they really made a dummy out of me

>>715713749
I didn't even play DKC until last year and you're a faggot.

>>715730897
miyamoto is also in perfect dark as an NPC

>>715732480
Retards like briandead turn based systems. That's why most comp niggers prefer singleslop over glorious double and triplechad battles.

So is K. Rool being released meant to be how he met DK for the first time or is it some kind of meta jab at how long its been since he was in a DK game?

>>715732136
Battered wife syndrome. He doesn't give a shit about his minions but they all love him.
Well, most do. I remember Klubba just letting you into the secret world because you paid him and then being all chummy with Dixie and Didddy

>>715734695
>or is it some kind of meta jab at how long its been since he was in a DK game?
This
Dixie recalls the events of DKC2 and Kaos is a fossil

>>715732650
I remember a strange amount of thirst for him during his Smash revea in places like Twitter. I was just happy to finally be able to play as the goofy bastard.

>>715734695
The latter I'm pretty sure

>>715734707
DKC3 had a plotpoint about the kremlings kicking off K.Rool and following KAOS (even if that was K.Rool anyway).
I'd say its the amount of loyalty you expect for a pirate crew in both sides.

>>715713749
>His design is a 7 at the lowest
>Strong and Intimidating
>Goofy and strong meme potential
>2 pretty damn good bossfights against him
>banger tracks associated with him
>An unorthodox but memorable cartoon depiction as a funny aristocratic oaf
>Changes appearance and personality repeatedly
>Kredits
>Sigh scalies and vorefags like him too
if I had a blunderbuss then I’d shoot you with it for being a faggot

>>715713158 (OP)
Reddit crocodile

>>715722216
>fat frog
Someone called?

>>715734695
>Game's plot is about characters getting their wish granted
>K rool returns bursting out of the fakeout banandium root
There's definitely some meta commentary in there, k rool coming back is the fans wish being granted

>>715724165
>Miyamoto
Tanabe

>>715732747
Because all the Kremling Krew enemies in the game are just fleshier versions of the VoidCo enemies, which includes a flying bat mask thing that serves as the Necky analog.

>>715720520
Next update. Trust me.

>>715736358
This guy should get repurposed for a Wario game, his design looks like it'd fit in with Wario Land

>>715722216
Have you seen K rool in the new game? his arms are BUFF

>>715713158 (OP)
He's Donkey Kong's bowser. Not having him as a villain feels wrong.

>>715737880
Nigga there are people who want Mario to fight someone else
If Mario fought another Tatanga it wouldn't be the end of the world because Bowser still keeps showing up in games

>blunderbuss vore

>fighting the kremlins at the core
>they make the AUGH sound
we've never been more back

>>715738330
>Not even a redone version
>Just the exact same sound
I fucking can’t

>>715729356
you're honestly being too charitable to Ghastly King

>>715738025
Mario releases platformers every few years and Bowser never spends half as much time absent as K Rool did, it's understandable why one causes fatigue while the other is generally celebrated when he gets another time to shine.

>>715724091
>>715724221

No he wanted the banana hoard because it was the “perfect food” as stated in the manual and in Bananza states he loves spoiled/overripe bananas!

>>715713892
This definitely has more to do with it than anyone will care to admit. He still makes more or an impact than any of the villains they've cooked up in his absence.

>>715723015

>>715723015
The objectively correct answer

under different circumstances rool and dk might have been good buddies

>>715728635
>several games worth of material + a cartoon
>Nah they'll just recycle Bowser
Were people actually this stupid?

Should have hired Benedict Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eggzBAzCZg

>>715740286
That's part of the reasons they make such good rivals. They're quite alike, leaders of a gang of their species. But K Rool is intent on conquest to get what he wants while DK and friends are content to just hang out and hammer anyone that tries to harsh the mellow.
If the Kremlings could just fucking vibe for a bit I'm sure they would get along

>>715740853
I will say, from what we've heard from in Bananza I like Tsuguo Mogami's portrayal more than Toshihide Tsuchiya's back in the Paon era, the latter sounded too much like an anime villain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOHEzyUnEWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfP0S8oEGww

>>715740853
>we can still make animations like this
So, it never died ((they)) just want to push their garbage over indies?

>>715713158 (OP)
Nostalgia. I played them near launch and he's just a whatever villain from the 90's.
If 10% into bananza he showed up, I wouldnt care in the slightest
"Oh, hes in this game, ok"

>>715722216
Bowser's a turtle.
K.Rool's an alligator.
You're an esl one piece spic.

>>715717246
>getting so fat that his armor is cracking
>belly constant jiggles
>he smacks it and gives a line about feasting
fuuuuuuck

>>715741765
CG animators don't have strong unions like 2D animators or the puppet industry did, so studios execs just use CG for everything as a consequence.
On top of that hand drawn animation is much more labor intensive while with CG you can redo vast chunks of stuff months before release as long as you got the models and enough time to render it.

>>715713158 (OP)
>fat
>big stupid cannon for a gun
>dumb up B copter that shouldn’t be able to lift his massive girth even a foot off the ground
>uses his beer gut as a counter
>big ol dumb boxing glove
>wears a crown, dapper as fuck
>throws said crown too
>laughs and grows fat
>steals monke’s bananas
Love this dude so much. The best IDGAF character

Gangplank galleon just keeps getting amazing remixes

>>715742760
>fat
>his massive girth
>his beer gut
>laughs and grows fat
something tells me you like how fat he is

>>715714213
>>715714596
Definitely these
DK is a fairly unusual main character, so a foil to him needs to be a bit unusual in turn.
DK is simple and unsophisticated, brawny and confident.
K.Rool is everything DK isn't. He's ugly, unnatural looking, and gangly, compared to DK's grounded, natural charisma. He's neurotic and egotistical, compared to DK's simplicity and calm confidence. He represents technology, haphazard innovation, and exploitation of the natural world, where DK represents unmolested nature and the natural order. D.K is the leader of the bunch, but you wouldn't necessarily know this by looking at him, while K Rool adorns himself with the decorations of leadership, and changes hats (literally) whenever his organization changes. DK doesn't care if you know he's the leader, K.Rool NEEDS you to know. DK is first among equals, K.Rool is the monarch/captain/brains of his organization.

This why Lord Frederick in particular is such a wet fart. Frederick is a "normal" villain, like you'd see in a lot of stories, but the contrast with DK just isn't there. Lord Frederick is honestly too similar to DK. DK vs Frederick is just a territorial dispute between two animals, and it's not even a stretch to see the plot reversed, a plot where DK expands his territory and forces out Frederick. DK vs K.Rool is a fundamental conflict between natural and artificial, between humble confidence and egotistical posturing. DK vs K.Rool is a fundamental conflict of two worlds, that actually works with DK being what he is.

>>715742997
He’s like Santa Claus except he’s evil and carries a shotgun

>>715740286
Funny enough the DKC cartoon has a whole episode/musical number about how K.Rool and Cranky were good friends when they were younger and all the wild shit they would do together so I don't think you're too off the mark.

>>715713749
>He's not funny or interesting,
You never even played the games he is in.

>>715726058
biblikroolikally akkurate kremling

>>715732480
>DQ is getting a revamped combat system.
That's what was planned for DQ11, but Japan cried bloody murder over it and so it went back to the normal turn-based combat.

>>715716393
The entire ending almost felt like a fan-game. The intermission level and the Kredits does not at all feel like something Nintendo would have ever done, its like a Make-A-Wish terminally ill Rare fan got to direct it. Then the whole transformed New Donk was just total dick sucking and they even brought back the DK64 boxing ring, complete with "K.ROOL'S THE KING" text. It really does feel like self awareness was actually achieved on their part and I can't even think of any other historically based specific circumstances could match this return besides maybe a new F-Zero, Wario getting action games again, or Nintendo buying the rights to Banjo.

>>715715783
I REALLY hope this also means the Kremlings are going to become standard Mario NPC type characters in future games and spin-offs like the Toads, Koopas and Sunshine fuckers.

>>715732480
You work on FF16 by any chance? I hate you “turnbased bad” faggots

>>715722165
Yeah and he had a fucking grenade launcher krusha was fun

>>715721506
Klump and Krusha were from DKC1. the real question is when are they bringing back Skurvy or Bluster Kong

>>715716853
Man, having a 2D run and gun Sonic game would be dope.

>>715715441
>implying Fang is in the same league as K. Rool
Rool is in the same tier as Eggman and Bowser.

>>715732747
I want a Kuromi girl to rape me.

>>715713158 (OP)
Great design. Though the fact that they made him fucking talk in the new game is pretty cringe. Stop giving voiceless characters dialogue, ninendo.

>>715713158 (OP)
This guy would beat king cringe any day

>>715723015
I feel in my bones the next game will be Mario and DK teaming up to fight Bowser and Rool.

>>715738330
>kritters make the same noise
>neckies make the same noises
>klobbers either don't or are too quiet over all the other stuff
that's fine, at least there's still OUGH

>>715745895
nigger he literally has full voice acting in DK64

he's black-coded which is why americans love him but simultaneously view him as a threat. not sure why other places like him

>>715713158 (OP)
Good character design. He's funny for kids, and a charming goofy kind of badass for men.

6052
Touch grass

>>715746052
How in the fuck is he “black-coded”?

>>715729293
I love how this big scaley fucker almost completely snuffed out all Pauline posting.

>>715721584
the Crystal Coconut became canon in DK64 along with Cranky being a scientist that brews potions

>>715713158 (OP)
his baddies are interesting visually and make funny noises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQ34SGBtVU

>>715730069
Banjo has more right to be in Smash than whatever 3rd party fag you wanted.

>>715729293
Doing a pose where only his bulging out eye is showing is a really inspired way to use that part of his design

>>715727161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uG90Wt-wDg

>>715730523
Ideally, though I would also like to see them take a crack at an old IP like Ice Climbers or Mole Mania.

>>715745929
Zingers also have their noise.

This is all you get for 100% after beating the champions road

>>715726264
If thats the case thats amazing

>>715746653
pauline was always a nothing character and the whole thing with her being de aged is extremely contrived, the king making his deserved comeback is a bigger deal

>series has villains that are often more interesting than the main characters
I love this trope.

How many DKC2 songs were remixed for this game?

>>715726264
>Seems to have fallen and hit his head while digging for the root
>Left in a coma and forgotten for over a decade
>Only wakes up when his longtime hatred for all things simian triggers his reflexes and immediately resumes whers he left off without even a moment's pause
That's K. Rool for you.

>>715720679
>Bowser is the Bluto to Mario's Mickey Mouse
I get what you're trying to say but I still lol'd
you either meant the Bluto to Mario's Popeye or the Pete to Mario's Mickey Mouse

>>715743736
Cranky even works with K.Rool in DK Land to provide a challenge to DK and Diddy.

>>715745895
Secondary opinion.

>>715746052
But he is smart and is married.

>>715745895
I'm just annoyed that they only gave him the same kind of growl-speak as Bowser.

>>715747896
Yeah but also stealing is a big part of his character

>>715713158 (OP)
Gangplank Galleon is a baller theme, the title screen fakeout was amazing for its time and he was the big bad in two great games and 1 good game.

>>715747325
It's not a trope. It's just true.

>>715713158 (OP)
He has a good singing voice

Reminder that Iwata asked Sakurai to do Smash Ultimate before he died.
Reminder that Iwata presented the Smash Ballot before he died.
Reminder that while Sakurai did add K. Rool, it was Iwata who laid the foundation for it to happen.
Reminder that Iwata spoke English and probably knew that people weren't happy with Smash For's base roster.

>>715715441
Sonic in general just doesn't know how to nostalgia. In Bananza you have a game chock-full of new environments and enemies to last for hours, so the throwback twist at the end after a subtle but steady build-up feels respectful. With Sonic it's either cramming you into a Generations asset flip or randomly throwing out quotes and name drops from old games in an already flavourless experience.

>>715732650

>>715713158 (OP)

Im not gay but i want to be DP'd by him and bowser.

>>715715441
Sega keeps making the same game over and over while Nintendo makes new and unique games now. Sega keeps shoving old levels from past games in instead of creating new ones. People were happy about Green Hill returning in Sonic Adventure 2 because we've hadn't seen the level since the first game, at that point. Now Sega keeps reusing it. They refuse to drop boosting, and instead of making a proper 3D Sonic game that looks like it belongs in Sonic's world and universe, they keep making games doesn't feel like it belong in Sonic. Why isn't there a Super Sonic battle with Eggman more often, it's always so ancient evil awakens. From there. I like Sonic's friends and all but when they perfected 3D Sonic with the original Sonic Adventure, Sega couldn't even give Sonic his shine. Sega doesn't know how to make Sonic games anymore, and now they want to censor it up as well. Sega will never defeat Nintendo. Nintendoes what Segadon't now.

>>715750941
he is so cute

>>715713749
name three funny/interesting characters

>>715720320
>He isn't one of the most multifaceted characters in fiction.
No shit.
He still has more going on than K. Rool and pretending otherwise is insane.

>>715750349
The new writers really suck at it and use it as a crutch.

>>715714332
Yeah he had more personality back when DKC first came out. Nowadays Bowser has him beat by a longshot

>>715716393
What did they do to MKW

This kong....

He's just a fun Saturday morning cartoon villain. He's a fun character to watch, and his minions are that perfect balance of edgy-cool and goofy-slapstick.

>>715747075
What do you want? An achievement? If beating the game in and of itself isnt fun why bother?

>>715753259
MKW has normal tracks, and "intermission" tracks. The intermissions are all just really long boring straightaways with very little variation, and there's over 200 of them because any possible combination of "start at (normal track A) and end at (normal track B" is its own intermission. People figure out you could prevent intermissions from showing up online if you picked random, so Nintendo patched it so intermissions are included in random since literally everyone was voting random.

>>715718887
TotK as a whole was a complete and utter fucking mess of a game, and a clear by-product of a game from a developer team that doesn't actually no longer respects its fans or even loves the core elements and themes that embody their own series.

>>715713158 (OP)
He's sexy

>>715754962
God, I didn't realize how deeply delusional some people are about Nintendo games.

>>715717246
I wish the rotten bananas didn't resemble scat.

>>715756180
>trashed Ganondorf by making him a 180 from Calamity Ganon in BoTW and turning him into a lame villain with lame motives
>trashed dungeons with minecraft building mechanics and ascension
>trashed the entire timeline by retconning it, those events no longer matter
>trashed the zonai by turning them into temu furry versions of the Sheikah
>trashed all of the initially cool theories BoTW presented by just pretending they didn't exist
>trashed nearly all of its potential continuity connections to BoTW
>trashed the old champions by completely removing them from the story
>trashed the new champions by making them retread the same shit they did in BoTW

The only thing ToTK didn't trash was Link and Zelda's relationship because that's only narrative element Fujibayashi seems to give a fuck about. Guy clearly waifus the hell out of Zelda and doesn't give a damn about anything else.
I'm glad DK's team actually gave K.Rool the proper comeback he deserved, despite all of the game's other shortcomings. They actually kind of cared about the story and characters in this one.

>>715757318
>trashed Ganondorf by making him a 180 from Calamity Ganon in BoTW and turning him into a lame villain with lame motives
Ganon was lame ever since OoT made human Ganondorf the standard.

I can't wait for the grace period for spoilers to be over so we can get Ninty to officially acknowledge K rool is back, maybe he will get a new render and merch

I hope LM4 releases soon so we can get more kino seething villains

>>715757806
I HATE how Nintendo refuses to use the Luigi's Mansion boo design in anything, it's vastly superior to the "generic Mario" one they push.

>>715757434
He was interesting in WW and the lore implications about pertaining the gradual loss of his sanity & humanity were interesting in BoTW, but other than that, yeah I agree he's been a disappointment.

>>715757956
MKW is likely gonna get costume DLC so he might get one after LM4 releases just like how DK and Pauline will get theirs soon announced in the upcoming direct later this month

how long does it take for the ost to be uploaded? i need that gangplank galleon remix and a little bit of that crocodile cacophony that played during his reveal NOW

anyone got the fake out credits webm?

>>715758078
considering there's a jukebox, someone just has to collect all collectible discs and record them.
should be way easier than recording Mario Kart's soundtrack (which isn't even complete mind you)

>>715732650
i thought k rool canonically yaoi?

>>715757997
>He was interesting in WW
They pretty much gave him the same motivation as Anakin Skywalker: pathological hatred of deserts

>>715717917
For some reason I don't get his design pleases my eyes. Maybe it's that purple is my favorite color but idk

Any music rips yet

>>715759507
imo, his texture has too many details

>>715759805
Just low quality rips from people playing the songs in the jukebox, either that or poorly looped or isolated records where you still hear Pauline and DK's dialogue in the background, pick your poison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shc3VM_vHr8&ab_channel=TheAmbiGamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxAQ_hEodKY&ab_channel=Shacknews

>>715727125
Booze K.rool

>>715750941
Wait, Corrin is the one that does the raping?

>>715715285
I can never decided if the music tracks in this show are bad or good. It's like they are both at the same time.
https://youtu.be/kJKjwuTQtGg?list=RDkJKjwuTQtGg

https://youtu.be/1eggzBAzCZg?t=117
All I could hear when he showed up

>>715760884
some of them are so bad it's good, some of them are genuinely good but held back by nonsense lyrics, and others are just dogshit

>>715742476
that guy's a 3D animator, he just does a good job compositing it to look 2D.

>>715737530
Fat fuck vs. fat fuck showdown

>>715738025
Would love to see Fawful as the villain again

>>715761007

yeah, my thoughts exactly. I never cared for the cartoon, because it was aimed at younger kids back in the day. I do agree that the singing voice for King K. Rool is pretty great. ?list=RDoPG84zY-HOY

>>715740286
DK and Mario get along now, so DK is certainly willing to give old foes a chance

I like the designs EPD brought to the table in this game. The new Kongs, Elders etc

good mix of new and old

>>715761237
Same with DK which is hilarious.
They decided to make it a musical and make DK and K.Rool's singing voices god damn amazing

>>715725396
considering he pretty much got his whole krew killed while descending for the Banandium Root. No

>>715761007

yeah, my thoughts exactly. I never cared for the cartoon, because it was aimed at younger kids back in the day. I do agree that the singing voice for King K. Rool is pretty great.

>>715761007

yeah, my thoughts exactly. I never cared for the cartoon, because it was aimed at younger kids back in the day. I do agree that the singing voice for King K. Rool is pretty great.

https://youtu.be/oPG84zY-HOY?list=RDoPG84zY-HOY

>>715713158 (OP)
>fat evil bastard with zero interest in being a frenemy, teaming up or being redeemed in any way shape or form
>just an outright evil, greedy and gluttonous schizo madman who's also ridiculously strong
Based, simple as.

>>715761237
>list=RDoPG84zY-HOY

https://youtu.be/oPG84zY-HOY?list=RDoPG84zY-HOY

>>715761291
Mandatory viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eggzBAzCZg

https://youtu.be/xRkfsGIEQbo

>>715713749
>Main villain seemed to be replaced by forgettable tikis/walruses or outright erased after the RARE exodus except for few appearances in spinoffs or cameos. (Not counting ports/re-releases).
>Nowhere to be seen or even alluded to in the last 2 main DK games
>Western made, so he was also kinda shunned by Nintendo Japan
>Finally returned to smash in 2018, him being the second most requested 1st party after Ridley
>Now back in a mainline DK game within a console's launch month as the big bad
>It's been almost 25 since he was featured as main villain

Might be nostalgia but also a way fans managed to bring a beloved character back from Nintendo's memory hole.

Thank you Samurai
I will never complain about FE ever again

>>715757681
I like that he flip flops between liking bananas and hating them. Classic K. Rool schizophrenia.

>>715762684
Shit that puts it all into perspective

>>715760557
I don’t even think there was rape, it’s a vanilla doujin last I checked

>>715717917
Thinking about it, Void should become the Wario of the DK franchise. He's a perfect evil counterpart for DK. Whereas Wario is depicted as bigger sometimes than Mario, Void is shorter than DK. And his game would be similar to Wario Land with him trying to reach a treasure by himself.

>>715750941
Corrin is Mrs. Rool!?

>>715732650
>>715750941
Was this drawn by a woman?

>>715713158 (OP)
good theme music
unapologetic heel

>>715713158 (OP)

Fun villain design and completely perfect hate sink of a character.

>>715714332
Bowser has plenty of personality, but Nintendo is afraid of letting him speak.

>>715713158 (OP)
Because the people that played the old games became famous "content creators" that made a nostalgiawank vid that 10000000 zoomers latched onto.

K. Rool is the only side villain in the series that really matches Bowser. Some surpass him like the RPG ones, but characters like Wario or whatever the fuck the Mario Land 1 thing was are more lame antagonist. I’m talking about both their chicanery and charming aspects.

K. Rool is just a fantastic game villain. Everything is a spectacle when you fight him from beginning to end; multiple phases, fakeouts, god-tier music, difficulty, etc.

>>715717621
>>715717669
>>715718331
>>715742461
Why is nu/v/ so fucking gay?

I know there's no topping Gangplank but I wish they at least tried with phase 1 and 3

>>715717917
the entire squad is great
It's actually annoying that the game Rool comes back for is the 1 DK game with good looking villains
and Odyssey's Broodals were hot garbage too so I'm glad the team learned something

I love the little Frieza Monkey, his OL spy, and tired blue collar man

>>715767076
>Broodals
I just realized until know just how fucking forgettable those villains were. At least I expect something coming from the VoidCo characters since Void himself alone solos all the Broodals designs

Its just a matter time until they give k rool a son like bowser jr

>>715766547
>nu

>>715768957
I would prefer if they had to add a humanizing aspect side-kick to him it would be to either cannonize his wife as a nagging one that he has that classic love-annoyed relationship with or just give him a personalized klaptrap doglike thing for him to pamper, preferably the former.

Making him a dad would be aping Bowser too much imo. But also, in general if possible i like him to stay solo.

>>715725676
Generally, no, but he is to me. I'm attracted to fucking King from Deltarune too so I have shit taste. And no I'm not that one femanon who husbandoposts about him sometimes, but it's funny there's two of us here.

>>715713825

>>715757806
i don't want LM4, I WANT WARIO LAND 6, ALWAYS!

>>715757806
Sorry, you can't see that or King K. Rool; please understand. Have a zillion Baby Rosalina costumes instead!

>>715764327
That would be an excellent twist

>>715713158 (OP)
He's a fat alligator that dresses up in funni outfits like a pirate or a boxer depending on the game, his boss themes are kino and they're genuinely challenging fights.

>>715715948
Krool is almost like a Wario to Bowser, being the guy that is all of his traits exaggerated to a crueler mean.

>>715745382
>Spoiler
I hope only if they also bring in the man himself

>>715714596
>which is a nice contrast to DK who is all muscle and would never trick someone
Tell that to Little Mac

https://youtu.be/R8zZnej6qKE?si=5fSpmUul9ma235cH

>>715764327
Two empires combined into one

TE DIVIERTES CON EL SUAVE VAIVÉN DE MIS BOOOOLAAAS?

>>715713158 (OP)
wtf is it? you should probably include these things.

Does K.Rool appear or get mentioned at all in the post-game?
He's been gone for so long and to have him only appear as the final boss for like an hour and then not appear again is kind of disappointing.

Nice loaded question implying that your thesis is correct before it has been objectively fact checked, as is typical of Vee.

>The guy that made Return to Crocodile Isle since has been living the good life since making music videos for Alestorm/Gloryhammer.

Believe in K. Rool and K. Rool provides.

>>715713158 (OP)
>aislop

>>715750941
K rool is a married crocodile

>>715778758
I actually forgot that he canonically is married due to a comment he makes in DKC3

>>715779512
I like to think that's supposed to be Kalypso since she's supposed to be Candy's countepart and she's Donkey's love interest.

>>715713158 (OP)
He has personality and is flexible enough to be comedic or intimidating depending on what you're going for.
As a child I thought his boss fights were also memorably difficult, especially DK2. DK1 he was by far the hardest boss in the game (low bar) and the OG fakeout credits could fuck you up the first time.
The Mario equivalent would be Wario, not Bowser. You can't take Bowser, or Ridley, or Ganondorf and make them goofy.

>>715780793
Eh, you could make Bowser kind of corny by contrasting his villainous moments with him being pretty approachable if you're on his side which is what most Bowser-centric games do, but it's not quite the same as what K. Rool is going for.

>>715713158 (OP)
He is undeniably Donkey Kong's Bowser and any villain other than him just doesn't have the same presence

>>715714332
Bowser has a lot of personality that never actually gets shown in the games

>>715715441
That's because SEGA is a dogshit company who is basically holding Sonic hostage with mediuocre 2/10 kusoges and the only places where the characters are allowed to actually show their personalities (comics, spinoffs and whatnot) are all glorified fanfiction since they're written by people from the fandom itself rather than normal people

>>715713158 (OP)
I still haven’t got the game. My order was delayed :(

>>715717917
I'm still amazed the Kremling schizos won so hard. Good for them

>>715715932
>K. Rool aka Cruel
Кopoль, aka king.

>>715717917
>despite being a red herring he was a good villain
How was he a red herring? He was the main boss of 95% of the game. The trope is the villain's greed is their undoing, and Void's greed got Pauline down to the planet core to wake up K Rool.

>>715728635
>the breath
that's so fucking random

>that final final boss
I am, the great mighty Krool
And I'm gonna throw my SHIT at you

Moments like this really make me hate not having enough money to burn for that overpriced tablet

>bowser
>but with actual charisma and attitude

its a mystery