In one game he went from a savage and unhinged but still goofy antagonist to a world-destroying threat who surpasses Bowser, Ridley, and even fucking GANON, going straight to the level of villains like Unicron and Galactus. "This is my finest hour" indeed.

>>716191848 (OP)
He ripened millions

It's not that deep

>K Rool watched the 1986 Transformers movie and thought "You know, that Unicron guy is really on to something"

What would the timeline look like without the Smash Ballot?

>>716192787
You'd see a lot more jabs towards K. Rool, but there may have been a lot more notoriety towards Donkey Kong's low representation, some people even pointing out that a third rep would have been better. Void Kong would have been THE antagonist and nothing more.

So can we stop screaming about Nintendo and especially Miyamoto hating K. Rool when we now know it was 100% Retro's fault he never appeared except for Smash?

>>716192106
Is the banana root really that strong? Was he ready to take over the universe?

>>716191848 (OP)
>>716192106
fat fuck

>>716193243
He wanted to turn the entire planet and everyone on it into rotten banana so he could feast as a king.

>>716193152
Nintendo dragging their feet with DK for 23 years wasn't doing them any favors. This should have been a Wii U game, and that is not a jab at the performance, I mean in general. DK as the public knew it could not be replicated by Nintendo after Rare left.

>>716193152
>we now know it was 100% Retro's fault
[citation needed]

>finally watched the return to krokodile isle animation on YouTube
Have I officially killed my interest in the Donkey Kong film? There's no way they'll reach this level of soul

Love that they finally clarified what his motivation going back to DKC is after all these years.

>>716193546
Which is funny because the localization of King of Swing had him say he detested bananas, so for a long time we thought he stole the hoard solely to starve the Kongs. He also wasn't a fan of bananas in the cartoon.

>>716193649
>the localization of King of Swing had him say he detested bananas, so for a long time we thought he stole the hoard solely to starve the Kongs.
Which didn't make sense because DKC2 made it clear he was specifically after the banana horde.

>>716191848 (OP)
>>716192106
Erm dude, spoilers

>>716191848 (OP)
He looks so clean in Bananza and I mean that in a good sense, in Ultimate he looks fine but I like him in Bananza better, they even gave him his tail back

>>716194180
That's the problem with having different people localize different games in a series, they can never keep a coherent narrative.

>>716192787
Anon asking the most important questions in the thread, was Smash Ultimate and the lead up to Bananza worth the wait? ABSOLUTELY!

>>716194293
Go back, Summerfag

OH MY GOSH THIS IS SOOOOOO DARK GUYS! THIS IS DEEP! WHAT HAVE NINTENDO DONE ISNT THIS A GAME FOR KIDS!? WOW ITS LIKE A GAME FOR ADULTS LIKE MYSELF NOW!

>>716194467
As an original K.Roolfag, I will officially shut the fuck up unless he gets indefinitely sidelined again. If he gets in MKW, I'll even more happy. It would be pretty hilarious if they crank out a Bananza DLC (or even sequel) that's entirely pirate themed, with him returning of course.

>>716191848 (OP)
>every enemy has to be a multiomnigreaterouterinnerapocalyptic-level threat
It's all so tiresome.

>>716194814
>look guys i made up an entire universe in my own mind and i'm gonna act like YOU said it so i can tard out!

What is wrong with your kind?

>>716193350
>It's not a jab at the performance
No, it's a fucking haymaker to the gut of the performance, and it's 100% true. Shit looks like a PS3 game and runs like trash, and it's solely because none of you retards have anything resembling standards. If you did, Nintendo would have to actually try, and you might be able to play your two-generations-ago game at a stable framerate.

How did K Rool survive being sealed in the ground like that?

>>716195005
I love how the new bitchfit method right now is shrieking that everything looks like the PS3 and that's the most horrible thing ever. Was that system and its games really such garbage trash filth?

>>716193243
He didn't want to take over, he wanted to CONSUME

>>716191848 (OP)
his normal mapped rectangular scales look so bad.
lazy graphics design.

>>716195389
This, he should look as realistic as possible with an actual alligator's scales and scutes, anything that isn't realistic is faggot trash for kids and pedos.

>>716195559
H-he's hot...!

>>716196427
This reminds me of the Marvel show on, what was it, Netflix? Where one of the characters was a crocodile goddess who was friends with the heroes.

>>716196719
Maybe it was Loki?
I think the art posted was done by one of the designers from Mu-God of War, IIRC.

>>716194293
Game came out last week, you had that long to finish the game or to go dark to avoid getting spoilers.

>>716196719
It’s Moon Knight.

>>716197291
Maybe, I remember she got into a fight with another superbeing and put him in his place.

>>716194889
>MFW He gets into Mario Kart World's DLC (his new VA is already listed under the voice actors for MKW's credits, as is Void Kong's), the next DK game and is in the Donkey Kong Movie

We fucking won

>>716197726
>>716196719
You're thinking of Moon Knight.

>>716197716
That's it, thanks, she was in the Moon Knight series.

I coveted those bananas, I suppose

>>716195080
by being fucking fat

>>716191848 (OP)
Ya his divorce just kind of sent him over the edge.

>>716195080
It's my headkanon that the root was actually trying to eject him from the core, but he's so fat he wound up clogging the sinkhole that goes up to the next layer. Also he ate the bananas

>>716191848 (OP)
>/v/ would not shut up about nintendo being evil jap niggers erasing rare with bananza
>odyssey team uses the entire finale to shit on those people specifically
What a magical moment it was to punch a Crockoid, see a Kritter pop out, and hear that goddamn AUGH. A million retards across the internet, btfo in an instant. Who knows when something like that will happen again?

Best renditions of Gangplank Galleon and Crocodile Cacophany ever?

Big belly

>>716198571
>Gangplank Galleon
yes
>Crocodile Cacophany
too short to be considered at, Ultimate one still the best

>>716198539
That was just hysteria over DK having a new face after all this time. 30 years is a very long time for a company like Nintendo to decide it's time for another makeover, so it's very understandable why people flipped out about it. He looks fucking weird when he's neutral standing on two feet, look at this shit.
Also you're wrong, they used the entire -game- to shovel in as much Rareware era DK in peoples' faces. They even put Lanky in the game because they knew people love the stupid ass HE memes.

>>716198571
Yes! The song just screams “Return of the King”

>>716195215
The PS3 was the end of the vidya graphics race and the beginning of the movie graphics race. It's as far as things should have gone. It also had LittleBigPlanet, which was the last time Sony had soul until Astro Bot a decade later.
Like the "it looks like a PS2 game" complaint before it, it is said only by stupid niggers. Except this one is even more egregious.

>>716193649
One of the loading screen tips said that DK will only ever reject a banana if it's rotten mush, so I figure K. Rool is just changing his opinion to whatever bothers DK the most.

>>716194467
the smash ballot was 10 years ago?

>>716198539
Also happy to see the Zingers, Neckies, Kabooms, and Armies

kill all baraniggers

>>716199032
Mushroomy Kingdom in Smash looks like Super Mario Bros if it were a gritty PS3 game, it’s generally a disliked stage wish they brought back the 1-2 part of the stage in Ultimate

>>716198539
I liked the moment when the fake credits happens again and gangplank galleon starts playing better

>>716199237
I played DKC1 and 2 for the first time in celebration of Bananza, so I ended up dodging the Kabooms during that extended turf surf segment because I thought they'd explode and dump me onto the spikes.

>>716199152
More stuff from 2015

>>716199469
It could've been worse, I guess. Much worse. Worse in ways we probably hadn't even considered possible at the time.

>>716199380
I'm not overly fond of the autoscroll stages in general.
That one Mario Land underground remix is basically THE Mushroomy Kingdom song, I don't know why they picked the shitty desert and ONLY the shitty desert.

>>716199380
It was hated for being an autoscroller with really close KO boundaries, not because of the graphics, that matched the rest of the game's graphical style.

>>716191848 (OP)
Ridley is fucking lame, not only he's canonically dead, a fact that most secondaries who come from Smash don't even realize but he was never been the last boss, he would either work for the real big bad (Mother Brain) or be an annoying but surpasable obstacle before the bigger menace like the Metroid Prime (2 times), this isn't even mentioning Metroid is a story that actually has linearity and is dark enough to actually kill its villains, they already exhausted all the decent ways to bring him back such as a robot (in an unnecessary sequence for a remake) as a virus mimicking him and lastly a mindless clone (in the worst game of the franchise). Any other way of bringing him back would be Palpatine-level shit and a disservice to the whole franchise, he's something Samus surpassed long ago.

>>716191848 (OP)
He was pretty strong in DK64 too. He’s the Christopher Columbus of Mario. Except I think Christopher Columbus was in Mario is Missing but I could be making that up and I don’t wanna search it.

>>716191848 (OP)
Same feeling.

Look how he flies

The ending sequence of this game was super cool. Odyssey had the best one for a while but this surpasses it, it’s so good. Like even if you didn’t like the rest of the game, you’d have to admit the finale was good.

>>716201712
Yes, but Ridley murdered Samus' parents and ate her mother, sent her into a PTSD so bad she wanted her friends to kill her so she can escape it, and refuses to stay dead until his final defeat in Super, and even then he returns as a clone and an X-parasite copy to continue haunting Samus. And he was the final boss in Samus Returns. Yeah, it's extremely likely he's not coming back, but he's still left a long legacy inextricably linked with Samus' story.

>>716201712
>a mindless clone
The Ridley Clone inherited the original's seething hatred for Samus and recognized her as the little rabbit thing.
And then they didn't have it speak to her after he got his matured body back, once again botching any and all adapting of the manga, god I'm so glad Other M revisionism never managed to take root.

>>716191848 (OP)
Yeah but he looks like a fat faggot so idgaf

A space pirate had Ridley's tail grafted onto his body, and with nanomachine technology and intense psychotherapy, a new Ridley was made from this process. Liquid Ridley. They'll just need Kojima to sign off on it.

>>716202026
>final boss in Samus Returns
A shoehorned addition that didn't make sense and lessens the final sequence of the game.

I think Raven Beak would solo Ridley.

>>716202378
It makes perfect sense, how else would he have known that Samus had a Metroid and was taking it to Ceres Station?

>>716202269
Fuck it, bring everyone back, Metroid Gear Solid 4: Beams of the Chozo, Mother Brain visits Old Samus at her parents tombs, Samus is aged because of the X Parasite, they find the mangled body of Sa-X, she fights Dark Samus controlling an Aurora Unit while herself is piloting a Federation Golem, Anthony Higgs has one of those purple alien monkeys and sells you weapons, final boss is a fist fight against Adam Malkovich on top Samus' gunship.

>>716199469
I feel like a vivid memory is what makes time go by faster.

>>716202865
I'd play it, fuck it. I bought a PS3 just for MGS4 and I got Other M on launch day, full price. This anon loves slop slop.

>>716199469
2015 was such a fucking bad year for video games, dear god. I can't believe Rocket League is somehow the upper echelon in this image.

>>716202865

>>716191848 (OP)
Did anybody screencap all the people who INSISTED the leaks were photoshop and AI?

>>716203743
Wish I had, the seethe was delicious. Something about the shadows bring all wrong, it was just the Ultimate render slightly altered, not believing until I see footage etc. What a roody poo

>>716202865
Old Samus?

>>716204142
The only really obvious fake one was the wizpig. All the others were unique renders. I was a believer at least.

>>716204686
Wizpig was just one shitposter that thought he was funny, all sorts of samefagging and replying to himself. Disgusting. K.Rool though, I was convinced immediately.

>>716197857
Oh right, he's most likely going to be the villain of the movie. That's pretty exciting.

>>716205664
They really better get Wise and Kirkhope for the movie. The track they cut from the SMB movie works so much better than 'Take on Me'or whatever they used.

>>716198539
>>716198978
You can only say that NOW because you either forgot, or dont even know about DK's decade of erasure.

Go play or watch some Jungle Beat to understand how bad it was, no game franchise had such an identity erasure game like that one. It took that colossal failure plus two Retro games pushing the boundaries with confirmed restrictions to get where we are for them to realize that yes, Rare made DK what he is but they owned that identity now. So its no surprise that when a game changes an established 20 year character design you can feel that is a second, worse JB in the making (though by the time stuff like the other kongs showing up in previews started those fears should have subsided).