>>716510531 (OP)Reminder that Dixie being replaced with Loli Pauline was a late development change which is why she has the exact same size as diddy, why she acts like Diddy and bangs her chest like a monkey in cutscenes, and why her coop ability is to bring out a target on the screen that you shoot stuff with (Diddy's peanut gun in DK64).
>but muh music, Diddy doesn't singhe does bring out a boombox and rap though in DKC2, though I will admit this is one of the mechanics that likely was changed alongside the story when they decided to make it Pauline rather than Diddy.
Really, her entire storyline could have been completely cut out of the game and it wouldn't have effect gameplay at all. She's there mostly to be a voice acted mouthpiece and your Navi, honestly I'm not ruling out that they replaced Diddy with Pauline simply because they couldn't come up with enough active gameplay mechanics for him to actually feel like Diddy when he was just riding on your back