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It's not a flashy attack and is simply practical but powerful, hope everyone likes it. I'll try to post a Dixie Kong drawing roughly once a month, but no promises lol. The next idea will probably be Animal Buddy related if I can get the drawing to look right. In the meantime, enjoy this one.Time for another moveset idea for Dixie Kong!
For this instance we're exploring an idea in the 5th Limb category, which covers potential attacks that have Dixie's hair function like whips or an arm. A fifth limb if you will.
Forward Air:
Dixie turns and flips her hair in midair, providing a broad stroke that smacks anyone in front of her and those above. Aerial attacks tend to be where Dixie shines, as she’s able to perform more dynamic movements and let her hair hit at wider angles. While the smack isn’t far-reaching, its broad swing is good for swatting away approaching assailants thanks to its strength and knockback potential. A straightforward and blunt attack with good power.
If anyone's interested in more ideas Dixie can potentially do, I have a Google doc with various illustrations to inspire others. There's a lot of stuff Dixie can do that the other Kongs can't and it's worth a look; digital works are at the bottom.
Dixie Kong Moveset by Andrew C
Overview Dixie joins the roster not as a Diddy Echo or Semi-Clone, but as a potential grapple-based character from the DK series. Using her ponytail as an extra limb, strong arm and unorthodox propeller, Dixie’s able to hold her own against her foes with surprisingly strong attacks and aerial mo...docs.google.com
Honestly I've been in PlayStation land for a while now; haven't really interacted with my Switch since November and that was to beat Cuphead once and for all. The new Kirby looks nice and I guess the Arceus game has a lot going for it, but the 2 things that'll bring me back to Nintendo are BoTW 2 or a new DK game. I'll get around to Luigi's Mansion and Metroid Dread someday, but for now I'm not Nintendo's target audience.
That character growth was beautiful, did anyone notice Dixie went through that whole game without help? That's surprising, but since the only other Kongs were missing I guess she had to solo the game. Oh well
Double Trouble was also an odd choice for a Dixie Kong solo game, but given she's in both a new land and on her own, I guess the subtitle works symbolically.
The formula was great, the experience however wasn't as smooth as Banjo Kazooie unfortunately, and I wish Rare showed the Donkey Kong franchise more love back in the days. They didn't have their main team working on DK after DKC2, and shamefully to say, it shows.
DK64 seems to be, from what i gathered, one of those ones that was praised a lot at first but in time gathered criticism. not sure which one youre talking about but what i saw was the collecting stuff. in my case id say having to play the original donkey kong in a more difficult manner. so i would certainly agree you could stream line the process quite a lot but i would love another 3d platformer DK with 5 characters to play as
That track is so well-made, I can picture it in Tropical Freeze, especially Autumn Heights.
I would honestly love this. Crash 4: It's About Time seemed to be inspired by DKCTF; unique setting/elements per level, unique tracks for most stages, and lengthy levels were all staples of Tropical Freeze and a 3D DK in that style would be really fun.
Look, I prefer exploration-based platformers too, but I would hate to see that be Nintendo's only kind of 3D platformer from this point forward. They should keep making/publishing different platformers of different flavors.
Here are my ideas on how the main three of Donkey, Diddy, and Dixie could play in a corridor platformer:
in fairness they have made two kinds of 3D platformer in recent years. The more sandbox style with Mario odyssey and the linear levels with Kirby
I don't know; I'm not really a big fan of enemies in platformers taking more than one hit to kill. That's why I said that Donkey should focus on having more health and with average movement.
A lot of it could come down to context. It's less that DK can kill all enemies in one hit while Diddy/Dixie have to do it in two, and more that certain enemy protections are less effective against DK. Perhaps not unlike how in the original Country game where him jumping on bigger enemies worked for him while it didn't with Diddy. And that's just one example, you could also have DK with certain offense options like a ground pound that can take out weaker foes even if he doesn't land on them directly and/or have him able to take out bosses quicker with his jumps/rolls at the expense of not being able to dodge attacks as easily like the others.
I'd give Cranky the lowest health due to him being past his prime compared to the others. On the fragile side but very skill oriented.
How is DKC about freedom of movement? Sonic is about freedom of movement because of his speed and spin dash. Mario is too albeit to a lesser extent with his powerups that make taking to the air safer. I don't see it in DKC.
Well, roll jumps, intense platforming, going through enemies with rolls, maybe I didn't word it quite well, but without these implemented I feel something would be missing. If they would make a platformer of the game of course.
I actually want DK to have a charge punch mechanic that will allow to OHKO all enemies and deal 2 x damage to bosses, and break walls like barrels and Rambi always did. It would fit very well I think, and of course DK's jump attacks would also be stronger, but a mechanic like this for him exclusively would really make him feel powerful, and that's a thing the DKC games by Retro sometimes lack. Outside of over the top cutscenes as punching a / the moon into the island, and the finishers DK delivers to bosses.
Not sure if I'd hold my breath on the GBC/GBA DKC remakes. They weren't re-released on the Wii U/3DS eshops.
To be fair, Mario 64 DS at least was on the DS VC on Wii U (alongside the original N64 version), if DS games somehow ever came to NSO, I'm pretty certain it'd be there.
Meh, I think Namco would have done a poor job of keeping the spirit of DK alive at the time tbh. I know this is just Wikipedia, but Namco was really struggling during that time. They had to save themselves by merging with Bandai.
I agree that Donkey Konga poisoned the well for Jungle Beat. Back when I was 11, I saw Jungle Beat at GameStop and promptly ignored it when I saw you had to play it with bongos. I literally wrote it off because I thought it was another rhythm game. Plus calling it Jungle Beat made me associate it with music, as in music beat. Jungle Beat is a good name though, it's just that I wrote it off and bought something else.
