#DKCrevealed

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I've been retweeting some of this stuff on the wiki's twitter feed, but for the benefit of those not following that: Rare employee and DKC lead designer Gregg Mayles has recently posted on his twitter account a lot of development documents for the original Donkey Kong Country, and it's stuff that's never been out in the public before. These includes rare renders, concept art, faxed pictures by Shigeru Miyamoto, and most interesting of all, a design document for a very early incarnation of Donkey Kong Country!

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There's more where that came from.
 
For those who want DK Junior back, DK Jr. has always been around. :diddy:
 
Threek said:
Those Kremlings look very Battletoads-esque.
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They were originally designed as enemies for a Battletoads game before being phased into DKC.
 
That's noice. Good find!
 
I also thought the proto-Kremlings look like Battletoad characters, and looks like someone's beaten me to the punch on this observation.

It's kind of surreal to see the transition between old Donkey Kong and the Donkey Kong we know today, especially that picture of old Donkey Kong in a necktie. Although I prefer Donkey Kong's current design, I admit that old Donkey Kong looks pretty classy in a necktie. It really gives Donkey Kong an identity that makes him stand out better compared to his formerly naked self.

I heard stories on how DK Jr's design looked too different, so it's nice to see some enlightenment on this subject. He really looks like Diddy! Now I can understand why they wanted him to be a different character. Interesting to see that Diddy's shirt remained from this transition. Now I need to see Diddy with the Rare logo on his cap (which is another design choice that was originally planned).

Thanks for reading.