While the surprise for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze may have been leaked by Amazon Italy’s posting of the game cover and then shown off at the Spike VGX weeks ago in gameplay, Cranky Kong had still not received a true introduction trailer. That changed today as the new Nintendo Direct brought us a blast from the past in a new character trailer for the original Donkey Kong.
The video starts with some footage similar to what we’ve seen before with both Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong and Donkey Kong and Dixie Kong playing through the levels. Then we get introduced to Cranky Kong, who looks to be partially inspired by Scrooge McDuck from Ducktales with the use of his cane throughout.
Beyond just Cranky Kong, Satoru Iwata also explained new special moves that can be done after collecting 100 bananas. This move will destroy all enemies on screen and give you items for each, depending on who your partner is at the time. Diddy Kong for instance provides life balloons for each destroyed.
Watch the trailer for yourself to see this and more below:
