Donkey Kong Country Returns 2: Return Of The Tiki Tak Tribe

Donkey Kong Country Returns 2: Return Of The Tiki Tak Tribe is the sixth game in the Donkey Kong Country series. This game takes place after Donkey Kong's birthday, coinciding the fact that Tropical Freeze is to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Donkey Kong Country. Donkey Kong Country Returns 2 is a 3D platformer developed by Rare Games for the Nintendo Switch and released by Nintendo on November 21, 2021. The game was announced at the E3 2021.
== Story ==
The story begins as the camera looks at a volcano. After a few seconds of observing it, the volcano erupts. Lava and molten rocks shoot out into the sky. The Tiki Tak Tribe awakes and they emerge from the molten rocks that are still airborne, coinciding the fact that they're back. The eruption continues until Tiki Tong Tower bursts out of the volcano and roars. The members of the Tiki Tak Tribe then go down to Donkey Kong Island to hypnotize the animals there by playing music (namely elephants, giraffes, zebras, and squirrels). The animals start stealing every banana from Donkey Kong Island, only to come across Donkey Kong's and Diddy Kong's hut. Diddy Kong jumps out the window and athletically swings down to the ground via the planks of wood that hold the hut up. He immediately notices that his and Donkey Kong's banana hoard has been stolen once again, as it is being used as a power source for the Tiki Tak Tribe so they can expand throughout the island, as the bananas have special properties to not only them, but Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong as well. Diddy scowls and chases after the animals that stole the hoard, not to be seen in this cutscene again. Donkey Kong finally steps out of the house just in time to see his and Diddy's banana hoard being taken away by the native animals. A tiki known as Krazy Kalimba comes along a few seconds later and pushes him back into his hut. The Tiki plays its music, trying to hypnotize the ape, but Donkey Kong and the rest of the Kong Family are too intelligent and strong willed to be hypnotized by their music. The Tiki tries again as Donkey Kong squints his eyes at him and then smiles, as he has found the culprit to why his hoard has gone missing.
After the cutscene, the player gets control. Donkey Kong punches the tiki out of his hut and walks outside (in multiplayer, Diddy Kong can double kick the tiki out of his hut). The Kongs then begin their quest to take back their banana hoard and rid the tikis of Donkey Kong Island.
Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong journey through many different worlds to regain their stolen banana hoard: the Jungle, the Beach, the Laboratory, the Ruins, the Cave, the Forest, the Goldmine, the Computer Lab, the Cliff, the Factory, the Warehouse, and (finally) the Volcano. As they go through many worlds, they battle several members of the Tiki Tak Tribe (along with new ones) and the possessed wildlife, including animals, amphibians, plants, MORE animals, skeletons, dinosaurs, and robots. The Kongs occasionally visit Cranky Kong in his several shops scattered around the island. He comments about the items he has in stock and sells them to the Kongs, in exchange for Banana Coins.
At the end of each world, they must defeat a Tiki Tak Tribe leader. The leaders are Krazy Kalimba, the Maraca Gang, Gong-Oh, Banjo Bottom, Wacky Pipes, Xylobone, Cordian and Tiki Tong - the Tiki Tak Tribe's leader. The first bosses are not fought directly as Tikis possess the bodies of animals to do their dirty work: Mugly (possessed by Kalimba), the Scurvy Crew (possessed by the Maraca Gang), Professor Squash (possessed by Saxophone), Ribbiter (possessed by Harmonica), Lou (possessed by Guitar), Stu (possessed by Gong-Oh), Bananacopper (possessed by Harp-ie), Mole Miner Max (possessed by Banjo Bottom), Peppergold (possessed by Trombone), Mole Digger Ralph (possessed by Marimba), Mangoruby (possessed by Wacky Pipes), Tomatocoal (possessed by Otamatone), Wreck-it Barker (possessed by Trumpet), and Colonel Pluck (possessed by Cordian).
Boss battles usually begin with the selected animal eating or using bananas (Except for Stu, Mole Digger Ralph, Bananacopper, Ribbiter, Lou and Mangoruby). One of the tribe leaders then possesses it to fight the Kongs. After the Kongs beat the boss, the selected animal lays down in defeat as the Tiki Tak Tribe leader possessing it emerges from the body, dazed. One of the Kongs can then run up to the tribe leader and KO it with a total of one or more punches, knocking it into what appears to be space (After defeating a boss, if the player wait some seconds the Tiki Tak Tribe's leader will just fly away towards the screen in ominous way, ending the level).
In the Factory and the Warehouse, the Kongs realize why the Tiki Tak Tribe are stealing bananas. They observe machines that mash bananas and put them into wooden statues to form new Tikis, possibly to take over more than just Donkey Kong Island. After they pass the nine worlds and shut down the factory and warehouse, they proceed to the volcano to finish the Tiki Tak Tribe's rein once and for all.
At the end of the final world, they come face-to-face with the "big boss” himself, Tiki Tong. Upon arriving inside Tiki Tong Tower, Tiki Tong takes and eats Donkey Kong's banana hoard, spins it around him his mouth like a blender, and vomits it on to the tribe leaders, much to the Kongs' horror, disgust and confusion. The tribe leaders then merge together to turn into giant hands for Tiki Tong to use. The Kongs break the hands by jumping on the back of each hand twice, while dodging his slap and chop attacks. Tiki Tong then proceeds to crush the Kongs with his head and breathe fireballs at them. They eventually defeat him by smashing his head three times, causing the wooden leader to explode.
Diddy and Donkey are then blasted to the moon due to Tiki Tong exploding. As all hope seems lost (for a brief moment), Donkey Kong then sees the moon below him, grins and uses his incredible strength to punch the moon towards Tiki Tong Tower (if Diddy Kong alone defeats Tiki Tong, a similar cutscene occurs with Diddy Kong headbutting the moon with his Chimpy Charge from the game Donkey Kong 64), smashing it back into the volcano, causing it to collapse. The moon is dramatically blasted back into orbit as bananas erupt from the volcano, bringing an end to the Tiki Tak Tribe's rein. All the animals on the island are also freed from their mind control, (It is seen as a banana hits the head of an elephant, and a squirrel and giraffe move throughout the world) and Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong later celebrate their victory and reclaim their banana hoard.
At the aftermath, a golden temple appears. After the Kongs gather all Rare Orbs from the eight Key Temples, they unlock the doorway to the temple and have access to its secrets: a mysterious Golden Banana.
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