Donkey Kong Country: Future Ruler Tales - Chapter 1: The Beginning

Donkey Kong Country: A Future Ruler's Beginning (ドンキーコング:ロバとディディの冒険) is an action-adventure game based on the Canadian/French Donkey Kong Country television series' episode, Bad Hair Day released for the Nintendo GameCube as an Nintendo-exclusive game on March 6th, 2002. It was developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Nintendo in Japan and by THQ internationally.

Characters

 * Donkey "DK" Kong - the main protagonist in the TV series, Donkey Kong Country; he is the main playable character in the game.
 * Diddy Kong - DK's best-friend and second banana; he is DK's guiding character.
 * Cranky Kong - DK and Diddy's mentor; seen in the background in Cranky's Cabin. His yell was heard in the beginning of levels 1.
 * Candy Kong - DK's love interest; sits in the right row of the Barrel Copter in level 5.
 * Bluster Kong - Candy's boss and future owner of Bluster Barrelworks; playable in level 5 riding on the Barrel Copter.
 * Funky Kong - the owner of Funky's Flights; rides in his plane in level 4 as a playable character with DK and Diddy sitting in the back row of the plane.
 * Krusha - K. Rool's bodyguard; as a final boss in level 7.

Voice Actors

 * Richard Yearwood - Donkey Kong (FMVs)
 * Phil LaMarr - Donkey Kong
 * Andrew Sabiston - Diddy Kong
 * Aron Tager (R.I.P., 2019) - Cranky Kong
 * Joy Tanner - Candy Kong, Candy Clone (FMVs)
 * Kath Soucie - Candy Kong
 * Donald Burda - Bluster Kong (FMVs)
 * Jess Harnell - Bluster Kong, Funky Kong
 * Benedict Campbell - King K. Rool
 * Adrian Truss - General Klump
 * Len Carlson (R.I.P., 2006) - Krusha (FMVs)
 * Frank Welker - Krusha

Cranky's Cabin

 * In the beginning of the 1st level shows where Cranky introduces the audience about his name, the Crystal Coconut, and the story of the future ruler, Donkey Kong, and the notorious King K. Rool. After his story, K. Rool, his general, Klump, and his army of Kritters. Klump orders his army to shoot Klaptraps at the roof ot the cabin. Meanwhile, DK is trying his new tie and getting Diddy up to his hut. Cranky off-screen yells at DK to get to his cabin. DK joins Diddy for the job.


 * After all the Kritters, Klump and K. Rool being defeated. DK and Diddy celebrate. Until Cranky comes and tells them to fix his roof.

DK's Date

 * In the beginning of the 2nd level shows where DK is getting ready to surprise his girlfriend, Candy, with a bouquet of bananas to get her away from Bluster Barrelworks as Cranky says it.
 * Bluster tells Candy to go to the Coco Banana with him. Candy asks Bluster that she made plans with DK, as he appears on the conveyor belt surprising Candy with a bouquet, until the cake splats on Candy's face as she breaks up with DK sending him to the shredder.

Return to the Cabin

 * In the beginning of the 3rd level shows where DK in his hut feels upset that Candy broke up with him, until a clone of Candy comes in to the elevator trying to cut DK's hair with a curse, "Snip, clip, power slip. You're a wimp and that's it." (The scene where Candy Clone says, "Make you my sweet and sexy chimp." was removed so the "sexy" word shouldn't be on an E-rated game) After that, DK feels puny as he punches the elevator button to get Candy Clone out. Candy Clone presses the button gently as she rides down. DK on the other hand feels sad. Meanwhile at the cabin, K. Rool gets Krusha to raid Cranky's cabin. Cranky calls DK for help.
 * DK drops down landing at Cranky's cabin floor to challenge Krusha, until his powers were still useless. Krusha punches DK at the Crystal Coconut's hiding place. K. Rool and Krusha get the coconut quickly, Cranky warns them, but it's too late. DK tells Cranky how he got his hair cut. Funky arrives and tells DK and Diddy to hop in to his ship to find bananas.

Funky's Flights

 * Funky starts his plane with DK and Diddy aboard, until his ship backfires, but flies off. Meanwhile, Cranky makes his Voodoo Undo.
 * After the lift, Funky presents DK and Diddy to the banana trees. Diddy gets DK to eat all bananas to make him powerful.

Saving Donkey Kong

 * Meanwhile, Cranky tells Candy and Bluster about what took them so long. Cranky takes the Voodoo Undo to Candy to fix her curse, but the real Candy didn't curse him, as Cranky noticed that someone was an imposter. Cranky sends Candy and Bluster to the Barrel Copter.
 * As Candy and Bluster are riding on the copter. the Klaptraps spew quickly to eat the blades. Candy and Bluster crash-land! Bluster takes Candy's Voodoo Undo and spills it making the banana tree to grow.

DK to the Rescue

 * Diddy tells DK to chew a piece of banana, DK feels petrified. Diddy squeezes the banana peel to put a piece of banana in DK's mouth. DK's powers and his hair grow back, so are his muscles.
 * K. Rool orders Krusha to put the Crystal Coconut in the vault for safe keeping. DK arrives quickly and challenges Krusha for round 2.

The Final Showdown

 * As Krusha asks DK what to do, DK kicks the coconut to the sky as K. Rool screams for horror.
 * DK challenges Krusha for round 3 as Krusha lies down being hurt. K. Rool cries for his despair. DK goes off to get to Candy for her birthday. Candy gives her present to DK, but then, an imposter of Candy arrivws to give her present to DK. DK noticed that "Two Candys are better than one." Candy Clone tells DK that she's real. But the real Candy tells DK that the clone's the imposter. The imposter says the real one is the fake. Until DK halts and noticed that the real Candy is... the Candy Clone! The real Candy dumps DK and storms off. DK and Candy Clone start the kiss, until the clone glitches and explodes. DK looks at the screen confusingly with explosion dust in his face.

Intro

 * (Shows where DK and Diddy are in the forest.)
 * Cranky: (Off-screen echoing) DONKEY KOOOONG!!!!
 * DK: Cranky called us for help! Let's get to the cabin and see what's the problem.
 * Diddy: Right, pal. We have to save him!

Klump's Arrival

 * (Klump turns around to DK)
 * Klump: Donkey Kong! Surrender to K. Rool, or we'll make you beg for mercy!

Ending

 * K. Rool: Uh-oh.
 * (DK jumps on the trigger barrel to launch K. Rool to the sky)
 * K. Rool: WHOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!!!!