Designing For | Diddy Kong Racing's Krunch -- Designing For Frustration @DesigningFor | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Diddy Kong Racing is just fantastic across the board. Also Krunch is here. While I love the character on the basis of being a Kremling, Krunch is almost tragically shafted by not just his base mechanics, but by Diddy Kong Racing’s design as a whole. A combination of pacing, track design, and his strengths simply not coming together until it’s FAR too late make him one of the most endearingly outclassed and frustrating characters to play in any racer.
Donkey Kong December Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOxcCj4cjexnRW6_eFBJRtYkpTw_8QMe3
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Diddy Kong Racing is just fantastic across the board. Also Krunch is here. While I love the character on the basis of being a Kremling, Krunch is almost tragically shafted by not just his base mechanics, but by Diddy Kong Racing’s design as a whole. A combination of pacing, track design, and his strengths simply not coming together until it’s FAR too late make him one of the most endearingly outclassed and frustrating characters to play in any racer.
Donkey Kong December Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOxcCj4cjexnRW6_eFBJRtYkpTw_8QMe3
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Patreon: patreon.com/designingfor
Twitter: twitter.com/Designing4Games
Discord: discord.gg/bAwJkXP
Director/Writer/Voice Over/Footage: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong (twitter.com/pyrrhickong)
Video Editing/Additional Direction/Script Editing: AuthorMan (youtube.com/c/AuthorMan)
Intro Animation By: youtube.com/channel/UCb4-84eJw6K6Ij7EIsIBJpA
Intro Theme By: soundcloud.com/phildeejay/tracks