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K. Rool appears as a playable character in all builds of ''[[Diddy Kong Pilot]]''. | K. Rool appears as a playable character in all builds of ''[[Diddy Kong Pilot]]''. | ||
In the earliest build seen at Space World 2000 and the [[Diddy Kong Pilot (2001)|2001 iteration]], K. Rool had a new alter-ego, Kamikaze K. Rool, who wore an aviator outfit and piloted a green plane with a sneering Kremling face painted on both sides and a nose with the [[Zinger]]'s color scheme. | In the earliest build seen at Space World 2000 and in the [[Diddy Kong Pilot (2001)|2001 iteration]], K. Rool had a new alter-ego, Kamikaze K. Rool, who wore an aviator outfit and piloted a green plane with a sneering Kremling face painted on both sides and a nose with the [[Zinger]]'s color scheme. | ||
In the Space World 2000 build, each pilot was going to have their own story mode, and K. Rool's story would have been called K. Rool's Gold. The intro blurbs revealed K. Rool would have been searching for ElDorado, the mythical city of gold after finding a stone tablet with a map in an ancient stone temple. The tablet led K. Rool to an island with a giant magical gate to El Dorado, where a quartet announce they are the guardians of the gate and tell K. Rool that earlier Cranky had failed to go through. The first guardian, Nikki explained | In the Space World 2000 build, each pilot was going to have their own story mode, and K. Rool's story would have been called K. Rool's Gold. The intro blurbs revealed K. Rool would have been searching for ElDorado, the mythical city of gold after finding a stone tablet with a map in an ancient stone temple. The tablet led K. Rool to an island with a giant magical gate to El Dorado, where a quartet announce they are the guardians of the gate and tell K. Rool that earlier Cranky Kong had failed to go through. The first guardian, Nikki, explained that only they had the magical power to open the gate, but first K. Rool would have to complete four tests to do so, with the first being to collect the firekey from CrankPot Keep. | ||
While nothing is known about | While nothing more is known about the plot due to the build being unfinished, the accompanying illustration for K. Rool's Gold depicted K. Rool greedily looking over a pile of gold while a Kong genie, emerging from a nearby magic lamp, hovered behind him.<ref>RareWareCentral (November 6, 2011). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DRAqj__5eA Diddy Kong Pilot - Very Early Beta Spaceworld]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved April 21, 2024.</ref> | ||
In the July 2001 build, these story modes appear to have been removed, though some sprites intended for story cutscenes remain in the game's data. | In the July 2001 build, these story modes appear to have been removed, though some sprites intended for story cutscenes remain in the game's data. | ||