Floodlit Fish

Template:Levelbox Floodlit Fish is the twenty-eighth level in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and the third level of Razor Ridge.

Summary

Much like Glimmer's Galleon from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Floodlit Fish is a very dark underwater level. At the start of the level, Dixie and Kiddy are transformed into Enguarde the Swordfish by entering its Animal Barrel, and they remain as Enguarde until reaching the No Animal Sign at the end. Gleamin' Breams are the main enemy of the level, and Enguarde must stab them to illuminate the area. The light emitted by a Gleamin' Bream slowly fades, causing the level to become dark again. Enguarde must quickly stab each nearby Gleamin' Bream to ensure he can view the path ahead. Lurchins are another common enemy in the level, and they are either dormant or swim through narrow, vertical paths.

A few times in the level, Enguarde has the option of taking more than one path. The paths which diverge from the main path lead to items such as KONG Letters, Bananas, or a Bonus Barrel. Like the other underwater levels, Floodlit Fish ends with a cave area, which is where the Kongs encounter the Koin and the Level Flag.

In the Game Boy Advance remake, due to early Game Boy Advance units lacking a backlit screen, Floodlit Fish was made brighter. As a result, Enguarde is not required to hit any Gleamin' Breams to see his way through the level. Additionally, both Bonus Levels in the remake are illuminated entirely.

Layout

Enguarde stabs a Gleamin' Bream to brighten the level

At the start of the level, the Kongs will swim around the bend and enter an Animal Barrel laid in their path. It will turn them into Enguarde the Swordfish, who will need to light up the area with a Gleamin' Bream to the right and travel through a twisty pathway. After avoiding countless Kocos around him, the fish will find another Gleamin' Bream to the left of the first Lurchin, who can help light up the darkness. Moving forward, Enguarde should head down the narrow passageway and follow a few banana trails to the right. Not following these trails can also take the hero to the letter O. Swimming to the south into the depths of the lake, the swordfish will maneuver around some Lurchins and hit the nearby Gleamin' Bream. Once the area is lit, Enguarde will continue on and swim down a long pathway, with a pair of Lurchins right above him. At the bottom of the path, he should move through the rest of the coral reef and travel to the left, entering an area full of Lurchins. Once he gets out of this part of the level, he will find the Star Barrel, as he nears his way down the path.

About halfway into the level, Enguarde will pass a Gleamin' Bream and trudge between the groups of brightly colored coral. He will soon meet some Lurchins in his path, whom he can avoid by swimming into small alcoves on the side of the path. Eventually, the fish will find the letter N and swim to a trail of bananas in the top-left corner of the maze-like area. Curving along the path, he will soon head downwards and dodge a school of Kocos. After passing a DK Barrel, Enguarde will head south again between two pairs of Lurchins and enter a different area. There, the Animal Friend will make his way around another bend and continue moving south, surrounded by countless numbers of Lurchins. Hovering downwards in a straight pathway, the fish will avoid more Lurchins with the use of small alcoves and soon find a fork in the road. Both ways will take him through a U shaped road, though the left passage will have the letter G in it. Falling south at the meeting of these two paths, Enguarde will soon find himself maneuvering around many Lurchins, still trying to move downwards. Eventually, he will enter a safe area and pass a No Animal Sign, which will turn him back into the Kongs. After that, the monkeys will need to swim into a small cave. In this cave, they will blast through a Barrel Cannon to land near a flagpole. Raising the flag on the pole will end the level.

Enemies

Name	Count
Bounty Bass	2
Gleamin' Bream	11
Lurchin	43
Koco	17 (red) 9 (green) Total: 26

Items and objects

Sprite	Name	Count
	Banana Bunch	6
	DK Barrel	2
	Bear Coin	3
	Animal Barrel	1 (Enguarde)

DK Coin

Sprite

Location

In the cave area at the end, the Kongs must enter an Auto-Fire Barrel and blast up to the left area with a Steel Barrel. Dixie or Kiddy must pick up the Steel Barrel and jump over a gap and onto an area to the right. There, the Kongs encounter the Koin just before the Level Flag. They must throw the Steel Barrel at the short wall behind Koin, causing it to roll into him from behind and defeat him. The Kongs are rewarded the DK Coin.

K-O-N-G Letters

Letter	Location
	Enguarde can defeat the first Bounty Bass to obtain the letter K
	At a fork in the path shortly after a Gleamin' Bream, Enguarde must go left and down.
	Found past some pairs of Lurchin
	At a later point in the level, the route forward will split into three paths; the letter G can be found by taking the left one

Bonus Levels

Image	Type and description
	Collect 90 Stars! Shortly after the letter O, Enguarde must pas a Gleamin' Bream and move down through the dark pathway. After swimming below two Lurchins, Enguarde encounters a few red Kocos while continuing down. When Enguarde encounters the third Koco, he must swim into an area to the right and swim into a Bonus Barrel below. In the Bonus Level, Enguarde must collect 90 stars within 30 seconds, around a dark area in the shape of a plus sign. When Enguarde collects every star, a Bonus Coin appears in the center of the Bonus Level. In the Game Boy Advance remake, the stars were rearranged to be more spread out.
	Collect 40 Stars! Just before the letter G, where the path splits in three directions, Enguarde must swim down a narrow path with three pairs of Lurchins. When Enguarde reaches the bottom of the area, he must maneuver under a fourth pair of Lurchins and go down into a Bonus Barrel in the area below. In the Bonus Level, Enguarde has 20 seconds to collect 40 stars by following a trail of them in a dark pathway. When Enguarde collects every star, the Bonus Coin appears at the end of the path.

Gallery

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

• 

  The letter O

• 

  Enguarde in an area with some Lurchins

Game Boy Advance

• 

  Enguarde defeats a Bounty Bass, revealing the letter K

• 

  The letter N

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	くら闇 すい中めいろ Kurayami suichū meiro	Dark Underwater Labyrinth
German	Flutlicht-Fische	Floodlit Fish
Italian	Mare d'Ombre	Sea of Shadows
Spanish	Pez Iluminado	Illuminated Fish