{"id":96401,"date":"2019-07-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/random_turns_out_dk_gives_diddy_kong_a_little_cuddle_every_time_they_sit_in_a_barrel"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:00:00","slug":"random-turns-out-dk-gives-diddy-kong-a-little-cuddle-every-time-they-sit-in-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/10\/random-turns-out-dk-gives-diddy-kong-a-little-cuddle-every-time-they-sit-in-a-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Turns Out DK Gives Diddy Kong A Little Cuddle Every Time They Sit In A Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/193d3e28d8b66\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/193d3e28d8b66\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Dk\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/193d3e28d8b66\/dk.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/193d3e28d8b66\/dk.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dk\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Let us improve your day dramatically by sharing the most wholesome piece of Nintendo trivia we&#8217;ve stumbled across in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone familiar with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/donkey_kong_country_returns\">Donkey Kong Country Returns<\/a><\/strong> series will likely remember the barrels used to transport DK around each stage; hop into one of these explosive beasts and you&#8217;ll soon find yourself being fired off to a distant platform.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, in the original Wii game, whenever DK and trusty sidekick Diddy Kong enter one of these barrels, DK actually gives Diddy a little cuddle. <em>Awww<\/em>. This has been discovered by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioBrothBlog\/status\/1148365647258234880\">@MarioBrothBlog<\/a>, who unloaded the barrel model in the game to check out the monkeys within; rather than cut away portions of each character model, it would appear the development team opted to have them embrace in a very tight snuggle instead.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By unloading the barrel model in Donkey Kong Country Returns, we can see that in order to fit Donkey Kong&#8217;s and Diddy Kong&#8217;s models inside the limited space of the barrel, their bodies are made as compact as possible by having DK hold onto Diddy while in a fetal position. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u6bKSZRDfz\">pic.twitter.com\/u6bKSZRDfz<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioBrothBlog\/status\/1148365647258234880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Is this little piece of trivia mostly useless? Probably, but then isn&#8217;t that often the best kind of trivia? Either way, we find it reassuring to know that our favourite video game apes take care of each other throughout their perilous journeys.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lovely stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us improve your day dramatically by sharing the most wholesome piece of Nintendo trivia we&#8217;ve stumbled across in recent times. Anyone familiar with the Donkey Kong Country Returns series will likely remember the barrels used to transport DK around each stage; hop into one of these explosive beasts and you&#8217;ll soon find yourself being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}