A New Diddy Kong Racing Game Has Potential
It is common for companies to greenlight kart racing games based on an exiting property, whether said property originates from video games or not. Kart racers are popular because they combine the thrill that come with racing games and the party elements that are expected out of family friendly multiplayer romps. Mario Kart normalized the kart racer as a genre when it debuted with Super Mario Kart, and many other series that started with platformers would attempt the same thing. Many failed to compete against the plumber’s spin-off and fell into obscurity, but Diddy Kong Racing is one of the exceptions.
Starring Donkey Kong’s sidekick instead of the big ape himself, Diddy Kong Racing managed to stand out from the rest by not merely copying Mario Kart, but taking the basic kart racer formula and expanding it. The game gained a following for offering different vehicles aside from karts and an original cast that inspired the development of other Rare series, most notably Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day. While other successful racing games, notably Crash Team Racing and Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed, borrowed elements from Diddy Kong Racing, going back to the original formula still has some potential.
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The current environment is great to go back to Diddy Kong Racing. The aforementioned Crash Team Racing got its own remake with tons of extra content, while Nintendo is finally going back to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with an entire new game’s worth of DLC. If Nintendo is not willing to bring back the regular Donkey Kong series on Switch, a new Diddy Kong Racing is the ideal way to please fans.
The only time Diddy Kong Racing got a new installment was when Diddy Kong
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