I swear we've had about four instances of everyone going ''holy shit Claude's coming up with a new scheme, lets see what wild new thing he figured out'', and every single one of said schemes, without fail, always turn out to just be a warcrime.
We struggled a lot at the final boss with the strict timing until we decided to use Cranky and we beat him in a single run, with Cranky's precise jumping allowing us to skip 2 phases before he died and left everything in DK's hands for the final phase in what was basically a beautiful passing of the torch between the kong generations.
Also we decided to give Funky mode a go and now we're beating the whole game a second time
We were wondering why the universe itself hated Donkey Kong so much that literally every aspect of every place he walks into turns into a death trap trying to murder him in a horrifying way
Then we found out there's apparently a demon sealed inside his island's volcano