I think if we were to group the worlds of the three games with real-life locations, the Northern Kremisphere would be Canada/western North America, Crocodile Isle would be the coastal areas of the North America deep south (bayous and subtropical rainforests), and Donkey Kong Island is central and ea...
The jungles from DKC2 notably have venus flytraps in the background, making North Carolina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Swamp_(North_Carolina)) and Florida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocala_National_Forest) the most likely candidates. It seems to me that the DKC2 jungles are based on the ...
What always confused me was the jungle levels in DKC3, considering every other aesthetic fits the Canada-esque theme perfectly. The best explanation I can come up with is that they aren't jungle levels at all in DKC3, they're really supposed to be Rainforest levels. There are rainforests on the wes...
The Northern Kremisphere as a whole from DKC3 is obviously based on Canada and the Northern Hemisphere, and this got me thinking about the world maps and levels from the games in general. Donkey Kong Island might be based on the Congo while Crocodile Isle is based on the Amazon Rainforest or Vietnam...