Metro Kingdom
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- Not to be confused with New York City.
Template:Location-infobox Template:LLquote New Donk City[1] is a location featured in the upcoming Super Mario game Super Mario Odyssey. It is based off of the real world location New York City, and is notable for featuring humans as the main inhabitants instead of traditional Mario characters (Pauline, its mayor, notwithstanding). Its nickname, "The city that never leaps", is a play on another nickname for New York City, "The city that never sleeps." The residents of the city are known as New Donkers[2], the equivalent to "New Yorkers". According to one of the residents, New Donk City was the founding location of the Crazy Cap store chain.
Description
The city's design is largely inspired by real world big cities, most notably New York City. It features many typical things found in cities, such as fire hydrants, street lamps and stoplights (the latter of which Mario is able to grab onto and swing on to jump forward). There are taxis driving throughout the city, which Mario is able to bounce off of the front hoods of in order to gain extra jump height. There are also many billboards, some of which advertise about other locations in the game. Many of the streets and some of the billboards and advertisements in the city are named after characters from the Donkey Kong franchise, such as "Diddy's Mart", "Dixie Street", "Tiny's PIROSHKIS" and "Cranky Avenue", not to mention the city itself; additionally, there are some red girders that appear in New Donk City as a reference to the original Donkey Kong arcade game. The city is located on an elevated platform above many other buildings.
New Donk City is possibly where the wedding between Peach and Bowser will take place, as there are billboards announcing it found throughout the city. During E3 2017, it was revealed that Pauline is the mayor of New Donk City.[3] She appears at the New Donk City Festival in the E3 2017 trailer.[4] It is implied via dialogue by some of the inhabitants and by Pauline herself that the city had undergone a massive disaster that damaged it, and that she, alongside Mario, played a key role in restoring the city.
List of Donkey Kong references
- Diddy's Mart
- Dixie Street
- Dixie Theater
- Tiny's Piroshkis
- Cranky Avenue
- K. Rool Avenue
- Squawks Park
- Expresso Street
- Expresso Espresso
- Candy's Cafe
- Rattley Street
- Rambi Street
- Banana Bagels
Power Moon locations
- Drummer On Board!: Talk to the drummer to the right of Pauline.
- Guitarist On Board!: Talk to the guitarist in the Mayor Pauline Commemorative Park.
- Bassist On Board!: Talk to the bassist in the park near the start of the Kingdom.
- Trumpeter On Board!: Talk to the trumpeter on the rooftop of the triangular building near the New Donk City Hall Plaza.
- Inside the Rotating Maze: Collect all five Moon Shards in the rotating maze (accessed via entering a manhole in New Donk City).
- Outside the Rotating Maze: Hidden behind the rotating maze; accessed by backflipping on top of the rotating maze.
- How You Doin', Captain Toad?: Talk to Captain Toad. He is on an iron girder on the left side of the Kingdom.
- Jump-Rope Hero: Get a score of 30 on the jump-rope challenge.
- Secret Girder Tunnel!: Inside an iron girder next to the Odyssey.
- Inside an Iron Girder: Inside an iron girder on the left side of the Kingdom.
- Free Parking!: Park a motor scooter on the parking space in the far-back side of the Kingdom.
- Bullet Billding: Climb across the swinging poles on the far-back side of the buildings in the back of the Kingdom.
- Hanging from a High-Rise: Use the rocket ship in the Mayor Pauline Commemorative Park to reach a secret area where this Moon can be found.
- Vaulting from a High-Rise: During the "Hanging from a High-Rise" mission, this Moon can be found hidden above an upwards-moving pole.
- Dizzying Heights: Climb to the top of the New Donk City Hall.
- Glittering Above the Pool: From the top of New Donk City Hall, long jump to a nearby rooftop pool, where this Moon can be found.
- Swaying in the Breeze: On top of a swinging iron girder on the Helipad area.
- Girder Sandwich: Between two iron girders on the right side of the Kingdom.
- Remotely Captured Car: Inside a cage; required controlling the nearby New Donker to control the RC Car to enter the cage with the Moon.
- Who Piled Garbage on This?: Ground-pound a shining vent underneath a pile of garbage on top of a building near the Odyssey.
- Metro Kingdom Slots: Line up at least three Moon-symbols on the Slot Machines inside a building on the left side of the Kingdom.
- Taking Notes: In the Private Room: Collect all the Rainbow Notes inside a building on Cranky Street.
- Can be bought from the Crazy Cap shop for 100 yellow Coins.
Grand Moon locations
- The Scourge on the Skyscraper: Defeat the Mecha Wiggler.
Gallery
One of the billboards advertising Bowser and Peach's wedding.
Mario walking with some of the residents of the city.
An aerial shot of the city.
The city at night.
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The New Donk City Festival.
Pauline as mayor of New Donk City.
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russian | Город Нью-Донк[?] Gorod N'yu-Donk |
New Donk City |
References
- ^ Super Mario Odyssey trailer
- ^ Game Informer. (June 14, 2017). Watch Us Play Super Mario Odyssey. YouTube. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ5F60fXVa4
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGQHQc_3ycE
