is a Kremling playable character inand. He wears a purple leather vest, which is adorned with a skull-and-crossbones design in, though said design is omitted in. His jacket is similar to the ones Kritters wear in, and the jacket the playable Kritter would have worn in both cancelledtitles. In the 2002 Microsoft acquisition of Rare Ltd. , the rights of many franchises and characters were passed on to Microsoft. Nintendo sought to keep all characters directly linked to thefranchise, with the exception of the cast of. Due to the nature of Krunch being a Kremling, which is a Nintendo-owned fictional species, Krunch was the onlycast member, besides Diddy Kong, whose rights were kept with Nintendo.