Ripe Kingdom | |
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The entrance to the Ripe Kingdom | |
Ruler | King Shishkebaboo |
Princess | Princess Spumoni |
Terrain | Sweets Cakes |
Regions | Forest Cafeteria Wide Pin Pinball Mysterious Shortcut |
The Ripe Kingdom (たべごろの国, Tabe-goro no kuni) is the second or third kingdom explored by Corobo, ruled by the gluttonous King Shishkebaboo, who hosts forest tea parties in a cottage made of cake. It is a country located in the midwest of the World, overflowing with confectionary and desserts.
History
Compared to other kingdoms, very little is known about the early history of the Ripe Kingdom. Shishkebaboo claims it to be "the land from which all life sprung". This suggests that this was the origin of the primitive life that lived in the World before the Eggans created humans, life which perhaps was able to survive due to the amount of food present. However, Jumbo Champloon was the true first being to have been created in the World, although his existence remained unknown to many for a long time.
Shishkebaboo made the Ripe Kingdom out of cake and desserts with the sole intent to eat it all for himself. He set up several cafeterias around the kingdom, including one atop the western cliffs that was never used and was subsequently forgotten. He and Spumoni were unhappily married, but then later divorced. Shishkebaboo never shared any of his food with Spumoni, so she ate it behind his back. However, after eating a lot of food within a vase, she became too large to escape, and remained there.
Shishkebaboo invited the newly crowned King Corobo to a tea party, but Corobo invaded the kingdom and impaled Shishkebaboo with a fork, causing him to burst like a balloon and go careening into the air. Shishkebaboo remains flying through the air for the rest of his life, occasionally providing "airborne news." Corobo also freed and married Princess Spumoni. The kingdom was turned into a public cafeteria under the Kingdom of Alpoko, with Alpoko themed dishes.
Geography
The Ripe Kingdom is filled with sweet foods and confectionary, with paths paved with cookies and furniture made of fruits. The trees in this region are mostly a deep red. Several signs threaten that Corobo will be served on the menu.
Forest Cafeteria
The entrance into the kingdom is a strawberry-decorated archway accessed via the Bony Tunnel Entrance area to the east. It immediately leads visitors along a cracker-pathway through the Forest Cafeteria, with outdoor tables and seats dotting the hillsides. Several blockades of teacups, cakes, and strawberries block the way forward, with Onii pelting Corobo with various foods from above. Eventually the path leads to a clearing with a much longer food blockade, and a Rocky guarding it. Heading westwards uncovers a Hot Spring behind a rock. Heading through the blockade accesses a strawberry dish holding an Art piece, and a path leading into the forest itself. Here there is a glade containing hidden hole with some gold and a gingerbread cottage. Attempting to attack the cottage releases four Onii Hoppers from the neighbouring bushes. Breaking the cottage entirely begins the fight with King Shishkebaboo. After his defeat, a Wonder Spot sign for the region can be found outside the kingdom's entrance.
Wide Pin Pinball
The Wide Pin Pinball region holds the most food of the whole kingdom. It is set up like a pinball table for the Shishkebaboo fight, with glowing signs and such. Upon revisiting the region after its annexation, an Art piece and a Wonder Spot sign can be found here. The Mysterious Shortcut joins this region with Miner's Town, as long as Corobo has slain the Blue Dragon in the Small Lot. This is also the finishing line for Uncle Tin's forest races.
West Ripe Kingdom
During the God Food Stores quest, a set of stairs in the west become available for construction, although they are guarded by a Yvonne. This accesses the high clifftops of the Ripe Kingdom, a cafeteria once created by Shishkebaboo that, for some reason, was left abandoned. Within this region, one Art piece can be found in a log, one in a breakable food obstacle, and another up a blue tree. Several Meloncholie UMA are growing in this area, and at the end is the Giant Zoeter and several giant logs blocking the path to the Flying Machine part.
Music
The music played here is a slower, more lively remix of Verdi's "La donna è mobile", with the operatic vocals being replaced with various brass and string instruments.
Culture
Due to having little to no population, the Ripe Kingdom seems to exist purely as a large deposit of food for Shishkebaboo to endlessly gorge on. However, he also seems to invite outsider for tea parties to better relations, although it is suggested that in reality he wants to eat them too. It has several cafeterias, but one of them has become abandoned and overrun by UMA.
UMA
- Onii
- Onii Hopper
- Yvonne
- Meloncholie
- Rocky
- Onii Man (during Shishkebaboo fight)
- Giant Zoeter
Quests
- 1 Treasure (Legendary Staff)
- 4 Art pieces
- 2 Wonder Spot locations (one of which is just just outside the entrance)
- 1 Crashed UFO (Cow)
- 1 Flying Machine part
Etymology
Names in other languages
Name | Meaning | |
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Japanese | たべごろの国
Tabe-goro no kuni |
Country of Good-Eating |
French | Festinpolis | Feast-City / Feastropolis |
Italian | Regno dei mangioni | Kingdom of the Gluttons |
German | Reich der Vielfraße | Realm of the Gluttons |
Spanish | Reino Maduro | Ripe Kingdom |
The French name appears to take the "-polis" suffix from "metropolis." However, Festinpolis could also literally translate to "Polite feast."
Trivia
- The gate at the entrance to the Ripe Kingdom features two rows of writing written in Alpokian. Curiously, the top line is different between the concept art and the in-game; in the artwork, it says "Café Fatso" (Kafe Metabo), but in-game it displays the name of the main area of the kingdom, "Forest Cafeteria" (Mori no Kafechiria). The effort to adjust the writing on the sign possibly suggests that the main area was once named Café Fatso before it was changed to Forest Cafeteria. The bottom line, however, reads "welcome" (Uerukamu) in both cases.