In Donkey Kong Country, a bizarre glitch can happen when riding Enguarde and collecting an Animal Token. Whenever three matching Animal Tokens are collected, a bonus stage featuring that Animal Buddy is briefly entered to collect tokens for extra lives.
However, if the Animal Buddy (Expresso in the footage) clips through the ground and dies during the bonus stage, the game will not return to the regular gameplay prior to collecting the token. Instead, it will restart the game (start the beginning of the first stage, Jungle Hijinxs) using the current characters, which includes Enguarde.
As shown in the footage, this results in Enguarde being controllable in a non-water stage. Due to the game never expecting this to happen, Enguarde still treats the environment as water, allowing him to swim through air.
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