IGN interview w/ DK Bananza devs

https://www.ign.com/articles/our-big-bananas-interview-with-the-developers-of-donkey-kong-bananza

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21 Comments

Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 1y (4 replies)

They really did not need to make DK do an ahegao face in the thumbnail and yet, here we are

Walican132@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Lmfao thanks for describing it like that I hate it.

overload@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

That's a new word to me, but yeah of course there's a name for that.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

DK loves the bananas!

Stovetop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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emb@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (16 replies)

A couple interesting bits:

  • Koizumi is the one who suggested this team do a DK game
  • They decline to specify information about DK's age, why Pauline is 13
  • DKB started out on Switch 1
  • Part of the inspiration for the gameplay was one dev just doing technical experiments with voxels
simple@piefed.social · 11 pts · 1y (13 replies)

DK's age, why Pauline is 13

Why are people so obsessed with connecting this game to some weird timeline

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y (11 replies)

It's never made sense.

Why is Mario still young when Cranky Kong, the original Donkey Kong, is old?

victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's make-believe—it doesn't need to make sense.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Many make-believe things do need to make sense to actually be enjoyable. Not Donkey Kong games, though.

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (8 replies)

WAIT CRANKY IS DONKEY?

My whole world has just been shattered

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Yup! Notice the text in top left of the DKC manual:

Makes the DKC opening shot make more sense, doesn't it?

Walican132@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Rare games aren’t Nintendo Cannon? (Idk just finding something new to argue about on the internet)

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Nintendo isn't consistent in their own games, so it doesn't matter either way. Mario and Luigi race with baby versions of themselves!

Walican132@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y

Ah so the better theory then is eventually at some point time travel is invented in the Mario universe and is used in wildly inappropriate manners.

“Bet I can beat infant you in a race” “You’re on!”

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

There are people who play Nintendo games for plot? Lol

slimerancher@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's interesting that both this and Mario Kart: World originally started as Switch 1 games, and only later they decided to move to Switch 2.

CluckN@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I remember when they did that with Breath of the Wild. Link literally has a WiiU gamepad that you can’t use on the WiiU. You can only use it as a main monitor.