IGN interview w/ DK Bananza devs (www.ign.com)
from emb@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 13:42
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emb@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 15:11 next collapse

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 on 10 Jul 15:47 next collapse

DK's age, why Pauline is 13

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

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 10 Jul 16:24 next collapse

There are people who play Nintendo games for plot? Lol

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 16:57 collapse

It’s never made sense.

<img alt="" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fictionalcrossover/images/5/54/DKCHeroes2.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20111108103547">

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

victorz@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 20:11 next collapse

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

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 20:23 collapse

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

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 21:55 collapse

WAIT CRANKY IS DONKEY?

My whole world has just been shattered

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 22:04 collapse

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

<img alt="" src="https://gonintendo.com/attachments/image/52541/file/medium-7747f98ff93f6f21f685c3269ca8a7dc.jpg">

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

<img alt="" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/d439f64aad0c8834209f13247e8e3efb/tumblr_mf711vHUIx1s0qwlko1_500.gif">

Walican132@lemmy.today on 10 Jul 23:04 collapse

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

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 23:36 collapse

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 on 10 Jul 23:58 collapse

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!”

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jul 00:58 collapse

I guess Partners in Time would be when the time travel was discovered! Conveniently explains child Pauline as well, I suppose. Well, the “how,” but not the “why.”

Walican132@lemmy.today on 11 Jul 03:31 collapse

Yeah we are never going to know why. Also why no shoes. Have they never been on the internet.

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 11 Jul 06:09 collapse

It’s simple market analysis.

Elden Ring has women with bare feet and is very successful.

Expedition 33 has woman with bare feet and is very successful.

Walican132@lemmy.today on 11 Jul 16:37 collapse

Street fighter 6 and Juri support this as well.

Fucking gooners.

slimerancher@lemmy.world on 10 Jul 16:09 collapse

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 on 10 Jul 17:15 collapse

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.

Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 15:13 collapse

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

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jul 16:53 next collapse

DK loves the bananas!

Walican132@lemmy.today on 10 Jul 23:03 next collapse

Lmfao thanks for describing it like that I hate it.

overload@sopuli.xyz on 13 Jul 01:39 collapse

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

Stovetop@lemmy.world on 11 Jul 23:33 collapse

Oh, banana!