I gotta say , the gameplay looks fun. Looking like a future classic.
DK Bananza
Yeah the game itself looks great, but I still don't like the new DK design at all
Bananza isn't a word.
so what do you think loline's gameplay will be like? surely she does more than just showing you the way once she isn't in rock form anymore
this but the opposite
Tell that to nintendo
Something to do with singing and music, which odd rock alreayd kinda does.
i can't take modern nintendo seriously anymore
monkey leaves
Why is DK covered in feathers now?
Is that monkey on the right...female?
there will be some big gimmick like when they showed mario odyssey and then they showed trailer #2 with cappy. what's the gimmick for this game tho
Part Chozo.
the real question is when is the next 3D Mario? Did Nintendo put all their best devs on this game or have they been working on Mario at the same time
I forget what it's called, but instead of using the fur tech like they always do they're doing that thing where the normals are only attached to the model at one point so the rest is hanging off and can have jigglebones applied. If you look closely, only his signature coif is an actual 3D model
she is diddy but singing.
the gimmick is that you can carve the level and you go progress by going down into the sublayers
what's the gimmick for this game tho
They already showed it. Digging and climbing all over the levels is plenty for a game-justifying gimmick.
it looks and plays like most of the games from pic related and you think its revolutionary lol fuck off
oh it's sonyjeets malding, typical
I wish there was a dreams game as good as this, the absolute closest I can think of it that odyssey knockoff where you play as a sailor cat. something Voyage.
enjoy your $1000 game banana boy
You don't even know what you're mad at
Nice Xbox 360 game
This thing represents what sony doesn't understand about videogames. Dreams was a convoluted mess of a project that was deemed to fail.
They're bringing back DS/DSi gimmicks so
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game is fun
"ITS NOT REVOLUTIONARY IT HAS TO HAVE GIMMICKS AND ZERO FUN!!!!"
Why are Snoys like this?
Enjoy your $1000 dollar subscription and no games snoy boy
wheres king k rool?
Salvager Monkey
not "Scrappy Kong"
Bros....Nintendo truly is rebooting the franchise from Country...
punch everything, including the ground
click a button to find your way, like Dead Space
japs never understood DKC, unfortunate.
Pauline
Dynamic fire/water/whatever else physics element
thanks I will, enjoy your gaas slop if it doesn't get cancelled after two weeks like last time!
Redesigned for Mario movie
DK movie supposedly coming out in the future
DK attraction at Universal Orlando
Redesign carries over to Mario Kart World
Took you this long to realize that?
are all monkeys/apes kongs?
was the monkey in 64 a kong?
It's that Pauline (or her kid) is actually the Rock.
*mario 64 specifically
Kongs are a tribe name. Not every monkey is a Kong. Especially is they're calling the Kong leader an outsider. Of course the monkey isn't going to be a Kong.
I am mildly frustrated at
1. The all-consuming obsession with open-world that is homogenizing all modern Nintendo games into slop
2. The continual technical and general quality degradation of Nintendo products
3. Their increased greediness and shamelessness over the years
As for the DK game itself
1. The boring and aimless destruction + open world gimmick in place of actual platforming
2. The fact that you could swap out DK for any other character and the game still works (the mark of a bad game)
3. The distinct lack of coherent and well-designed art and visuals that used to be the mark of quality for a Nintendo game
4. The complete lack of technical lighting (No the generic drop-shadows are not lighting)
As for the character itself
1. Generic title instead of a unique name
2. Confusing color choice (Why is a generic salvager dressed in neon vomit, but not even the CORRECT bright colors (yellow/orange) )
3. What is going on with the clothes texture, it looks like they're directly vertex-painting it
Modern nintendo the game, and the character are just a dumpster fire, the DK game itself is a good representation of the culmination of modern nintendo.
Is this what a 80$ game on a 450$ console looks like?
I just want it not to be Minecraft. It could still be really good, but they have to use those mechanics engagingly in the context of a platformer, as opposed to most of the game being digging holes to find gold.
I wonder if it would be better if there were limitations on the destruction, like having to use explosives, or engineer falling scenery to get through rock. It's one of those things where you can overpower the player to the point that it stops feeling engaging.
The bad guys in Jungle Beat were called Kongs, and that was a Nintendo game even.
presuming every monkey is a Kong
the Kongs are a family.
animal buddies returning
i am sad that they ran my boy through the soi machine. even if the game is good DK is always going to look like a soi version of rare DK now and that sucks man.
crie
Why are his clothes made from quartz?
i will. it's objectively a downgrade.
I dont even care about DK but something about his new design and face is irritating, he just seems obnoxious. The only thing I can compare him to his jar jar binks and even then he feels more annoying
The fact that you could swap out DK for any other character and the game still works
who else uses specifically barrels to traverse levels, loves bananas, has a mining aesthetic along with a jungle aesthetic, is strong as fuck, interacts with largely monkeys and other animals and fights ancient deictic animals?
what a retarded sentiment
it pretty objectively looks better. Higher fidelity, more animation. You just don't like it, cause it's "new thing".
This shit makes me itchy, how would I even play while looking at it
captcha:MMDKG
Dynamic fire/water/whatever else physics element
when you are skating on a rock, water affect the saliding and rock erosion. Different materials will 100% be an important part
no i don't like it because it looks nothing like DK.
If there is anything like that for this game. My bet is some kind of terrain/object creation. Destruction and creation.
Do kids' videogames really need realistic grass?
Take out the fan-service and it's barely a DK game
I agree with others it could have easily been a wario game
tff, it makes ten times more sense if it's Wario. He's already a brawler known to break through walls to find treasure, and occasionally use bombs.
Donkey Kong's signature move is throwing barrels, which I guess you can expand to throwing everything, but that's way less of an obvious leap.
what "fanservice?" you mean details that are core to the dk ip?
if mini pauline has some sort of power that makes mineycrafta brown bricks i'm not playing this shit. i don't like moinecrap.
And yet you recognize him. How curious...
probably because nintendo is going back and erasing rare dk while saying this has been dk all along.
He feels more like Chunky than Donkey. Too derpy and goofy instead of being the leader and straight man of the Kongs.
how do their hairlines work?
1. The all-consuming obsession with open-world that is homogenizing all modern Nintendo games into slop
first line and you're already spouting total horseshit
it's not open world and there's like 5 modern nintendo games that are open world, everything else is linear, you are a retard and a sperg
He's already a brawler known to break through walls to find treasure, and occasionally use bombs.
is that all you get from this game? really? not the hand slap, barrel roll, none of the moves that make DK, DK?
busting through walls to find treasure isnt even solely a wario thing, dk does it to find treasure (letters) in hidden places to(with specifically barrels or mounts like rambi). and dk did it better than wario.
wario is a greedy jew and DK just cares about bananas.
Oh boy, this guy truly is the culmination of modern Anon Babble. How ironic.
The boring and aimless destruction + open world gimmick in place of actual platforming
It does not look boring at all. It's very much about platforming and DK looks quite agile in a way that few other games achieve. It's as much a platformer as Odyssey or M64 were.
The fact that you could swap out DK for any other character and the game still works (the mark of a bad game)
Not at all. The very fact that it's Koizumi and the 3D mario team the ones who decided to pivot from mario to DK is very telling that they thought was a lot more fitting for him, so much so that they risked not developping a 3D mario game this time around, which is unprecedented for nintendo.
The distinct lack of coherent and well-designed art and visuals that used to be the mark of quality for a Nintendo game
Couldn't disagree more. The game looks quite vibrating. It's a different atmosphere than what you'd expect from a Mario game but it's its own thing. You just have very specific expectations of what nintendo games should look like. And no, your expectation is not for it to be "good". It's whatever mixture of references you already have in your head.
The complete lack of technical lighting
Not sure if you're talking about ray tracing or something else. Clearly the processing power is being used for something else than graphics in this game. The drop shadow is mostly a game mechanic for platformers at this point.
Generic title instead of a unique name
He's donkey kong, the nintendo character. I don't know what else is there to be said.
Confusing color choice
Because that level features prominently bright yellow tones and blue offers a nice contrast against it? I mean, why not? It works in Splatoon.
What is going on with the clothes texture?
It's clearly reflecting the rocks/minerals theme of the game. How could this not be evident for some one is beyond me.
donkey kong bananza isn't open world
Is this what we're doing now?
and kong letters, stealing toys from a factory, a variety of non-banana related coins in dk 64...
Take out the fan-service and it's barely a DK game
What even is a DK game? The only other 3D one was DK64 and that game barely had to do with the ones on SNES beyond the characters, plus it wasn't all that well received.
It's like Mario 64 barely being a Mario game. A 3D game is fundamentally different from a 2D platformer. DK fits here like a glove because he's strong enough to sell you the whole "Hulk ultimate destruction" experience they are aiming for.
it literally has a linear progression through levels, yes we are "doing" proper definitions and not whatever jewish play on words you love to engage in
DK traditionally just cares about his banana hoard.
just because thats his priority doesn't mean he cant go after things, either. this extends to his og games and all.
Literally who cares
Shit looks as bas as those Pokemon games.
see faggot. play the games you're shitposting about, basement dweller.
stealing toys from a factory
Wasn't that series a shoot off from the game Mario and Wario? Seems the only ideas Nintendo has for DK is to slap him onto Wario games
it's a collectathon like dk64 and it's a game where you punch the shit out everything in front of you and rampage through the environments like jungle beat
it's funny how this cocksucker tries so hard to larp as le hardcore dk fan but he only every saw a couple of youtube videos about donkey kong country and thinks he's an expert lmao
This is like saying Mario Odyssey should have been a Wario game because he collects coins and uses enemy powers against them.
They turned it into that in the ds games, the original was a spiritual sequel to DK94.
wrong comparison, if you played the wario games, you'd know he also has transform gimmicks , so they'd also fit in odyssey (Even though that's way more of a stretch).
barrels
bananas
mines
jungle
The other things aren't just a DK thing. Especially the monkey point since monkeys aren't his usual enemies. That would be the kremlings
upset about the purity of donkey kong lore
calling someone else a "basement dweller"
i can't take modern nintendo seriously anymore
Their mascot is an Italian plumber who faced off with DK Jr's grand/father who threw barrels at him. At what point was any of this 'serious?'
You're unironically too low IQ for this conversation if you can't discern what i meant by that.
still not as big of a stretch as DK needing to be a gold obsessed retard so they had to freeze bananas and put them underground so he could smash them into little pieces that look like gold. This DK game was absolutely a re-skinned wario game.
Autists have no self-awareness. These vidya monkeys are the most important thing in his life right now.
That's what I meant. Odyssey's gimmick is arguably a more fitting evolution of Wario Land 2 and 3 than anything from Mario.
But nobody was calling it a repurposed Wario game.
Took me a moment--his HAIR is balding, with his FUR coming through.
For reference, hair is not the same as fur--you lose hair, but you shed fur.
so you consider basic tenets of DK, fanservice?
i don't think it was ever a wario game, nintendo doesn't care about wario that much to give him a big budget title anymore. even in concept.
DK needing to be a gold obsessed retard
Yeah DK has never cared about gold. Not once, in any capacity.
because odyssey has too much gymnastics, which isn't wario.
DKB does not and is much more true to what wario is
OHHHHHHHHHHHH
Acting like this is some sort of 5D chess game
Get off of Anon Babble, Musk. No one thinks you're cool, and your cars suck, ya fucking Nazi...
This isn't even the first time DK has gone after golden bananas, retard. How many DK games have you even played?
missing the forest for the trees
he doesn't play any games, his hobby is shitposting about nintendo
Some ability that Pauline provides.
If you look at the rock it's wrapped in tape with the evil monkeys face on it. So he was scared enough of her that he sealed her in the rock.
Maybe her singing has magic powers now.
it is odd that Anon Babble refuses to admit this is obviously a soft reboot.
I accept your concession.
so you consider basic tenets of DK,
DKC, which nintendo don't understand and don't care about.
This is a reboot to turn him into Strong Monke Mario
It's a prequel featuring DK Jr. :)
DK has always been associated with an obsession with gold what are you talking about?
I'm so tired of this autistic reality inversion that happens whenever pedants get into arguments.
I'll soft reboot your ass
i'm so tired of being exposed for being wrong
No, the point the other anon was making was that Bananza could have DK swapped out for any other character and it wouldn't affect the game. Then someone else said that it had to be DK because of the things I listed, to which anon stated it was nostalgia. Then the response being "what fanservice"? That is the fanservice. Though I would say the jungle and mine could also just be any other character as well. So maybe just barrels and bananas being the only things that make the game "DK". There's even bootleg banjo kazooie style googly eye enemies. What makes this game overtly DK aside from bananas, barrels, and cranky kong? The move set seems like the type of stuff that Wario or some other character would do so it's not that.
DKB does not
Remember when Wario could monkeybar? Actually, I think he could in Super Mario 64 DS.
Okay, I'll bite--prequel to what?
Donkey Kong?
Donkey Kong Country?
Donkey Kong 64?
Nevermind the litany of other spin-off's
Game looks fine. It's just the usual console war shitposters going into overdrive whenever a new console is announced.
DK is obsessed with gold
no, hes obsessed with bananas. Warios character is obsessed with gold and treasure in mines.
It's a prequel to George Floyd
more like everytime a new nintendo game is announced
autist cries again
It's only like the third after the Paon and Retro eras, the Rare games were themselves a reboot, what does it even matter at this point?
mind explaining why he's collecting frozen bananas instead of gold bananas if he's always been a gold collecting monkey?
people were already kind of pissed off about movie DK being so different and were already guessing that game DK was going to be changed back then, and people acted like people were overreacting.
I always notice the jannies disappear whenever a new console is announced.
Just about every Nintendo game is 'fan service.'
Would you really play a Nintendo platformer without Mario?
Or an Action-adventure game without Link?
Or a sci-fi Metroidvania/FPS without Samus?
Admit it, Nintendo serves digital dopamine. That's their entire MO...
autist repeats himself again
DK has mostly looked the same besides minor changes for like 30 years. this is definitely the biggest change since then. the higher ups wanted him less cool and more cute and goofy i'm guessing for wider appeal since everything is made for women nowadays.
ah, hes run out of arguments.
They and the mods' only purpose is to faciliate maximal site engagement to attract advertisers. These spergs being purposefully obtuse? Very lucrative for Hiro, hence why they're a protected class on this website.
even the picking up enemies and throwing them at shit is very wario.
It's actually more in line with pic related.
Retard logic. All games are digital dopamine. Are you semitic?
Unfortunately you're correct on all counts.
This is just Odyssey 2 with all the same problems.
Nu-Nintendo game that actually looks creative and soulful, and not like the devs were sent into the Mario mines by Miyamoto holding them at gunpoint yelling "MAKE SURE ITS WHMISICAL AND FUN!!"
I'll admit I'm slightly jelly, if I ever pick up a Switch 2 in the future it'll be with this game for sure
Warios character is obsessed with gold and treasure in mines.
Wario's character is obsession with treasures in old ruins, not specifically gold and mines.
Mines were always more DK's thing.
more in line with a worse design everyone disliked compared to rare DK sure.
wanted him less cool
imagine unironically thinking a big retarded cartoon ape was ever "cool"
autism truly is tragic
You didn't make an argument :)
That's what will always irk me--it was Rare that built up Donkey Kong (Jr.)
Nintendo has been riding their coattails until Microsoft bought them up. I'm just mildly surprised they haven't done the same for Banjo Kazooie, since they technically exist in the same universe as Mario and DK.
Other than Microsoft probably owns the rights
Nobody cares Grandpa, take your heart meds and calm the fuck down.
what's the problem. Looks like a DK version of the chimp from mario galaxy to me
Zelda soft reboots to rid itself of the mess of the timeline (arguably making things more confusing in the process) and appeal to a wider modern audience
Pikmin soft reboots itself to condense the plots of the other games and introduce the series to the new audience brought in with the Switch
DK, which has always had a weird continuity in regards to Mario and DKC, is getting a new game that seemingly bridges the gap between both series along with a new “Mario-ified” design
It’s inevitably going to be a soft reboot
anon, please stop.
Wario does plenty of intensive things.
Please go play wario land 3 (The best wario land)
youtu.be
rare DK was literally designed to be 90's cool/radical yes.
Why are white people obsessed with him?
gaudy but it works in galaxy, which had a strong vision and execution
Bad wording: What I meant was Nintendo is banking HARD on nostalgia. They're taking all their beloved franchises, and re-hashing the hell out of them.
They're essentially a digital-crack dealer...
For the last time, Miyamoto has not been directly involved with game development for YEARS. He's the equivalent of someone on the board of trustees now.
Diddy died for this ...
you know what else was? sonic
as I said, autism is tragic
He's a funny monkey man who loves bananas just like DK
That's not a monkeybar, that's just hanging from a rope, even Mario does that.
When was the last time we've even gotten a new dk game?
People say this but they have very little in common, the face shape and expressions are closer to the modern DK art by Nakaue.
*clears throat*
Wario doesn't use powers against enemies the same as Mario, Mario takes the enemy bodies(abilities) and uses them against other enemies, Wario uses enemy attacks as power ups, although it sounds similar, the execution is different and not only visual, even the powers they get are fundamentally different, Mario transforms into the enemy getting all their powers and limitations, Wario's "powers" are his body reacting to the damage, which come with severe limitations and sometimes Wario transforms into something slightly related to the enemy but never a straight copy.
sonic is still pretty cool and modern sonic has changed very little in design throughout the years in the games.
Wrong
The Kremlins owned the mines.
DK and Diddy were just union-busting...
sonic is still pretty cool
oh no no no no hahahahaha
what is fanservice
that is fanservice
right. also,
The move set seems like the type of stuff that Wario or some other character would do so it's not that.
so when does wario do a hand slap on the ground, barrel roll, whistle music(an evolution of blowing wind in dkc
the things you cite as wario aren't even wario original. they're mario.
bootleg banjo style enemies
wow, i wonder why that is...
kek, nah not really. Wario is literally a cameo in multiple games as the owner of a gold mine, when DK appears in other games its a random jungle setting. The fact that DK seems to be collecting what I assume is non-descript gold chunks in the new game is already weird and out of place.
I kinda figured. I just wanted to shill Donkey Kong GB as a game you should play RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Is it Sega's decision or are they afraid of backlash such as blue arms
nobody asked for a soft reboot, nobody WANTED a soft reboot.
all they had to do was make DK64:2 and polish up the rough edges.
bro who needs level design just punch through all the walls XD
WiiU with Tropical Freeze?
Wii with Returns?
Yeah, his mouth and cheeks are too round. It looks weird. Like he has cheeks stuffed full of potatoes all the time
wario land 3 has entire sections where you have to climb vertical monkey bars and fight a boss on them, and do a tedious "dont touch the spikes" section on them as well.
whistle music(an evolution of blowing wind in dkc
I guess if you're a zoomer you would think OOC only came out after on the 3ds.
Why are you bringing up Mario kart tracks of all things, are you actually claiming mines aren't the second most recurring motif in DK after jungles?
DK's mine cart is so iconic Nintendo made a park ride out of it.
something tells me that nintendo was somewhat hands off for this game like odyssey and botw. they just let the teams have a franchise then do what they want gameplay wise. the DK team wanted to explore these gameplay mechanics and didn't want to do a more traditional platformer i guess.
Why does DK look like pic related? The fuck??
nintendo lost the fabled fur rendering tech
this is mindless aspie drivel
some of the core mechanics of bananza are a perfect fit for donkey and aren't present in wario games: climbing, roll jumps, item collecting claps, rocket barrels, minecart wagons
I know you're going to retardedly claim it's "fanservice" because you don't understand game design, it's ok I forgive you
Am I the only one who thinks that dk’s fur looks weird?
i meant dkcr/tf(which are part of dkc), yes.
Wario ain't athletic
Wut, he's a brute and barely makes all the jumps, but aside from being strong as fuck he's real fast, except he has a hard time turning because he's going so fast he creates after images.
Probably just a weird screenshot, but I see what you mean...
Its literally a word, otherwise you couldnt write it down
I am only talking about the differences between Wario and Mario, this game isn't clearly either, which is why they gave it to DK
people have never actually played his games
Taking kids games seriously ever
NGMI
He's fat/overweight, but so are most weightlifters
And I don't mean the glam-muscle guys...
WE DONT COTTON TO FREAKS AROUND THESE PARTS
SO SCREAM WEIRDO
Correct, it's a portmanteau
Its boring arguing with purposely obtuse retards. The defining characteristic of wario is gold and even more than DK there are gold mines. If what you are saying is true and DK was directly and principally associated with mines then the gold mine Mario kart stage would be his. You're trying to argue some stupid bullshit about bonus levels being the defining characteristic of DK, in that case rocket ships are also DK core identity and they should make a shmup or ace combat game next.
ah DKs iconic whistle
the only instrument he's known for
I don't like this new art direction but I grew out of Nintendo games years ago so what do I care? The Kremlings are never coming back.
That doesnt look like a gold mine to me.
wario fags just upset they're gimped mario platform series got cut for the more successful mini game series.
Missing the banana for the bunches, one might say.
Theory time:
DK Bananza might be using the brand new Havok Dynamic Destruction engine, an engine that is notoriously poor at dealing with transparency layers (which could explain why they didn't use a fur shader on DK, or really anything involving transparency at all). It isn't far-fetched at all that Nintendo would opt to use Havok, as Zelda BotW/TotK both used Havok physics (albeit heavily modified), and I could absolutely see them working directly with Havok on a new game, funding Havok to make the first major iteration on their engine in about a decade, as seen below:
youtube.com
Why does it have to be DK? If anything, Chunky Kong deserves this role. Nintendo just needs brand name recognition instead of making a new character, right?
Or maybe Miyamoto just played crackdown and thought that he could replace the monkey in that game with Nintendo's own signature ape
What happened to Havok? It was everywhere and now I never seen in games anymore. Do people don't care about physics anymore?
I dont like wario at all, I'm annoyed that the superior IP was gimped by being retrofit into warios old shell. I wanted a 3d DK not a reskin of a 3d wario game.
By this logic DK should be a downhill snowboarding game
Will there be Dixie? This is important to whether or not I buy.
The defining characteristic of wario is gold
it's money in general because he's a greedy bastard, this is why in the wario ware games he's a game dev because he wants to nickel and dime his customers (how very topical)
if anything his "defining characteristic" is garlic lmao
If you want to really hurt us, you'd say wario has been reduced to funny fart man in smash
sinking pirate ships with his elbow
to living in mansions
to saving kingdoms
to driving sick cars
...
...
to farting
they're gimped mario
I am not gimp mario
Chunky Kong
He has been canonically dead for over a decade, anon.
What happened to Havok? I
afaik they didn't innovate much in the past decade (possibly due to lack of funding?), until very recently with this new destruction-based engine. I strongly believe Nintendo partnered with them on the DK game, as they did so before for Zelda. It just makes too much sense.
youtu.be
idk i watched all of the treehouse gameplay and the thing that smashing a bunch of terrain reminds me the most of nintendowise is sticking a rock on any weapon in totk and using that rock to destroy breakable rubble whenever it appears. that was not an especially fun thing to do in that game. like the linked timestamp is worrying cuz its a question of, how much of the game is frictionless mashing of the punch button on terrain that does nothing in response. that's not enjoyable.
i liken it to deep rock galactic. if you play driller in that game, you'll be doing something akin to what dk is doing here. but you drill through terrain faster than dk punches through it, and because resources are not that deep into terrain usually, generally you're drilling through the terrain because of an immediate need, like escaping a horde of glyphids cuz they've blocked off the normal path, or you're running to the escape pod and you want a quicker way. the reasons that drilling is fun in that game is that there's a cost to if i fail to do it correctly. my team dies to glyphids or i may not be able to escape. also, there's a resource that controls fast digging cuz your drill has an ammo count, once it's out, your speed through the wall individually is nearly as fast as dk's punches, which is to say, slow and not that fun.
idk there's just a whole lot more going on with digging in deep rock compared to this game. does punching slowly through terrain really look fun to people?
He was in the movie tho
actually checking havok's site, way more recent games have been using havok physics than I realized, but most of them aren't using it for obvious gameplay interactions.
Nta but where? I missed him
I dont know if you've been paying attention but ice is so prevalent in DK's games if formed the basis of the entire last game.
crackdown also used havok anon
why does dk have feathers?
This only further proves my theory
There's much older games than crackdown that used havok too tho
Funny how Terry Crews is starring in both games.
this is from the team that made jungle beat, mario games have separate species of monkeys that aren't referred to as kongs
diddy is being retconned, only the big apes are kongs now
You keep changing your explanation. This is a sign of cope
not all posts made by anonymous are the same person
hope that helps!
It would help if you came up with a better argument.
It looks fun to interact with the terrain like that in a Nintendo world, Im interested but I dont think its their "best idea ever" nor that its perfect. Theres also non destructable sections, like special courses
when you say in a nintendo world, you mean in the sense that their worlds are extra interactive or filled with interesting rewards for doing gameplay stuff? is that what you mean? in theory i would agree, but i felt odyssey was pretty poor at creating fun goals to strive for even though the base moveset was so strong.
She will sing.
Blue hair and pronouns
So if this girl is Pauline's daughter, who is the girl's father?
that's 100% pauline herself, either deaged or they just don't give a fuck about the dk timeline (lmao)
the only kremlings that exist in this game are skeletal remains of them which is basically Nintendo admitting that they’re killing all of them off and never allowing them to be in another DK or Mario game again
Why do they hate the kremlings so much?
Why do they hate the kremlings so much?
Because they came from Rareware instead of Miyamoto's mind
It’s Pauline herself, we’re getting Yoshis Island DK edition
I subscribe to the theory that it is Pauline herself and she was de-aged by the perfume one of the villain kongs is holding, as it'll be revealed that pefume has a de-aging effect and Pauline was exposed to too much of it at the start of the game.
Is Donkey Kong black coded???
It is also very DK because picking things up and throwing them has been part of his skillset from the beginning.
In general, Donkey Kong and Wario actually have very similiar skillsets besides Donkey Kong's hand slap and Wario's shoulder barge, which I guess makes the rivalry they had during the 64 era make sense.
He is definitely fag coded now if you look at the other DK threads
It's going to be Mario's
this bright level is at sublevel 101...
So I guess Odd Rock/Loli Pauline is DK's Cappy?
DK is a Caucasian gorilla
Mario wore Cappy on his head.
DK will wear Loli Pauline on his....?
dk with pants is cursed. i get it's just a clothing system like odyssey but it's so bizarre.
throwing enemies? I honestly dont remember if DK does that, I only remember him throwing barrels. I do remember wario picking up random enemies and throwing them to destroy targets and solve puzzles.
Back? Yes.
A lot of people seem to think this might be a prequel, and this being Pauline herself is evidence to support that.
But I thought Cranky was the original DK, it can't be a prequel because Cranky is also in the game
You have no idea how old Cranky is supposed to be. Just because this could be a prequel doesn't mean that the playable DK has to be a younger Cranky. It's not like he woke up one day and suddenly looked 50 years older. It could also be that the DK/Cranky thing isn't even canon anymore. That was always a Rareware thing and I don't think Nintendo has ever properly acknowledged it.
Well the Odyssey team wanted to continue the influence with Bananza.
freckles
made far too cute
A lot of people(including you) are braindamaged so I am not surprised. And the DK/Cranky thing was never canon to begin with.
pauline goes from being donkey kong's captive to being his companion
Development
Throwing things in general.
im asking specifically does he throw enemies
One thing I noticed is that DK has a chest beating button, which he can even do with his feet while hanging on the grates, which doesn't seem to do anything.
Did they ever explain what this was about?
He does in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze if I remember correctly.
Probably something similar to Odyssey I figure.
It's to appeal to black gamers
So what are the odds of DK retaining his redesign in the next Smash?
that's his mating call.
Poor little pauline better watch out
100% given
I guess Mario has to BTFO out of his pet monkey again.
mario odyssey palette swap even down to cappy
odyssey was boring
(Why is a generic salvager dressed in neon vomit, but not even the CORRECT bright colors (yellow/orange) )
If they did it the "correct" colors you would say "why are they directly copying real life, why not change it up so that it's something uniquely Nintendo? This looks so drab and generic"
2. The fact that you could swap out DK for any other character and the game still works (the mark of a bad game)
Could Peach do it? Luigi? Yoshi? Mario? Link? Destroy all terrain with just their hands?
DKC was a straight rip off of the Super Mario Bros series, just clunkier
this is just DK now.
mario kart (nintendo's biggest seller next to zelda)
new big budget game
movie
all new design
going back and redrawing generic art as this design as well
rare DK is dead.
rare DK is dead.
Thank goodness.
t. miyamoto
So more than a decade ago. How about a 3D DK platformer?
Why do you have to be such a spiteful cunt and hate good things?
It gets replies, which boosts site engagement and thus makes Hiro money.
Based. Fuck Rare and everything they did to DK. Glad Nintendo is stepping in.
I'm completely indifferent to rare but I'm glad rareniggers cry and shit their pants because they're still stuck in the mid 90s in their late 30s/early 40s
Yep. Rarefags are among the most pathetic people around.
You do realize that kremlings also appeared in DK and Mario spinoffs during the 2000s as well right? It’s not just 90s babies that miss them.
holy shit its even got the same ponytail color. crazy reference
rare DK was without flaw. there was no reason to change him.
agreed. i always thought the dk country games were shit anyways.
neither is "revengeance"
Plenty of reason to change that abortion and I'm happy Nintendo finally did. First DK game I'll be playing in decades.
DK's hair is all fur, as is Diddy's and every Kong that isn't old or female. Cranky's was too when he was the original DK, so we can assume they simply start growing old man hair once they get old.
Odyssey 2: DK Island (1995)
holy shit those textures
Oh, so Cranky is allowed to keep his Rare design...
That was always a Rareware thing and I don't think Nintendo has ever properly acknowledged it.
pretty sure everyone else in the franchise will. they're just changing DK specifically.
He beat the designers with his cane until they left him alone.
looks like a fucking gamecube game and tearing apart the levels seems fun but its going to be a stupid mechanic that the entire game revolves around
Haha...
How the fuck does a Wii U game look better than this? This is N64 tier
Cranky is the only other DK character besides DK and Pauline associated with the original arcade game so that’s why
them making fun of rare's fanfic means nintendo takes it seriously in their story
lmao
Either Diddy Kong is also getting a redesign or he won’t be in the game.
holy cope
diddy is the same in the generic art they changed so far. for whatever reason this whole autistically forced redesign is only for DK. which is why it reeks of miyamoto, it's so petty.
Bananza was made by the Odyssey team
NINTENDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Cranky has nothing to do with the original arcade game as he's a Rare invention from the 90s.
So all discussion of this game is going to be saddled with engagement generator bots?
yeah you're the one coping here rarefag
bracelet
she turned into that rock thingy?
Why does every ape except DK get fur. He looks like he has feathers and his head looks like a pineapple now
Unfortunately, Nintendo will force this DK into Smash. Some stages too, Rare DK only got jungle stages.
it's the same as splatoon where making a mess of the map is the entire point of the game
purple rock nigga will DIE and TRANSFORM into the bracelet so LOLI can LIVE
post more loli pauline art
What if the kid Pauline is scrapped content and Odd Rock is the finalized partner? You fags will cry rivers.
As if a tendie would say anything else.
welcome to any big nintendo exclusive thread
ranjeets, snoys and other assorted subhumans just can't let us discuss in peace
i'd laugh so hard. please let this be the case nintendo.
Soul
these are the kind of people localizing your games
The Japanese cannot make good DK games. They don’t understand the character.
Unlocking costumes is based game design. Too bad Mario Wonder only had those stupid cardboard cutouts.
Rock loli aside, they still haven't revealed the big gimmick of the game yet like how Odyssey kept the bodyjacking mechanic a secret until later.
I'm hoping bringing back the 64 Kongs that you play as, each with their own digging mechanics
More attractive than you
how many different ways can you dig a hole man
I know they alluded to Rambi being in the game already but I really, really want the other animal buddies to come back too. Like look at this ugly ass goofball, he can shoot webs to attack or to make new platforms. That can synergize a lot with what they're doing with this game.
Yeah I do wonder what the gimmick is given this game is made by the Odyssey team. Maybe the rock smashing is part of what they want to have differentiate DK from Mario.
She's not from DK Island so she's not a Kong. No true Kong would be calling DK an outsider either, they'd be handing him some free bananas or coconut shakes.
Okay I know what that balloon icon is for but what's the red barrel supposed to be, bombs?
Why do people care about Mario/DK lore again?
This kind of stuff makes me wish he would interact with Mario some day. He'd probably hit him with his cane over the head and ask him why he'd switch Pauline for a dumb blonde.
Truth, but anti-Raretrannies will try to deny this.
Autism
Cranky's so old at this point that he's actually balding
Anyone have more screencaps of him? I want to see if he still berates DK for not beating the game in like half an hour with no deaths.
Mario would ask who the fuck he is and then DK will tell Mario that Cranky is senile so he thinks that he's the DK who fought Mario in the past.
Samebro
Straight up
Drill
Jumping
TNT
Fast but straight line
Would you really play a Nintendo platformer without Mario?
Are you trying to pretend that Mario is the only platformer Nintendo has ever made, or that Nintendo doesn't make platformers that aren't Mario?
Holy shit I forgot this thing even existed. This definitely confirms it's the Galaxy team working on it at least.
beat the main story
allowed to face the secret boss
it's pic related
How would you guys react?
What I meant was Nintendo is banking HARD on nostalgia
They have always done this, what are you talking about?
fun
Buzzword
What happened to Havok?
Other companies began developing their own physics engines to use instead. UE4 even came with physics built-in that everybody and their indian programmer slave force uses.
Odyssey team worked on Galaxy so it's literally all the same team.
The gimmick will be Metroidvania like abbilities that will let you go further in past areas. The demo has a water area not accesible, and while DK can swim there was no way to dive, so it will be one of those abbilities
I'd fork over an extra 90$
well he IS a character that existed in the arcade DK days. he'd be a pretty deep cut for nintendo to use.
And before that they worked on DK Jungle Beat. Full circle.
At least there's an in-game explanation he heard about banandium boon and left DK Island to strike up a claim as one of the miners
It makes sense
Isn't he practically a given? Since they're scrubbing out most of the DKC garbage.
more games should have actions like this that do fucking nothing but I assume its gonna be a contextual music thing since DK's whistling to rockunny was treated as a plot thing
What about it looks fun?
To me it looks like another game that focuses on wasting your time instead of challenging you, just like Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild
calling DKC garbage
Suck my balls, anti-Raretranny. No one would give a shit about DK aside from out of touch boomers if it wasn’t for them.
What will be the final level? DK boring into the center of the planet?
Cranky is in
Expresso is in
DK's moves from Rare games are in
shitloads of known Kongs were in the movie
But sure, keep pushing your narrative.
They have to be separate buttons, the whistling is already confirmed to be basically a waypoint guide to the next goal.
you're gonna hurl mega rocks at some purple/black entity
Gameplay looks fun but visual presentation is absolute ass; comes off as a last-minute Switch 1 port, like BoTW was from Wii-U to Switch.
THE MOON
AGAIN
desu, I like old Rare plenty, but they weren't even making the best platformers of the era really (that was Rocket Knight Adventures).
I'm not sure why there's this specific demographic who just can't get over Rare. They very much are just a thing that existed in a particular time and place for me. I don't care if I ever see the Kremlings again. I don't care if I ever see Banjo and Kazooie again. It doesn't matter that much.
Destructible environments.
I liked the first two dkc games but I was never that big of a fan, even from nintendo I enjoyed smw and yoshi's island much more
then they made dk65 and all the good will I had towards them dissipated, it's strange how all these fanboys never blame them for essentially kneecapping the franchise for decades by completely bungling the transition to 3D
DK is still based on his rare design, they just changed the style a bit. he's still rare DK with the tie.
Yeah, they're quite literally heading down the same path as modern Disney thanks to their new CEO but most people still have their head stuck in their nostalgia bubble to realize it.
Yeah. Stanley is probably gonna get in.
nu soified DK looks nothing like chad soulful rare DK.
i hope so. since the country trash is being erased, bring in the actual donkey kong stuff from the 80s.
Yeah. Nintendo really is just the Disney of gaming now if you think about it with their theme park, movies and constant remakes.
I think it would be cool to have a Stanley cameo.
Hey it's Xuan Chi
Could just as easily say they're the Universal of gaming. Or the Lego of Gaming.
Various people have brands and parks is what I'm saying.
people expecting new big gimmick
The big ginmick is the climbing and destructable environments. Oddyssey kept it a secret cause its a Mario game, the first reveal just showed it was a new 3D game, so they showed the gimmick next. 3D Mario game is a given for a Nintendo console. Meanwhile we all know how long ago they made a 3D DK game. The new reveals will be Pauline
I think it's an apple, the treehouse footage had a few apples DK could eat for health. So it's probably a healing thing.
there has to be more to the game than just breaking shit up and finding bananas inside the environments, this loop would get old after half an hour
Nintendo don't make Kirby games, they publish Kirby games, HAL make Kirby games for Nintendo.
Kirby is also an action game series, with the ability to float, platforming just isn't that important, even in 64 and Forgotten Land.
the zl and zr buttons dont do anything yet as far as i can tell. my thought is that there will be different partner characters other than odd rock/pauline like diddy and dixie.
it's a fair guess. or at least the most likely.
A Stanley boss fight would be so kino.
Like every generation they release a new something, which either catches on or doesn't. They're doing it again right now with their wheelchair game that no one is going to buy.
You think they haven't invented a new character since the 90's, because that's the stuff you pay attention to, because you're literally the person you're complaining about.
I'm not that person Pikmin and Splatoon are my favorite on-going Nintendo series, and i have played at least one Xenoblade.
Cranky's full line in the demo
Do you know why I'm down here? Eh? Well, I'll tell ya...it's because a certain big shot was derelict of duty! When I heard there was a banana bandit on the loose, I knew who to blame! Just had to suss out where he ran to hide...but my job wasn't done there. No sir. See, the so-called "leader of the bunch" was away for a frolic in the mines! You get what I'm sayin'? I had to leave our comfy island and be the hero...just because YOU weren't around! Phooey! It should've been YOU riding Rambi all the way down here to avenge those stolen bananas! Not me! What a rotten crook...how does a fool like that command any respect? In my days, rivals had charisma...even in overalls! Heh!
aren't they used to rip rocks off the ground and throw them?
i still think k. rool is going to show up at some point. they know about the fan demand for him now and he's going to show up at the end for whatever reason.
Wait what, I saw button prompts for ZL to hold onto terrain, and I figure Y is to tear, ZR to aim while holding and Y to throw. L is to hold and sing.
tbf they're struggling to come up with another runaway success like splatoon
arms was a dud and the wheelchair shit is just baffling, who thought anyone would buy it
ok, im retarded maybe. i didnt see the prompts described. what does R do?
K Rool isn't in the game.
fan demand
Three is none. The vocal minority of manchildlren don't count.
it's the roll button
literally the main villain of the franchise
no demand
sure.
fan demand
Nintendo doesn’t care about that. They’re stubborn and do their own thing. Sakurai is not Nintendo.
you are replying to a troll
It's secretly a time travel plot. She's Pauline from the past and the evil monkey business is from the future.
literally the main villain of fanfics
The fact that Nintendo tried to hide loli Pauline is telling, I wonder if there’s more Mario shit in this game that they want kept under wraps until release.
He's gotta be talking about DK's banana hoard back home, right? The website mentions that VoidCo stole the golden bananas from the mines, but the timeline wouldn't really make sense.
Nintendo don't care because there's no fan demand for Rare's ugly crocodile OC.
The fact that Pauline is in from the looks of it, makes me confident that we're getting Stanley as well.
So DK's banana hoard was stolen again off-screen while he was in the mines?
He was one of the most requested characters on the Smash Ballot
He wasn't.
Sakurai outright confirmed it retard
responding to the guy who's been baiting for hours straight
calling anyone else a retard
lol fish
Stanley ends up being the little girl’s dad
He never did that retard
Remember the mind blowing fur rendering that Donkey Kong had back in the gamecube? what the fuck is happening? what is this shit
I mean it's not impossible. He also shares physical features with Mario.
stanley is tied to classic DK series
Nintendo trying to revive that and exterminate DKC
Stanley is so in for Bananza.
The soulful Nintendo from the GC era has been dead for a long time.
So if Stanley DOES appear in Bananza, will Nintendo redesign him?
Imagine being proud of shitposting.
absolutely
I hate the look of the fur.
fuck off Randy
Would Stanley still use his spray?
i think being able to actually dig down to lower sublayers by yourself would be pretty sick
"Bonanza" can refer to a rich mineral deposit or a sudden source of great wealth or luck
IDK but DK needs his revenge against Stanley.
well its got better graphics than Odyssey at least lmao
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mom i posted it again!
So is this some collect-a-thon or what's the goal?
I'm not gonna pretend odyssey actually lookd good in any sense but using shotso f the stupid food kingdom deliberately designed with a weird simplistic artstyle is pretty fucking retarded
It looks like Mario Odyssey mixed with Breath of the Wild. Little objectives to complete like the korok seeds and power moons.
this might be the least appealing game I've ever looked at.
it's not just the graphics, everything about the way it looks is shit.
Why does Kong have feathers now?
New paleontologist research.
Mechanics seem fun and fresh. And these are the guys who made sunshine, jungle beat, galaxy 1+2, and Odyssey, so my default attitude is not gonna be one of skepticism.
Disagree, looks pretty boring
We don't know whose making this
Oh. Sounds like fun.
it's obviously the odyssey team
same engine same artstyle same HUD same terrible level design and pity collectibles
You think the ostrich was a redesigned Expresso?
BOTW killed Nintendo forever. This fucking dogshit game is a mind virus. Their younger generation of devs has no talent.
I'm surprised they didn't try to make fucking Rhythm Heaven into an open world sandbox too
The Japanese people loved DKC and everything Rare DK, the suits at Nintendo did not.
They even loved the cgi cartoon.
it's kind of insanely obvious
They really should have one of the old Rare devs on deck for just dialogue and naming of stuff. Maybe for music also. Other than that, I don't really care what direction they take.
Nice lies.
Go to bed, Shiggy.
Anon that guy is on steroids.
Worst ideas from BotW and Odyssey mixed together and simplified.
I'm surprised they didn't try to make fucking Rhythm Heaven into an open world sandbox too
They didn't show much of it, who knows if there's an actual open world rhythm heaven were you fly between the minigames.
But they seemingly did shove New Horizons-esque sandbox dollhouse stuff into Tomodachi.
Go look at how much DKC merch the games AND cartoon got over there. They even got an exclusive color version of Donkey Kong Land 3.
He should be super spiteful over being ignored for 40+ years and be the true final boss.
Dude I just looked and the numbers were pretty pitiful at worst.
First DKC is number 24 on the Famitsu list of the all time best selling games for the country.
you autistic edgy faggots prove why nintendo america had to do this
This is the Odyssey 2 I wanted. My only gripe is that Cranky's old design looks so out of place compared to the new DK, I hope they can fix that before launch.
The only Donkey Kong design I hate is this one.
Yeah. Fix Cranky by removing him from the game.
ngltbqdesu, angry Kirby was better half of the time. Western Nightmare in Dream Land goes extremely hard, Japanese version is extremely lame.
You're a fag.
DK only became good with 94.
You're a DOUBLE fag.
This is Pauline, I theorize she was turned into the rock being by the antagonists, and when turning back she's still partially cursed and won't be fully restored until the end of the game, which explains why she hasn't returned to her normal age yet. Reminds me of the different endings of Wario Land 4 where the princess's forms are different depending on how the curse is lifted
But why is Pauline there?
Concert.
No idea, out of universe reason is because she was popularized by odyssey and they want her to return after that games success, plus she's technically a DK character so her being here makes sense