They actually look happy. Why is this a bad thing?

They actually look happy. Why is this a bad thing?

Being friendly, jolly and charismatic (happiness in general) is not a "masculine" trait for chuds and mentally ill autists.
To them, being masculine is the most important aspect of any male character and you HAVE to be serious and looking like you want to fight something 24/7 otherwise it's just being a woman or a fag.

They look retarded

Burger audience doesnt understand happiness, same with kirby

Anon Babble and other message boards have convinced themselves that being a soulless, emotionless husk of human being is less cringe than just being happy.
You're not going to straightforward answer here OP, everything will be laced with whatever pathetic sludge these "people's" minds have been infected with for the past decade or two and whatever they've convinced themselves is the correcty way to live while complaining about video games and cartoons, just don't bother.

Americans, whether they realize it or not, are still stuck in the 90s 'tude era most commonly attributed to Sonic the Hedgehog. They cannot fathom a strong/powerful character being anything other than serious and/or angry.

The people that hate this design are the same ones that prefer the Goku's despiction of Tablos and love the Snyder capeshit movies

Diddy Kong broke into my house in 2011 and unwrapped all of my kid's Christmas presents.

It's great because Diddy Kong sexo!

Donkey and Diddy Kong look like a gay couple.

I don't know how to describe it but the new look adds a layer to DK that barely anyone knew was even there.
Like he now has that cute factor without losing much of his cool, edgy roots.
I can expect his merch to perform way WAY better in sales in Japan, that's for sure.

I just don't really like how they look, I don't like how everything will seemingly need to use the same corporate New and Improved Perfect Design™, and these faggot "arguments" for why you must love and consoom GREAT NEW PRODUCT frankly make me like it less.

They look homosexual.

This is a grown up game for serious adults so they should look ANGRY and say fuck a lot!

When did Sonic ever look serious or angry in the 90s?

It's just presentation.

Where is the edge?

I don't know why this made me laugh so much.

it's about that wowie zowie factor now.

Why are you fags and shills pretending the Rare design was edgy or something?

It's there when he makes an angry expression.

it was 90s kino edgy gothic based sovl
/trvvvke!

NuDK looks like he'd fall for timeshares and pyramid schemes.
Old DK would have none of that shit and kill everyone in the room.

Your perspective only shows your lack of balls. Men with balls have emotions, but they're emotions of a different kind compared to what little bitches like yourself feel.
I've got a big dick and that big dick demands cool dudes and chicks with big tits.
My dick says this ape ain't it and you would be wise to listen to my dick.

hell yeah bro *throws up the horns* *puts down Dragon's Milk IPA*

Eye slit

Most of the people complaining about the changes are third worlders like you, though.

Nah, burgers are the edgiest motherfuckers on earth

This shit just reeks of trying to make DK appeal to toddlers.

nintendo games are for toddlers anon...

Wait, did they redo Diddy too?

They just made him a little chubbier. It's not even that noticeable until you see a before and after pic.

I like that he's a ball of emotion now.

Why? Because they made a demo video showing off the different expressions DK makes? Would you rather they take the Mario Odyssey route and have DK's face take up half of the pause menu so they can show off the new model?

funny monkey

If I can't be happy, no one can be happy.

Nearly every western version of Sonic was "WHOAA BAD DUDE WITH THE 'TUDE" in every capacity, are you fucking serious? It's literally where Sonic Team got their inspiration to make Sonic "edgier" and "less cute" with SA1. Or are you just pretending that only the games matter in this discussion? Either way, you'd still be wrong, since there's at least a handful of instances where Classic Sonic looked pissed or serious in the games too. Even in the Japanese artwork, he could look more serious. I hate this gaslighting that Sonic Team did to the fanbase with Generations, where Classic Sonic was this "uwu babby" and Modern Sonic is "blue Goku." Classic could be both cute and cool. Pic related.

your new DK and Diddy

DK already sells absurdly well in Nihon

They’ve always looked happy, now they just look happy but worse.

It isn't. He looks more stern and cool with the Rare design. I think this new design looks like they tried to match the old arcade design, but imo they failed to do that. Now we have this new design that doesnt match neither the Rare or old arcade design.

anyone have the gif of that onions beard pulling annoying faces at the camera every second as he moves it around his face?
It's kind of like this gif but different.
THAT is nu-DK. Just pulling the most obnoxious, ugly, excessive faces every second.
That's why the new design looks so bad. He's rapidly onions facing every frame.

It's cringe in these tiktoks because it's a real IRL person pulling a bunch of retarded cartoon faces for no reason, dumbass. A cartoon character making cartoon expressions is perfectly fine, they're not comparable.

No it's not. only in moderation to emphasize things at appropriate times.
Not every second. it just becomes gratuitous and cringe.
Most cartoons don't break model for 80% of their faces.

Charm and humour is down to subtly, timing and self control. A joke is not funny if you tell it 24/7.

Not every second. it just becomes gratuitous and cringe.

He's not pulling them at literally every second in the game. That video is made specifically to show off his new model, because Nintendo is really fucking proud of the fact that they've finally started figuring out how to make Cartoon models that don't look like shit. They did the same thing with Mario Odyssey, where every single time you pause the game it has this dago wop motherfucker cover half of the screen so Nintendo can go "LOOK, HE'S GOT ACTUAL FACIAL FLEXES INSTEAD OF FACEPLATES NOW".

He's not pulling them at literally every second in the game.

Yes he is. He doesn't have a single face that doesn't look blown out and annoying.
If you played a drinking game where you drink every time he pulls a "oh so whack" 200% expression, you'd be dead.

He doesn't have a single face that doesn't look blown out and annoying.

The fuck are you talking about?
youtube.com/watch?v=LOvkfpenFtg&t=142s
We have plenty of footage, both of the showfloor demo and the treehouse stream. 90% of the time his face is either neutral, gritted teeth, or a smile that's not any more exaggerated than the smiles he pulled with his older designs. The only over-the-top faces are the ones he pulls in cutscenes and the drooling one he makes when near a banana.

Incels love projecting short comings on others.

even your thumbnail disproves you.
every cutscene, when he near a banana, whenever he does anything just obvious ugly shit.
with his "normal" face he never relaxes his eyes and looks so forced and off model.

The thumbnail is a screenshot from a cutscene. Dumbass. You're not watching cutscenes for 90% of the game.

he never relaxes his eyes

Again, what the fuck are you talking about?

with his "normal" face he never relaxes his eyes

Ask the guys crying about woke dk then

I don't mind the new look but I do mind them changing my profile picture on Switch to the new face without my consent. It seems like the only way to correct this is to rape the Nintendo employee who did this to me.