We spoke with with Kenta Motokura, producer on Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive Donkey Kong Bananza, and Kazuya Takahashi, the game's director, about everything Donkey Kong: behind-the-scenes development, the game's story, and its exciting innovations with voxel technology.
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.”
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.
A couple interesting bits:
Why are people so obsessed with connecting this game to some weird timeline
It’s never made sense.
Why is Mario still young when Cranky Kong, the original Donkey Kong, is old?
WAIT CRANKY IS DONKEY?
My whole world has just been shattered
Yup! Notice the text in top left of the DKC manual:
Makes the DKC opening shot make more sense, doesn’t it?
Rare games aren’t Nintendo Cannon? (Idk just finding something new to argue about on the internet)
Nintendo isn’t consistent in their own games, so it doesn’t matter either way. Mario and Luigi race with baby versions of themselves!
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!”
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.”
It’s make-believe—it doesn’t need to make sense.
Many make-believe things do need to make sense to actually be enjoyable. Not Donkey Kong games, though.
There are people who play Nintendo games for plot? Lol
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.
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.