>>718034076
>They did not.
>Cranky is still Arcade DK.

Nintendo has just decided to ignore all of that. And Bananza seems to imply an origin story iwth Pauline and DK.

The fucking Odyssy game even seems to want to "explain" the change in graphics in past games. Apparently the 8-bit games and graphics are in-world version of virtual reality. So the events occured, but they may be recreations of the original events that we saw in game.

Odyssy team seems dead-set on explaining everything for some reason.