>emotional anime vocal music
>main design aims to be more towards’s Miyamoto’s vision and look cutesy, goofy and less aggressive looking
>giving him a bond with a human girl
>The game’s artstyle goes all on the colorful, whimsical Astro Bot/Mario Odyssey/ARMS aesthetic compared to Rare’s more grungy green wooden/jungle vibes
>Very likely developed by EPD

Is Bananza just Nintendo’s way of trying to help DK appeal more towards Japanese audiences since the franchise has been entirely under American/British hands for decades? Were the Rare/Retro Studios games unpopular in Japan?

this kong has a funny face

>>713264601 (OP)
the rare DK games were so popular they had entire toy lines

id rather japanese devs make games for the japanese than try to appeal to an audience they know nothing about

>>713264886
This, Japan loved Rare. Nintendo never got the appeal of DKC, hence the twenty-three year rut.

>>713264601 (OP)
No, on the contrary, Retro are considered one of the greatest "avante garde" developers here.
Mass appeal is one thing but the truth is that this nu-DK is meant to be WIDELY mass appealing, rather than Japan mass appealing, if you know what I mean.

I just don't understand how you can look at Rare DK's "biscuits exploded out of a tube" eyes and think that's perfectly fine, that there's no room for improvement. His eyes are too big for his stupid face. He has the JFK psycho eyes too. Is that what passes for "masculine" and "cool" around here? I get having a nostalgic attachment, but the new look is just better to me. Like there's some real design in it for once, instead of committing to this thing that has looked horrible in full 3D but had been grandfathered in.

>>713264601 (OP)
The rare games were popular in Japan.

>>713265231
>avante garde
>working for tendo
Huh? Translation error?

>>713264601 (OP)
nah they want nu kong to appeal to gen alpha kids that watched the mario movie
they dont give a shit about people who liked their ancient ass games and they havent since the wii u flopped

>>713265189
I always had a feeling Nintendo never cared that much about Rare even during their prime days together in the SNES/N64.

>>713265304
>perfectly fine, that there's no room for improvement
Yeah, he looks funny. I can't imagine myself ever laughing at the new DK.

>>713265304
I don't think Rare DK looks bad at all, he actually looks more goofy than the new "goofy" design weirdly. I guess both designs have their merits. I'm still a little bitter about the design update however I do think this is a positive change and the right fit for the tone of Bananza, which seems to be a bit more story heavy and therefore requires a greater facial range on DK. Hence the change.

>>713264601 (OP)
I think it's less deliberate and more just a Japanese take on DK.
I know Miyamoto's not working on this one, but a bunch of western developed DK game that has ever existed has gotten feedback from Miyamoto equivalent to "make it sillier and more whimsical." Like how he wanted DKCR to have the move where DK blows on stuff and everyone at Retro was just going what the fuck is he on about until they interpreted it as making the game more cartoony.

>>713265304
>Rare DK's "biscuits exploded out of a tube" eyes
You don't genuinely think this, you're just making an excuse to downplay the Rare design while lacking the articulation skills to praise the newer design. Funny how all these arguments came out once they unveiled the new design.

>>713265565
They had an amazing working relationship despite the language barrier and Miyamoto and his meddling.
Not buying them was insulting though, I don't blame any of the Rare founders for feeling betrayed by Nintendo who weren't even willing to buy them for a pittance of what their talent was worth, and I think it is something that Nintendo came to regret for the next two console generations even with Retro doing DK.

>>713265762
I genuinely do think it. I've thought DK looked "off" for a while now, but it was always in the background of my thoughts, this thing that I never imagined they'd try to fix, so I just ignored it. I was used to it. But the new design brings all my annoyances to the surface in a clear way.
He looks ridiculous in 3D much of the time. The Rare solution worked within its design constraints (2D platformer on the SNES), but it's a crapshoot as to whether a 3D artist will fuck him up or not. His face is a sensitive issue, get the rendering wrong or the eyes a bit too big and you end up with his Ultimate render.

>>713265942
>Nintendo who weren't even willing to buy them for a pittance of what their talent was worth
What? According to someone from Microsoft, Nintendo, Activision, and Microsoft were all in a bidding war, and Microsoft ended up paying a record amount for a studio at the time.
More than anything I think it was Nintendo coming off the complete failure of the N64 and entering the failure of the Gamecube that made them reluctant to shell out. Although in the end it was a big mistake to not acquire Rare.

Kong's paw'd

>>713266040
I like him looking like a crazy unhinged gorilla. Some characters aren't meant to be cute cuddly mascots.

>>713264601 (OP)
Japan also makes fun games, so yeah. Glad they're doing that.

>>713265565
I dunno why you'd think that when DKC had the biggest marketing budget Nintendo had ever done at that point.
I think one of the bigger factors people don't talk about as much is whatever the hell was going on at NoA at the time. Because it can't be a coincidence that around the same time, Arakawa stepped down as NoA president and then a bunch of Nintendo people that used to work with Rare like Ken Lobb also ended up leaving.

>>713264601 (OP)
Picrel was really succesful in Japan

>>713266040
>He looks ridiculous in 3D much of the time
That sounds like a good thing to me.

>>713266473
But that's a good thing, it's more appealing.

>>713265565
>>713265189
>>713266854
I don't think were "lack of care", I think is just Miyamoto being a spiteful bitch, desu.

>>713265942
Rare was already bleeding talent by the time MS bought them. If you look at the design process for Goldeneye or Banjo Kazooie that shit would never work with the massive budget inflation that was about to happen

>>713264601 (OP)
I think Nintendo has had a really big problem with DK not feeling like he's "theirs". I would describe this iteration as "anime kong". The writing is like an anime. The voice acting is like anime. DK's expressions feel like they draw a lot more from a Japanese animation playbook than a British or American one. You can't really describe it without sounding autistic or insane but it's there, you can "feel" it.

I don't really hate the new design anymore but I will say I really like jungle beat's look and I think that should have been his permanent design going forward, literally dispells the "muh expressiveness" meme entirely. (and by the same studio too I think) DK looks better westernized, like I'd rather have Chuck Jones redesign DK to be more expressive than this version. But it's ok I guess.

>>713264601 (OP)

>>713268162
All the people crying about Rare DK being unexpressive never played Jungle Beat, he was making facial expressions every five seconds. That alone exposes them as a bunch of sheep praising anything new that Nintendo shits out its ass. Jungle Beat was ass and DK's fur looked funny but if you want an 'expressive' DK, that was the game that did it first.

>is a literal Pixar plot
>appeal to Japan
How

>>713268515
Yeah, like how do you forget an entire game, lol. They're all just mario kart 8 kiddies who say how bad they did his look in that game and had no other point of reference other than MAYBE Tropical freeze or seeing the older renders from switch online passingly (never actually playing the old games of course)

And about the fur, I do think it looks better in the renders. I just went with an in game image because I knew if I posted this some fag would whine
>still can only look angry
because you know how /v/ is.

>>713268871
An earlier render from JB showing a more relaxed expression in comparison.

>>713268608
>He thinks Japan dislike Disneyslop

>>713269204
This. Anime as an artstyle is literally based off old disney animated films like snow white originally lol.

>>713266473
>a child character means it's for pedos!
So 99% of all media throughout the ages is for pedophiles, which means you, your parents, your entire genetic lineage, and everyone you know are child rapists.

>>713268515
>angry but smiling
>angry but frowning
>angry but teeth clenched
>angry but mouth open

Indeed, quite a variety of expressions and emotions.

Idk how people think the left design is better than right. Ever since the GC era DK has looked unappealing, his head looks like the top of an ice cream cone

>>713266040
>30 platinum points have been added to your Nintendo account

>>713268162
it's clear that the idea of dramatically redesigning the character, as well as updating the other Kongs, didn't come about until sometime in The Super Mario Bros. Movie's development. Helping Illumination tweak the Mario cast for the movie gave them the courage to give DK his most dramatic refresh since 1994, and, when the reaction to it wasn't overtly negative, the drive to then implement it for the video games. Hence, the incongruity between The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the theme park rollouts, and the Switch 2 library.

marios design changed
bowsers design changed
luigis design changes
peaches design changed
yoshis design changed

none of you ever complained this much

>>713271493
We don't give a shit about those worthless wastes of space. Donkey Kong was the only good Nintendo character until now.

>>713271414
Speaking of, good god I really don't like the redesigns of the other characters. Yes, the core design is mostly the same, but there's all these weird little things that just look kind of gross. Like the flesh strip between Diddy and Dixie's eyes, just looks weird go back. Retro did their designs in particularly really nicely actually.

>>713271493
People complain about Yoshi's modern design all the time, who are you kidding?

>>713264601 (OP)
I dont care about Nintendo or DK at all but I immediately liked his new design. I'm the normie scourge they're trying to appeal to.

>>713271493
>none of you ever complained this much
Don't pretend peach wasn't the subject of multiple threads complaining about how they "girlbossed" her and made her ugly you disingenuous hack.

>>713271973
Diddy was fine the way he was, but they had to shove that shit between his eyes.

>>713272534
It's something I find weird about japanese character design sensibilities in particular. Like when you see a lot of asian artists draw western cartoon styled characters, for some reason they very often separate the eyes (if they weren't already) and it rarely ever looks right. I feel like they have the opposite sentiment because in their animation, characters eyes are usually spaced further apart. They did this with K Rool too in the paon games and even with the smash design, like that particular thing with eyes bothers them.

Has me a little worried, I mean I'll be happy if he's back in any capacity, but I am a little worried about how they're going to redesign K Rool if he is, don't massacre my boy please EPD.

>>713271493
>marios design changed
>none of you ever complained this much
Wrong. I saw a bunch of anons complaining that Mario's face was too fat during the leadup to MKW's release.

>>713270940
Difference being in a lot of that media, the children are wearing shoes

DK's design in DKC is the best he's ever looked especially in game. He looked cool and tough

>>713272085
Oh yes, the shrieking of coomers who think any woman that isn't a mewling weak piece of meat in oppai loli form is a "girlboss" and "ugly" is so important to listen to.

>>713275449
You footfags are irredeemable.

More like they decided to redesign Donkey Kong closer to the original design when they were making the movie and a Japanese team is making the new game.

>>713265304
I think the new design is better but I do think it's not perfect. The dark around the eyes is now way too large, and the body language is off- tongue sticking out is something we associate with dogs, not monkeys, so it makes him look like a retard in a negative way. I think he's actually looking better in Mario Kart World instead by force of the body language being better

>>713265721
nigga hes a gorilla in a tie that collects floating bananas. dk was always goofy

>>713277143
DK from the very beginning has been a retarded idiot. His very name means stupid and stubborn.

>DK was always a spastic retard actually
delusional. his name was to imply his stubbornness not being dumb. nu DK and rare DK might as well be completely different characters personality wise. i wish it was just a new kong.

>>713266886
Ironically enough the new DK design takes after this show more than the old DK

>>713277447
that's why I added the "negative". He's meant to be a dumb ape but in the sense of "animal easy to anger and that just does what it wants", fitting of a replacement to Bluto. It's why even pre-Rare he always cartoony expressions that showed exaggerated anger or exaggerated happiness, like he can't control his emotions- and we can understand that fine, we read that fine in an ape, we're used to it.

Tongue out when hungry like a lab, though? That's a dog expression, not an ape expression. I'm not even comparing it to Rare DK here- it would look off even in Miyamoto's old design. It's an expression that when applied to a humanoid doesn't read as "goofy" or "retarded idiot" but as legitimately "lobotomized".

>>713277696
Old DK looks far more lobotimized to me. no thoughts behind those eyes. He doesn't stick his tongue out but he looks far more like a wild animal... like a dog.

>>713277840
>no thoughts behind those eyes
Perfect for DK's characterization

>ehm DK wasn't dumb, just stubborn
Donkey Kong is so stupid he couldn't be hypnotized by the tiki dude in the Returns intro -the implication being he has no thoughts (he has no grace).
Bear in mind, said tiki dude had successfully hypnotized a quadrupedal elephant and giraffe moments before. DK is canonically dumber than less anthropomorphized animals.
He was dumb as fuck in Mario vs. Donkey Kong too. Anyone saying he hasn't always been a big dumb monkey is telling on themselves.

>>713265942
Nintendo went all in on trying to buy out Rare. It's just that Microsoft obviously had more money to throw around so they won.

>>713264601 (OP)
I just wanna know if they bastardized k rools design

>>713268224
the new soikong design appeals to pedophiles. theres to many pedo pauline threads to ignore this

>>713277623
"nu DK" is Japanese DK from 1981 to 1994. All we did was return to the classics,

>>713275946
Still disproves the point.

>>713278620
It really isn't, I wish it was if anything. The face and acting is different

>>713267582
retard.

>>713278429
Indeed, a few /v/irgins are the entire population of a country and the entire fan base of a game.

>>713264601 (OP)
2 nukes was not enough.

it's so bizarre to see people so adamantly defend a worse design. surely there would have been a nice middle ground compromise instead of going full nuclear and making essentially a new character.

>>713278623
What point? Only your kind lost their dog-raping shit over Peach being more than a piece of rapemeat to be rescued. Dod you lose your faggot shit over Super Princess Peach as well, where she was the ONLY character in the entire world who could control her emotions and where Mario and Luigi got captured and locked up like animals?

>>713279713
>why can't you people worship my subjective opinion?!
Be prepared for many other people to not agree with you as you go through life.

>>713279725
>Everyone's designs changed, only DKfags complain
>Point to example proving this claim to be false
>U-UHM, WELL THOSE WERE RETARDS ANYWAY AND SO ARE YOU!
You said something stupid and were wrong. Cope, seethe, dialate.
>inb4 that wasn't me
Then don't argue with me about it faggot

>>713264601 (OP)
Old DK looked like a rapist

>>713279713
>going nuclear
>essentially a new character
>middle ground
Because it isn't THAT different, except in ways that genuinely improve it. He still has the same basic shape language - big v-shaped bruiser type with tree trunk arms, sledgehammer fists, stubby legs, and big shit eating grin. Just with the added bonus that he's more expressive now and his eyes don't look like too much egg in too small a plate.
I don't know what impels nerds to kvetch over "sonic doesn't have blue arms" tier bullshit. I guess it's autism, but I don't have it.

>>713280210
memeface kong is substantially different
he is incapable of looking truly intimidating, just "ooo, angy monke ook ook"

>>713280389
When was Rare DK ever intimidating?

>>713270940
>having a kid doesnt mean its for pedos
yeah every anon in this board loves the pragmata girl and little pauline (or loline as they call her) for their personality
so true

i’m more dissapointed the fact Kevin Bayliss disowns his DK and Diddy designs and said Nintendo did a much better job. He actively shat on his legacy for brownie points.

>>713280389
>this classic Popeye toon shit isn't tough enough for anon
>no, it's definitely part of the international feminist agenda to turn dirt-loving, booger-picking boys into trannies
whatever you say home skillet

>>713280462
pic related is better at locking in than shartyface kong ever will be, sorry you disgaree

The Mario movie is the reason DK got a redesign.

>>713280210
>muh blue arms
Every time someone acts dismissive like this there's no longer any point in discussing the matter of character design with them. The two are not even remotely comparable but when you like the design you want to minimize the other perspective's legitmacy so you gotta act like they're sperging mouth foaming retards when it's the opposite. Yes, much of it is similar: but the face of a character is where character design changes are the most distinguished and the face is plain and simply not the same in any way outside of a vauge resemblance in the brow ridge. If you stripped this out and rounded out the hair, DK would not look like the same character whatsoever. He would look like a Kong, but not the same one, and that's how it is. Dk's face then, is part of the character. So when they change that up, it feels like a major change, rather than "blue arms" which are so negligible and out of focus most people wouldn't even notice.

>>713264601 (OP)
What was anime about the music? I'm a huge weeb and it sounded like Disney to me and it's the main thing telling me I shouldn't buy this game, more so than the redesign.

>>713280786
>all of this word salad out of literally fucking nowhere
whatever helps you sleep at night

>>713280495
I agree, /v/irgins represent the entire planet, a few pedos on /v/ means all media with any children in it was made for pedos.

>>713280949
I feel like it was pretty straightforward, if a bit colorful. Do you have troubles processing metaphor? Is that another autism trait?

>>713264601 (OP)
As far as I heard, before Luigi's Mansion ressurgence in 2010s, Donkey Kong Country Trilogy was one of the biggest selling "western" games in Japán.

>>713280839
>MY angry monkey is better than YOUR angry monkey!
I thought people grew out of this phase by the age of twelve.

>>713280786
Everything is an attack on manliness and trying to destroy all things male, don't'cha know.

>>713281080
> before Luigi's Mansion ressurgence in 2010s,
Those games suck, only Nintendo EAD did it right.

>>713281063
do you speak only in politics and buzzwords?
>>713281131
>i have deliberately entered a thread comparing designs for a character and i have encountered comparisons, how could this be happening to me!?

>>713266473
Stop projecting.

>>713280839
>This is intimidating to tendies
lmao grow up.

nobody shat on Rare DK last year, very dishonewt reactions from everyone.

>>713278184
He was so intelligent that the Tikis couldn't handle him, the animals that were hypnotized were ordinary animals.

>>713264601 (OP)
Wreck-it-Ralph Kong > Jimmy Neutron Kong

>>713266473

>>713281080
Only Mansion 1 is good

>>713281396
>I never liked Rareware DK anyway
>I never liked analog triggers anyway
>I never liked the Zelda series before now anyway (except I might pretend to like Zelda 1 because Aonuma mentioned it)
It sure is amazing how well Nintendofags' sour grapes line up perfectly with Nintendo's recent decisions.

>>713281396
This.
>Before banaza reveal: almost universally beloved and regarded as fun and amusing BECAUSE of his design
>After Bananza reveal : MUH EXPRESSIVENESS old design BAD! You are AUTISTICAL for not liking this! *oOo face intensifies*

>>713281396
There was a minority who "disapproved" of Rare's design, but once Nintendo showed them how they should think, they turned the whole story around.

>you didn't complain about dial-up internet until broadband
>here's your free broadband upgrade, customer
>oh wow, this is way better
>SHILL SHILL SHILL

>>713280586
Unfortunately, he was on the losing end if he said anything negative about the new designs.
Social media is infested with Nintentards.
>LOL, he's pissed off because they changed his designs
and so on.

>>713281967
Apples to oranges. Art is not hardware. Try again.

Nintendo is redesigning every franchise and design to appeal to actual toddlers, because young teens don't play mario games anymore. They play fortnite and watch porn now
It's simple business. I liked old DK more too but I'm also not buying nintendo games, toddlers and parents of toddlers are

>>713282041
>you didn't complain about shitty 80s toy commercial animation and Disney dark age until the 90s
>here's artist-run productions and a rebirth of golden age animation principles
>oh wow, this is way better
>SHILL SHILL SHILL
easier on your tism brain now?

>>713281967
>we're going back to dial-up
>GOOD, I never liked broadband anyway, so unexpressive without those soulful dialing sounds
There, I finished your comparison for you to be correct.

>>713282259
Some people still liked 80 cartoons, doesn't mean everything about them had to be thrown out (and they weren't because things like this don't work that way)
Troll all you like, nothing will make your opinion objectively true.

>>713282391
And some people, maybe A LOT of people, like 90s cartoons on their real merits. Nigger.

>>713282291
fucking rekt, and true

>>713264601 (OP)
don't care the song is gonna go hard during the final boss https://youtu.be/59K6npy1ZA0?si=SCMZ1PobWcrq0TZP&t=58

>>713282009
He can just say he likes the design and nothing more. No need to downplay yourself, as if we liked an inferior design after all these decades.

The fact most of the complaints about this new DK are political ones screaming about trannies, emasculation, attack on men, pedophiles, etc show that most people complaining don't give a rat's ass about the actual character, only how they can use it to throw tantrums about their boogiemen.

>>713266473
>having a little girl means it's "for pedophiles"
Americans have successfully rotten their own brains holy shit. Inagine looking at a child and inmediately thinking "yikes, someone wants to fuck THAT!".

Are people really this upset by the goofy faces? The game itself looks fantastic.

>>713283028
Looks very BOTW. Lacks proper identity.

>>713283028
As if you weren't going to say that no matter what

>>713283028
nuDK emasculates men with his tranny faces

>>713283028
trannoids manchildren shit their diapers any time they can, this is just one more case of it

>>713265304
well left on op's image isn't a rare render but a mid-2000s nintendo one, what used to be called "Toothy Grin Jackass DK"

>>713283028
nu dk is definitely a perfect example of japanese sensibilities vs western sensibilities. nu dk is basically handmade for a japanese audience, they more or less completely sanitized his western 90's attitude and cool on purpose.

>>713283190
It's less "no identity" and more "no cohesive direction". It's like the younger devs at Nintendo are haphazardly grabbing at trends or ideas they saw in other games with no rhyme or reason.
>Mario Kart should have an open world because Zelda had one!
>Zelda needs item grafting and construction because G-mod had it!
>Donkey Kong needs environmental destruction because Minecraft had it! And a skill tree because RPG games have them!
Also wait, shouldn't DK have gotten the vehicle gimmick with its destruction focus, and Zelda the skill tree gimmick with it being an adventure game?

>>713265762
I've never liked how DK looks, but I really hate the redesign. I think it's because he looks more like a monkey, and less like a monkey adjacent thing. I don't like monkeys. Take that as you will.

>Funny how all these arguments came out once they unveiled the new design.
>isn't it weird how nobody was talking about x until it was in the news?

>>713280210
>except in ways that genuinely improve it

>>713283028
yes, Nintendo fans online are either very young or very autistic and often both, and those groups are the most prone to get mad over minor changes like this, see Sonic's blue arms or green eyes.

>>713283028
>The game itself looks fantastic.

>>713283921
>>713284081
It's THAT easy to awe Tendies? No wonder Nintendo put no effort in their games anymore.

>>713284081
Jungle Beat and Tropical Freeze has better fur effect than this. Heck, even Mario Party 10 is better.

>>713271493
>yoshis design changed
Yeah, it did and I'm just vibing over here and enjoying it while everybody else either never cared in the first place or simply don't even notice anything different.

>>713282831
Lot of people into that shit.

>>713283028
>The game itself looks fantastic.
It looks like shit, the art direction genuinely hurts to look at.

>>713264601 (OP)
now that you point that out, it doesn't surprise me westoids are throwing a tantrum
they are unable to accept they are a dead market that doesn't buy games

>>713283887
They subverted everyone's expectations!
Hahahaha!
I'm sick of surprises in games nowadays.

>>713280858
>The two are not even remotely comparable
lol
NTA and while I like the new DK design I absolutely understand why fans of the Rare one would be pissed
but man where do you get trying to act superior to Sonic fans complaining about Sonic's design being gotten wrong and then complain about DK's design changing when to a normal fag the only changes are minimal
you're cutting your nose to spite the face, retard, you ARE a "blue arms bad" fag, the answer is that the "blue arms bad" fag were always just as right as you are in thinking a design change of a character you like can be wrong even if to uninterested eyes it's subtle

>>713286664
>when to a normal fag the only changes are minimal
only because they're already used to the DUDE WEED movie design.

>>713287149
the whole reason they could accept the movie dude weed design IS it's barely different as far as a normie who doesn't care for this shit cares

it's a big cartoon gorilla, brown, with peach skin accents, eyes inside a weird cave thing, and a red tie going "DK"
it's the same design and the only people who care are fans and autists

>>713264601 (OP)
This shitty dk just proved that Miyamoto was really jealous of rare.
Japanese really do have an inferiority complex tb h.

>>713264601 (OP)
>left
disturbing. looks like one of those 12%er rapefaces

tfw no big monkey kong to bounce on

>>713264601 (OP)
>Is Bananza just Nintendo’s way of trying to help DK appeal more towards Japanese audiences
Feels more like trying to appeal to the brainrotted Modern Audience. More so Americans than any one else, feels like Pixar and Nickelodeon shit. Nothing about Bananza and it's art direction and the redesign feels Japanese, nor does the gameplay.
>Were the Rare/Retro Studios games unpopular in Japan?
The Japanese loved Rare and especially DKC and DK64. They had tons of merchandise like >>713264886
So of course they also loved the two Retro Studios games.

>>713268224
Based.

>>713264601 (OP)
I mean Miyamoto famously hated DKC and is probably still mad that his original version has been overshadowed by a couple of games for the SNES even like 30 years later.

>>713277407
The tie also wasn’t gonna be in DKC until Miyamoto insisted.

>>713271493
>marios design changed
>bowsers design changed
>luigis design changes
Only slight changes but all for the worse.
>peaches design changed
The rounder look at least fits the princesses.
>yoshis design changed
Again only slight changes.

Outside of DK, Nintendo's autistic and unnecessary design and in some cases personality overhauls are only really noticable on the four brothers and Bowser. All except Peach and Daisy look slightly worse. With Donkey Kong's complete redesign and 180 on personality he's like a whole new character. The design choice doesn't even fit in with the rest anymore, looks like a shitty guest character.

>>713272534
This fucking skin strip they gave Diddy and Dixie actually looks disgusting.

>>713264601 (OP)
The game looks really fun but I hate DK's new design.

>>713284937
I have no words

>>713281673
>I never liked the Zelda series before now anyway (except I might pretend to like Zelda 1 because Aonuma mentioned it)
lel
>botw good and is just like muh open world zelda 1 because mr eyenooma said so ootsnoy!!1
lmao!

>>713284717
At much lower resolutions with a fuckton less on screen.

>>713291000
Not my problem

>>713266473
Incredibly based yes even my skeleton is laughing at my fortune.

>>713265304
You're judging it based on really old renders, if you look at any other old render of a Nintendo character it will look awkward too. He looks perfectly fine in Tropical Freeze, the last mainline DK game we've gotten.

nintendo threw away the greatest gorilla design for no reason

I think Bananza DK is not nearly as jarring as Mario Kart World DK. When his face is angry or neutral it's not far off from Rare DK. The problem is he's constantly doing some goofy expression in any footage we see. I especially hate that nu-Pixar-esque/Steven Universe face he does with the huge teethy smile

>>713290967
This is the funniest part.

>>713280786
You know, I just realized why I can't deicide if he looks good or not with the new design is because the fucking renders use actual fur instead of that mesh card method they're using in Bananza.

>>713283028
He does look ugly. It's too much, and the game also doesn't look that good either unless you've never played a Voxel game before. They also keep adding these dumb animal transformations in all their games to slurp up extra reddit artist points. Wouldn't be surprised if Link could turn into an Elephant in the next game.

>>713294247
I think it's done that way to pair up with photo mode.

>>713288658
I hate to admit it, but the modern Japanese audience is fairly brainrotted themselves, if modern anime releases are anything to go by.

>>713272534
Sums up the problem perfectly.

The goofy Scooby Doo monkey voice he's had since Rare left does more to drag down Donkey Kong then any redesign.

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>>713264601 (OP)
The new game looks pretty fun

>>713268224
>Oliet Bangs
lol

>>713273028
>It's something I find weird about japanese character design sensibilities in particular.
Some Japanese designs have the eyes together. I'm thinking it's part of the same group of people that find 'monoeyes' creepy even though it's never been a problem before, usually the dopes that had a hand in the Sonic movie designs. I never found it an issue.