discuss various leaks and news about the 2025 GOTY winner

>>715614523 (OP)
You spelled Expedition 33 wrong

>>715614523 (OP)
let's be honest, this kids game is not winning GOTY

>>715614683
Excrement 33 wont even be nominated.

>>715614523 (OP)
lady and pauline are two different characters btw, it’s obvious

>>715614732
all video games are for kids

Am I seriously about to buy a Switch 2 and a $70 video game just because they brought back K Rool to mainline DK after more than 25 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE1QgZpt1Ls
rate the Bananza songs

>>715615403
>$70
I paid 60€ for it

>>715614683
fpbp

Anyone got the OST for K.Rool's intro? I love how menacing it is.

>people unironically arguing over the timeline of donkey kong

>>715614768
There would have been Lady and Jumpman billboards everywhere if that were the case.

>>715617918
There's a lady graffiti in NDC in Odyssey though.

How about we say the DKC games and Mario games are two separate universes. So it's DKC then Bananza and ignore everything else. Cranky never mentioned if he kidnapped Pauline fought Mario so we can just assume a similar event as the arcade game occured but with different characters.

>>715617906
its due to retarded tourists who've never played a dk game before who think cranky somehow isn't arcade dk despite it being his entire character

Take the "Every Mario game is a soft reboot" pill. I promise it makes sense.

>>715614732
Astro Bot won GOTY last year

The game is telling you it's a prequel but you guys are still koping.

>>715615403
Just whore yourself to lonely men

like literally, just pretending to be a girl and chatting with them is enough for the losers to throw shekels your way.

I opened a paypal and amazon account under my senile granny's name so if I get caught, the cops will waste their time going after a dying old lady

>>715617896
I spoiled a lot, but that will have to be something I find out for myself lol

>>715617969
>How about we say the DKC games and Mario games are two separate universes.
Nigga the ending literally takes place in new donk

>>715617957
Yes, in Odyssey.
Not in Donkey Kong Bananza.
In Donkey Kong Bananza, I found only one billboard of one small girder piece, everything else is just "NDC" and DKC character names.

>>715614768
The bizarre thing is that this still doesn't make sense with the Mario vs DK games...

>>715618057
Okay so does Pauline but that doesn't mean they are the same universe just shared across both.

>>715618057
if anything this makes it clear that Mario's worlds and DK's Lands are on opposite sides of the same planet. That's why they rarely interact with each other outside of events like parties and Kart racing.

>>715618160
>DK kidnaps Pauline because he falls in love with her
GK. GROOMER. KONG.

>>715614732
a kids game won GOTY last year though

>>715617906
The game isn't out yet retard there's nothing else to talk about

>>715615403
K.Rool.was in jungle climber bro. It's not 25 years.

>>715618225
>The game isn't out yet

DKB and Odyssey are a new rebooted timeline that started with odyssey. That's it. Stop thinking about it.

DKC -> Bananza -> Arcade -> Odyssey

DK captures Pauline as a protective father figure and is mad Mario tries to date her.

>>715618160
It does if you try hard enough and apply the "Tezuka Star System", which Miyamoto references as his inspiration for most games.

basically all characters are actors and at the end of the day (Mario Party/Kart/Tennis/Golf etc..), they are all buddies outside of work.

>>715618160
These games are okay but should be ignored now because it makes DK look like a loser weirdo especially after Bananza.

https://youtu.be/1wgdM0o9V3c?si=lgW-NhuBdtmbP8a7&t=20547
>postgame is just dk popping out the the tutorial area again with 3 months later
lol no dk island and no ndc full area

>>715618252
If it's out then why don't you launch your digital copy?

>>715618319
I won't be getting a Switch 2 until the end of the year.

>>715618264
Except DK is Mario's pet in the arcade game

>>715618302
>POST GAME ISN'T AN ENTIRELY NEW AREA
Yeah so?

>>715618394
Mario enslaved DK after he found out he didn't approve of the relationship.

>>715618413
it was in odyssey

>>715618270
so all the babies are just midgets pretending to be babies?

>>715618302
given this is made by the odyssey people a darker side of the moon sort of level probably exists somewhere.

>>715618160
banaza did change lore, so it’d make sense that lady is paulines mom/aunt

>>715618480
>Darker side
It was a glorified single stage.

All they had to do to keep the timeline coherent was have Odyssey Pauline next to Bananza Pauline in the scene where they say goodbye.

Where the FUCK are the clean soundtrack videos.

Couldn't even beat Astrobot's score

Guys who the fuck it that? Genuinely never heard of it.

>>715618302
Nah, no way, after all the fuzz made about Sublayer 1600 (and knowing K Rool doesn't show up until the very end of the story), I don't buy for a second that it's not supposed to be the post game map

>>715618556
>Make Mario a cuck
No I don't think so

>>715618556
I guess they were afraid of giving her niece to keep things "simple".

>>715618653 (me)
Or that it doesn't exist, for that matter.

>>715614768
>>715617957
They’re the same character.

>>715618691
Or worse if she is her daughter, a deadbeat.

So is the k rool thing accurate

>>715618553
nigga the mushroom kingdom was postgame

>>715618556
And make Mario a fucking deadbeat?

>>715614523 (OP)
so when do wariochads get their long awaited world 2?

>>715618712
I would have been okay with them having Odyssey Pauline stand there and not say anything.

>>715618807
Yes, 1000% confirmed already

>>715618807
Yes.
Total rarechad victory.

>>715618302
Wait the snoy poster was right and it is a 6 hour game? Ok I'm joking because obviously he ignored most of the side content which is a lot of the meat.

>>715618807
Yes he shows up right near the end and him and his kremlings are the final antagonists but for 90% of the game its void co

>>715618845
Never as you will be stuck with only warioware games forever

does the game reveal any info about the forgotten kong?

>>715618926
I beat odyssey in like 3 hours by ignoring all moons that were not necessary and slightly complicated to get desu

>>715618789
never stated albeit

>>715618996

>>715618926
Games like DK 64 that you need to do a lot of stuff to beat the game will never be made again. 3d platformers aren't supposed to be super long anyway.

>>715618184
The city in DK94 and Donkey Kong Land, are both also implied to be New Donk(setting of the arcade game)

I hope there’s a post game because the 500 moon limit actually encouraged you to engage with the game

>>715618232
He said mainline. Jungle Climber was a side game.

>>715618789
It's obvious these two games can't coexist together because Pauline wouldn't make a festival about the defeat of her friend DK.

>>715619153
cranky is that dk

is there a kaiju battle?

>>715615403
British boomers are easily manipulated, huh?

>>715619150
It is mainline in my heart

>>715619195
Nah and krool doesnt even have animal forms
Is kinda lame desu

>>715618469
Mario is against interspecies relations. Thats why he moved to the Mushroom Kingdom, where humans have elevated class status and those dirty Toads know their place.

>>715615403
I sure did

What gcn games are on this thing

What does Pauline's grandma look like?

>>715619195
No, it’s a three phase fight with a cool platforming section inbetween phase 2-3 and this is the final phase

Poppy Kong is doing strange things to my anti-furry policy

hemipeni

>>715619276
I bet the Mario daughter fag is pretending that Grandma is the real Pauline

>>715618996
no, but its implied lady & jumpman are seperate characters

>>715619189
Well clearly due to ages unless it's two different Paulines.

THE PORN
DK IS ABLUT TO GET TONS OF VORE

>>715618556
Should of shown child Paul re growing to normal size and covered in tattered bits of her clothes.

>>715619259
NSMBU Deluxe revealed that peach is actually a toad wearing a super crown though

>>715619337
that was toadette

when is this shit playable in the US?

>>715619276
it’s lady from arcade donkey kong, no doubt.

Collage of denierfags when?

>>715619292
King of rot sounds like a dark souls boss lmao

>>715619294
I think its the gold lipstick thats doing it

>transformations in platformers
Anyone else hate this shit? I want to have access to my entire available kit at all times, not dig through menus because one part needs one specific unlocks or move.

I’m skipping this Balan Wonderworldlike.

>>715619276
Holy shit
>Crank is DK's grandpa
>Pauline arcade is this Pauline's Grandma

>>715619292
why is he wearing pants

>>715619368
>toadette turns into a peach clone when she puts on the crown
>we've never seen peach without the crown or something covering the top of her head
coincidence? i bet if you take her crown off she turns into a toad

>>715619292
Imagine the smell

>>715619334
Oh no no no

donkey kong has down syndrome

>>715619490
We have rho, Peach Showtime. I don't blame you for not knowing that, though.

>>715619439
>menus
even the direct outright shows you don't need to fiddle with menus

>>715619439
bro your entire mario series?

So the only lore that this game changes is that Pauline is not the woman from the arcade games, it was her gradma????

>>715619490

Does Cranky say anything alluding to the arcade? He used to talk about Mario being his rival but it apparently got cut

>>715619583
yes

was all the kremlings being revived real?

>>715619583
that's been a "retcon" since dkc tbdesu

>>715619571
Optional powerups are different than “you need to equip the over transformation to continue”

>>715619649
>>715619583

>>715619708
there's lots of levels where you need the powerups to continue or the level is built around the powerups

>>715619649
Yes, the greentext pic ended up being real

The best part of the game is that they bothered explaining why K. Rool and the Kremlins have been missing from the past games

>>715619292
Bravo Miyazaki

>>715619583
Sure I think that's fine and makes sense if we ignore oddsey or maybe this game take space decades after that game.

>>715619571
Rolling for 2

>>715619276
>What does Pauline's grandma look like?

>>715619760
More than anything I just don’t want to fiddle with equipment menus like in Balan, Hat in Time, or Kameo.

>no confusing lore autism
>no forced story
>no gimmicks
>just hard, gameplay-driven ludo

This is Miyamoto's TRVE vision. RETVRN.

>>715619823
Why is her grandma wearing a red hat?

lmao that dont mind joe faggot on youtube is gonna be seething that the game is a prequel he kept saying it wasnt

>current dk, mario and pauline are all related to the original arcade game

Whats wrong with this?

>>715619892
...but the equipment has nothing to do with transformations

>>715619334
Getting cock vored by snake DK...

>>715619441
This shit is literally canon now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR5joNASmtY

>Arcade Pauline is no longer Pauline
>Pauline is now simultaneously a New York jazz singer and a kid
>Onions Kong is Cranky Kong
Do I have that right? This shit got confusing.

>>715619957
anons are refusing to believe lady & jumpman are their own characters now

>>715619760
NTA but that's an optional endgame level, not required to finish the game.

>>715618302
The video doesn't even show off anything after the credits besides DK returning to Ignot Island shitposter

>>715619334
>*Gulp* ;)

>DKC is a prequel to the Arcade and Mario series
>Arcade game isn't actually Mario/Pauline but their parents (grandparents?)
So which is it

>Name?
>Mario
>Last name?
>Mario
>Father's name?
>Mario

>>715619957
if that was true then it means mario traps apes in cages, whips them, and tries to kill their children with bear traps. also cranky is the dk from the arcade games but old now

>"Krokodile Kore"
>subterranean, but with biomes usually found on the surface
>blue & purple energy that are common colors in Bananza
Huh.

>>715619823
sure. they got visually similar eyes if nintendo goes that route.

>>715619823
So where's old man Mario Senior?

>>715620064
>nakaue king k.rool
kino

The real lore question is how Cranky went from being a 7ft beefcake in his prime to a skinny manlet now

>>715619984
>cock vore
Based anon with taste

>>715620080
>Mario’s dad’s name is Jumpman

>>715620064

The kremling krew king

>>715620080
Hard to tell since none of the leakers give a shit about lore.

>>715620080
As of right now? Limbo
If somebody finds a line where Cranky talks about it then it's the latter

>>715620134
snakes have two cocks...

>>715619334
>naga DK
this goes beyond snake. nintendo what have you done?

>>715620148
Neither does Nintendo so I'm guessing there is no answer

>>715620034
it's just an example, there are tons of levels where you need a powerup to progress

>>715619398
/v/ needs to apologize. He loved DKC all along. He appreciated that DKC kept the idea of a solo DK brand alive, even if his specific vision for what it looked like tied into the spirit and tone of the arcade game.

Who else is willing to bet the next game after this from these devs, will be Mario and DK teaming up to fight a Bowser and Rool team up?

>>715619786
Why do we need to ignore oddessy?

>>715620160
>dk voring multiple kremlins at the same time while flexing
God please

>>715620140
Maybe Mario's Italian midget family name is Saltatore?

>NOOOOOOOOOOO IT'S NOT A PREQUEL
>NOOOOOOO IT CAN'T BE A PREQUEL
>NOOOOOOOOOOO-ACKKKK

>tfw can get Bananza and any Switch/Switch 2 game for half off MSRP price
Will be getting even if the performance rumors are true

The 2D art for him is really cool

>>715620124
Elderly people, especially those who exerted themselves in extreme physical labor all their livea, become frail-looking people who look shorter due their spines compressing.

Just relax and play this game. It explains the timeline.

I see two, where's the last member?

>>715620087
No it means jumping is a different character from current mario

>>715620241
Because Pauline in that game alludes heavily she's the arcade Pauline.

>>715619917
>Why is her grandma wearing a red hat?

Goes well with the stache

>>715619571
Rolling for 4
Peng peng

>>715620343
Are there 2d art of the dk forms?

I just woke up
Tell me
>Are there Kongs we didn't know that are back
>How K. Rool is back
>Is Pauline was de-aged or this is her naturally a kid

>>715620340
>implies all of DKC is a decade long prequel to Mario games since Bananza takes place after DKC
holy shit

>>715620023
No youngot it wrong.
The arcade characters are jumpman lady and cranky kong.

>>715619334
Those snake NPCs are very cute.

>>715620340
It's an alternate timeline. Watch Rick and Morty.

>>715620424
Pauline is just a kid, it's a prequel to Odyssey but a sequel to DKC. >>715620340

>>715620364
>No style. No grace. Funny face.
Rude

>>715619292
>King K rot
>not a rabbit
WTF NINTENDO

>>715620124
it’s like master roshi, cranky can buff up when shit gets serious

>>715620424
Pauline is just herself and this is a prequel
Also her grandma was the one kidnapped in the original arcade games

I don't understand the consternation over the timeline. It looks to me like they just retconned Cranky Kong's thing, made the DKC games happen way before the Mario games, and now the original arcade game happens after the DKC games. Maybe DK comes up to hang out with a grown-up Pauline and Mario misunderstands it.

The Cranky Kong lore was kind of dumb to begin with if you were the kind of person to care about the lore of Nintendo cartoon characters. I wasn't too attached to it.

>>715620080
Sequel to DKC, prequel to the arcade games/MvDK/Odyssey. Cranky is no longer considered arcade DK.

>>715620343
with the DK Movie confirmed, K. Rool is most likely going to be the main villain of the movie too.
You think he will be voiced by Jack Black too?

>>715620364

dead

>>715620463
>prequel to Odyssey
Nonsense Pauline wouldn't celebrate Mario defeating her friend

>>715619439
>Anyone else hate this shit?
why do redditors talk like this online?

>>715620424
>unknown
>The kremlings were retarded and during the events of Returns and Tropical freeze were stuck in the earth core because they tried getting the banandium root
>Naturally a kid, the games takes place after DKC but before Mario games, it's implied the DKC games are prequels to Mario. Arcade games seems to have been retconned entirely or maybe Lady/Jumpman aren't Pauline and Mario.

>>715620117
Have you seen the movie? The grandpa of Mario looks like him but old

>>715620424
lady is implied to be paulines grandmother

>>715620496
Cranky in bananza litterally references kidnapping women when he was young and having a rival in overalls.

>>715620547
she would celebrate jumpman beating her friends gramps that kidnapped her granny

>>715620560
You need to go back

>>715620515
>prequel to the arcades
Is not a prequel to the arcades
The arcades woman was pauline gradman

>>715620364
>CANDY music
>TINY bank

>>715620235
That would be cool, but I'd rather have a Wario Land/World revival next.

>>715620547
DK '94 says the arcade games were a stage play, why not celebrate that? Pauline and DK are also on good terms in the MvDK series.

>>715620515
Wrong.
Paulines grandma was the one who was kidnapped by cranky.

>>715620484
I always wished there was a game with new ape bad guys(like the gorillas from Sky Skipper), led by a giant Prime Kong, who at the end is revealed to be a giant robot (that looks like the ape from Monkey Magic old ass nintendo arcade game) piloted by Cranky looking to relive his youth

>>715620605
Sure if we ignore Pauline implying she was the one in the arcade game

>>715620424
>Are there Kongs we didn't know that are back
Not really? Lanky and Tiny have small cameos in the final level and other kongs like Candy are namedropped but Diddy/Dixie/Cranky seem like the only ones with an actual presence unless there's some post-game stuff we haven't seen yet
>How K. Rool is back
He was trapped underground before the events of the game because he tried finding the Banandium Root first. The last layer of the game is the Kremling Base and he's the final boss with four different stages in his fight including a kredits fake out and him taking over New Donk City and turning it into his own
>Is Pauline was de-aged or this is her naturally a kid
We still have no clue

>>715620463
>>715620340
>>715620495
>>715620515
>Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, etc are now older than Mario
....huh
Also makes that scene from one of the Mario vs Donkey Kong aged awkwardly but oh well
Wait where does Yoshi Island DS fit in this since it has a baby Donkey Kong

Kino

>>715620117
Broke up with Pauline's grandma and settled down with a different woman, eventually becoming Mario and Luigi's parents.

>>715620340
Pauline is homeless?

>dkc dk is arcade dk's son
>dkc is older today than arcade dk was when dkc released
>the dk that meets mario is dkc dk's son
>lady is pauline's grandma
>jumpman is mario's GRAND DAD

>>715620547
Good think jump man and cranky aren't dk or mario.

So it seems like from the reviews it’s a good game but not the masterpiece that Astro Bot was. A shame that Nintendo is falling behind in one of their main genres.

>>715620674
Where? The "kidnapped by a monkey" thing? That was Void.

>>715620698
I like K. Rool's logo, it looks great, reminds me of Bowser's own logo but cooler

>>715620587
This shit isn't in the game it was only in the demo

>>715620661
>Stage play
She mentioned it was a traumatic event so no. Also she says she lost her purse during that time so it's not referring to this game.

>>715620768
Retard. It's in the game.

>>715620712
Not every person playing music by the sidewalk is homeless.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.......so THAT'S why she's listed as 13 and not I dunno 6

>most story driven game in the series
>barely anything is actually explained and more questions are raised than anything else

Of course.

>>715620620
what a weird, nonsensical post

>>715620698
DONG KONG

>>715620636
>>715620663
Cope. Unless you got proof on that, everything shows Pauline as the one getting kidnapped by DK.

>>715620453
they're yoshi shaped and are wearing socks

>>715620620
Yes you do, to reddit.

>>715619398
I just hope the next game returns Diddy and Dixie to playable status.

Is mori calliope in

>>715620587
The DKC series has had tons of meta references, he spent half his time in the original pumpsucking arcade games over console games. I don't think it's meant to be a serious thing for the timeline now. You can just presume Cranky's bullshitting or it was a different guy in overalls.

It being Mario never really made sense to begin with unless you think Kongs have a lifespan of like 8 years. It's just wacky easter egg dialogue. The "real" Donkey Kong arcade game happens after Bananza.

>>715620823
She's too young to be on fentanyl.

>>715620597
cyclops?

Why K.rool loves fake ups? In DKC2 he did like 4 although DK free himself and uppercut him after the last one.

>>715620828
so kingdom hearts but mario(DK)

>>715620890
i think she made the music for mini pauline

>>715620890
No

My GameStop never releases stuff before the street date...

>>715620890
Thankfully no

ARCADE PAULINE CONFIRMED PAULINE'S GRANDMA

>>715620735
Sad

>Pauline celebrates a festival every year about the time her childhood groomer kidnapped her
Bros?

Does this mean K Rool can come into the mario spinoffs now? Please?

>>715620674
Pauline was referencing the events of Bananza, the kong who kidnapped her was Void Kong.

>>715621010
schizo theorists won.

>>715621010
That pretty much cements she's not de-aged
If she was an adult her grandma would be dead

>>715620890
yes, she sings the new raps

>>715620961
Her just writing the lyrics would be weird but wouldn't surprise me too much

>>715621040
And he means in more than just Sluggers before some faggot does an ACHKSULLY

>>715620789
So you admit Pauline was the one who got kidnapped then, yes? Maybe DK '94 was a sequel to the arcade games then, a SMB3 style play after everyone became friends.

>NOOOOOOOOOOOO THE MAIN FUCKING ENEMY BEING SKELETAL CROCODILES THAT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE KREMLINGS MEAN FUCKING NOTHING K. ROOL ISN'T IN STOP KOPING

>>715620661
>Shigeru Miyamoto views the Mario characters as a "troupe of actors," capable of taking on different roles depending on the context, like a comic or cartoon

Modern Donkey Kong IS Arcade Donkey Kong
Cranky Kong IS Arcade Donkey Kong
Cranky Kong is NOT Modern Donkey Kong

It's that simple...

>>715621040
If only, they haven’t added 8 volt or mona from warioware yet

>a buff gorilla who tfs into other buff animals fights off a strongman but fat crocodile
it is for barafags isn't it

>>715620926
because despite calling the incompetent fools, he actually loves giving credit to his subordinates.

That's what makes him the true and only King of the Kremlings.

>>715620712
Public performances aren't exclusive to homeless people, it is the old entertainment fantasy of an up and coming artist wanting to gather a crowd without assistance from bars or a studio yet.

>>715621113
Funny you mention that because Miyamoto seems to be pushing more towards aztec K Rool which even shows up in this, except here he actually looks great

>>715620874
Don't make things weird with the snakes

>>715621083
Oh shit you're onto something

>>715620340
>>715620443
So how does Yoshi's Island work now? Baby Donkey Kong was born around the same time as Baby Mario.

>>715620789
She got kidnapped by Void Kong and transformed against her consent, how is that not a traumatic event?

>>715621203
That...has nothing to do with my question.

Why did all the Youtubers say it was confirmed to not be a prequel weeks ago? They would shame anyone for saying Pauline wasn't deaged.

LOL!

>>715621040
>>715621113
People were saying that there was copium for a DK pack for Mario Kart World because there's only one Donkey Kong series song in that game while a game like Yoshi Story has multiple remixes and fucking WarioWare got canonized as a major spinoff with a song

>>715621010
Pauline has a grandma, nowhere does it say her grandma was the damsel in the arcade games. Pauline confirms it was herself in Odyssey.

>>715621040
I hope so
Would buy MK World just for K.Rool

>>715621014
She celebrates Cranky kidnapping Lady, she found herself being kidnapped by Void traumatizing.

we have never been so back, what a really fun way to use k rool again after so many years
>>715620518
i'll watch that slop if they have matt berry k. rool

>>715621227
non canon slop, same goes for sm64 ds

>>715621094
Disappointed. Age regression/progression is my fetish of choice.

>>715621159

So this shit was real?

>>715618270

That's actually a clever cutesy way of designing games.

>>715620235
All I care about at this point. We have Mario and DK crossover (and not Mario vs. DK crap) primed

>>715621136
Sure you can headcanon your way to make anything seem plausible either way I see no reasonable explanation of why DK kidnaps her and makes it traumatic for her.

>>715621278
why the fuck would it say that in the arcade games where she's still young? retard

>>715621227
It can still happen, DK would just have to be around 13 years old during DKC and Bananza

>>715620342
Look at that, it's already on sale! Confirmed flop!

>>715621189
Always has been.

>>715621159
I'm usually fine with there not being an overarching story with Mario, but there's issues when Bananza directly references Odyssey and DKC as happening, and both of those directly referencing DK Arcade as happening.
Within just those games alone there's a major inconsistency that's hard to ignore.

>>715621308
yoshi's island isnt slop
get a vasectomy

>>715621040
Now that DK is fully immersed in the Mario lore I just want a game where Bowser and K.Rool join forces just because.

I starting to think that you aren't supposed to think hard about timelines in mario related stuff.

>>715621278
>Pauline confirms it was herself in Odyssey.

No she confirms she was kidnapped by an Ape and she was, Void Co.

wario fans, when is our time?

>>715621159
I think DK is acting as Cranky from the original game in Mario VS DK, because it kind of would make no sense for modern DK to be a lunatic that kidnaps women

>>715615403
If you are retarded then yes. I will get a Switch 2 from the same guy I bought the Switch. I'm getting it brand new for 200$ less and Nintendo gets 0$ from me since I'm pretty sure the guy boosts them from somewhere.

>>715621263
They thought it'd be a prequel to the Arcade game, but it's actually a sequel to the Country games AND a prequel to the Mario games.

>>715621275
A DK pack would make perfect sense financially, advertising and the models are already done
>>715621421
K Rool is too much of a cunt, Bowser would hate him, K Rool is too krool

>>715621257
I already mentioned she said she lost her purse during that event which implies she was a adult when it happened.

>>715621227
Yoshi’s Island is a children’s book. Not actual canon.

>>715621423
ok but lady is paulines grandma

>>715621441
That image offends me because there are no references to Wario Land 4, which is Wario's masterpiece, he himself said it

>>715621441
waluigi just being player 2 in any wario game would be a huge win

>>715618034
>>715618224
he said "this" kids game
learn 2 read.

Arcade DK > DKC > Odyssey > Bananza
Three different DKs: Cranky, Jr., DK (current)
Three different damsels: Lady, Pauline, Pauline Jr.
Three different Marios: Jumpman, Mario, Baby Mario

>>715621304
He looks so GOOD
GOTY confirmed

>>715621275
DK and pauline only having one costume each is pretty strange when shit like baby rosalina has 4

>>715621227
>So how does Yoshi's Island work now? Baby Donkey Kong was born around the same time as Baby Mario

Baby DK = DK Jr.

>>715621441
when koizumi decides its time

>>715621498
Lots of kids have purses.

>>715621498
13 year olds can have purses

Well, gentlemen, see you at the DK Movie where they make this even more incomprehensible

>>715621189
Blame Rare

>>715621343
Pauline literally states that the events of arcade DK happened to her during her questions in Odyssey you retard.

>>715621040
It means K. Rool can team up with Captain Syrup to mess up with Wario & Donkey Kong in a wacky crossover.

post yfw he returned to us

If this game was being true to the Rare spirit, K. Rool would have an entirely new outfit and getup, but it seems that since Nintendo themselves have handled him that they've dropped that aspect of his character.

>>715621227
That just means Modern DK, Modern Mario, Luigi, Peach, Wario, and Bowser are a few years older than Pauline.

>>715621502
That's not true, they directly call back to the events of those games all the time
I'm pretty sure they do a direct callback in Partners in Time

>>715621431
She says gorilla. Void is not a gorilla.

I think I fixed the timeline.
>Jumpman saves Lady from Cranky
>Lady has Pauline
>Cranky kidnaps Pauline
>Mario saves Pauline
>Cranky has Rare DK
>Rare DK kidnaps Pauline
>Mario and Pauline have Pauline Jr.
>Mario dumps Pauline
>Rare DK saves Pauline Jr.
>Pauline Jr. stays with Grandma Lady while Mayor Pauline tends to NDC

NEW
ROOL
CITY

>>715621573
>The DK movie starts with Old Pauline finding Baby Donkey Kong and adopting him as her son
post your reaction

>K. Rool likes bananas
>Only rotten ones though
>Other wise he hates them
How do we feel about that?

>>715621645
My Lord...

>>715621678
>he doesn't know

>>715620789
Are you implying there's no purse in DK 94?

>>715621564
Okay then if we assume that Pauline was referring to this game then we can argue Pauline wasn't the Pauline in the arcade game.

>>715621590
no she doesn't you gigaretard

>>715621645

>>715621645
I KNEEL

My only complaint is that K.Rool didn't use his trademark leaps to fuck up with you during the boss fight. He just used his jumping to switch places to shoot at you.

>>715621693
>pauline jr
Why didnt you KYS yet?

>>715621708
It's a little out of nowhere but i guess it explains why he wants the hoard that badly

>>715621708
it's probably a texture thing

>>715621708
he’s becoming the next wario like rival

>>715621678
>he lacks critical information

>>715621678
>would have an entirely new outfit and getup,
We went over this last thread
He's in base appearance here because it's meant to reintroduce him to a new generation unfamiliar with the guy.
If he showed up in a new get-up and persona that'd risk becoming his new evergreen design

>>715621645

>Pauline is Mario's daughter

>>715621830
and he does get a new appearance anyway

>>715621708
He wants to make banana bread and muffins.

>>715621693
Your headcanon is dogshit now move on already

>>715621337
>KRool returns with a full army
>attacks New Donk City
>lil Pauline asks DK for help
>DK brings along his new son
>meets a young man Mario also fighting the new army
>thinks DK is a bad guy who kidnaps Pauline and they start out as enemies
>eventually team up
>revealed that the benefactor for K Rools new army is someone known as the Koopa King- Rool reveals him and this other king are trying to carve up the world for their respective empires
>Mario travels off to the distant Mushroom Kingdom where this other king is currently invading

It's shit

>>715621716
>>715621828
I've seen the spoilers, he does transform but he still is in his Kingly default and everywhere in the game still calls him "King K. Rool".
Rare would've given him a whole new moniker based on the theme of the game.
>>715621830
I would've preferred it, marketability be damned.

>>715621294
Did anyone at Nintendo proofread any of this? This is the most convoluted attempt at plot consistency I’ve ever read.

>>715621760
My complaint is that the boss fight is too fucking easy. Typical Nintendo.

Where are the videos? Why are there just screenshots?

>>715614523 (OP)
we won so hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RmoCRAOMV8

>>715621645

>>715618034
>>715618569
>>715620735
>>715621012
Eric, you lost.

>>715621912
You just lack reading comprehension.

>>715621693
Cranky isn't arcade DK. The DKC games simply take place before the arcade games and Super Mario series.

>>715621912
They probably did it on purpose to annoy timeline autists, like they do with Zelda.

>>715621946
Do you even YouTube? Just look it up right now and there's full playthroughs on YouTube.

>>715621708

>people actually thought "new donk city" in odyssey ever genuinely made sense

Lol what.

>>715622024
not possible, as mini pauline stated she has an auntie (lady)

>accidentally shit the entire bed with the pauline thing
nintendo can't even keep what crumbs of consistency they have with mario, anymore, huh?
time travel was right there

>>715621930
3D nintendo will always be easy. Thats just the breaks.
Hope there's a DK Version of darker side of the moon

>>715622024
If Cranky isn't arcade DK then why did DK JR just vanish out of existence?

>>715620735
Sony-'s games are designed for journalists to glaze. Nintendo's are designed for people to actually play.

>>715621421
>Bowser and K. Rool reluctantly team up to unleash a legendary being to help them take over the world
>It's Wart, and summoning him unleashes the dream dimension upon the waking world

>>715622024
see
>>715621159

>people thought it wasn't going to be a prequel
if you didn't see how obvious it was you were a retard

>>715622082
Only explanation is it makes it easier to use young Pauline in the future if they want to.

>>715620064
Soul

>>715622149
It's not that it's just a prequel, it confirms the entirety of DKC as a 10 year gap prequel to Mario.

>>715622012
>pauline is traumatized
>but not by arcade DK
>her festival is to celebrate her grandma being traumatized by arcade DK
>Pauline in arcade DK is no longer Pauline and is now just lady
>Jumpman is a character now, implied to be Mario’s ancestor
I think I can read just fine. This is just retarded.

If we assume this is like Pauline the Third and is the niece of the Pauline we're familiar with who lives with an entirely separate grandma would that be copium?

>>715620034
How about this level required to finish the game?

>>715622093
because /our/ dk is jr

>>715621645

Suzanne fags kill yourselves immediately

>>715622194
Do we know Pauline is 23 as an adult?
She could just be 18 and that'd just be a 5 year time gap with Mario slightly older than her
Didn't Shiggy say Mario is supposed to be early to mid 20's?

If people don't think Smash rosterfagging is important, let it be known that its probably the only reason K Rool is here

>>715621273
kek

>>715620865
It's a light retcon my guy.

>>715622225
This is just a puzzle level, it's not mechanically difficult once you figure out what you need to do.

>>715614523 (OP)
Grim, dark and mature Donkey Kong is back! At least sometimes. What are the excuses now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRX0Ep7gacQ

>>715622082
The virgin time travel/multiverse vs. the chad "I don't care lol"

>>715621678
To be fair I think it's better to just have him be the vanilla K. Rool for his first appearance in a mainline DK game in 25 years. You're reintroducing the character to new audiences. Him using different identities is something you do after people have already gotten to see the base character and want to see more of him.

There's also the transformation in the boss fights but that's not really the same. Maybe next game he can be Korporal K. Roolenberg or some shit like that.

This nigga Diddy is a 30 year old man in present day

>>715622207
>This is just retarded.
You know those dumb fan theories people have been spouting for years?
Something fucking Matpat or Movie Blob would say?
This feels like Nintendo has just validated them

>>715620903
>it being mario never made sense
Great we agree..
The arcade protag is jump man. Not mario.

>>715621420
Yoshi's Island DS specifically is a bad enough game it's ok to ignore it.

>>715622358
Ain't no party like a Diddy party

>>715622225
6-5 is optional

>>715622358
If adult Pauline is about 18, then there's only really 5 years of difference.

>>715622098
This is a take from someone who didn’t play Astro Bot

>>715620597
Matt Murdock still fighting Kingpin in New donk city

>>715622358
That just means Dixie and Tiny are legal now

>>715622358
It's fine you only ever see him in DKC when he's still young ignoring spinoffs

>>715622316
Mario, Luigi, Wario, Peach and DK are at a similar age as they were all babies around the same time, Pauline is likely to be in her mid 20s to like Mario and I doubt she's 18 considering she's the mayor.

>>715621678
The Kremlings wear fossils and his first transformation is a ancient Aztec king, they still followed that rule

>Candy Kong is a MILF

>>715621687
Grumpy kong was there

>>715621645
They said it couldn't happen
They said it was just Kopium
They said it was Tropical Freeze all over again
They said Smash Ultimate was a one-and-done thing and he'd never return to the game

It wasn't

I can't believe K.Rool actually pulled a Ganon

Poor Void

>>715620597
Missed opportunity not to put someone similar to David Wise.

>GameStop won't fucking pick up for my preorder call
God I hate them.

>>715621645
I cant wait for the dubs to this

>>715622161
Neutral outcome
>Pauline (Young)
Expected outcome
>Kid/Teen Pauline
Chaotic outcome
>Pauline Jr.

KINO KINO KINO KINO KINO

>>715622343
Exactly, it's really not that big of a deal that they retcon Cranky. It was a stupid idea anyway.

>>715620890
No
>>715620961
She didn't, the composers are all japs and the VA for ENG Pauline and also singer for all languages is a literal who.

so is there any explanation for why pauline is a child? Or is this basically retconning the whole Mario-Cranky-Pauline shit from the arcade days?

>>715622334
>They hate mii
>They hate mii because they don't know the next decade is going to be the best decade of their Rool-loving lives

the BONGS won today............

>>715622593
>so is there any explanation for why pauline is a child?
It's a sequel to DKC and a prequel to Mario Odyssey. Arcade status is in limbo.

>>715622358
Its gonna be like they do with fantasy races where characters age slower. Diddy being 30 in their Kong years is like 16 years old

>>715622568
IGN loves everything.

>>715622498
>ancient Aztec king
Will the Mesoamericanon analyze it?

>>715621040
Mario Kart World DLC

>>715622593
Prequel to arcade, MvDK, and Odyssey. Cranky lorefags btfo'd.

>>715622502
damn right!

So we're getting a Mario Kart World expansion with these characters, right?

Diddy
Loli Pauline
Cranky
King K Rool

>>715621040
He died of old age before Mario starts his adventures sadly

Based

>>715622661
Nintendo pay them off, the game looks legitimately great but this is also true

>>715622498
>his first transformation is a ancient Aztec king
They are using this for the DK movie; it fits too perfectly not to do that.

Do we ever fight void kong?

>>715621756
Kredits!!

>>715617971
His entire character is being the only character (well, him and Wrinkly) that's aware that he's fictional and lives in a video-game. Him specifically saying he's the Donkey Kong of the original arcade game (even going as so far as to refer to it as a video-game) should be enough to not take as serious unbreakable gospel. Especially with how often non-meta lore contradicts it.

>>715618302
The video only shows where you spawn after you finish the game, it doesn’t show what happens next. Clearly if you can continue playing other levels then something else must happen. Especially since Pauline is the one unlocking areas and transforming DK with her singing.

>>715622730
we don’t need another baby clone, void king is fine albeit

>>715614523 (OP)
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>>715622334
>>715622608
If K. Rool is back because of Smash, he's the exception
Smash doesn't actually do much more for a character or series than you'd think

>>715622759
>Nintendo pay them off
BAHAHAHAH

>>715622661
They haven't given a game a ten since Bauldr's Gate 3.

Anyone upload the Pauline song from the trailer yet, I kinda need it

>>715622593
Zero explanation, and we're stuck here trying to figure out when DK Arcade happens. It'd be easy to just retcon it out were it not for the fact that Odyssey directly mentions it as happening.

>>715622745
>Defeat King K. Rool
I hate this shit. Can't zoomers do anything without an objective?
>huh? oh i have to defeat the villain? i was gonna befriend him!

>>715622035
it's a reference to the naysayers about the og leaks

It's Time/Deaging Magic.

They're ripping fossils out of the ground and reviving them with banandium.

It's Time/Deaging Magic.

Pauline and DK are deaged and amnesia'd, after Void Co attack New Donk City and find K Rools fossil which tells them his banandium armor is the banandium root at the center of the earth.

K Rool was stealing bananas and processing them in to banandium.

>>715622791
>cranky deniers need everything cranky says to be a lie and for him to be a deranged liar for their narrative to make any sense

>>715622745
Bowserkeks in absolute shambles

>>715622614
Happy 40th anniversary Rare

>game is released and people still coping
It's a prequel. Kill yourself Suzanne fags.

>>715622881
Bowser does the exact same thing 10 years later tho

>>715622802
Be honest, would people even know about Earthbound or Mother 3 if lucas and Ness weren't in smash? Star fox?
Nintendo leaves these IP's to rot so smash is the only reminder that they exist

>rarechads: winning
>ashleycucks: leaking
>status: jap praise

we won.

>>715614523 (OP)
>GOTY
KEK

>>715618210
Animals care not for your human morals.

>>715622819
Pauline is a child here, so arcade takes place between Bananza and Odyssey. This isn't rocket science.

>>715622791
just say you hated rare's lore, bro
it'd be a lie to cover your tendieness, but it'd be less mental gymnastics

>>715622661
>

chink status?

>>715622802
Fire Emblem owes its existence out of japan to smash.

Working on my merged DK-Mario timeline right now (non-Smash version).

>>715622954
>Great
>excellent multiplayer racing
>incredible polish
>thrilling new Knockout Tour mode
IGN loves everything.

>The reason why Tiny isn't randomly a kid anymore is because of Bananza confirming there was a time skip
>Tiny is roughly the same age as Pauline

Nintendo, I kneel...

>>715622798
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!

hit the like button if you enjoy k rool

>>715622989
They got him

>>715622927
star fox was actually notable back when it got to Smash the first time

>>715614523 (OP)
Why did they flanderize DK?

>>715623013
or they are just honest and most games are fun.

>>715622334
Famicom Detective Club got 2 games without Smash bros.

>>715622915
It's actually an interquel.

>>715623020
The next Mario game will have Tiny CONFIRMED

>>715622989
Irrelevant now that everyone else can record the game

Why are people overthinking this shit.

Lady is Pauline's grandmother. Pauline is referring to when Void Kong kidnapped her in Mario Odyssey (and she calls him an ape, not a gorilla). Mario vs Donkey Kong and DK 94 aren't canon

>>715622927
>Be honest, would people even know about Earthbound or Mother 3 if lucas and Ness weren't in smash?
Mother is a cult classic in the West
In Japan, it's just *a classic*
Mother 3 entered development before Smash 64 did
It's not dormant or neglected, it's just concluded because the guy who wrote for the series doesn't want to do more and he co-owns the IP
>Star Fox
Was a major series until it hit an identity crisis

>>715623031
+1

>>715623035
Literally 64 is the only popular star fox gane

>>715623020
How come Diddy and her older sister are still short?

Now that the game is out, has anyone actually looked at the staff credits to see exactly which staff members from Odyssey are on Bananza and who isn’t (meaning that they’re on 3D Mario)? Is there anyone from Bowser’s Fury in the Bananza credits? And who’s the composer for Bananza, Naoto Kubo?

https://youtu.be/l9BPTPNMXZk?t=145
How will he react to the news...?

>>715623020
>>715623098
So explain Diddy and Dixie
Why didn't they age?
Oh shit, is Kiddy still a baby in present day

WELL LISTEN HERE
WHILE I MAKE IT CLEAR
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU CAN'T SEE WHA TWE SEE HERE
A CROCODILE, THE SUPERIOR SPECIES

Hopefully someone starts uploading the OST soon

>>715623110
Cranky still talks about kidnapping a woman and Jumpman though

>>715623124
Exactly, so there's still merit. And Mother is very notable in Japan.

>>715623110
DK 94 is canon, it's just the Jr. cast (DK Jr., Mario, and Pauline) doing a historical reenactment.

>>715618270
Fucking Mario forcing Nintendo to nepohire his and Pauline's daughter...

>>715623073
Ayumi was in melee as a trophy and Sakurai was strongly considering making her playable at some point

>>715623124
StarFox 1 was the fastest selling game of all-time when it released in 1993

>>715622745
Pottery

>>715622802
Sakurai wouldn't have made Uprising if he hadn't redesigned Pit for Smash.

>>715623137
Diddy is a monkey kong, not a gorilla kong, and Dixie has dwarfism.

>>715623145
>Naoto Kubo
Yes. He's in the developer interview.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/ask-the-developer-vol-19-donkey-kong-bananza-part-1/

Does anyone know why New Donk City is called that before DK's involvement?

My Lord...

>>715622093
Clearly the only way Nintendo can rectify this is by giving us a canon on-screen explicit sex scene of Donkey Kong impregnating Candy Kong.

Does this mean the Banjo and Conker games take place decades before Super Mario Bros?

>>715623145
If you look at the credits it’s clear that this was all the 3D Mario team was working on

>>715623124
The Snes sold 2.99 million copies. That's pretty good for a game back then and on its first outing too. Even if we go by that Fox was added in Smash 64, so that could be seen as being topical for Nintendo back then.

how is the soundtrack as kino as donkey kong country?

>>715623181
Technically he is right, this is not a prequel to DKC
It however is a prequel to modern Mario games.

>>715622934
I honestly believe Sakurai and Smash forced Nintendo's hand here

>>715618270
based
my first introduction to it was Omega Factor

>>715623208
that doesn't contradict what that anon said

>>715623208
That's Lady he kidnappes, who is Pauline's grandmother. Jumpman is her grandfather

>>715623207
HE's in

>>715623294
Because of the Cranky incident

>>715623254
It's pretty cool that K Rool was used in this way, it's like he's corrupting the pure essence of what DK is

>>715623294
Bananza is a sequel to Odyssey

>>715622428
Mario is called Jumpman in a lot of games. I don't really think there's any evidence for this.

>>715623031

>>715623273
^
>>715623187
Also, I imagine Kiddy is a teenager now. Teeny Kong lol

>>715623110
It also gets around Pauline not knowing Mario in Odyssey too, I suppose

>>715623301
KINO

>>715623318
Is Koizumi in Bananza’s credits? What about Odyssey’s director Kenta Motokura?

>>715623386
No it isn't, you niggers literally have official footage confirming this is a prequel yet you still deny it.

>>715623110
>Miyamoto's DK '94 isn't canon
God you're pathetic. Rare's Cranky shit is the one that's no longer canon, Nintendo doesn't treat modern and arcade DK as separate characters. You lost.

I HATE RETCONS

>>715623312
was it ever implied they were in the same universe?

>>715623358
>Jumpman and Lady lorefagging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR5joNASmtY

The way K. Rool shows up seems really tacked on. No build up at all. By the time he does it's a really short gauntlet against 6 enemy types tops then you fight him. Only 2 of which being actual Kremlings while the rest or an assortment of the other animals. His personality and fight seem really generic too. He's closer to his Paon self than his Rare self.

>>715623207
>>715623376
has anyone recorded the manky kong area yet? apparently he is there

>>715623301
the two new outfit are great

>>715623358
Right. Mario and Pauline are sisters. Pauline Jr. is his niece (avoids weird situation around fatherhood while still making him appear family-oriented)

>>715623465
Me too cranky me too

>>715623020
So that means Diddy Kong Racing happens after long after the time skip?

>>715621874
Understandable villain motivation to be honest.

>>715623432
>Kenta Motokura
Yes. See >>715623292

>500+ posts in a thread about the lore of a 40 year old king kong ripoff

>>715623427
>Pauline not knowing Mario in Odyssey too
She does know you. The first time you get there she's too busy focused on the Mecha-Wiggler Bowser left. After that she recognizes you and talks about old times.

>>715623432
anon where were you? press interview revealed motokura being the producer with newcomer takahashi, then yesterday we got ask the developers for the rest of the posse

>>715622915
Are you Dr. E, the schizo?

>>715623262
He had the gameplay down first and Iwata went to him to use a Nintendo IP
Kid Icarus wasn't his first thought either
Brawl was never meant to segway for a Kid Icarus revival
Sure Brawl played a role in that decision but had the pieces not fallen together it'd still be as dormant as Ice Climber

>>715623465
Wasn't Cranky Kong's existence itself a retcon?

>>715623531
this would also imply conker being kicked out for being alcoholic

>>715622876
>there's no way Cranky Kong would lie... he wouldn't do that...
Cranky Kong telling you he'd have beaten DKC 1 with one life and in half an hour at the end of the game:

>>715623509
theres more in the 100% ending, trust the plan

>>715623563
>Dr. E
That retard is the one who denies it's a prequel.

>>715623463
Except for the times in the past when japtendo did treat them as separate.

>>715623509
Think he's just there as a twist villain, it's clear the main antagonist is void kong and that they just wanted to use K Rool for a fun finale

>>715623580
Yeah, he's the type of guy who would hate himself

>>715623208
Cranky can still be an angry, old, 4th wall cracking King Kong expy without needing to be DK in the arcade games.

>>715623509
>His personality and fight seem really generic too
So he's DKC1 K. Rool
>but the fakeout
It's basically the same thing here.

>>715623580
Only if you take Cranky Kong's Jungle Japing seriously instead of as the intended joke it is.

>>715623463
Cranky literally tells DK that his rival had overalls. He is still the original arcade Donkey Kong. Cope

>>715623432
Motokura replaced Koizumi as producer.

>>715623630
Sure they did.

>>715623457
Three DKs
Three Marios
Three damsels
The only reasonable timeline answer is Odyssey sequel

>>715618034
Astro Bot WAS the best game of 2024

Can't say the same for your *pfft* platformer this year, Nintendo

The theory of "Pauline named the city after Donkey Kong" is wrong.

Mario vs Cranky is still the canon.

>>715622941
So the timeline, roughly, is:

Yoshi's Island (Baby Mario)
Yoshi's New Island
Yoshi's Island DS (Baby DK)
DKC 1 (DK is grown up)
DKC 2
DKC 3
DK 64
DK Bananza (Young Pauline)
DK Arcade (Pauline & Mario are grown up)
DK Jr.
DK 3
Wrecking Crew
Mario Bros
Mainline Super Mario up to Odyssey
Mix in the Mario vs DK series at various points throughout mainline Super Mario based on release order.

I guess DK just forgot about Pauline or didn't recognize her after about a decade? Also regardless, Cranky is definitely no longer Arcade DK.

flopflopflop

>>715623463
>Rare's Cranky shit is the one that's no longer canon,
But Cranky IS rare Cranky

Pauline english voice is so shitty omg

shut up!!!

>yfw Bananza just confirms Cranky is senile

>>715623110
>Why are people overthinking this shit.
>"ape" vs "gorilla" matters

>>715623620
He pretends to be a bunch of types of people with various opinions.
It's known as falseflagging, I think.

>>715623358
What if Giuseppe is Jumpman, therefore Pauline's grandpa.

>>715623768
Can you set audio to JP?

>>715623708
Cry harder for me, lol. You lost.

>>715621887
This would solve most time line fuckery.

So why exactly did Pauline name a street in New Donk City after King K. Rool?
That's like naming a street in Austria "Hitler Ave."

>>715623739
Tales of The DK Crew's adventures spread throughout the world and they became so beloved humans built a ciry dedicated to them

>>715623050
In a recent interview with Bananza developers, they described Country's DK as "cool" and "wild." Too scary for japs

Rare's DK is cool with a goofy side. Now they've reversed that, it's goofy with a cool side.

Goofy!!!

>>715623739
Cranky's name is Donkey Kong.
The other Kongs called him Cranky when he got old and cranky, so he took that name to heart.

>>715623915
NEW

>>715623895
see
>>715623739

>>715623895
She'd thought it be funny to do a little trolling

>>715623750
Cranky is 100%, in-game canon, OG arcade DK.
>muh meta
It's called being tongue-in-cheek, he's poking fun, not some character who exists outside the game's events.

>>715623895
You know the mayor doesn't name all the streets, right?

>>715622348
Let me guess it drops frames for a second in some areas and the comment section is full of where is yuzu 2 or something like that? Not watching digital cuckery.

I have come to associate New Donk City with Mario Mandate schizophrenia, so seeing it being taken over by fucking K. Rool is a weird feeling

>>715623549
I didn’t remember that I guess. It just felt like she was talking to a guy instead of her old rescuer/boyfriend

>>715623895
K Rool's invasion would be talked about like 9/11.
Where were you when the rot took over?

>>715621370
>those nipples
Alright, I'll fuck it

>>715623963
Obsessed

>>715623853
Lady is the one Cranky kidnapped, not Pauline. Lady is Pauline's grandmother

>>715623986
Don't worry, you'll be back to your usual mental gymnastics justifying the mandate exists in no time.

>>715624063
I literally called it schizophrenia though

>>715620828
That's what lorefags want: they say they want concrete explanations but in reality they want hints that lean towards a certain direction so they can conjure up more headcanon and speculation.

>>715624057
Keep telling yourself that, it gets funnier each time.

>>715623952
That still doesn't explain shit

>>715623959
Then who the fuck does, and why would THEY decide to name it after the guy who tried to take them over?

>>715624012
YEAH, BUT WE DON'T NAME STREETS IN NEW YORK AFTER IT
WE DON'T HAVE FUCKING STREETS NAMED "FIRST PLANE ST." OR "HIT THE PENTAGON CR."

>>715624120
Fear not for the schizos will find some way to justify a mandate anyway.

>>715624057
Lady is Bananza Pauline's grandmother
Lady is Odyssey Pauline's mother.

>>715620484
... Okay not to revive Smash threads now. But helll, whatever Smash or the next Country game, if/when Kranky is playable again, it would be funny if he had a Roshi like power up that puts him back in shape for a while.

So is cranky DKs grandpa or father now?

>>715623501
WTF is this? It looks old as shit, but I'm pretty sure he was Jumpman back then, not Mario.

>>715624212

and that’s why no one likes nyc

>>715624262
Lady is everyone's grandma. If someone has a grandma, then her name is Lady and she was kidnapped by DK!

>>715624409
Anyone that think Jumpman was a name that lasted longer than a couple months tops is a fucking zoomer that never played these old games.

>>715624582
retconned

>>715624582
Then Mario's Dad saved Lady Pauline, but married his wife, Mario's Mom.

>>715622437
You've never played it, then. Yoshi's Island DS is actually really good. It's Yoshi's New Island that sucks ass.

>>715614523 (OP)
>Hate 90% of Nintendo
>Return of the king is the only thing that could weaken me
>They delivered
I don't wanna be a faggot guys. I always told myself I was better than the average soi.

But fuck me if it ain't like a siren song.

>>715623739
>Tiny Bank
So...would Tiny Kong still be a kid here, or grown up?

>>715624864
I would shit on this game non stop if it didn’t have K Rool. Well played Nintendo.

>>715621227
Pauline, despite looking like she's 7, is stated to be 13 in Bananza. Donkey Kong could be something like 16 to 18 and it still could work.

Someone post the K Rool fight or at least the cutscene where he returns. That's the only thing I care about this shit game.

>>715625076
https://youtu.be/3LVJTHsbh-8?si=nFBE8AxR0DyM2W5U

>>715624348
Does it even matter? Bananza is a prequel, so Donkey Kong is Donkey Kong either way. Whatever relation Cranky has to DK is irrelevant to that.

K.ROOL IS NEVER COMING BACK, DEAL WITH IT

>Warm Piss NIGGER is blind
Many such cases!

>>715623750
What about Cranky’s line that “rivals back in the day had style even in overalls”

>>715620661
The tutorial is a play, its also a prequel to Supermario.

>>715623501
Wow, Pauline and DK's dynamic in this show is kind of interesting. Even though DK is "kidnapping" Pauline, it shows them to be on friendly terms and Pauline just lightly scolds him for it. If this is how it actually is supposed to be in the arcade game, then Bananza being a prequel does make sense.

>>715624063
Look, to be fair hear, it was more Gasslighting on Tanabe's part, than mental gymnastic. He was the one who brought that shit up to justify his "creative decissions", and for a while, it hunt us all. On retrospective, it was probably just a marketing move for some games being developed at the time, to get back to basics after the success of New Super Mario Bros, not a log time mandate, just a "quick reintroduction" for new fans, not meant to go beyond a few games. Tanabe was who took it to heart, and when asking about it, came with the excuses about it, that most of us bought, because game development is slow, and all the evidence to call out his BS was still in the works.

>>715623895
Why does new york have a neighborhood called Hells Kitchen? You think there’s actual devils there?

>>715625469
got removed in the final game

>>715618565
There you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKizH5TV_g

>>715625367
I can see all these pics are shitty mods of other games
Nintendo would never bring back that stupid croc

>>715625469
Cranky Kong is a Deadpool-level 4th wall breaker. How come nobody ever tries to bring up the "deep lore" of Cranky making references to graphics and gameplay? The implications become weirder if you do.

>>715625616
Even without that being removed, if that or any timeline is ever confirmed, we are getting closer to the actual canon of "Kranky is just an old, and senile schyzo, who believes everything around him is a videogame"

>>715619448
Otherwise the game wouldn't have made it past the censors.

>>715623957
Buddy, Cranky literally cannot be DK in the arcade games since Pauline is a child in Bananza. And no, they're not retconning Jumpman/Lady as separate characters since Odyssey plainly tells us that those events happen to both Mario and Pauline. Not to mention the Mario vs DK series in general.

>>715626076
lorelet, go play dkc and come back

>>715621189
Someone post the official trading cards with the wrestling moves.

>>715626170
>what is a retcon?
This your first time? 'Member when the Koopalings were Bowser's biological kids or Mario was born in Brooklyn?

>>715622745
>All throughout the game, they never fully name New Donk City, its only 'NDC', or 'the city'.
>Obviously nintendo wanted to imply the city only got the name later chronologically...
>... Except that there are STILL billboards that clearly say 'New Donk City'.

Oops!

>>715624012
I live on Osama Bin Laden Ave btw

>>715614523 (OP)
>DK fags putting their head twisted about in the new lore that Nintendo themselves barely thought about beyond surface level to introduce a new audience
Now you know how Pikminfags felt.

>>715626505
I’m a fan of both games, and I just try not to take it too seriously or I’d go insane

>>715626348
>nintendo will retcon every previous DK game and pre release screenshots so that MY fanfiction makes sense!
kill yourself with a coconut gun

>>715626076
No matter how you look at it SOMETHING is getting retconned. And nintendo clearly doesn't cares what, Pauline was only added as a child when they realize "oh, we could have a sining buddy on DK's shoulder" early on development (right after discarding her from the game at first). On the long run, as to whatever is the "final canon" my money is on whatever they put more buget. The Arcade Game and any refference to them, are quicly becoming little more than an easter egg by now.