Thread 719708495

Listen, I love dkc and know the whole rumor about miyamoto hating dkc is probably not true, but realistically, if you were in his shoes, wouldn’t you hate it
>getting your ass beaten by sega at the time and their new mascot which got heavily westernized and altered when being shipped over seas with a mohawk and chipmunk girlfriend among other things
>every company and their mother wants a piece of that radical animal platformer pie, creating their own rad dude with attitude
>suddenly, nintendo wants you to give up your ape, your first success, to some brit westerners so they can make him another westernized cool dude animal platforming mascot
>when you won’t let them redesign junior into a red cap wearing monkey, they say he’s a new character called diddy, make their new grandpa character into a parody of the original donkey kong, and the new donkey kong be his grandson
>nintendo is going full in on supporting this westernized bastardization of the franchise you made, effectively pushing them as hard as mario
I’d be fucking mad too

The gigaleak gives creedence to his resentment since he had a DK game under development at the same time, but it was scrapped and handed over to Rare. DKs Rare design being phased out after all this time shows that there was some disagreement with it

Miyamoto was the biggest supporter of this game and he actively faxxed them almost every day in development. Words like Western... these words don't mean anything. It's just a game, and if a game is good, that's all that matters. Every game did extremely well in Japan.

>>719708757
No. The opposite is true. Yoshi's Island was being made long before DKC. The artstyle of Super Donkey is from at least 1992.