The fact that Nintendo waited until a month before release before revealing Pauline here (with alternate key art/box art) makes me wonder if they’re hiding some colorful ARMS-esque cast of players for Drag x Drive until something like a month before release. Like, idk, it feels like it would fit in with their general marketing plan of spacing their releases and reveals in such a way that only one or two games are in The Discourse at a time. (Though who knows? …maybe DxD will actually look that boring.)
Anyhow, I think it’s really funny to see the concept for Rare’s scrapped Donkey Kong Racing relegated to being just a minigame in a modern AAAA title.
I’m still waiting to hear whether David Wise is involved, that is critical information. But I did hear a lot more remixes of his old tunes than I expected.
I also saw a lot more Donkey Kong Country fanservice than I expected. A brambles level? Dixie Kong? Rambi? I thought Nintendo was gonna ditch all the Rare stuff. But will they hit that sublime 90’s Nature Company ambient-chillout-new-age-Africa aesthetic DKC very occasionally reached? Probably not but I’d like to see present day Nintendo try!
I really like the new DK character design. I was impressed with all the character animation work. Feels like Nintendo’s been making great strides on that in the past few years. DK and Pauline are a cute duo!
Occasionally you could hear Pauline talking in regular gameplay, commenting on the player’s actions and urging them to do things. Please no, this is pure death… Maybe they’ll let you turn it off.
I was surprised to see the stone NPCs have Rare-style cartoon eyes on them
I hate monkeys and don’t really care about DK but this trailer really impressed me in what they were doing with the gameplay and scope. But then DK transformed into an even uglier monkey with a visible bare ass and I was like fuckkkkkn monkeys, jesus why are people obsessed with these disgusting monsters
Alright, I have to ask… What happened? Did you and a monkey have some kind of major falling out that made you hate the whole species?! Is this some kinda evolutionary supremacy shit where you see them lesser than a human or something? I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOUR DEAL WITH MONKEYS IS!!!
i’ve been on board since the one clip i saw made me think it was odyssey 2 and also showed dkc style roll off a ledge and jump out of the air. which i have always assumed was a bug rare couldn’t figure out how to fix so the idea of someone brutally competent resurrecting it is hilarious
There are multiple locations in DKC2 where banana trails trace a double-jump route in and out of a pit.
After typing that sentence I went to vgmaps.com to provide evidence, but whoever ripped all the level maps turned all the enemy and item layers off, so all the “maps” look like this
lol deviating away from Switch discussion and mods can move it to the Axe later but:
I was apathetic about monkeys at first but growing up, more and more monkey media was forced into my face by 80s/90s pop culture and I developed a distaste for them. Monkeys in kids shows wearing clothes, on talk shows as special guests, monkeys in cartoons, monkey movies, paraded around as some cute thing when no, they’re not.
It started as an ironic hate but now I genuinely do not like these disgusting creatures who love to pick their asshole and fling their feces and also tear people’s faces off without any concern. To me it’s like how boomers loved clowns but now the popular consensus is that nobody likes them - I’m just waiting for everyone to eventually turn around and realize monkeys are just awful little creatures that don’t deserve special treatment for being “cute.”
There might be some uncanny valley effect going on too, but I genuinely do not find them appealing or cute in any way. The only exceptions are when they’re turned into cartoons or caricatures that are so abstractly removed from the source material like an Ape Escape monkey or Data from Megaman Legends. Meanwhile DK is just barely too real monkey-like for me, so I don’t like him (I lump monkeys and apes together, they’re all distasteful)
Anyway, there is my monkey manifesto; I hope reading it has changed the minds of those who’ve been sickly seduced by Big Monkey and its ape-like grip on modern media. For people who don’t understand, just pretend that I have a vision disorder that makes monkeys look like little disgusting abominations to me and try to understand.
Wow, this is genuinely fascinating to me. I tend to find it sorta depressing when people dress animals up like they’re humans as well but this… This sounds like it goes a lot further… Dare I ask how you feel about the fact that we’re related to them? Do you have like a special kind of misanthropy that relates to how we humans are a kind of “secret monkey” who have dressed ourselves up for our own amusement? I have so many follow-up questions but, you’re right, this probably deserves its own thread…
lol I don’t think that much about it, it’s more about their appearance and behavior (and their crimes) to me.
Pretend you had a food you disliked, like say pasta, but then you live in a family or community that regularly loves to eat pasta so you’re forced to eat it a lot so your dislike morphs into disgust. That doesn’t mean you hate Italians for inventing pasta, right? That’s me and monkeys except there is no forgiving monkeys.
