We spoke with with Kenta Motokura, producer on Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive Donkey Kong Bananza, and Kazuya Takahashi, the game's director, about everything Donkey Kong: behind-the-scenes development, the game's story, and its exciting innovations with voxel technology.
I guess Partners in Time would be when the time travel was discovered! Conveniently explains child Pauline as well, I suppose. Well, the “how,” but not the “why.”
Why are people so obsessed with connecting this game to some weird timeline
It’s never made sense.
Why is Mario still young when Cranky Kong, the original Donkey Kong, is old?
It’s make-believe—it doesn’t need to make sense.
Many make-believe things do need to make sense to actually be enjoyable. Not Donkey Kong games, though.
WAIT CRANKY IS DONKEY?
My whole world has just been shattered
Yup! Notice the text in top left of the DKC manual:
Makes the DKC opening shot make more sense, doesn’t it?
Rare games aren’t Nintendo Cannon? (Idk just finding something new to argue about on the internet)
Nintendo isn’t consistent in their own games, so it doesn’t matter either way. Mario and Luigi race with baby versions of themselves!
Ah so the better theory then is eventually at some point time travel is invented in the Mario universe and is used in wildly inappropriate manners.
“Bet I can beat infant you in a race” “You’re on!”
I guess Partners in Time would be when the time travel was discovered! Conveniently explains child Pauline as well, I suppose. Well, the “how,” but not the “why.”
Yeah we are never going to know why. Also why no shoes. Have they never been on the internet.
There are people who play Nintendo games for plot? Lol