Latest about Donkey Kong Bananza
I called it, Nintendo confirms Donkey Kong Bananza was actually the inspiration for the Super Mario Bros. Movie redesign all along
News "We took Miyamoto-san's original Donkey Kong as the basis"
26 years after Donkey Kong 64, Nintendo finally wants to establish "two separate branches" of Donkey Kong with the Switch 2's Bananza: 2D and 3D "just as we did with Mario"
News Ohh banana
Nintendo says it out loud: 60 FPS is king – 30 FPS "couldn't fully capture" Donkey Kong Bananza, which really shows the Switch 2 difference in a new side-by-side with the old Switch 1 build
News Switch 2 brings Nintendo up to speed with frame rates other consoles had years ago
Donkey Kong Bananza has a development time to rival GTA 6: "I can tell you that we started developing it after finishing Super Mario Odyssey"
News Gorilla tech takes a while to make
Donkey Kong Bananza's director replayed every game in the series when he was assigned to the Switch 2 game: "That motivated me to incorporate past memories along with new ideas"
News "I wanted to revisit those elements and add a sense of destruction"
Donkey Kong Bananza will have some framerate drops, director admits, but he's fine with that: "We prioritized fun and playability"
News "We intentionally used effects like hit-stop and slow motion to emphasize impacts"
Donkey Kong Bananza has "some similarities" to Super Mario Odyssey since it's from the same dev team, and its core mechanic was already experimented on in the 3D Mario game
News "We realized we really needed to know more about Donkey Kong"
Donkey Kong Bananza started as a Switch 1 game, but bringing it to Switch 2 enabled "very large scale" destruction Nintendo couldn't pull off before
News Director Kazuya Takahashi was also really into the console's mouse controls
