- Donkey Kong Wears clothes Bananza Because Nintendo was “aware” of what it would look like “from the back”
- Donkey Kong crossed a overhaul because his brown fur “would make a monotonous visual”
- Producer Kenta Motokura said that the character’s fur had also been improved
Nintendo explained why Donkey Kong is wearing clothes in the latest Switch 2 exclusive, Donkey Kong Bananza.
Since Donkey Kong has been there, he was generally represented completely naked (if a monkey can even be naked), but in the last episode, the star APE underwent a makeover, both in the design of the characters and the wardrobe.
According to Nintendo, the team thought of giving Donkey Kong clothes this time because he was aware of what he would look like from the players.
“During the control of a character in a 3D world, the player often sees them from behind, so we were also aware of the appearance of the rear donkey while he was moving,” said producer Kenta Motokura in a recent demand for the developer’s questions / answers.
“The rear view of Donkey Kong looks like a mass of brown fur, which would make a monotonous visual if we simply returned it in 3D.”
Motokura also said that the development team was inspired to make creative adjustments to Donkey Kong’s hold and decided to give it a tie, breezes and suspenders.
The character’s fur has also been improved to “be rich and thick”, and its original design, created by Shigeru Miyamoto, was reworked for the new game and even Mario Kart World.
“This basic conception of the donkey of the donkey was completely reorganized. During the revision of the design, we returned to the place where it all started. We took the donkey donkey of Miyamoto-San as a basis, adding elements of design from the elements of design of Donkey Kong Bananza Here and there, “he explained.
In the criticism of Techradar Gaming, the material writer Dashiell Wood called Donkey Kong Bananza “The biggest title Nintendo Switch 2 to date, offering an incredible destruction system that presents the power of the new system.”
