I don't mind about the redesign, the redesigned looks great and chunky looking which makes a perfect fit for character design i do also like the og donkey Kong its iconic but the redesigned is a nice change
I don't think we really have anything to worry about. Think about it... Why would Nintendo open an expansion to Super Nintendo World using the Rare design a literal month before they change his design entirely? At worst, this design is just going to be the one they use for DK in Mario spin-offs while the Rare DK will still be used in his own games.
It's true, the Cranky and DK we saw in DK World uses the old design. But this theme park has been planned for years and who knows when they were actually made. Most of the brand new merch you can get in the stores inside the theme park depict his new design.
This^^ Honestly, I think Nintendo fans are simply getting over upset over an assumption that hasn't even been confirmed and, for what exactly? A reveal trailer? It's nothing more than folks punching at illusions and speculations that may or may not be false!
@@Monkey-D-Luffy875 How is Rare changing Banjo and Kazooie's designs 8 whole years after Banjo-Twooie even close to Nintendo changing DK's design in Mario Kart a month after opening a theme park using the old design? Those are two very different lengths of time and two very different situations.
I honestly prefer the Rare design for DK all things considered. I consider him to be a pretty badass, no-nonsense type character, which the Rare design compliments extremely well. The Miyamoto-esque design makes him seem more goofy in comparison.
Same. I’ve pretty much given up hope on a true DK64 follow-up, but those character designs, voice acting, and overall vibe were peak Donkey Kong for me. He was so cool back then. It’s a shame Universal went with the newer version for the theme park-no King K. Rool, no Kremlings, just a soulless take on what Rare created.
I agree. In terms of peak DK badassery, I think it was in Jungle Beat. Nintendo should revisit that game style. A mix of beat-em-up, platforming and boxing all in one.
i think this will be a King Boo situation where the Donkey Kong Country games will have his "realistic" design and everywhere else get's his "cartoon" design
@@svenmandelkorn3238I know you guys hate change but you are going to have to get over it. The characters have been redesigned over and over again it's nothing new.
Considering Peach and Rosalina on a bike and quad have their original designs, I can assume it’s alternate costumes, also considering that Daisy is wearing her biker outfit.
I am not a fan of this Model at all. Aside from the vacant expression it also looks overly rounded. Take everything Sonic fans said about Boom Knuckles and multiply it for this design. It almost reminds me of Tiny from Mario Golf who, sure was clearly a big guy, but certainly didnt look intimidating. While DK is the most unappealing, the rest of the cast I think also look pretty bad. Especially characters with Sharper designs like Bowser. They all look like Christmas Inflatables, Close but quite a bit more rounded
The classic "new bad, old good unga bunga" old DK looked ugly af and these new models are much more expressive, stylized and fun which is fitting for a chaotic party racing game like Mario Kart (plus you'll literally be seeing his back 90% of the time anyway), remember the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker? People complained non-stop about the art style when it came out and now it's extremely beloved
@nathanblackburn1193 literally everything you said is the reasons why I don't like this design. Rare's DK is literally the biggest glow up in gaming and that's not just me it's practically undisputed so no he isn't ugly. DK was probably the most expressive of the mario cast other than maybe luigi and now one of the most major problems I have about this design is that his face looks unexpressive now, plus how are you supposed to animate those tree trunk sized arms. And yeah you will see his back 90% of the time and that's somehow still a problem too because it looks like his back will take up 20% of the screen, like how peaty phiranha was memed on for years because he was so big it was literally a disadvantage to choose him. I like the rest of the cast, maybe bowser looks a little too giddy but other than that I'm a big fan, they just really screwed their best designed character imo.
Well, Mario Kart 9 is trying to go for a more expressive cartoony approach so the design is only made for this game. The Donkey Kong we know from DKC is still gonna stay indefinitely, especially that Universal Theme Parks were already using the DKC design of Donkey Kong for his theme park part of Super Nintendo World.
The stage they showed isn't cartoony though, that already bothered me with MK8, borderline photorealistic stages with lens flares, etc. juxtaposed with arguably some of the most cartoony characters in existence. I'd love for them to have stages that match the games and characters-bright, colorful, and cartoony! Mushroom Kingdom mountains are colorful domes, I don't want to be karting in front of realistic metamorphic rock! 🤣
The design isn’t terrible though. And it’s also something that 99% of people who watched the trailer wouldn’t even notice or care about, so I don’t think it’s much of a marketing ploy.
@jayb8934 ok, the deisgn is not terrible per se but it's neither the movie, the original or the Rare one, it is a weird mix resembling a fanart. It is also a too drastic and unjustified change. Maybe that's not a plot but just a preliminary placeholder teaser. I wouldn't trust N's teaser too much after those Zelda-themed teasers for GCN (Link vs Ganon) and Wii U (Link vs Gohoma), which had nothing to do with the final games.
Movie Sonic taught us that there is no artistic interpretation allowed when selling a product to a fan base. Unpopular hot take: I enjoyed the first version
I’m of the belief that this redesign is just gonna be a one-off thing. A lot the Mario cast experienced a redesign in Wonder to look a little more cartoonish, but they went right back to their original designs once Super Mario Party Jamboree rolled around.
@dudder6633 thats fair. I just hope they don’t lean too much with the movie esthetic style, especially with peach who I worry a bit. Both versions are just too different from each, plus I’m personally not a fan of the movie version.
I'm chill with it, I like the Wonder style, and I think the new DK fits it. And it reminds me of his original design, which is neat. And I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't in every game. But yeah, I think this is a good design.
I really don’t like it. Making DK wide, flat and textureless just looks weirded, and his massive bug-eyed facial expression doesn’t help. I didn’t see anything wrong with how DK normally looks, and a Mario Kart game would be a very silly place to reveal a redesign of a major video game character. Hopefully it’s just an alt and not a design they genuinely plan to use.
I love how people are making such a big deal over the new model when King Dedede gets a new design every different console a new kirby game is made and yet no one complains
The big difference is that the original DK game was a completely different beast from the Country series, Mario and Zelda stayed close to their roots but DK was changed completely from the original Mario dodging barrels formula.
I like his design more now, hes always had his arms shrunk down w the rare model to fit inside the cart. I love how theh adopted the clown in a small car look and made him actually look like big ass boi
As someone who hates the movie design it's an interesting new take, didn't even notice the clown resemblance. But yeah it makes DK look even more like a joke, which I wish he didn't. The rare design is more balanced between cool and goofy, the Illumination one is too much goofy and not enough everything else.
Something that I thought of but have yet to see someone mention is that this could be a Wario situation. Wario has a design for his own series and another one for the Mario's series. This could be what they are trying to do with DK
If the intention was to make Donkey Kong dumb as his name suggests then they succeeded lol he looks goofy now. The arched eyebrow in the original design gave him a vaguely intimidating aura that I liked. He's a uniquely neutral character that could play as a friend or foe to Mario and the cast.
I refuse to admit it! This is probably just an "Ugly Sonic" situation, and the final design will be different. Or it's an alternate costume referencing "Young Cranky Kong" and Rare's Donkey Kong will be available as well.
I am sad. I do not like that design. No more muscular physique and intimidating face. I am a huge DK fan, play every game on repeat. I hope this is just a Mario Kart 9 aesthetic.
The iconic model that turned the tide and helped nintendo win the 16-bit console war against sega has officially been replaced with the movie slop. No idea why, other characters look unaffected.
1:08 Nintendo has a history of destroying their own lore with unwanted baby characters. As good as yoshi's island was, it was also one of their greatest sins for what it started.
Gorillas are already adults when they're like 8. So DKC could happen as early as 10 years after DK 1980 and DKJR, if we assume Cranky was in his 30s in the arcade and Junior was like 6 at that time. If Junior had his son when he was 8, you would only need 8 more years for DKIII to be adult. Therefore if Mario is 24 in the mainline games, you could have him be 14 when he saved Pauline from Cranky. Some men can grow moustaches at 14.
The timeline makes more sense if we just go with DK being Jr. all grown up (which Leigh Loveday confirmed post-DK64, and Nintendo themselves went along with it until the 2010s or so). That way, Cranky being old and DK being a younger adult square up with Mario being in his 20s.
So that's why they made an entire themed land and a large full body mascot costume of Rare Donkey Kong to be in major Universal theme parks around the world. This is probably just a design they'll use when he's interacting with the Mario cast.
Yeah, the new DK model looks a bit off, but I can see the official DK in the model. Giving me a few off vibes. Pretty interesting stuff. Also, nice on your return to MarioHub!
1:19 to answer that question. In my theory, the Mario in the Donkey Kong arcade game you play as, was Mario's father OR grandfather. Since Cranky Kong was DK in the arcade game, that would explain why Donkey Kong JR exists in the second game. So, Mario and Donkey Kong's families have been rivals for a long time.
This was disconfirmed years ago, if you’ve played Odyssey, the events of the original donkey Kong serves as one of the main plot lines in new donk city so no this theory is just not correct.
@@LMS5935It wasn’t exactly deconfirmed. No one explicitly mentions the events of the original Donkey Kong, and Pauline wasn’t even the damsel in that game. She was created for Donkey Kong on Gameboy (also known as DK 94). The original damsel was just named Lady.
@@rendelldraw no this was also disconfirmed in Odyssey, we quite clearly see that Bowser remembers all the classic original 2-D games because when Mario possesses him Mario 1, 3 and world along with 64 appear in his memories, they all happened thus the 2-D series and 3-D series are the same universe.
@@rendelldraw not to mention Miyamoto pretty much said that all Mario games are considered canon and have happened in a shape or form to the character of Mario. So it seems as long as the game was made by Nintendo every Mario game is considered canon.
The eyes on the new design just look off. The space for them is the same size as before but the eyes are much smaller and right next to each other in the middle. As a result the brown area around the eyes is much bigger than before and it looks off.
Make movie designs skins. We already have enough variant characters. Character variants tend to just take spots from unique characters that could have been there
1:30 IF you pay attention in the Mario Movie, the older man who is in marios family (his dad) is Charles Martinet, The original voice of Mario. However he voices ANOTHER one,, a man you can see playing the first mario carcade cabinet. His color matches the swapped colors of mario but design looks reminiscent of the older one. That's most likely jump man, and he even does the iconic jump. Essentially what I'm getting at is: Mario may not have been the FIRST mario. There may have been a few, and it simply skipped a generation
Regarding Donkey Kong and Mario: the Game Theorists have a video from 2015 talking about there are TWO Marios. So the one who battled Cranky Kong isn’t the same one who became friends with Cranky’s grandson (and they’re about the same age, given that they were both babies at the same time [as shown in Yoshi’s Island DS])
Sad how some are now throwing tantrums thinking like it's an ugly Sonic situation. Looks like only quite a few are familiar with the NES artstyle . 🤦🏽♂️
I like the redesign of Donkey Kong, it brings a lot of personality and goofiness (at least to me) and I'm excited to see him in game once Mario Kart 9 comes out
If they do add new racers to Mario Kart from Tour, I do hope they add a lot of the unique character ones that have seen popularity in recent years, such as Monty Mole. I also think the new model might just be a result of art style shift in-game, but idk.
Here’s a wild idea that’s probably wrong: it’s actually Donkey Kong Junior but they changed how he looked in the trailer to hide his inclusion in the game
Idk what bro is on about, movie Mario? What? I pray they're not THAT lazy, surely just have it been a skin, not a variant like the guys saying like gold mario
I’m sure there will be controversy about the redesign, but he personally I’m open and excited about it, not for any particular reason I might just be over excited that Nintendo is actually doing something and Donkey Kong is I feel the most noticeable change making it so he will be talked about a lot until April 2 and I’m fine with hearing about Donkey Kong until then, it gets people talking about it and that makes me excited
I think it’s just for this one game, all the characters shown in the trailer look closer to the original Mario Kart models, Mario is way more squat, bowsers outline is a lot more cube shaped, they all just look more chibi in general. But if they did redesign him permanently I’d welcome it, sometimes you need to revamp characters and donkey Kong for the past 30 years has had the same design, which was made by a company that now belongs to Microsoft
If you look up in Wikipedia or any site... They said gorillas live around 30 years... Donkey kong design from DK Country is 30 years now.... Well... Maybe... Donkey died... 😢 Long live Donkey Rare Design!!
I think Nintendo never really accepted the Rareware input on DOnkey Kong. They lived with it for 30 years but it's clear to me they never intended for that many Kong added, nor they wanted that huge retcon of Cranky being the original Donkey Kong (to me Nintendo never approved this, it went under the radar and ended up in Donkey Kong Country manual). What we are seeing here is Nintendo finally restoring the original vision for Donkey Kong.
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Thoughts on DK re-design? Is this the end of the Donkey Kong Model we know and love?
DK why him out of everyone
I hate it.
I don't mind about the redesign, the redesigned looks great and chunky looking which makes a perfect fit for character design i do also like the og donkey Kong its iconic but the redesigned is a nice change
Awful, I absolutely hate it
We need to see more of it first.
Donkey Kong's Rare design has actually been a thing for 30 years. That's how long ago the 90s were.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 damn wtf time is flying 💀
More than 30 lowkey😭😭
@@MarioHubYT ,this Trailer shows the beta version of the game,the final version is gonna be the same Design as its very first appearance
Ugghhhhh, I feel olllllllllldddddddd.
@ Tell me about it! I was 8 when Rare made the first Donkey Kong Country, and now I'm nearly 39!
I don't think we really have anything to worry about. Think about it... Why would Nintendo open an expansion to Super Nintendo World using the Rare design a literal month before they change his design entirely? At worst, this design is just going to be the one they use for DK in Mario spin-offs while the Rare DK will still be used in his own games.
It's true, the Cranky and DK we saw in DK World uses the old design. But this theme park has been planned for years and who knows when they were actually made.
Most of the brand new merch you can get in the stores inside the theme park depict his new design.
Would kinda make Nintendo look like flip-floppers though
True, but on the other hand, ringer changed, banjos design, pretty drastically in nuts n bolts
This^^
Honestly, I think Nintendo fans are simply getting over upset over an assumption that hasn't even been confirmed and, for what exactly? A reveal trailer? It's nothing more than folks punching at illusions and speculations that may or may not be false!
@@Monkey-D-Luffy875 How is Rare changing Banjo and Kazooie's designs 8 whole years after Banjo-Twooie even close to Nintendo changing DK's design in Mario Kart a month after opening a theme park using the old design? Those are two very different lengths of time and two very different situations.
I honestly prefer the Rare design for DK all things considered. I consider him to be a pretty badass, no-nonsense type character, which the Rare design compliments extremely well. The Miyamoto-esque design makes him seem more goofy in comparison.
Same. I’ve pretty much given up hope on a true DK64 follow-up, but those character designs, voice acting, and overall vibe were peak Donkey Kong for me. He was so cool back then. It’s a shame Universal went with the newer version for the theme park-no King K. Rool, no Kremlings, just a soulless take on what Rare created.
I agree. In terms of peak DK badassery, I think it was in Jungle Beat. Nintendo should revisit that game style. A mix of beat-em-up, platforming and boxing all in one.
I mean, he was never really that sort of character outside of Jungle Beat and Smash.
Its the difference between a frat boy and a middle manager at best buy
It's always funny when people comment on Donkey Kong Jr in Mario Tennis being weird as if Baby Mario isn't also on the rooster
hes on a rooster?
@thisistheplan414 yeah how else is a baby gonna get around
i think this will be a King Boo situation where the Donkey Kong Country games will have his "realistic" design and everywhere else get's his "cartoon" design
I could somewhat live with that. But please don't change it overall.
that could work
@@svenmandelkorn3238I know you guys hate change but you are going to have to get over it. The characters have been redesigned over and over again it's nothing new.
And I want the real King Boo for the Mario Games…
@ doing that would make the Luigi's Mansion games less special
bros channel revived from the switch 2 announcement 💀😭🙏
Considering Peach and Rosalina on a bike and quad have their original designs, I can assume it’s alternate costumes, also considering that Daisy is wearing her biker outfit.
daisy is not wearing her biker outfit
@@Stephx2yeah she’s not!
what if this is just an old video, dropped out of emergency, where they put a preliminary redesign version of DK?
No, core character designs would not be interchangeable in a Mario game.
I honestly can't imagine fighting with the new Donkey Kong design in Super Smash Bros 6.
I am not a fan of this Model at all. Aside from the vacant expression it also looks overly rounded. Take everything Sonic fans said about Boom Knuckles and multiply it for this design. It almost reminds me of Tiny from Mario Golf who, sure was clearly a big guy, but certainly didnt look intimidating.
While DK is the most unappealing, the rest of the cast I think also look pretty bad. Especially characters with Sharper designs like Bowser. They all look like Christmas Inflatables, Close but quite a bit more rounded
NGL I'm not really feeling the new models
The classic "new bad, old good unga bunga" old DK looked ugly af and these new models are much more expressive, stylized and fun which is fitting for a chaotic party racing game like Mario Kart (plus you'll literally be seeing his back 90% of the time anyway), remember the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker? People complained non-stop about the art style when it came out and now it's extremely beloved
@nathanblackburn1193 literally everything you said is the reasons why I don't like this design. Rare's DK is literally the biggest glow up in gaming and that's not just me it's practically undisputed so no he isn't ugly. DK was probably the most expressive of the mario cast other than maybe luigi and now one of the most major problems I have about this design is that his face looks unexpressive now, plus how are you supposed to animate those tree trunk sized arms. And yeah you will see his back 90% of the time and that's somehow still a problem too because it looks like his back will take up 20% of the screen, like how peaty phiranha was memed on for years because he was so big it was literally a disadvantage to choose him. I like the rest of the cast, maybe bowser looks a little too giddy but other than that I'm a big fan, they just really screwed their best designed character imo.
@nathanblackburn1193You can't be serious. Movie DK is not it, and he looks even worse hear. His fur is so muted aswell compared to his Rare model.
Well, Mario Kart 9 is trying to go for a more expressive cartoony approach so the design is only made for this game. The Donkey Kong we know from DKC is still gonna stay indefinitely, especially that Universal Theme Parks were already using the DKC design of Donkey Kong for his theme park part of Super Nintendo World.
The stage they showed isn't cartoony though, that already bothered me with MK8, borderline photorealistic stages with lens flares, etc. juxtaposed with arguably some of the most cartoony characters in existence. I'd love for them to have stages that match the games and characters-bright, colorful, and cartoony! Mushroom Kingdom mountains are colorful domes, I don't want to be karting in front of realistic metamorphic rock! 🤣
the thumbnail made it looked like DK got into some drama or something lmao
"the Donkey Kong situation is crazy"
We are cancelling donkey kong
“donkey kong drama just got crazier”
No wonder I got obsessed with the song "I'm Nobody's Hero"...
My soul knew what was coming lol
Kinda hoping this is some dumb marketing ploy to get people talking. We might have to get Nintendo to follow in the footsteps of Movie Sonic.
I thought the same
Watch it just be a new costume feature that shows every character gets unlockable costumes
The design isn’t terrible though. And it’s also something that 99% of people who watched the trailer wouldn’t even notice or care about, so I don’t think it’s much of a marketing ploy.
@jayb8934 ok, the deisgn is not terrible per se but it's neither the movie, the original or the Rare one, it is a weird mix resembling a fanart. It is also a too drastic and unjustified change. Maybe that's not a plot but just a preliminary placeholder teaser. I wouldn't trust N's teaser too much after those Zelda-themed teasers for GCN (Link vs Ganon) and Wii U (Link vs Gohoma), which had nothing to do with the final games.
Movie Sonic taught us that there is no artistic interpretation allowed when selling a product to a fan base.
Unpopular hot take: I enjoyed the first version
I’m of the belief that this redesign is just gonna be a one-off thing. A lot the Mario cast experienced a redesign in Wonder to look a little more cartoonish, but they went right back to their original designs once Super Mario Party Jamboree rolled around.
Mario Party have downgrades. I don't like new Mario Partys.
Yoshi was still a little more hunched back in jamboree than in many other past titles
I don't know. Perhaps Mario Party Jamboree was the one-off thing before using redesigns, that would make sense because mk9 is gonna come out next.
I'm not sure if Jamboree is a good example since those games almost always reuse and update their same exact models for each entry lol
No, but they need to change his look back to the old one.
Tbh I don’t like how they look I prefer the Mario kart 8 models
Yeah I know some people genuinely like the Wonder art style, but I really don't want it to leech off into other games
Same
I think the Mario and Luigi models look amazing but donkey Kong just looks off, he doesn’t give me donkey Kong vibes at all
@@BrightShadðwHe looks like Seth Rogen
@PolFu Yeah, NS. It's no surprise he looks like his movie voice actor.
He has no style, he has no grace, this design has a funny face
Lmao love the DK 64 reference
RIP Donkey Kong
1999-2025
DK 64 is and will always be the best DK game. Why there has never been a new 3D DK game is crazy. I know rare got sold but still.
DK got the Dedede treatment fr
Agreed
But the difference is dedede looks good
@BrightShadðw yes
@@BrightShadðw then there's no difference XD
@@BrightShadðwno it doesnt its so ass hes an avocado now
I'm a HUGE fan of the look. This is Shigeru Miyamoto's original design!!!
We should go back to lanky elf Link and Stalin Mario.
@@joseanibalsantacruzamanzo2202 Honestly, I wouldn't mind, I'm a HUGE fan of those too. I even make fan art of those designs :D
2:00 Jumpman is totally Mario's father and also Dr.Mario
It looks more like Seth Rogan’s Donkey Kong from the Mario Bros. Movie
0:21 that’s the exact day I was born 😮
I’m definitely on the same boat as everyone else with the redesign.
The designs worked Decently in the movie, but they just don’t work for the games.
Not everyone thinks that though, so you're actually on a boat with like half the amount of people you think
@ I guess, I don’t hate it, just personally find it a odd change
@@thelittleal1212 that's ok, everyone has opinions. I think it's mid too, but i've seen tons of people loving it.
@dudder6633 thats fair.
I just hope they don’t lean too much with the movie esthetic style, especially with peach who I worry a bit.
Both versions are just too different from each, plus I’m personally not a fan of the movie version.
Nintendo is becoming rovio...
I'm chill with it, I like the Wonder style, and I think the new DK fits it. And it reminds me of his original design, which is neat. And I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't in every game. But yeah, I think this is a good design.
Yeah, I think it’s good.
It isnt wonder, its more in-line with n64 renders
@SonicTheHedgehogX15The movie as well
@SonicTheHedgehogX15 donkey kong doesn't appear in wonder, so we don't truly know
@@TheRealVbroshe didn’t say he did
I really don’t like it. Making DK wide, flat and textureless just looks weirded, and his massive bug-eyed facial expression doesn’t help. I didn’t see anything wrong with how DK normally looks, and a Mario Kart game would be a very silly place to reveal a redesign of a major video game character. Hopefully it’s just an alt and not a design they genuinely plan to use.
I love how people are making such a big deal over the new model when King Dedede gets a new design every different console a new kirby game is made and yet no one complains
The big difference is that the original DK game was a completely different beast from the Country series, Mario and Zelda stayed close to their roots but DK was changed completely from the original Mario dodging barrels formula.
The design of the new DK is so awkward to me, so I hate it
1:18 there is a Yoshi's island game showing mario and doneky Kong as babies at the same time, so at least him and DK the third are the same age
That's not Donkey Kong that's Chunky Kong!
No wait that's not possible he died in the War. R.I.P.
It's Dinkey King
It's fucking kung
Rip my boy, he’s fucced up now
Dawg his eyes are slightly smaller this is some literal Sonic blue arms type shit
I hate the new look if that's DK. They have to stick to the original rare look.
The first 10 seconds genuinely made me laugh so hard lmao
He’s NOT Okay
Nah, I need my Goat DK in Rare design and nothing else 😭😔
I like his design more now, hes always had his arms shrunk down w the rare model to fit inside the cart. I love how theh adopted the clown in a small car look and made him actually look like big ass boi
As someone who hates the movie design it's an interesting new take, didn't even notice the clown resemblance. But yeah it makes DK look even more like a joke, which I wish he didn't. The rare design is more balanced between cool and goofy, the Illumination one is too much goofy and not enough everything else.
I love it. My favorite Donkey Kong game is Donkey Kong '94 in Gameboy and I think the Country design doesn't look as versatile
Something that I thought of but have yet to see someone mention is that this could be a Wario situation. Wario has a design for his own series and another one for the Mario's series. This could be what they are trying to do with DK
If the intention was to make Donkey Kong dumb as his name suggests then they succeeded lol he looks goofy now. The arched eyebrow in the original design gave him a vaguely intimidating aura that I liked. He's a uniquely neutral character that could play as a friend or foe to Mario and the cast.
This means we’re getting a diddy kong redesign
They redesigning my boy donkey kong..................
Rest in peace OG Donkey Kong
"Press [f] in the chat to pay respects"
I refuse to admit it! This is probably just an "Ugly Sonic" situation, and the final design will be different. Or it's an alternate costume referencing "Young Cranky Kong" and Rare's Donkey Kong will be available as well.
I am sad. I do not like that design. No more muscular physique and intimidating face. I am a huge DK fan, play every game on repeat. I hope this is just a Mario Kart 9 aesthetic.
Please keep the Rare design
"Rare's design for the last 20 or so years"
30! 30 years last November!
I think it fits the aesthetic the games going for, I also like how goofy he looks
The iconic model that turned the tide and helped nintendo win the 16-bit console war against sega has officially been replaced with the movie slop. No idea why, other characters look unaffected.
1:08 Nintendo has a history of destroying their own lore with unwanted baby characters. As good as yoshi's island was, it was also one of their greatest sins for what it started.
rip fn
Please don’t call anything you don’t like „slop“, that doesn’t even make sense. Leave that for AI „content“ or something that really deserves it
Nintendo was just going for retro designs bro calm down
*Donkey Kong has mild design change in one upcoming spin-off game*
Nintendo Fans: IS THIS THE END OF DONKEY KONG!?!
Gorillas are already adults when they're like 8.
So DKC could happen as early as 10 years after DK 1980 and DKJR, if we assume Cranky was in his 30s in the arcade and Junior was like 6 at that time. If Junior had his son when he was 8, you would only need 8 more years for DKIII to be adult.
Therefore if Mario is 24 in the mainline games, you could have him be 14 when he saved Pauline from Cranky. Some men can grow moustaches at 14.
The timeline makes more sense if we just go with DK being Jr. all grown up (which Leigh Loveday confirmed post-DK64, and Nintendo themselves went along with it until the 2010s or so). That way, Cranky being old and DK being a younger adult square up with Mario being in his 20s.
If there's no longer for Desgin Donkey Kong 1994. I'm going cry forever. 😢
We will never truly allow this character to die
really sad if this is true, i really like the donkey kong design
So that's why they made an entire themed land and a large full body mascot costume of Rare Donkey Kong to be in major Universal theme parks around the world. This is probably just a design they'll use when he's interacting with the Mario cast.
Yeah, the new DK model looks a bit off, but I can see the official DK in the model. Giving me a few off vibes. Pretty interesting stuff. Also, nice on your return to MarioHub!
I don’t really like the new design it looks weird and kind of goofy
As a small boy I had two different stuffed donkey kongs. One with the original design and the other with the rare redesign.
1:19 to answer that question. In my theory, the Mario in the Donkey Kong arcade game you play as, was Mario's father OR grandfather. Since Cranky Kong was DK in the arcade game, that would explain why Donkey Kong JR exists in the second game. So, Mario and Donkey Kong's families have been rivals for a long time.
This was disconfirmed years ago, if you’ve played Odyssey, the events of the original donkey Kong serves as one of the main plot lines in new donk city so no this theory is just not correct.
@@LMS5935It wasn’t exactly deconfirmed. No one explicitly mentions the events of the original Donkey Kong, and Pauline wasn’t even the damsel in that game. She was created for Donkey Kong on Gameboy (also known as DK 94). The original damsel was just named Lady.
@@LMS5935Aren't the single-player 3D Marios it's own thing/separate timeline and is its own canon?
@@rendelldraw no this was also disconfirmed in Odyssey, we quite clearly see that Bowser remembers all the classic original 2-D games because when Mario possesses him Mario 1, 3 and world along with 64 appear in his memories, they all happened thus the 2-D series and 3-D series are the same universe.
@@rendelldraw not to mention Miyamoto pretty much said that all Mario games are considered canon and have happened in a shape or form to the character of Mario. So it seems as long as the game was made by Nintendo every Mario game is considered canon.
So I looked it up, and yes, Donkey is a slang term that means idiot. But Nintendo of America were, ironically enough, being Donkeys themselves.
The eyes on the new design just look off. The space for them is the same size as before but the eyes are much smaller and right next to each other in the middle. As a result the brown area around the eyes is much bigger than before and it looks off.
Anyone who likes this isn’t a donkey Kong fan
They should remake Rare's DKC games in pre rendered looks. How it looked on the cover, instruction booklet etc
What’s weird is that in the new dkc park the mascot costumes for dk are like the rare design
Make movie designs skins. We already have enough variant characters. Character variants tend to just take spots from unique characters that could have been there
if mario kart 9 now have the 24 players i can think for the next smash game will feature this too
1:30
IF you pay attention in the Mario Movie, the older man who is in marios family (his dad) is Charles Martinet, The original voice of Mario. However he voices ANOTHER one,, a man you can see playing the first mario carcade cabinet. His color matches the swapped colors of mario but design looks reminiscent of the older one. That's most likely jump man, and he even does the iconic jump.
Essentially what I'm getting at is: Mario may not have been the FIRST mario. There may have been a few, and it simply skipped a generation
Regarding Donkey Kong and Mario: the Game Theorists have a video from 2015 talking about there are TWO Marios. So the one who battled Cranky Kong isn’t the same one who became friends with Cranky’s grandson (and they’re about the same age, given that they were both babies at the same time [as shown in Yoshi’s Island DS])
true evidence that Miyamoto was more jealous of rare than he wanted to admit
Sad how some are now throwing tantrums thinking like it's an ugly Sonic situation.
Looks like only quite a few are familiar with the NES artstyle . 🤦🏽♂️
I like the redesign of Donkey Kong, it brings a lot of personality and goofiness (at least to me) and I'm excited to see him in game once Mario Kart 9 comes out
Same here
No
But What about MIIS? From 2006 THEY DO NOT GET ANY RESPECT FOR 19 years
With how successful they have been for so long, It was only a matter of time before Ego at Nintendo starts to set in.
They made an entire part of a theme park using the old design… idk if they’re gonna up and change it lol
I wouldnt be against Donkey Kong being redesigned, but I definitely prefer the rare design so I'd more than happily see it stay
If they do add new racers to Mario Kart from Tour, I do hope they add a lot of the unique character ones that have seen popularity in recent years, such as Monty Mole. I also think the new model might just be a result of art style shift in-game, but idk.
Here’s a wild idea that’s probably wrong: it’s actually Donkey Kong Junior but they changed how he looked in the trailer to hide his inclusion in the game
Honestly, losing the "radical 90s" marketing art style and returning to the Mario Bros 3 manual art style might be awesome
2:55 Like Sonic games where Movie Sonic is a different character and you can select it instead of the regular one or the classic one?
Idk what bro is on about, movie Mario? What? I pray they're not THAT lazy, surely just have it been a skin, not a variant like the guys saying like gold mario
Maybe their skins in the game
This new movie version looks outright hideous
Man I picked a good time watching this video while I happen to be wearing my donkey kong shirt lol
Why Rogan kong Nintendo? Why have you cursed us!!!!!
I’m sure there will be controversy about the redesign, but he personally I’m open and excited about it, not for any particular reason I might just be over excited that Nintendo is actually doing something and Donkey Kong is I feel the most noticeable change making it so he will be talked about a lot until April 2 and I’m fine with hearing about Donkey Kong until then, it gets people talking about it and that makes me excited
I think it’s just for this one game, all the characters shown in the trailer look closer to the original Mario Kart models, Mario is way more squat, bowsers outline is a lot more cube shaped, they all just look more chibi in general. But if they did redesign him permanently I’d welcome it, sometimes you need to revamp characters and donkey Kong for the past 30 years has had the same design, which was made by a company that now belongs to Microsoft
Donkey kong for gameboy Features the same dk design with the red tie. It also has pauline looking fairly modern and it came out in 94
Yall talking, yall don't want that donkey king country animated series version 😂😂😂
Nintendo will NOT give this man another game
I hope to God its not the end
Well To Be Fair That Redesign For Donkey Kong Wasn’t That Bad At All.
It looks kind of like a mix between the rare donkey kong and the old arcade version of donkey kong
I thought the same thing. People are going crazy for nothing 😅
#NotMyDonkeyKong
DK is getting the King Dedede treatment
If you look up in Wikipedia or any site...
They said gorillas live around 30 years...
Donkey kong design from DK Country is 30 years now....
Well... Maybe... Donkey died... 😢
Long live Donkey Rare Design!!
I don’t like his new design at all
Personally I love the new design. Fits better with the rest.
I think Nintendo never really accepted the Rareware input on DOnkey Kong.
They lived with it for 30 years but it's clear to me they never intended for that many Kong added, nor they wanted that huge retcon of Cranky being the original Donkey Kong (to me Nintendo never approved this, it went under the radar and ended up in Donkey Kong Country manual).
What we are seeing here is Nintendo finally restoring the original vision for Donkey Kong.
Bro that 2d art has been around fir a long time now.
Keep in mind that DK isn’t the only character who looks different in the screenshot.