Alright, it's been close to a year now.You like the new DK design yet?
YesBut the expressions he does are stupid
>>734438584Generational aura loss
>>734438584yeah, the only thing I dont like is the dog expression. other than that he looks really good, animates well.
>>734438584Just physically revolting
>>734438584Unequivocally the worst redesign of all time, beating out Bomberman Zero
>>734438584I don't care for DK's redesign if I'm being honest, but I say I like it simply to drive the Raresnoys nuts.
>>734438584Nah. It feels too much like zoomer anime. It's completely lost its aura. It feels like "the more loud and over-expressive, the more FUNNY" and it's not. The game was great, though.
I don't mind it. I like the old one better but the new one isn't bad either.
It was that simple.
>>734438584No, but I appreciate all of the shitposting that came out from the new design.
>>734438584yes, rare was never good
>>734438584No, Rare did a much better job.
>>734438584I already didn't like it, but the effort made to erase the old design made me dislike it even more
Post it. You know what.
>>734438584what color are sonic's arms?that's you
No, he lost that older brother energy and looks more like a special needs family member now.If Nintendo keeps shilling the redesign, he'll be the Hodor of Nintendo.>>734442227There.
I am ambivalent on the redesign overall but I do like the attempt to bring him more in line with Mario's artstyle
>>734438584>Alright, it's been close to a year now.>close to a yearWHY IS TIME MOVING SO FUCKING FAST I HATE IT SO GODDAMN MUCH
Yeah Rare's redesign was great, they need to bring it back
>>734443378
>>734438584It's fine. Also the DKC games were bad.
>>734443613Congrats you win the worst post of /v/ 2026 so far award
after playing through bananza, I like this design more and I also prefer the direction they're taking DK.
>>734443378what has happened in your life in the past year? answer in detail, month by monthif you can't do this that means your life is boring slop and that's why you're dying faster without realizing
>>734438584No, I wish they either went further in capturing the DK94 design or just didn't bother and simply tried to make Raretendo DK more consistently expressive.
anon always baitingfatherless behaviour
>>734438584I've always liked it
>>734438584why are nintendofags still trying the YEAH WELL RARE ERA DK WAS LE BAD ANYWAY sour grapes shtick after Bananza came out and showed a ton of love to the Rare games in the end?
>>734439015>>734439220samefaggot cuck
No.Rareware design or bust.
>>734438584I always liked it. Old DK was stuck in the past of primitive CG modeling and was very restricted in his expressions because of it.
>>734445550No. It really wasn't. Nintendo themselves just didn't know how to manipulate the design.
>>734438584No, I won't except Shigeru's erasure of Rare's legacy
>>734442598Shocked out of all the /v/ memes that normalfags steal, this one stayed underground.
>>734447562Was Rare's design not the erasure of Nintendo's legacy?
>>734448234no, because other games with the original design still existed even after DKC
>>734438584Worst redesign of all time imo
>>734438584No.
>>734438584The new design is fine. Mario Kart was a horrible first impression, both because he looks like shit in that game and because he only gets one fucking outfit for some reason.Bananza and Mario Tennis Fever are much better introductions to the redesign, especially Fever since he looks great busting out his old poses.
>>734438584Nintendo... I.....
>>734448581No they don't.
>>734438584>new designIt's hardly a new design. They moved his eyebrows up and put his eyes together. I never understood the fake outrage over this """""redesign""""". He's still 95% the same as he was before
>>734438584I like it, worked well for the new game at least. It's one of the best autism filters Nintendo have ever done.
>>734450759BRO THEY'RE LITERALLY ERASING MY HECKIN CHILDHOOD!!!!!
No. And I hate tendies for supporting the slop
>>734438584i accept him but rare's dk is still superior
>>734438584No he looks like a simpson character with down syndrome
>>734438584He looks fuckin lame.
>>734442598>non-banary hutless folxGets me every time.
>>734438584He acts too human now, like a quirky cartoon character and not a gorilla. You should feel like there's no ego behind those eyes, just pure Id.
>>734438584This might be controversial but I think the only good implementation of this design is the fucking movie.
the worst part is what they did to my boy's voice - he sounds so retarded now
>>734442182Bingo. It's gotta suck for the people who used DK for their profile on Switch for years only to have Nintendo arbitrarily change it to that look with no alternative.
>>734453603The fact that he doesn't have any dialogue in Bananza was weird to me. No broken English, no O-KAY or COOOOOL or anything like that. IIRC he 'says' bananas in his thoughts one time, and that's all he says. It's surprising that they didn't make it so he can't read without Pauline, because he seems to have lost half the language part of his brain in the redesign.
>>734444078Donkey Kong just being a big happy animal driven by simple desires (but still capable of comprehending deeper motives because he's a cartoon) is a fun read for him
>>734438584>it's been close to a year nowWhat the fuck
>>734438584I really like the design, but the tongue out faces are awful.
Enough arguing over which DK design is better.Which DKC show song is your favorite?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw7B6O80I7w
>>734458184https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-EpaDSdUWM
>>734438584I can't like it or else /v/irgins will scream and rant.
>>734453603>rare dk spoke english, operated firearms, and other human actions>"the one that acts like an animal is too human"
>>734458184The one Alestorm did a cover of.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkW8Fi2ZAM&list=RDvnkW8Fi2ZAM&start_radio=1
>>734438584No, however I've since learned that in a literally who game called Jungle Beat, he made similar retarded faces. And now I don't hate the design, I just hate Nintendo's designers for being consistently shit for over 20 years. I don't trust you as a human being if you think the change to Diddy's eyes was a good redesign either.I was around during the entire N64 and GameCube gens and I remember being aware that Jungle Beat existed around 2004, but I thought playing a platformer with bongos was the stupidest fucking idea ever, so I never played it. We even had the bongos for Donkey Konga, the superior bongo game. When DKC Returns came out on Wii, I thought rolling by shaking the Wiimote was the 2nd stupidest fucking idea ever, so I waited for the game to come out on 3DS, and while the gameplay was inferior to the SNES games, I was happy because at least DK felt close to his DKC design and personality, if a bit sanitized.Can you blame me? I grew up playing based sovl kino like DKC, DK64, Melee and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.Maybe the little kids who grew up playing nonsense like Jungle Beat as their first toddler game are the ones who can tolerate this atrocity of a design? People who grew up thinking gimmicky waggle shit was normal? People with zero standards or active brain cells?At least if you grew up playing DK at the arcades as a child, if you appreciate certain aspects of this design because they remind you of the DK from the arcades somewhat, I can respect you for being an oldfag. But none of you old fucks are around anymore, and it doesn't change the fact that his new in-game models look like absolute shit. To be fair, the in-game models for DK had been hit or miss in Nintendo games even before the redesign, like when he did the stupid Mario Kart 8 teeth shit. He looked bad then, yet it was still way better than what we have now.
btw I just found a website with every single stage in the trilogy fully animated for some reasonhttp://www.dkc-atlas.com/maps/
>>734438584I think it's terrible in Bananza and Mario Kart World. Not just for the personality change in that first one but their general modeling as well. The black void around his eyes when he does his expressiona looking like mascara instead of cartoony inset eyes, the tint on his fur making his tie near impossible to see, the way they textured his fur making his shrunken hair twirl get lost in his silhouette, how he's kinda just a formless brown blob if you don't put the britches on when that wasn't a problem in the past. I like Bananza but the games really ugly a lot of the time and DK is no exception.Got no problems with it in Tennis and the more recent promo art though, they've worked out the kinks.
>>734438584>>>/vp/
>>734458184I fucking love that channel
>>734458184Eddie, let me go back to my home!Without me everything's all wrong!
>>734461913The tongue means something else here than with the new design though.
>>734438584No. Looks blander with a less definite personality suitable for molding him into whatever you want.
The problem is that DK was intentionally designed after Battletoads. What the fuck is nu-Kong designed after?
>>734464293Dwayne the Rock Johnson
>>734441135/thread
>>734458926if anything i really like that donkey kong is just a big dumb gorilla
>>734464293After his original appearance?
>>734464628it's kinda finding a halfway ground between his original arcade look, his rare look, and mario's own artstyle
>>734454647Didn't play the game, because you have pointless dialogue choices to give to NPCs.
>>734438584It works for bananza. The rare iteration would have felt off. I say this as someone who didn't like the design initially, but it really does fit bananza
>>734464628Which was based on what? King Kong?
He looks so fucking terrible and his new personality where he's just a retard who does nothing but think about bananas 24/7 is absoluely awful, it's flanderizationI hate that everything has to be gay and lame and corporate these days, and that's what the redesign is. It takes DKC's art style from it and forces it into a Mario mold. It makes DK less "threatening" for mass market appeal because clearly Nintendo needs more goody nonthreatening mascots. I am firmly of the belief that people who defend it just defend everythign Nintendo does.
>>734458184Metal Head with Diddy's vocals. Changing or removing them kills the vibe of the song.
>>734464915Which was based on what? Your dad?
>>734464915YO LIL DONNIE
>>734464963>SAY IT AIN'T SO! THE RETARDED MONKEY NAMED RETARDED MONKEY ACTS AND LOOKS LIKE A RETARDED MONKEY!Filtered your IP.
>>734464963I'm a transbian zoophile btw if that matters
>>734438584The original artist who made the 3D assets for DKC has already admitted DK's frowning brow was a mistake born from his inexperience with 3d tools and made it very hard to work with afterwards.This neutral brow is what Rare wanted him to look like.
>>734465751That doesn't make it good
>>734438584I tolerate it now, but I dont like it a single bit, just looks out of place and stupid
>>734464963>people who defend it just defend everythign Nintendo doesthey are called neophiles, they love and defend everything new just because its fucking new
>>734464293Was it confirmed Bayliss was making a consciousness decision to model his DK after Battletoads?I figured it was just his artstyle
>>734438584I hate it
>>734448161Why would twitter and reddit make fun of themselves?
>>734464963This.Bananza was a good game, krool's return was glorious too, but they had to fuck it up with how they turned DK into an actual retard, both in the way he acts and how he looks, it makes me angry as fuck.If they had the n64 DK instead of this shit, man...
>>734441135same with Crash.
