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 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 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.
I really dont get the hate of the new DK design. I know it is a really controvertial take but I kinda like the new Design a little bit more than the old one. I grew up with the old one but I dont know... in my opinion the new design gives more life to donkey kong and represents his old look
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 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 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 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’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.
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
@@Flibbermoxdoesn't look bad to me at all personally. Love that they're trying new things instead of the same stuff. If it ain't broke don't fix it but maybe try something new to spice things up yk
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.
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 him for their new Donkey Kong theme park at Super Nintendo World.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pretty much the new design for Donkey Kong in Mario Kart 9 has sparked speculation about a potential redesign for him. The new design, reminiscent of the movie version (which is actually just his original design before Rareware redesigned it for their games), could be a one-off reskin or a permanent change, with some evidence pointing to the latter. The potential redesign raises questions about the future of Donkey Kong’s iconic look. I think it's just trying to make a change that makes him look like his original design to maybe see how people react to it. Similar to how King Dedede was changed to his Kirby 64 look in the past 2 Kirby games (and people seem to like it so they might keep it that way).
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!
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
Truly i hope that his classic DKC design is present in the games to come in some way, because I just dont vibe with his new look as we see it in Mario kart. In the movie it was great tho, but it doesnt fit here, and i just can't see myself ever playing as donkey kong in anything ever again if this is his new look going forward
What if with the new Mario kart, theirs gonna be unlockable costumes like tour and that could be why peach, Daisy and Rosalina are all wearing dresses despite being on a bike. Cause you gotta unlock the biker outfit
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
Honestly its a end of the ugly gamecube models for everyone and their now going to the good n64 and before, lore accurate mario characters EXCEPT donkey kong, hes always had the same look ngl, so this is interesting Tbf i think movie donkey kong is taking inspiration to classic kong, and nintendo must’ve thought it looks great Which i think it does, he looks like he has more personality now
1:25 Pretty sure they said that the Mario you play in the old donkey Kong game isn’t Mario but his grandfather Jump man, correct me if I'm wrong and the movie characters outside of DK are not different enough to make the characters in this game.
It's definitely going to take some getting used to, but it does make for great marketing for whenever they do make the second mario movie. However, I love the design that we have gotten used to and come to love, so I don't love the new design
The more I look at it the more I see this 'new' design is actually just the old 2d art classic design not the movie design although I can see the confusion for some people
There are 24 racers, you can see like 23 characters in the trailer and I doubt there's be 23 as that's a very weird number, also I doubt we'll get "movie character costumes" as not only would most character not change or just wouldn't have them like Rosalina, Baby Rosalina, Daisy, Baby Daisy, Toadette, Bowser Jr, King Boo and Birdo, but it's clear that these are just new models and design changes, every character has them to some extent, like not everything is a conspiracy
It is for me... i dont like new design at all... hopefully thier is a skin for older dk as well... i wouldnt bother playing a dk gsme where he look like that... i would just play something eles.
I really don’t want to sound like an angry fanboy, I have nothing against the designer of this new donkey Kong I don’t like it at all. The calendar looks completely fine though.
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.
My hope for switch 2 is new 3d mario games 2d mario games new mario rpg games and new spin off game including luigi mansion 4 and new peach games should be new peachs games switch 2 feature mario luigi toad bowser
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH DK'S NEW DESIGN. DK WAS NOT IN WONDER, WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS THEIR WONDER DESIGN, AND THEY WANTED TO REUSE ONE OF DK'S DESIGN AND THEY DECIDED TO REUSE THE MODEL FROM THE MOVIE WHAT THE F*CK IS THE PROBLEM?!?!
It's over, DK bros. This new design makes it look like they lobotomized him. Happy, goofy, hunky-dory Donkey Kong. This design would look awful in Smash..
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
Garbage.
Awful, I absolutely hate it
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
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
bros channel revived from the switch 2 announcement 💀😭🙏
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
I really dont get the hate of the new DK design. I know it is a really controvertial take but I kinda like the new Design a little bit more than the old one. I grew up with the old one but I dont know... in my opinion the new design gives more life to donkey kong and represents his old look
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!
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.
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
Disagree
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
No, but they need to change his look back to the old one.
The first 10 seconds genuinely made me laugh so hard lmao
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
love the new design, he looks CHONKY
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 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.
DK got the Dedede treatment fr
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.
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 It just looks bad. Not everything is that deep.
@@Flibbermoxdoesn't look bad to me at all personally. Love that they're trying new things instead of the same stuff. If it ain't broke don't fix it but maybe try something new to spice things up yk
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.
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 him for their new Donkey Kong theme park at Super Nintendo World.
Man y'all are going nuts over this DK design 😭
I literally thought I was the only one pointing out how absolutely stupid it is that people are getting so upset over something as small as that!
I'm not like those people, I actually love this design!
You could say they’re going… bananas
Because it’s a big deal
Keep the arms, bring his face back.
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.
I personally like the new design, it brings the classic arcade design and make it more modern
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.
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
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.
They made an entire part of a theme park using the old design… idk if they’re gonna up and change it lol
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
Pretty much the new design for Donkey Kong in Mario Kart 9 has sparked speculation about a potential redesign for him. The new design, reminiscent of the movie version (which is actually just his original design before Rareware redesigned it for their games), could be a one-off reskin or a permanent change, with some evidence pointing to the latter. The potential redesign raises questions about the future of Donkey Kong’s iconic look. I think it's just trying to make a change that makes him look like his original design to maybe see how people react to it. Similar to how King Dedede was changed to his Kirby 64 look in the past 2 Kirby games (and people seem to like it so they might keep it that way).
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!
OMG! The original DK look is coming to an end! Whatever will we do!? 😂😂😂
as far as how fast mario ages vs donkey kong, Matpat did a theory on that.
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
Truly i hope that his classic DKC design is present in the games to come in some way, because I just dont vibe with his new look as we see it in Mario kart. In the movie it was great tho, but it doesnt fit here, and i just can't see myself ever playing as donkey kong in anything ever again if this is his new look going forward
I don’t like the new design, it doesn’t look like Donkey
I prefer the DK model that we've seen since 1994
Typical Nintendo fan response 😂
Did you know you have a twin who likes Sonic?
We are enemies like mufasa and scar
What if with the new Mario kart, theirs gonna be unlockable costumes like tour and that could be why peach, Daisy and Rosalina are all wearing dresses despite being on a bike. Cause you gotta unlock the biker outfit
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
Honestly its a end of the ugly gamecube models for everyone and their now going to the good n64 and before, lore accurate mario characters EXCEPT donkey kong, hes always had the same look ngl, so this is interesting
Tbf i think movie donkey kong is taking inspiration to classic kong, and nintendo must’ve thought it looks great
Which i think it does, he looks like he has more personality now
the Double dash models were pretty good But In mario kart wii characters were a bit more low poly.
1:25 Pretty sure they said that the Mario you play in the old donkey Kong game isn’t Mario but his grandfather Jump man, correct me if I'm wrong and the movie characters outside of DK are not different enough to make the characters in this game.
He’s NOT Okay
In my opinion, I definitely like the design don’t get me wrong. I like the older design, but I feel like it’s just gone stale for me.
I hate Donkey Kong’s new design and what they’ve done to him
Hopefully he has an alternative costume in MK9
It's definitely going to take some getting used to, but it does make for great marketing for whenever they do make the second mario movie. However, I love the design that we have gotten used to and come to love, so I don't love the new design
The more I look at it the more I see this 'new' design is actually just the old 2d art classic design not the movie design although I can see the confusion for some people
we still didnt get a release of country returns on switch, yet he looks normal there, im gonna guess it's just a skin
There are 24 racers, you can see like 23 characters in the trailer and I doubt there's be 23 as that's a very weird number, also I doubt we'll get "movie character costumes" as not only would most character not change or just wouldn't have them like Rosalina, Baby Rosalina, Daisy, Baby Daisy, Toadette, Bowser Jr, King Boo and Birdo, but it's clear that these are just new models and design changes, every character has them to some extent, like not everything is a conspiracy
Why Rogan kong Nintendo? Why have you cursed us!!!!!
Oh FINALLY a NEW MARIOHUB Video
It is for me... i dont like new design at all... hopefully thier is a skin for older dk as well... i wouldnt bother playing a dk gsme where he look like that... i would just play something eles.
This feels the same when king Dee Dee got redesigned . The old one was better! 😭😭😭
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? Dedede gets a redesign all the time
Dee Dee Dee never keeps his design, ever!
Dk jr from back then isnt father but the current dk, and cranky is og dk, and current dk father
Why are Nintendo fans so alarmist?
No this is not the end of Donkey Kong. If anything, this is a good sign of things to come for Donkey Kong.
Just like Nuts & Bolts was for Banjo?
I hope to God its not the end
I really don’t want to sound like an angry fanboy, I have nothing against the designer of this new donkey Kong
I don’t like it at all. The calendar looks completely fine though.
Sorry guys but I like this new design
GUYS CHIIIILL MAYBE ITS A SKIIIIN
24 player in new mario kart
What if its called classic donkey kong as a character?
I don't like it but I might change my mind
Hi Mario hub
Anyone who likes this isn’t a donkey Kong fan
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.
i fcking despise miyamoto for screwing up the design for my man, mario movie ruined him but this is worse, rareware needs more respect man
Have faith
My hope for switch 2 is new 3d mario games 2d mario games new mario rpg games and new spin off game including luigi mansion 4 and new peach games should be new peachs games switch 2 feature mario luigi toad bowser
And dont forget new mario party games
Bro is whining like a 2 year old over a Donkey Kong redesign and acting like it's the end of the world. I hate the Nintendo fanbase so much.
He's back!!!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH DK'S NEW DESIGN. DK WAS NOT IN WONDER, WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS THEIR WONDER DESIGN, AND THEY WANTED TO REUSE ONE OF DK'S DESIGN AND THEY DECIDED TO REUSE THE MODEL FROM THE MOVIE WHAT THE F*CK IS THE PROBLEM?!?!
As a dk main it looks kinda ugly but I’ll still use him
I dont think.its mario kar6 9, but mario kart 8 double deluxe
It’s the worst redesign I have seen in a bit.
We don't know much, it might just be another skin for DK in MK9, altough yes, I'd be upset if that's the original DK design.
No the worst redesign goes to King Deedee
Eh, I like it.
or maybe a new character
nice video
It's over, DK bros. This new design makes it look like they lobotomized him. Happy, goofy, hunky-dory Donkey Kong.
This design would look awful in Smash..
It's not that serious 😭
In new mario kart on switch 2 dk little bit like from movie
Mario kart 10?
I love it.
Sucks.