Unironically that shit would be my 13th reason why, losing firstplace in an online match last second and hearing seth rogan laugh at me i would never be able to come back from that
PK! (Record spinning sound) Pulpous, Kong PK! Pulpous Kong is here He's the OG of the bunch, he's been long gone. He's finally back, since 1981 His muscular arms, can throw a wood barrel If it hits ya, you're gonna twirl, HUH! PK!! (record spinning sound) Pulpous Kong
4:02 Nah, that ain't Mario Kart 10. Thats Mario Kart 11. Don't you leave out the most beloved and memorable Mario Kart of all time; Mario Kart Live Home Circuit 😉
I can't believe they finally gave Jr. a modern design. Shame the third had to skip the teaser so his Dad could get the spotlight, but oh well, I'm sure he'll look fine once he eventually shows up.
actually i think i would like it more if it was jr and we had 2 monkeys but i see no white tank there or lighter fur only the dk tie (id be cool with 3 monkeys even get diddy in there)
RIP Rare Donkey Kong 1994-2025 You’ve lived a nice good life buddy. Unlikely but I predict they’ll use the Arcade design for Mario games and the Rareware for DK/Smash games to preserve Rare’s legacy. I’m honestly fine with either one as long as it looks good in-game. I really do like Shigehisa Nakue’s style on DK and I look forward to seeing it in future Switch 2 games. I’ll just miss the Rare one, that’s all lol.
The modern Donkey Kong felt like a parody of the rare one, in all honesty the one displayed here feels like it'd be more fitting in a rare game than the modern Nintendo Donkey kong
There's no way Rare DK is gone, this is 100% a redesign for Mario Kart and potential other Mario spinoffs like Mario Party only. After opening the new themepark based entirely on the Rare and Retro studios DK designs and thinking of games like smash that would suffer with this goofy round DK, it's obvious this isn't a total revamp.
@@StaticNugget lol aint that big a deal if nintendo decides they are tired of rares dk design. and want something fresh. like with that mario got since wonder. this brings back og dk vibes. which is great. kinda looks even bigger and more intimidating then usual too. even better if nintendo makes in house dk game to go with this reboot look of him. but thats just too much to hope for...
I feel like its important to note that if you zoom in on the trailer you can see DK change his expression to a more determined look when drifting, so i feel like he's just gonna be a lot more expressive now, and that includes facial expressions that resemble his rareware design
its not a bad redesign. it kinda feels nostalgic and brings back his og look before rareware hype. since rare aint with nintendo anymore. they should reboot his design as they see fit. cant wait until the full game and characters are revealed.
I’m mixed on the new design. The face doesn’t look quite right to me, but the larger body proportions that emphasize how big and strong DK is are pretty cool
@ yeah DK and Bowser have always been larger then most other Mario character's, only ones i can think of that are larger then them are King Bob-omb, King Whomp and Petey Piranha (King Boo too possibly but his size i swear fluctuates from game to game)
@@DarkestMarlin74 actually if they add costumes for each character similar to smash, that'd go hard af. metal mario and tanooki mario dont have to be their own characters
This DK design actually comes from Shigehisa Nakaue who does a lot of the 2D art and promotional material for the Mario franchise. He's worked on the games since at least 3D World. He actually drew up a bunch of the concept art for the Mario movie, which more closely resembles his work for Nintendo rather than the final designs of the film. This explains why he *looks* like Movie DK, because movie DK branched off from Nakaue's vision for the character, but to be clear, that vision predates the movie by quite a while.
My theory: the Mario movie design is going to be used in all Regular Mario media when DK appears, but in Donkey Kong franchise he keeps his rare design. Kinda like Wario normal/Mario design vs WarioWare design or King Boo design in Luigi's Mansion.
That's not happening, and what is that point about Wario? Wario has a different outfit in his games, sure, but he doesn't have a flat out different design. They won't switch DK's designs for mario game appearances and DK games
@@cosmicXtropicsI've NEVER seen a completely outraged Kirby fan, but I do remember there being some talk about the strange change in Dedede's design but only in Return to Dreamland DX when it was seen that they changed it, although it could also be because of Dedede himself who keeps changing design without any apparent explanation and that's why they didn't complain so much
This video format is chill, if you like doing it and it's simple to make, go for it. I do enjoy the longer form stuff the most though, as I feel that's where your style shines the strongest. There is something insanely entertaining about your presentation style, it gets me so deeply absorbed in some goofy shit
You can't just change perfection and expect to get away with it without any consequences. Also I'd be completely down with getting more analysis videos and just talking about new stuff like this in the future 👍
Yes, and please be honest, this is NOT the DK movie design. And not even the original NES one. This is a whole different piece of random crap resembling some weird fanart
@foursidekm Talking about details here. Sure closer to the movie one than to the Rare one but still not the same of the movie. This one is darker, wider, chubbier, larger mouth and more black around the eyes. What are they doing exactly?
if they did include skins, that means metal mario, pink gold peach, tanooki mario and cat peach won't be taking up slots on the roster, seriously i will always see those 4 as being such unnecessary additions to Mario Kart
@@bulborb8756 true, pink gold peach really should only return (if at all) as a skin, those reskins are a kind of a waste of a full character slot in Mk8
Honestly this design is a huge upgrade IMO. I love the rare design the one thing thats never worked for me though was the weird eye ridge. Smoothing that out and making it more emotive is definitely the way to go with DK's design. And while it is in the movie i dont think theyre pushing it for movie synergy, more just because it looks better.
@@LinktotheFuture-zs9km I don’t hate Arcade DK but I think he works best in the movies, it’s gonna take some getting used to seeing it in the games, that Peach Showtime Boxart change really was a sign of things to come.
Nintendo has said that with Mario Wonder, it’s supposed to be a “new era of Mario”, justifying the design change and new voice actor, and I kinda think the new Donkey Kong design is part of that “new era”. Because of this, I don’t see it as Nintendo taking the movie designs and putting it in the games, they always had that design planned for DK movie or not. That being said, I feel like this new DK design could be exclusively for the Mario spinoffs and whenever we inevitably see DK get his own game, it’s gonna be the Rare design that we all know and love. I think the fact that the amusement park has costumes/merchandising of his rare design is proof of that (plus the park itself is heavily based off DK country returns). Anyways, here’s hoping for a new DK
I dunno, They haven't done exclusive character designs for spinoffs for a very looooooooooooooooooooong time. They sorta homogenized the designs after a while.
Plus, I don't think it's right to assume that the merchandise for the Rare design at an amusement park is definitive for how they're going to handle things. Things to consider is the fact that unless you're someone who's super analytical, or a super fan who'll look into things at the deepest detail, you wouldn't have really noticed this "flash in the pan" moment of even noticing DK's redesign. Plus it's a design they're going to use in future games well after this section at Universal is made. Meaning, they planned well ahead of time with the at some point before making a redesign. It's not uncommon for amusement parks and mass appeal advertising to use the more iconic designs for a character for mainstream audiences.
@@Bobo12300 This also means we’re going hear Kevin Afghani taking all the roles Charles Martinet had in the new Mario Kart, he did a great Waluigi in Jamboree imo.
It looks a lot like DK Jr. I don’t know if people remember when Nintendo published, what was strongly suggested, a photo of him. He was incognito if I remember.
Recently, the news of Cranky Kong's passing devastated me. It feels like the end of an era. Cranky, once the original Donkey Kong, had passed on his legacy to his successor, Donkey Kong Jr., who became the Donkey Kong we know today. Over time, the roles evolved, and Cranky took on his cranky old mentor persona, guiding the newer generation. Now, with his passing, the title of "Cranky Kong" has been handed down, and the mantle of Donkey Kong had passed to the next successor in line. It's a bittersweet reminder of the passage of time and the enduring legacy of the Kong family. Rest in peace, Cranky Kong, your legacy lives on.
Honestly same here. I feel bummed that they changed his design and hope it’s a MK9/X thing only Personally the design loses that Onga Bonga aspect of DK and loses some of his edge and coolness to make him fluffier, rounder, cuter, and more cartoony. Which is fine but that’s just not who DK the third is. A better alternative is reintroducing cranky or DK jr with this desgin that way we get best of both worlds Some people claim that the new DK design was internally made by Nintendo and it’s the way some Nintendo artists draw him but… no… most of Nintendo’s art for him IS based on the rare design. Some people post the art Nintendo made for the movie during production but like.. that’s STILL movie donkey Kong they made these drawings and designs SPECIFICALLY for the movie So idk why people are trying to push some sort of agenda of “oh this is how DK originally looked they’re simply trying to return to classic look” rather than the truth that being emulating the movie either cuz it’s successful or bias for their own design of DK
It's not based on classic DK or movie DK it's based on Nakaue's art, which is also what the Mario Movie design is based on. This goes for the whole cast from what we've seen
I'm already starting to get used to it. Though I do feel this design, if it's gonna stick around, should've debuted in a mainline game. I need to see him running around in a jungle to truly make up my mind.
I can't imagine this is THE Donkey Kong design going forward because of that park. Like, it's not just a little thing, it was a million, perhaps billion+ dollar investment that uses the old design. I'm personally hopeful for alternate costumes, but even if there aren't, I doubt this is DK's new definitive design.
Should point out: the artstyle of all the characters in this teaser is specifically based on the _modern_ 2D Mario illustrations by Shigehisa Nakaue, not the classic ones by Yoichi Kotabe (which you attributed Bowser to). The in-game artstyle of Mario Bros Wonder is based on the same source (Nakaune's 2D art), hence the similarities. DK is also based on Nakaune's illustrations (biggest clue are the smaller pupils), but more specifically the latest ones with the more expressive brow (which COULD be inspired by the Mario Movie design?), which you can see back on some merch for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD or an upcoming 2026 calendar. It's not the first time Nakaune began drawing characters differently: he used to draw Yoshi exactly as in Yoshi's Island DS, which is more based on his 3D design at the time, but his later illustrations of Yoshi take elements from his more classic designs, such as the more slacked eyelids.
With any redesign I'm gonna give myself some time to see if the distaste is because of nostalgia or if it's just worse. So I'll only go to war and riot about the redesign... in like a month or so.
I'm in the camp of not being a fan of the new Donkey Kong design. The thing I love most about DK is he still looked cool and him looking cute isn't a problem but he looks like a big doofus in a dumb way instead of looking like a big dumb doofus who's still cool. I just think he's too soft looking. I actually do like the way he looked in the movie too. He's a couple steps away from my favorite look of DK which does lean in the Rareware direction but he was still good. I definitely didn't think of how this is gonna affect Diddy and the other kongs but I guess this means Funky probably won't be coming back as well then cuz Funky's also gonna have to change and if I don't think DK looks cool as is I probably won't think Funky is gonna look cool AT ALL.
The redesign looks like they put Baby Donkey Kong’s head on adult DK’s body, which I think is where a lot of the dislike is coming from for a lot of people. The buff baby shtick didn’t work with Kiddy Kong and it’s not working for a lot of people now.
i wouldn’t be surprised if this is like another character slot called “classic dk” or something. even if this is normal dk, i think the rare design might still get a character slot. i mean considering mk8 had “cat mario”, “pink gold peach”, and “baby rosalina”, i really don’t think it’s crazy to think they would have two donkey kongs in the game
Well the good news is it seems pretty likely that they will add costumes and skins to this game so make you can get classic DK back. Skins were in Mario kart tour and with the new 24 racer tracks we need more variations of characters.
I also kind of think it's based on Nakaue's rendition of Donkey Kong, considering that he sort of designs him like that in his artwork and how most of the cast has been based on his artstyle as well.
Nintendo is making a trend to make their characters look like their old design. First Kirby Star Allies with it being unlockable, King Dedede in KFL, Mario and Yoshi in Wonder, which I love but this just looks off. The worst part is Nintendo already mixed old and new DK design in MK8 promotion gifs and he looked amazing.
say hi to donkey kong junior everybody! he's back from 30 year summer camp after participation in super mario kart. he will be taking donkey kongs place from now on because he's gonna be busy teaching all the new nintendo characters how to be the leader of the bunch(main characters)
I for one support more videos like this. Definitely would be cool to have more frequent uploads, as long as the effort posts don't go away completely or anything.
I think its fun to see a significant design change in *somebody* for the first time in ages. In the NES-N64 eras character designs were constantly evolving at a rapid pace, but then the GameCube established designs that have been pretty much unaltered since. So its like... weirdly nostalgic to see a familiar character suddenly look way different. Also, I agree this game is probably going to be Mario Kart 10, but I say they're counting 8 Deluxe as the 9th game. And I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say it will be spelled Mario Kart X
@@Baconator2558 Exactly. It's not like any of them are bad designs, it's just that we barely even see them change stylistically. That's why I love Wonder. It didn't really change anyone's designs. Just stylized them. And that was enough to spark excitement and new life into said designs.
The movie design is a hybrid of Arcade DK and DK III and who's canonically between those two? That's right this is actually modernized DK Jr. and Nintendo is trying to trick us showing him before DK III.
I don't see how people say it's the classic design. The larger dark area around the eyes, the more rounded brow corners, the hair swirl, the protruding round snout, HE DON'T EVEN GOT CLASSIC'S MASSIVE NOSTRILS. The main similarity I see is just the more wide & stocky build. It looks more like a modified Rare DK than classic cuz that's exactlly what movie DK is. Idk it looked fine in the mario movie where everyone has a more rounded look, but it looks weird when everyone else has some version of their game designs.
Movie DK is explicitly based on classic DK. Miyamoto said so himself. It's like a fusion of rare DK and pre-rare DK (especially the one from donkey kong 94)
@ Yeah I see how it’s influenced, but I’ve seen people just say it’s the classic design, as if they plopped him right from the arcade, when clearly it’s mostly Rare DK with some elements of the classic design
Arguably I think it's more about matching him aesthetically with the rest of the Mario cast given that the Rare design was untouched for 30 years. Which IS what they did for the movie as well, but I think there is a distinction even though the result is similar. I wouldn't be surprised if he has different designs in Mario games vs DK games going forward.
this design is okayyyy i think its fine for mario games but id rather have rare's dk in dk games this design does not fit donkey kong country's aesthetic at all
It feels like Nintendo has been actively scrubbing all traces of Rare's influence on the Donkey Kong franchise for years now. This is just another nail in the coffin. I'm actually starting to believe those rumours that Miyamoto hated the old Donkey Kong Country games and was jealous that people liked them more than Yoshi's Island.
The movie design was honestly pretty cool; it combined Nintendo's original arcade design with Rare's reqorking of the character, but the MK9 model just seems so flanderized-he looks very unfinished and hopefully he still is. I think now realizing he may be gone, I'm finally appreciating Rare's Donkey Kong design, truly one of gamings best reimaginings.
Refreshing to get an upload like this! I wouldn't mind more smaller videos of you touching on funny breaking news on the big N, & since this scary new era is approaching I feel like it's the best opportunity. There will likely be a lot more things relevant to your channel to talk about.
Donky Kong... has changed Its no longer about the rare ware design, the coconut guns, or the huge grinning teeth its about appealing to the movie goers, and whats gotten the most eyes Illumination, and affect on the public conscious, is permanent Donky Kong has changed
donkey kong.............
donkey kong………
donkey kong........
Bro that's Donkey Kong Junior, he was resurrected
donkey kong...............
donkey kong.............
cant wait to get blue shelled only to hear seth rogen going "eheheheh" in my left ear as im passed by a DK and he claims what is mine
No way I saw this comment under a minute.
Can't wait for your Mario kart 9 24 player SHENANIGANS
Right before he throws the shell, he says "Now you die."
Unironically that shit would be my 13th reason why, losing firstplace in an online match last second and hearing seth rogan laugh at me i would never be able to come back from that
Hey, I am okay with the design... BUT if THAT happened I'm done lol
My therapist is going to be hearing about this
Try to let go everything and cry. You will be healed soon. Anger is not the solution
Your therapist is gonna be mad about this even before you get into the room
@@banjobro64i think he was joking
@charmingotter976rr well, I am not. And now........leave me alone.
@ no :)
Pulpous Kong is my favorite member of the DK crew.
This Kong makes a funny race.
He even has a funny face!
PK! (Record spinning sound)
Pulpous, Kong
PK!
Pulpous Kong is here
He's the OG of the bunch, he's been long gone.
He's finally back, since 1981
His muscular arms, can throw a wood barrel
If it hits ya, you're gonna twirl, HUH!
PK!! (record spinning sound)
Pulpous Kong
Truly this is the Donkey Kong fandom's Sonic fandom moment.
4:02 Nah, that ain't Mario Kart 10. Thats Mario Kart 11. Don't you leave out the most beloved and memorable Mario Kart of all time; Mario Kart Live Home Circuit 😉
Bruh 😂
@@Shadowmonkey Actkchually ☝️🤓
16. Don’t forget the arcade games, and the Universal Studios ride.
@@brandonwilliams6119 nuh uh!
@@thevioletbee5879 oh shit, you're right
i just miss the old eyes, the rest is amazing imo. he's so large
being large is fitting for DK, he's a strong banana loving monkey who will beat you up if you give him a reason to
I genuinely have always hated the old eyes with all of my heart and soul, it has always looked ugly to me.
I can't believe they finally gave Jr. a modern design.
Shame the third had to skip the teaser so his Dad could get the spotlight, but oh well, I'm sure he'll look fine once he eventually shows up.
actually i think i would like it more if it was jr and we had 2 monkeys but i see no white tank there or lighter fur only the dk tie
(id be cool with 3 monkeys even get diddy in there)
This is adult Kiddy Kong.
@@FelipeJaquez dang he lost his frosted tips
Barely looks like him.
If they're going to make DK look more like classic DK then they have no excuse not to add Jr now.
RIP Rare Donkey Kong
1994-2025
You’ve lived a nice good life buddy.
Unlikely but I predict they’ll use the Arcade design for Mario games and the Rareware for DK/Smash games to preserve Rare’s legacy.
I’m honestly fine with either one as long as it looks good in-game.
I really do like Shigehisa Nakue’s style on DK and I look forward to seeing it in future Switch 2 games.
I’ll just miss the Rare one, that’s all lol.
The modern Donkey Kong felt like a parody of the rare one, in all honesty the one displayed here feels like it'd be more fitting in a rare game than the modern Nintendo Donkey kong
There's no way Rare DK is gone, this is 100% a redesign for Mario Kart and potential other Mario spinoffs like Mario Party only. After opening the new themepark based entirely on the Rare and Retro studios DK designs and thinking of games like smash that would suffer with this goofy round DK, it's obvious this isn't a total revamp.
30 years is alot. It's nice to see OG kOnG
I think it's just because the game is a work in progress and the design will be fixed.
@@StaticNugget lol aint that big a deal if nintendo decides they are tired of rares dk design.
and want something fresh. like with that mario got since wonder. this brings back og dk vibes.
which is great. kinda looks even bigger and more intimidating then usual too.
even better if nintendo makes in house dk game to go with this reboot look of him.
but thats just too much to hope for...
I feel like its important to note that if you zoom in on the trailer you can see DK change his expression to a more determined look when drifting, so i feel like he's just gonna be a lot more expressive now, and that includes facial expressions that resemble his rareware design
I thought he was expressive before. His smash ultimate model in also had some really pushed expressions while still true to the design
its not a bad redesign. it kinda feels nostalgic and brings back his og look before rareware hype.
since rare aint with nintendo anymore. they should reboot his design as they see fit.
cant wait until the full game and characters are revealed.
@@krishrama I was saying that he didn't lack expressiveness before. As far as what you think about the redesign, to each their own
Bro is driving in radiator springs
Disney Nintendo crossover confirmed !!!1!1!11!!1!!!!!!
Kachow!
I’m mixed on the new design. The face doesn’t look quite right to me, but the larger body proportions that emphasize how big and strong DK is are pretty cool
indeed, his larger arms does really give off how strong he is
I always thought the movie did proportions very well.
Spike looks huge compared to the Mario Bros, but like nothing next to Bowser or Donkey Kong
@ yeah DK and Bowser have always been larger then most other Mario character's, only ones i can think of that are larger then them are King Bob-omb, King Whomp and Petey Piranha (King Boo too possibly but his size i swear fluctuates from game to game)
@ yes, but look how big DK’s arms are in proportion to his body. They beefed up his arms significantly
ya buffer looking but bowser and wario still one tap...
😁😄
love this redesign of DK. its about time.
Did they put Peach on a bike while wearing her dress? Man they’ve robbed us of biker Peach too. That seems impractical lmao
Or it's just a costume
@@DarkestMarlin74 actually if they add costumes for each character similar to smash, that'd go hard af. metal mario and tanooki mario dont have to be their own characters
@@kevwox Real (though exception can be made for Dry Bones and Paratroopa because it is unclear if they're the exact same Koopa)
Nah, this is DK the Fourth 😂
What no donkey kong december does to a MF
This DK design actually comes from Shigehisa Nakaue who does a lot of the 2D art and promotional material for the Mario franchise. He's worked on the games since at least 3D World.
He actually drew up a bunch of the concept art for the Mario movie, which more closely resembles his work for Nintendo rather than the final designs of the film. This explains why he *looks* like Movie DK, because movie DK branched off from Nakaue's vision for the character, but to be clear, that vision predates the movie by quite a while.
this is what donkey kong looks like after he has been charged for his crimes
My theory: the Mario movie design is going to be used in all Regular Mario media when DK appears, but in Donkey Kong franchise he keeps his rare design. Kinda like Wario normal/Mario design vs WarioWare design or King Boo design in Luigi's Mansion.
Thanks I hate it
I'm inclined to agree
That's not happening, and what is that point about Wario? Wario has a different outfit in his games, sure, but he doesn't have a flat out different design.
They won't switch DK's designs for mario game appearances and DK games
@AnAverageGoblin it's so cool, you're just getting your opinion from you tubers lmaooo
PLEASE NO
Kirby fans and King Dedede: "First time?"
That Dedede model is one of the greatest. I don't remember fans being as unbelievably outraged for one design.
Dedede’s design changes every 5 years or so. It’s only stayed consistent in Smash.
@@cosmicXtropicsI've NEVER seen a completely outraged Kirby fan, but I do remember there being some talk about the strange change in Dedede's design but only in Return to Dreamland DX when it was seen that they changed it, although it could also be because of Dedede himself who keeps changing design without any apparent explanation and that's why they didn't complain so much
Ikr lol
the new dedede design sucks ass
I wonder which presidential administration takes credit for this
Probably Bush if I had to bet on it
Depends on if we blame the movie or MK9.
This video format is chill, if you like doing it and it's simple to make, go for it. I do enjoy the longer form stuff the most though, as I feel that's where your style shines the strongest. There is something insanely entertaining about your presentation style, it gets me so deeply absorbed in some goofy shit
also fuck it. I think they should put Toadsworth as a driver in this. Everyone fw my man Toadsworth
The Mario movie and it’s consequences
THIS SUMMER
EVERYONE’S FAVORITE PLUMBER
IS COMING TO THE BIG SCREEN
@@Flibbermox
People really do just say shit now huh
@@Flibbermox
Nintendo’s always been greedy as hell lol
@@Flibbermox
They’re as greedy now as they were 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago
@@Flibbermox But it was Illumination
look what they’ve done to my boy
You can't just change perfection and expect to get away with it without any consequences. Also I'd be completely down with getting more analysis videos and just talking about new stuff like this in the future 👍
The donkey Kong situation is crazy
New donkey Kong drama just dropped
@@BartEnder2006
Dropping drama before even dropping a new game. Crazy work, DK. Crazy work.
The eyeshade irks me to no end
Yes, and please be honest, this is NOT the DK movie design. And not even the original NES one. This is a whole different piece of random crap resembling some weird fanart
@@banjobro64it's pretty damn close to the movie design
@foursidekm Talking about details here. Sure closer to the movie one than to the Rare one but still not the same of the movie. This one is darker, wider, chubbier, larger mouth and more black around the eyes. What are they doing exactly?
Here before Coney
Here before Coney [2]
Here before Coney [3-HIT COMBO]
Koney 2012
Here before Coney
Wait. Who is Coney?
@@speedtracker9556idk the character from dreams?
Pray that MK9 implements skins, and you can unlock classic DK 🙏🙏
if they did include skins, that means metal mario, pink gold peach, tanooki mario and cat peach won't be taking up slots on the roster, seriously i will always see those 4 as being such unnecessary additions to Mario Kart
@@bulborb8756 true, pink gold peach really should only return (if at all) as a skin, those reskins are a kind of a waste of a full character slot in Mk8
2:28 this is the first time I’ve ever heard the word “pulpous” used in a sentence, and it absolutely took me out
The chunkiest version of DK
DK got the Dedede treatment lol
This is the most important video on TH-cam
agree. DK is paramount in my life and I am not kidding. Probably, I identify as DKey/DKhem
Better go in the important videos playlist.
They took his test script away and now hes no longer menacing
Rare DK was literal perfection.
Honestly this design is a huge upgrade IMO. I love the rare design the one thing thats never worked for me though was the weird eye ridge. Smoothing that out and making it more emotive is definitely the way to go with DK's design. And while it is in the movie i dont think theyre pushing it for movie synergy, more just because it looks better.
Gorilla + Tie = Donkey Kong. Good enough for me.
I'm with this guy
what did they do to my boy 😭
They made him better
They made him cuter
This design is kinda gas imma be real
its way better
@@LinktotheFuture-zs9km I don’t hate Arcade DK but I think he works best in the movies, it’s gonna take some getting used to seeing it in the games, that Peach Showtime Boxart change really was a sign of things to come.
Nintendo has said that with Mario Wonder, it’s supposed to be a “new era of Mario”, justifying the design change and new voice actor, and I kinda think the new Donkey Kong design is part of that “new era”. Because of this, I don’t see it as Nintendo taking the movie designs and putting it in the games, they always had that design planned for DK movie or not. That being said,
I feel like this new DK design could be exclusively for the Mario spinoffs and whenever we inevitably see DK get his own game, it’s gonna be the Rare design that we all know and love. I think the fact that the amusement park has costumes/merchandising of his rare design is proof of that (plus the park itself is heavily based off DK country returns). Anyways, here’s hoping for a new DK
I dunno, They haven't done exclusive character designs for spinoffs for a very looooooooooooooooooooong time. They sorta homogenized the designs after a while.
Plus, I don't think it's right to assume that the merchandise for the Rare design at an amusement park is definitive for how they're going to handle things. Things to consider is the fact that unless you're someone who's super analytical, or a super fan who'll look into things at the deepest detail, you wouldn't have really noticed this "flash in the pan" moment of even noticing DK's redesign. Plus it's a design they're going to use in future games well after this section at Universal is made. Meaning, they planned well ahead of time with the at some point before making a redesign. It's not uncommon for amusement parks and mass appeal advertising to use the more iconic designs for a character for mainstream audiences.
@@Bobo12300 This also means we’re going hear Kevin Afghani taking all the roles Charles Martinet had in the new Mario Kart, he did a great Waluigi in Jamboree imo.
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Kevin Afghani will now be voicing everyone.
Okay hear me out:
This is DK junior.
It looks a lot like DK Jr. I don’t know if people remember when Nintendo published, what was strongly suggested, a photo of him. He was incognito if I remember.
ya the og snes mario kart design...
lol hyped.
I hope the redesign is just for the new Mario Kart Game and nothing else
This is the only thing keeping Rare's legacy alive
0.01% that's the case.
I agree I hope it will only be used for certain games. It would be wrong to make it permanent.
@@Puzzle-Portals64 What about Diddy Kong?
I love wide donkey kong
Recently, the news of Cranky Kong's passing devastated me. It feels like the end of an era. Cranky, once the original Donkey Kong, had passed on his legacy to his successor, Donkey Kong Jr., who became the Donkey Kong we know today. Over time, the roles evolved, and Cranky took on his cranky old mentor persona, guiding the newer generation.
Now, with his passing, the title of "Cranky Kong" has been handed down, and the mantle of Donkey Kong had passed to the next successor in line. It's a bittersweet reminder of the passage of time and the enduring legacy of the Kong family. Rest in peace, Cranky Kong, your legacy lives on.
Honestly same here. I feel bummed that they changed his design and hope it’s a MK9/X thing only
Personally the design loses that Onga Bonga aspect of DK and loses some of his edge and coolness to make him fluffier, rounder, cuter, and more cartoony. Which is fine but that’s just not who DK the third is. A better alternative is reintroducing cranky or DK jr with this desgin that way we get best of both worlds
Some people claim that the new DK design was internally made by Nintendo and it’s the way some Nintendo artists draw him but… no… most of Nintendo’s art for him IS based on the rare design. Some people post the art Nintendo made for the movie during production but like.. that’s STILL movie donkey Kong they made these drawings and designs SPECIFICALLY for the movie
So idk why people are trying to push some sort of agenda of “oh this is how DK originally looked they’re simply trying to return to classic look” rather than the truth that being emulating the movie either cuz it’s successful or bias for their own design of DK
2:00 "He looked handsome" i think there's other issues here
this isn’t him
It's not based on classic DK or movie DK it's based on Nakaue's art, which is also what the Mario Movie design is based on. This goes for the whole cast from what we've seen
Donkey Kong looks different, but its still Donkey Kong
Oh my god alpharads friend isn’t here yet.
I generally like deep dive long form videos more, but this was still good and had your usual brand of humor and editing so I'm good either way
Clearly this is actually Donkey Kong Jr. freed from his 20 year cryosleep on a mission to find his son
I'm already starting to get used to it.
Though I do feel this design, if it's gonna stick around, should've debuted in a mainline game. I need to see him running around in a jungle to truly make up my mind.
This redesign makes Uncle Kong look like a handsome and trustworthy individual
Imagine its Junior this whole time
You are the Cybershell of Kong lore and I love you for it. :) Yes, I'll take those other video types too!
I like both the long and short videos. They are all good.
I can't imagine this is THE Donkey Kong design going forward because of that park. Like, it's not just a little thing, it was a million, perhaps billion+ dollar investment that uses the old design. I'm personally hopeful for alternate costumes, but even if there aren't, I doubt this is DK's new definitive design.
A day of tragedy 💔
Should point out: the artstyle of all the characters in this teaser is specifically based on the _modern_ 2D Mario illustrations by Shigehisa Nakaue, not the classic ones by Yoichi Kotabe (which you attributed Bowser to). The in-game artstyle of Mario Bros Wonder is based on the same source (Nakaune's 2D art), hence the similarities.
DK is also based on Nakaune's illustrations (biggest clue are the smaller pupils), but more specifically the latest ones with the more expressive brow (which COULD be inspired by the Mario Movie design?), which you can see back on some merch for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD or an upcoming 2026 calendar. It's not the first time Nakaune began drawing characters differently: he used to draw Yoshi exactly as in Yoshi's Island DS, which is more based on his 3D design at the time, but his later illustrations of Yoshi take elements from his more classic designs, such as the more slacked eyelids.
so glad that mk8 is still playable on the switch 2🙏
With any redesign I'm gonna give myself some time to see if the distaste is because of nostalgia or if it's just worse.
So I'll only go to war and riot about the redesign... in like a month or so.
I'm in the camp of not being a fan of the new Donkey Kong design. The thing I love most about DK is he still looked cool and him looking cute isn't a problem but he looks like a big doofus in a dumb way instead of looking like a big dumb doofus who's still cool. I just think he's too soft looking. I actually do like the way he looked in the movie too. He's a couple steps away from my favorite look of DK which does lean in the Rareware direction but he was still good. I definitely didn't think of how this is gonna affect Diddy and the other kongs but I guess this means Funky probably won't be coming back as well then cuz Funky's also gonna have to change and if I don't think DK looks cool as is I probably won't think Funky is gonna look cool AT ALL.
new design gives me whiplash after having the calm cool and collected rareware design for all these years
The redesign looks like they put Baby Donkey Kong’s head on adult DK’s body, which I think is where a lot of the dislike is coming from for a lot of people. The buff baby shtick didn’t work with Kiddy Kong and it’s not working for a lot of people now.
No, the dislike comes from it looking like ass and being a terrible redesign for the sake of erasing Rareware from the company.
omg thank GOD you made this video i needed someone to talk about this
i wouldn’t be surprised if this is like another character slot called “classic dk” or something. even if this is normal dk, i think the rare design might still get a character slot. i mean considering mk8 had “cat mario”, “pink gold peach”, and “baby rosalina”, i really don’t think it’s crazy to think they would have two donkey kongs in the game
Maybe it could even be a DK skin and the base would be Rare's DK, like Inkling, Classic/Botw Link, Gold Mario or the color yoshis/shy guys
Before this trailer, there were 2d images going around of this design. I think it's his current look
I hope this new design is just an optional skin.
Well the good news is it seems pretty likely that they will add costumes and skins to this game so make you can get classic DK back.
Skins were in Mario kart tour and with the new 24 racer tracks we need more variations of characters.
I also kind of think it's based on Nakaue's rendition of Donkey Kong, considering that he sort of designs him like that in his artwork and how most of the cast has been based on his artstyle as well.
Nintendo is making a trend to make their characters look like their old design. First Kirby Star Allies with it being unlockable, King Dedede in KFL, Mario and Yoshi in Wonder, which I love but this just looks off.
The worst part is Nintendo already mixed old and new DK design in MK8 promotion gifs and he looked amazing.
say hi to donkey kong junior everybody! he's back from 30 year summer camp after participation in super mario kart. he will be taking donkey kongs place from now on because he's gonna be busy teaching all the new nintendo characters how to be the leader of the bunch(main characters)
I don't mind the new design, but the big question I'm wondering is if he has his retractable teeth or not
Yooo I love your videos especially the every Kong video 👌
They done f up my Goat 😭🙏
I for one support more videos like this. Definitely would be cool to have more frequent uploads, as long as the effort posts don't go away completely or anything.
Not my boy
I think it’s an accurate representation of how dk feels for not having a new country game , been rough for our kong.. time will tell
I think its fun to see a significant design change in *somebody* for the first time in ages. In the NES-N64 eras character designs were constantly evolving at a rapid pace, but then the GameCube established designs that have been pretty much unaltered since. So its like... weirdly nostalgic to see a familiar character suddenly look way different.
Also, I agree this game is probably going to be Mario Kart 10, but I say they're counting 8 Deluxe as the 9th game. And I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say it will be spelled Mario Kart X
This 100%. A lot of these designs have been stagnant for too long.
But there's already a MKX.
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Exactly. It's not like any of them are bad designs, it's just that we barely even see them change stylistically. That's why I love Wonder. It didn't really change anyone's designs. Just stylized them. And that was enough to spark excitement and new life into said designs.
I would be happy to see more content like this if you continued to make more videos like the others currently on your channel
The movie design is a hybrid of Arcade DK and DK III and who's canonically between those two? That's right this is actually modernized DK Jr. and Nintendo is trying to trick us showing him before DK III.
That’s not donkey Kong, that’s my boy Cronky Bong
That ain't our Kong...
Donkey Chonk. lol.
Donkey Kong really got the old Sonic movie design treatment ngl.
I don't see how people say it's the classic design. The larger dark area around the eyes, the more rounded brow corners, the hair swirl, the protruding round snout, HE DON'T EVEN GOT CLASSIC'S MASSIVE NOSTRILS. The main similarity I see is just the more wide & stocky build. It looks more like a modified Rare DK than classic cuz that's exactlly what movie DK is. Idk it looked fine in the mario movie where everyone has a more rounded look, but it looks weird when everyone else has some version of their game designs.
Movie DK is explicitly based on classic DK. Miyamoto said so himself. It's like a fusion of rare DK and pre-rare DK (especially the one from donkey kong 94)
@ Yeah I see how it’s influenced, but I’ve seen people just say it’s the classic design, as if they plopped him right from the arcade, when clearly it’s mostly Rare DK with some elements of the classic design
@@joser.4494 oh yeah it's definitely not the same design
I’m pretty confident it’s just for Mario kart, like how Mario’s redesign in wonder and odyssey were just for those games
It would be very funny if in the game he is just named "Mario movie Donkey Kong" and there is still the original.
I’m gonna call this new Donkey Kong “Pulpous Kong” from now on.
Arguably I think it's more about matching him aesthetically with the rest of the Mario cast given that the Rare design was untouched for 30 years. Which IS what they did for the movie as well, but I think there is a distinction even though the result is similar.
I wouldn't be surprised if he has different designs in Mario games vs DK games going forward.
Exactly, it's like it's the Rare design, but drawn by Miyamoto like the rest of Mario characters.
I don't really mind watching more of this videos in the future, I really like how you gave your opinion. Excellent video btw
this design is okayyyy i think its fine for mario games but id rather have rare's dk in dk games
this design does not fit donkey kong country's aesthetic at all
This is Mario Kart 16. We’ve got Tour, sure. But also Arcade GP, Arcade GP2, Arcade GP DX, and Arcade GP VR. And the Universal Studios ride.
It feels like Nintendo has been actively scrubbing all traces of Rare's influence on the Donkey Kong franchise for years now. This is just another nail in the coffin. I'm actually starting to believe those rumours that Miyamoto hated the old Donkey Kong Country games and was jealous that people liked them more than Yoshi's Island.
I hope you’re wrong💔
The movie design was honestly pretty cool; it combined Nintendo's original arcade design with Rare's reqorking of the character, but the MK9 model just seems so flanderized-he looks very unfinished and hopefully he still is. I think now realizing he may be gone, I'm finally appreciating Rare's Donkey Kong design, truly one of gamings best reimaginings.
donkey kong has fallen.
Billions must therefore perish
Refreshing to get an upload like this! I wouldn't mind more smaller videos of you touching on funny breaking news on the big N, & since this scary new era is approaching I feel like it's the best opportunity. There will likely be a lot more things relevant to your channel to talk about.
God I hope he's voiced by Seth Rogan
No hell no lad
more like this please carlito ur style is great. the chill vibe is nice cause everyone else on yt is a hater.
I really hate it. If that thing shows up in Smash 6 I'm gonna be pissed
What being relegated as a side character does to a mf:
Donky Kong... has changed
Its no longer about the rare ware design, the coconut guns, or the huge grinning teeth
its about appealing to the movie goers, and whats gotten the most eyes
Illumination, and affect on the public conscious, is permanent
Donky Kong has changed
i would willingly watch an hour long video of you and magicmush having a pleasant conversation about donkey kong