Nintendo has revealed extra of the employees behind the upcoming Donkey Kong Bananza, together with the information that Tremendous Mario Odyssey’s director is serving as a producer on the sport.
Kenta Motokura, who was the director of Tremendous Mario Odyssey has been revealed as one of many sport’s producers. Donkey Kong Bananza is being directed by Kazuya Takahashi. Takahashi joined Nintendo in 2020, having beforehand labored on different open world titles.
He instructed IGN in a brand new interview that his earlier work offers him some “fascinating,” expertise that he says carries on to Bananza.
Whereas the precise variety of builders that labored on each Tremendous Mario Odyssey and the upcoming sport wasn’t revealed, Takahasi mentioned that on account of “quite a bit,” of employees crossover between the video games, each Odyssey and Bananza share narrative similarities.
“Definitely as a result of a variety of crew members additionally labored on Tremendous Mario Odyssey, there are some similarities by way of how they consider the setting of the characters for each video games, but it surely’s one thing we actually can’t clarify all of for now as a result of we have to depart one thing for folks to contemplate as they’re enjoying the sport.”
Takahasi additionally touched on why Pauline is 13-years-old within the upcoming sport, having beforehand appeared as an grownup in Tremendous Mario Odyssey.
“Now as to why 13-year-old specifically was the selection, I feel that’s one thing that we would like gamers to, in the midst of having fun with the sport, begin to puzzle out, assume for themselves.”
Donkey Kong Bananza will probably be launched on Nintendo Change 2 on July 17. Just lately, Nintendo showcased new particulars and information on the Nintendo Change 2 sport, together with the reveal of long-time sequence character Pauline, who will be a part of DK on his journey.
VGC revealed a hands-on preview with Donkey Kong Bananza final week. We wrote: “Like Mario’s latest 3D outings, Donkey Kong Bananza will seemingly be larger than the sum of its components – a cavalcade of concepts and mechanics which may not look like a lot on their very own, however collectively type a constantly entertaining journey.”
