Donkey Kong Bananza’scharacters and world might resemble those of a famous Disney movie, but the game’s producer has shot down any comparisons, despite many fans online saying that DK’s new adventure was taking inspiration from a film.
While Donkey Kong Bananza starsvideo game’s most famous monkey, he won’t be going on this adventure alone. He’s joined by Pauline from the old Donkey Kong arcade game, who has made numerous appearances in modern Mario titles. For some reason, Pauline is thirteen-years-old in Donkey Kong Bananza, so she rides around on his shoulder, helping him with her singing voice.
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WhenPauline’s role in Donkey Kong Bananzawas revealed, many noticed similarities between her dynamic with DK and that of Vanellope and Ralph inWreck-It-Ralph. This connection was brought up to producer Kenta Motokura in an interviewIGN, where he denied that the film influenced the game.
Donkey Kong Bananza Wasn’t Inspired By Wreck-It-Ralph
Motokura denied that Pauline and Donkey Kong’s dynamic in Donkey Kong Bananza was in any way inspired by Wreck-It-Ralph. This is due to Paulineriding around on DKresembling Vanellope riding around on Ralph.
No, I wouldn’t say that we drew inspiration from any one particular source like you’re describing, but rather because Donkey Kong has such a long history, we had a lot of different Donkey Kong titles to look at and consider places that we could receive inspiration. So when you mentioned in particular the comments on social media about Wreck-It Ralph, was it some similarity of Pauline to one of the characters in that movie?
Donkey Kong Bananza is connected to Wreck-It-Ralph, but in reverse. Ralph and his video game world were heavily inspired by the original Donkey Kong arcade game, so it’s only natural that he would resemble the famous Nintendo character.
Fans are still unclear how theDonkey Kong timeline works, now that Pauline is a child. Any idea that this was intentional to reference Wreck-It-Ralph has officially been debunked, though that won’t stop fans from speculating.
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