Nintendo Donkey Kong is back in 3D after more than 20 years! And only the Switch 2 could make it possible Producer Kenta Motokura explains why this was the perfect time for the gorilla’s new ...

Donkey Kong Bananza has had a lengthy development time, with the director claiming work started on the game right after Super Mario Odyssey.

In a recent interview, developers Kenta Motokura and director Kazuya Takahashi from Nintendo confirmed that Donkey Kong Bananza was originally intended for the Switch 1. In a new Ask the Developer ...

The creation of Donkey Kong Bananza started with destruction. “What we were really going for was this gameplay experience that comes from destruction,” Bananza director Kazuya Takahashi says in an ...

In an interview with IGN, Donkey Kong Bananza producer Kenta Motokura, who also served as director on Super Mario Odyssey, shared Bananza’s origin story. As he explained, it was Nintendo ...

In a new edition of Nintendo's "Ask the Director" interview series, Donkey Kong Bananza producer (and Super Mario Odyssey director) Kenta Motokura and design manager Daisuke Watanabe spoke about ...

Expanding on comments previously made to IGN about Bananza's origins, producer Kenta Motokura has said that the game's development began when Nintendo legend Yoshiaki Koizumi asked his 3D Mario ...

Bananza rockets past Mario Kart World as the new Switch 2's must-have game — even as it struggles with glaring technical ...

Nintendo tested arms on a Goomba before settling on Donkey Kong Bananza Nintendo eventually decided that smashing environments was a perfect fit for Donkey Kong.

Donkey Kong Bananza started development after Super Mario Odyssey was finished, Nintendo has said, and work first began on the original Switch console.

(Laughs)” Naoto Kubo then explained Kenta Motokura was the person who came up with the idea of Pauline being behind DK’s transformations in Donkey Kong Bananza.

Those actions felt surprisingly satisfying," with Motokura chiming in, "The results of our tests showed that destruction-based gameplay could work, and it was a good match for Donkey Kong’s ...