Forward of the grand opening of Tremendous Nintendo World: Donkey Kong Nation this week, a few of the authentic Donkey Kong Nation improvement staff spoke to VGC concerning the IP being tailored to a complete theme park.
Throughout the identical chat, artist Steve Mayles – who helped co-found Playtonic Video games (Yooka-Laylee) and create the Kong household, admitted he would “very a lot” prefer to work on one other DKC sport. It is now been “30 years” since he labored on the unique entry. He additionally talked about how glad he was to see the characters he created being “given such love in spite of everything this time”.
Steven Mayles: “It’s fairly surreal… Though we borrowed the DK IP from Nintendo, and far of the park is themed on the most recent DKC video games from Retro, the sturdy theme we created for DKC stays…And sure, I’d very very like to work on one other DKC sport…”
Donkey Kong Nation artist and graphic designer Kevin Bayliss and composer David Sensible additionally talked about how impressed they had been by Nintendo’s new theme park growth and had been excited to see their work featured inside the park.
Kevin Bayliss: ” I solely want I’d identified years in the past that the fashions I had constructed had been going to be blown as much as ridiculous bigger than life sizes, in order that I might have modelled them higher – however in hindsight, it’s in all probability simply as nicely I didn’t know. I’d by no means had received them completed!”
David Sensible: “It’s very cool to listen to my Donkey Kong Nation theme in a special setting. 30 years later and nonetheless going sturdy!”
The newest entries within the Donkey Kong collection had been created by Retro Studios – with Donkey Kong Nation Returns HD due out on the Change subsequent month. Final week, Nintendo additionally added Donkey Kong Land 3 to the Change On-line Recreation Boy library.
The Tremendous Nintendo World: Donkey Kong Nation extension formally opens in Japan tomorrow on eleventh December 2024.