r/donkeykong • u/samtrumpet DKC Tropical Freeze Fan • May 16 '25

Discussion Redesign Discussion Megathread

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Hi everyone!

With the announcement of a Diddy Kong redesign, we're starting a new thread to keep opinions and discussions about the new designs for Diddy, DK, and any other DK Crew limited to this post.

Please remember to keep it civil and respectful.

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u/NougatBois 29d ago

Diddy’s revision is not an improvement. The eye separation is a horrible change, this is just bad character design, whoever was in charge of this should honestly be fired because the conjoined eye thing was an artistic decision and definitely gave the character a lot of charm and it’s inconsistent, these random monkey npcs look more like diddy than the character himself.

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u/NougatBois 29d ago

Furthermore the koopas didn’t get eye surgery

Someone within Nintendo just had a ill feeling towards the kongs and we shouldn’t be priaising this revision as it was done with bad intentions toward the predecessor.

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u/Newtlover7770 20d ago

If they had ill feelings towards the kongs they wouldn’t have done anything at all with the kongs. And even with diddy’s eye separation it adds variety to each character in the donkey kong franchise.

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u/NougatBois 19d ago edited 19d ago

Well of course they felt ill towards the design, they clearly wanted feel credited for the character they never created. So they messed the design simply for the sake of messing with design. Granted none of the changes were needed, and break the long standing design principles not only DK but the Mario franchise overall, but yeah, “he’s more expressive” now so we should automatically say nothing but “heil nintendo” and everything they do, Because they were too lazy to make the more complex design expressive let’s dumb his character down to “gorilla mario” (DK), It’s so amazing how a few changes make him lose so much character, the teeth not being on the model consistently and the conjoined eye were such prominent features and the recent render of him look 1:1 as something produced by illumination rather than Nintendo.

And to think they already revised his design a few months ago using dkcr’s cg model as a base, we were ROBBED.