Donkey Kong Country Returns

[Koopaul]

No I'm not talking about the games here. Just the characters. People even look back at the old Rare games and they don't seem to care much for the characters.

All people seem to care about is the return of Donkey Kong Country and not so much the cast itself. In other words:

The biggest problem with the Donkey Kong franchise and its fandom is that it does not have a fandom - not one on the level of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, even Starfox. These people are not fans of Donkey Kong Country the series - they are fans of Donkey Kong Country the game. That is why Jungle Beat was met with such fanfare: so what if there's no characters from the other games? We don't even remember those characters anyway! It's a sidescroller! It's just like DKC! Woooo! Thanks, Nintendo! Who needs Rare?

http://www.dkvine.com/features/root_of.html

Yeah sadly this is the community I'm discussing with.