03-15-2016, 03:20 PM
What you are describing is what we in the Donkey Kong community call the "Buyout Era". Us DK fans talked like crazy about those strange 10 years of experimental games. You should have seen us and the agony we went through.
*Ahem* You see right after Rare (who were in charge of all the DK games) were bought out by Microsoft, Nintendo had no real development team to handle DK.
So what did they do with it? All sorts of crazy things. Donkey Konga by Namco, King of Swing by Paon, and Jungle Beat by the brand new Tokyo team. Without Rare, they didn't seem to know what to do with the franchise.
None of those games were really working. They knew they had to get back to its roots. That's why we got Returns.
*Ahem* You see right after Rare (who were in charge of all the DK games) were bought out by Microsoft, Nintendo had no real development team to handle DK.
So what did they do with it? All sorts of crazy things. Donkey Konga by Namco, King of Swing by Paon, and Jungle Beat by the brand new Tokyo team. Without Rare, they didn't seem to know what to do with the franchise.
None of those games were really working. They knew they had to get back to its roots. That's why we got Returns.