Motokura: ideas from Donkey Kong Bananza may inform Nintendo's next project

Donkey Kong Bananza is the premiere Nintendo platformer for the time being, having been built by the A-team that delivered Super Mario Odyssey back in 2017.

There is clear connective tissue between the two games, even if they ended up becoming wildly different games, and producer Kenta Motokura said he expects a similar sort of lineage to shape the team's next title.

Motokura said in an interview at the Game Developers Conference, "Probably, we'll see the same sort of phenomenon as we did when going from Super Mario Odyssey to Donkey Kong Bananza, where there were some ideas and development that acted as hints for the future development of Donkey Kong Bananza. I do expect that will be the case where some ideas from Donkey Kong Bananza provide future hints for our next project, as well."

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