
Nintendo revealed the Super Mario Odyssey team made Donkey Kong Bananza
Nintendo has a good track record of retaining and training up talent. Developers that worked on early entries of the Kirby, Mario, and Zelda franchises have stuck around to work on or lead the development of subsequent titles. The result has been relative consistency of Nintendo first-party titles which has allowed the company to weather the ravages of the last two years a bit better than its competitors. Super Mario Odyssey was one of the top five best selling games of the original Switch so Bananza is in more than capable hands.
According to The Verge's Cameron Faulkner, Donkey Kong Bananaza is its own game with a unique identity. But Odyssey's development team has added a bit of Mario's 3D platforming DNA to Donkey Kong's first 3D platformer since Donkey Kong 64. And while the mystery of Bananza's developer has been solved, a new one has taken its place: will there also be a 3D Mario game coming soon to the Switch 2 or is it just Bananza for now?
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