Non Existing Video Games You Would Love To Have

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And that's a problem with Donkey Kong, people continue to see him as Mario's antagonist rather than a hero in his own right.

Um, no, pretty sure nobody does this at all.

I'm pretty sure they do. Whenever DK is brought up in popular culture what do you think they reference him as? Also i try looking for DK fanart, geuss what most of it is dedicated to? Country or Arcade?

I think that's more of an issue of which games are more beloved, not how the character is viewed. I'm pretty sure people are aware that Donkey Kong isn't the antagonist he used to be and that he has his own series, if anything he's probably more tied to Mario Kart/Party than arcade, but people are gonna talk about DK arcade in pop culture because DK arcade actually y'know, has a place in pop culture. I don't think the reason people aren't interested in newer DKs has anything to do with being stuck on his arcade image.

At any rate I still would like to know why you find the characters boring. Not "cool" enough? Needs more spiky hair?

When I think of Donkey Kong characters I can only think of two things: be really brown and act silly. And that's it. I don't think the non-talking Nintendo characters things works out too well in their case. The music and atmosphere tend to put me to sleep too...

When I think of Kirby I think pink and cute. What about it? It's like I said before, its superficial reasons. Nowadays things have to be uber cute or super cool. No room for funny animals.

And the music and atmosphere of DKC was some of the best around! Jesus did you even play that games?

Superficial? Character design in media kind of matters a lot, and the character designs in DK aren't usually much to look at. They could at least do a colorful cast like diddy kong racing or something. But even if we ignore that, I'm pretty sure the cast has like no development anyway and you can't call that superficial. I'm not sure, but doesn't the cast shift like crazy too sans DK and diddy? I can't be very excited about a bunch of apes that don't really have any defining character and no staying power. Kirby doesn't consist of solely "look at me being cute and monotone" characters, it has some variations like Meta Knight and it doesn't have an atmosphere that puts me to sleep.

Sticker brush symphony? Sure, that's a pretty nice chill song, I'm not saying the music is BAD or the atmosphere is BAD but they make me sleepy and eventually that turns into boredom. I want to be excited about games.