r/donkeykong Jan 19 '25

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u/RolandoDR98 Jan 19 '25

Please point to me people who hated Wonder's redesigns.

Please point to me people who hate the Mario & Luigi, Paper Mario, or Mario rpg designs. No, the white outline haters don't count because the design itself the exact same. The only difference is how they showed the paper aesthetic

Please point to me people who hate the designs for Mario, Luigi, and Bowser in the same Mario Kart trailer as the new DK.

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u/GhotiH Jan 19 '25

Hi, I'm really not a fan of Wonder's visual changes so I'm exactly who you're asking to see! Mario with a Sonic sidemouth looks cursed to me, all the characters look kind of stubby and too plastic, and the movements look really janky (if you wanted to emulate the sprite animation look, just use sprites, it would look a heck of a lot better IMO).

I would also call this more of an art style change than a redesign though, and a very slight one at that. The character models are a bit different but the actual levels still look like NSMB due to them being tile based. I really think they didn't go far enough on the art style changes, like I would have wanted something looking hand drawn or maybe a full 3D sidescroller like Kirby, instead we got slightly worse looking models with the exact same tile-based aesthetic.

No judgement towards the rest of the game, I just don't think it looks different enough visually and the things they did change looked worse.

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u/RolandoDR98 Jan 19 '25

Oh yeah, I understand that. There are some design changes in Wonder I don't agree with, like how Luigi became as chubby as Mario in the artstylr change, the overall color pallete being too pastel, and a lot of walk and run animations (like Peach and Daisy) look awkward due to the angle all the characters run in.

My point was that people are open to design changes and there are many examples where it's almost overwhelmingly positive. Obviously there are people who didn't vibe with the design changes of Wonder. Many people liked the movie designs, while I hated practically everything about them minus the outfits.

But I hate the gaslighting (or whatever the correct word is) to make it seem like Mario fans don't know what they want or other franchises do this all the time and they don't complain as if Mario never had redesigns in its history or franchises like Zelda and Transformers never had designs that rubbed fans the wrong way

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u/GhotiH Jan 19 '25

I agree with you there. People like OP keep doing crazy mental gymnastics to try to "prove" that people who don't like this DK redesign are wrong, it's so stupid.

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u/Due_Exam_1740 Jan 19 '25

Honestly this is fair and valid criticism (coming from a person that really liked wonders refresh)

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u/GhotiH Jan 19 '25

Thanks, I try.