They really did not need to make DK do an ahegao face in the thumbnail and yet, here we are
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A couple interesting bits:
- Koizumi is the one who suggested this team do a DK game
- They decline to specify information about DK's age, why Pauline is 13
- DKB started out on Switch 1
- Part of the inspiration for the gameplay was one dev just doing technical experiments with voxels
DK's age, why Pauline is 13
Why are people so obsessed with connecting this game to some weird timeline
It's never made sense.

Why is Mario still young when Cranky Kong, the original Donkey Kong, is old?
It's make-believe—it doesn't need to make sense.
WAIT CRANKY IS DONKEY?
My whole world has just been shattered
Yup! Notice the text in top left of the DKC manual:

Makes the DKC opening shot make more sense, doesn't it?

Rare games aren’t Nintendo Cannon? (Idk just finding something new to argue about on the internet)
Nintendo isn't consistent in their own games, so it doesn't matter either way. Mario and Luigi race with baby versions of themselves!
Ah so the better theory then is eventually at some point time travel is invented in the Mario universe and is used in wildly inappropriate manners.
“Bet I can beat infant you in a race” “You’re on!”
I guess Partners in Time would be when the time travel was discovered! Conveniently explains child Pauline as well, I suppose. Well, the "how," but not the "why."
Yeah we are never going to know why. Also why no shoes. Have they never been on the internet.
It's simple market analysis.
Elden Ring has women with bare feet and is very successful.
Expedition 33 has woman with bare feet and is very successful.
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It's interesting that both this and Mario Kart: World originally started as Switch 1 games, and only later they decided to move to Switch 2.
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