In an interview with IGN, Donkey Kong Bananza director Kazuya Takahashi and producer Kenta Motokura ( Super Mario Odyssey ’s director) were asked why Pauline is riding on DK’s back in the game. Their answer was a perfect window into how game development often seems to work at Nintendo,

In the most predictable possible progression of events, the programmer performed surgery on a grape by attaching two fists to a Goomba. In a short clip shared by Nintendo, you can see the brown tyke walk around a rocky environment that crumbles under its mighty fists.

Hang onto your bananas because DK is coming back to the big screen, as it looks like there is a Donkey Kong movie on the way. That’s right, it seems like the crazed monkey is finally getting his own movie as some eagle-eyed Nintendo fans on Resetera have found that Universal Pictures has registered a movie with US Copyright titled 'Untitled Donkey Kong Project;