Trivia / Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

• God Never Said That: In a Japanese interview prior to the game's launch, co-director Yoshiaki Koizumi answered a question about the game's characters, which a Nintendo fan site contracted by IGN translated as, "All the characters outside of Donkey Kong and the banana are completely original. We don't really feel the past look of Donkey Kong was fresh enough for today. We really gave our new development team the chance to really create something unique and stylish.". Needless to say, the negative implications of the statement were not well received by Donkey Kong Country fans, especially as this was after Rare's sale to Microsoft and amidst concerns Nintendo would roll back the studio's contributions to the Donkey Kong franchise. However, fans would revisit the interview in 2019 and find this was a major mistranslation: the original statement was more tame, simply stating that the developers of Jungle Beat focused on a new cast because the game's tone was very different from previous games and they hoped it would reflect the style of the newly-formed EAD Tokyo team.
• The Other Darrin: This is the first game to feature Takashi Nagasako as the voice of Donkey Kong.

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