We Almost Got A 3D Donkey Kong Game From The Crash N. Sane Trilogy Devs
thegamer.comA report from DidYouKnowGaming has revealed that Vicarious Visions, the developers behind Skylanders, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, and the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, pitched a 3D Donkey Kong game to Nintendo that ultimately got rejected.
Donkey Kong might be one of the most iconic characters that Nintendo has ever come up with, but he hasn't had the best of luck recently when it comes to games. The last big release for the snazzy monkey (not counting spin-offs and appearances in other games) was 2014's excellent Tropical Freeze, meaning that it's been nearly ten years since he last got his own title.
Rumours of a new Donkey Kong game that was in development have persisted since Tropical Freeze's launch, with claims from DKVine suggesting it was called Donkey Kong Freedom and awarded to Vicarious Visions after the success of DK's appearance in Skylanders. The rumours also claimed that it was an open-world 3D platformer that featured Pauline and eventually got taken over by the Big N itself.
The rumours surrounding Donkey Kong Freedom have been a hot topic for quite some time, with conflicting reports on what it actually was. DidYouKnowGaming's Liam Robertson (who also did stellar reporting on the history behind Crash Team Rumble) has published a report that details what actually happened with the game and confirms that something was once in the works, although it didn't go as far as some think.
In the video, Robertson confirms from his chats with anonymous Vicarious Visions employees that the studio did work on a pitch for a new Donkey Kong game, but that it wasn't something that was awarded to it by Nintendo. Instead, it was something that VV decided to try and get into production itself in late 2015.
The pitch consisted of concept art and a prototype that was planned to run on the next Nintendo console (which would have been the Switch). The demo being worked on was for a new 3D Donkey Kong game (which didn't have a working title but was codenamed
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