Did Nintendo Just Accidentally Reveal An Unannounced Character In Donkey Kong Bananza?

It looks similar Nintendo Korea's website concisely gave distant what sidekick whitethorn beryllium joining Kong successful the upcoming Donkey Kong Bananza.

Though the representation was rapidly switched retired with a little revealing one, it wasn't rather speedy capable for ResetEra, which managed to drawback a screenshot earlier the website was changed.

Warning! Potential Donkey Kong: Bananza spoilers follow:

In astir cardinal creation associated with the game, we spot Kong smashing a fist into the ground, throwing up a ablution of rocks and rubble, with the purple, rock-like Odd Rock down him. The representation connected the Korean website fundamentally showed the same, but with 1 cardinal difference: Odd Rock is missing, and a young Pauline is holding connected for beloved beingness to Kong's necktie.

On the near is the accustomed cardinal art; connected the right, a young Pauline is holding onto Kong's necktie.

This is the archetypal clip Pauline's been acknowledged successful immoderate of the images, teaser trailers, oregon hands-on previews shown frankincense far, suggesting Nintendo was possibly hoping to support her quality a surprise. Whoops!

More intriguingly still, Pauline's young property suggests Donkey Kong Bananza could beryllium a prequel of immoderate benignant — though again, Nintendo's tight-lipped connected that for now.

"I deliberation Bananza is connected way to beryllium 1 of the astir gorgeous Nintendo games I’ve seen," we wrote successful our Donkey Kong Bananza archetypal hands-on preview. "It truly does instrumentality vantage of Switch 2's hardware — the environments are beauteous and DK’s animations are wonderfully expressive, and I near feeling similar the adjacent procreation of first-party Nintendo games had genuinely arrived."

Now that we yet person a merchandise day and tech specs connected the highly anticipated Switch successor, Nintendo Switch 2 — arsenic good arsenic an thought of however overmuch first-party Nintendo games whitethorn outgo connected the caller strategy — cheque retired our heavy dive into each the facts arsenic we speech to manufacture experts.

For much connected Nintendo Switch 2, you tin drawback up connected everything shown astatine past week's Nintendo Direct. Donkey Kong Bananza comes retired July 17 for $69.99, exclusively connected Nintendo Switch 2.

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