The Ghost of RubangB on 04 May 2008
OnyxMeth, I think it's pretty obvious that Nintendo has given up on Donkey Kong, and he gets weird rhythm games, racing games, and those King of Swing games.
However, Nintendo doesn't risk their bigger franchises. They've scrapped Mario games and Star Fox games before, and Miyamoto's notorious for scrapping entire projects near the end and making them start over from scratch with completely new ideas. He did this for Kirby's Dream Land and Twilight Princess, among many others. Originally, Twilight Princess didn't even have Midna in it, and he made them start over with a new character to ride on your back so the player didn't have to stare at a wolf-ass the whole game. This changed the plot and gameplay drastically.
