I'm going to one up him and say this game does not appeal to me, visually, at all. The DKC aesthetic has been flawed since its inception, and while the ugly pre-rendered sprites are now gone, the move to 3D sadly has not helped the stiff, unnatural animation and lackluster enemy design.

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I was expecting some cool bits of information..... not an awesome groundbreaking trailer!!!

And also... I hate you Nintendo, you're trying to steal my money by having too many platformers this year, I mean, Kirby, Epic Mickey, and now this.... it's tied with epic mickey as my most hyped platforemer

Heretics! Heretics on all sides! I am being swarmed!

Burn them with fire!

As an aside, I was going to refer to Miyamoto, but it turns out he said the oposite of what I wanted: "Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good."

What the---?

For the record, I am still likely to get the game. I was never sold on DKC when I was younger so I will wait and see how it plays before making up my mind.

You know, Miyamoto said in an Iwata Asks that that quote was actually falsely attributed to him, and that he enjoyed Donkey Kong Country.

I myself have only played DKC seriously in the past year or so. It's.... very different from Super Mario Bros. in a lot of ways.

Did he? I knew he later retracted his statement and admitted to working closely with the developers during the design of the game, much like he is now, and my use of that quote was largely facetious.

Do you remember during which Iwata Asks this was said?

I'll look for it. I have the sinking feeling it was in the E3 version, so it will take a while.

Found it. Turned out it wasn't an Iwata Asks at all.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/110/1100039p3.html

The important part:

Mystery solved!