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| Topic | Is Mario a Donkey Kong spinoff or is Donkey Kong a Mario spinoff? |
| Sahuagin 07/15/18 5:59:00 PM #8: | honestly, that's a beautiful ambiguity. Donkey Kong is named after the antagonist (or you play as the antagonist?), is in a sense a Mario game (game where you play as Mario), but is canonically a DK game, not a Mario game. I think Mario must be the spin-off. I almost wanted to say "both or neither", but Mario is definitely descended from the original DK games (Mario Bros. was definitely a "spin-off" of DK), but modern DK is not a spin-off of Mario, it's more like a continuation of the DK games. I think the issue only arises that in DK, really you're playing as the antagonist, or the titular character is the antagonist. It's a game-where-you-play-as-Mario but it's not really a Mario game, it just has a role-reversal. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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