Nintendo Sparks Controversy Over Credits in New Remaster!

NINTENDO NEWS – For some reason, the Japanese company doesn’t want to get the credits right for their games, and it’s not the first time we’ve heard this from them.

 

Retro Studios is involved again. The first time we saw this from the big N was in 2023, when Metroid Prime Remastered was released for Nintendo Switch. Retro Studios was simply not mentioned in the remaster’s credits, even though the game was originally developed by this team for the GameCube back in the day! And that’s exactly what’s happened now: the original development team of Retro Studios has been completely left out of the credits of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, so the developers of the game originally created for Wii don’t appear at the end of the Switch-exclusive remaster…

Nintendo Life has reported that only the developers of the remaster are listed in the credits for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. In other words, Retro Studios got guano and Forever Entertainment, the remaster’s developers, got chocolate ice cream. The only sloppy thing they threw in at the end was that the remaster was “based on the work of the original development team”. That’s disappointing, to say the least, because it’s easier to make a remaster than it is to create a new episode of a popular franchise from scratch more than a decade after the last one was released!

When Metroid Prime Remastered was released, Jack Mathews, then Chief Technical Engineer at Retro Studios, called it a tragedy that Nintendo had “cut out” Retro Studios’ then-employees from the credits. According to him, when his son plays Metroid Prime on Nintendo Switch for the first time, the fact that he won’t see his or his colleagues’ names at the end is a punch in the gut. We get it: this is about ignoring the original developers.

So far, Nintendo hasn’t responded to the uproar over the Donkey Kong Country Returns HD credits, and we suspect they won’t. The big N has been criticized for other things in the past: contract workers and translators are often left out of the credits…

Source: Gamesindustry

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