Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo Switch)

Mario vs. Donkey Kong is a Nintendo Switch game. It is a remake of the Game Boy Advance game Mario vs. Donkey Kong, and it was released on February 16, 2024. The game was first announced on the Nintendo Direct of September 14, 2023.
Although Charles Martinet retired from voicing Mario since Super Mario Bros. Wonder, archival voice clips of his voice work as Mario appear to be repurposed here, even some voice clips returning from the original game in an uncompressed format. Contrarily, Donkey Kong instead uses voice clips by his current voice actor, Takashi Nagasako, instead of reusing Grant Kirkhope's voice clips from Donkey Kong 64 like in the original Mario vs. Donkey Kong.
== Differences ==
Unlike the original version's pre-rendered visuals, the remake adopts a standard modern artstyle, taking many cues from Super Mario 3D World and its appearance as a theme in Super Mario Maker 2 in particular. The Mario vs. Donkey Kong remake introduces a redesigned logo for the .
* The cutscenes are now fully animated, instead of swapping between different static frames.
* The game supports multiplayer, with Toad being the second playable character.
* The game uses three-dimensional models over pre-rendered sprites.
* Tane Pakkun are redesigned into mechanical Fire Piranha Plants.
* The toy Ninjis are now black with red buttons, giving them a closer resemblance to Ninjis themselves.
* Brickmen receive a pair of movable bricks over their eyes acting as expressive eyebrows.
* Casual Mode has been added, with bubbles acting as additional hit points and an infinite time limit.
* A Time Attack mode has been added.
* The locations of the red and yellow platforms in Level 1-DK have been swapped.
* The bonus Present minigames have been replaced with various new bonus stages (though the music is retained and rearranged. In these stages, the player must catch a floating key that opens a treasure box before the time runs out, earning five 1-Ups in the process.
* Scoring has been removed.
* Falls are no longer lethal, and only formerly lethal falls now stun Mario and Toad.
* The right stick can be used to control the camera in large-scaled levels.
* Retrying a level or exiting a level that has not been cleared yet no longer costs the player a life.
* Clearing the first level in a world unlocks every remaining level in it except for the Mini-Mario levels and Donkey Kong boss fights.
* The conveyor belts and Donkey Kong are placed differently in Level 6-DK and Level 6-DK+.
* Additional blue platforms were added to Level 1-DK+.
* There are extra platforms added to Level 3-DK+.
* Hammers reappear after using them.
* Mario and Toad can now jump on Birds.
== Trivia ==
* This marks the first Mario vs. Donkey Kong game on the Nintendo Switch and the eighth overall after Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars
* Charles Martinet’s previous voice recordings of his work as Mario are reused for Mario’s voice clips despite Kevin Afghani being his current actor, Grant Kirkhope’s voice clips as Donkey Kong weren’t reused however. in addition, this marks the first time prior to Super Mario Bros. Wonder in 2024 where Charles Martinet reprises his role as Mario after his retirement.
Category:Mario vs. Donkey Kong series
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