Nintendo Omits Original Donkey Kong Country Returns Team From The Remaster’s Credits

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, nan just-launched larboard of nan 2010 Wii game, doesn’t spot individual members of nan original Retro Studios betterment squad successful nan credits, arsenic reported by GameSpot. Since nan discovery, however, Nintendo has commented connected nan omission, giving a relationship to Eurogamer.

“We judge successful giving owed successful installments for anyone progressive successful making aliases contributing to a game’s creation, and worthy nan contributions that each portion make during nan betterment process,” nan relationship reads, which is originated only to Nintendo and not to a circumstantial individual. The game’s credits uncover that nan larboard was done by Forever Entertainment.

Crediting is an industry-wide issue, and this isn’t nan first clip Nintendo has recreation nether scrutiny for its crediting decisions. Some developers who worked connected nan original Metroid Prime — different Retro Studios crippled — were unhappy that Metroid Prime Remastered’s credits didn’t spot nan afloat original credits. And outer translators personification expressed frustrations pinch being adjacent retired of credits for immoderate awesome Nintendo games, Game Developer reported past year.

As of late, Nintendo has too been somewhat cagey astir things for illustration sound actors and nan circumstantial studios processing its games.