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Nintendo says it believes in "giving proper credit" as it gets called out for failing to give proper credit to the original devs behind Donkey Kong Country Returns

Credit where it's due, Nintendo

Nintendo left the original developer out of the credits for the new HD Switch port of 2010 Wii platformer Donkey Kong Country Returns, but it swears the snub doesn't reflect who it really is. Despite this purported ethos, the credits for Donkey Kong Country Returns' Switch port vaguely acknowledge "the work of the original development staff" rather than the studio itself, Retro Studios, which was also wrongfully left out of the end credits for 2023's Metroid Prime Remastered. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon.

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