Back in May, DidYouKnowGaming's Liam Robertson published a report claiming that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane developer Vicarious Visions pitched a 3D Donkey Kong game in 2015 to Nintendo. Activision allegedly pulled the plug on the idea, despite a positive reaction from Nintendo, so that it could keep the team working as a support studio for Call of Duty.
This pitch supposedly included concept art and even a prototype demo running on the Nintendo Switch, and five months later, that same concept art has allegedly been found.
The game would have allegedly taken place on an open-world island which Donkey Kong could grind across by placing bananas on his feet.
On the Gaming Leaks and Rumours subreddit, poster 'BirdonWheels' claims to have found a harddrive with the artwork on board. They won't divulge where they got the harddrive, but they allege that they were told to wipe it. Instead, they plugged it in, opened it up, and found what they claim to be Donkey Kong Freedom concept art.
I'm using a lot of speculative language here because there are two major factors to consider — all of this could be an elaborative fake by the poster themselves, or the...