1. Who cares about The Game Awards, or even game awards in general?
2. Part of the reason why Astro Bot won GOTY is because it was so unexpectedly good, to a genuinely shocking degree. It's the only game I can think of in recent memory that had the polish, charm, and creativity of a first-party Nintendo game.
DK Bananza might not win awards, and part of that may be because we expect this kind of thing from Nintendo. But for a small studio like Team ASOBI to capture that absolute raw Nintendo magic, that was something truly special and worth celebrating.
In any case, I don't want to continue side-tracking the conversation.
DKB looks absolutely INCREDIBLE! It's obviously made by the Odyssey team, which is ridiculously exciting to me. I think many of you might know that platformers are my favorite games, specifically Mario games. So to have that kind of attention and care given to what is essentially a revival of an IP is just fuckin awesome.
Man, I can't wait.