From the second Nintendo revealed Pauline was in Donkey Kong Bananza , a timeline theory began to take shape in our heads. But then we wrapped the game up, and our prequel presumptions weren't as nailed on as we'd expected.

We still don't have an official answer for how Bananza Pauline is related to Odyssey Pauline, and according to producer Kenta Motokura, we ain't going to get one any time soon.

This stems from a recent Famitsu interview (thanks for the heads up, @Stealth40K ), in which some of Bananza's key creatives sat down to chat all things DK. The answers cover many of the same topics we saw in the game's Ask the Developer series, but the question of Pauline's timeline is a newbie — albeit one that was somewhat brushed aside.

When asked about Bananza Pauline's connection

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