{"id":1591,"date":"2025-08-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:53:13","slug":"donkey-kong-bananzas-dig-button-placement-is-all-thanks-to-miyamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/donkey-kong-bananzas-dig-button-placement-is-all-thanks-to-miyamoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Bananza&#039;s Dig Button Placement Is All Thanks To Miyamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Digging deep.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, how many of you automatically went to press the &#8216;B button to jump the first time you picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a>? It&#8217;s been a staple in <strong>Mario<\/strong> games for a long time, so it&#8217;s pretty natural to assume things would be similar here. Except it isn&#8217;t, but the change actually makes a lot of sense here. And we have one Shigeru Miyamoto to thank for that.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndw.jp\/dkbananza-interview-250820\/\">Nintendo Dream<\/a> (translated by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ninpatentswatch.bsky.social\/post\/3lwthqxjaqk2c\">Nintendo Patents Watch on Blusesky<\/a>), the game&#8217;s director, Kazuya Takahashi, revealed that Miyamoto was the one who suggested that &#8216;B&#8217; should be Dig, not Jump.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/donkey-kong-bananzas-dig-button-placement-is-all-thanks-to-miyamoto\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging deep. Okay, how many of you automatically went to press the &#8216;B button to jump the first time you picked up Donkey Kong Bananza? It&#8217;s been a staple in Mario games for a long time, so it&#8217;s pretty natural to assume things would be similar here. Except it isn&#8217;t, but the change actually makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}