This video should answer your question... if it's too long, let's just say Nintendo might be keen to finally have their own vision of Donkey Kong realized, rather than continuing to use Rare's vision.
I set my profile icon to Donkey Kong before I took the update and after the update it was the new icon. Probably could have guessed that might happen, but just to confirm it - seems no way to have at least the built-in DK icon be the old design, will need to rely on the NSO icons for that.
can confirm! took a screenshot of both menus before updating, and all have much newer models with much brighter lighting and shadows (plus luigi's hapoy now!!) DK's more cartoonish 2D icon was also slightly changed, dunno about the others tho
Weird, in old DK's render and 2D portrait the mouth and ear touch but are divided by a line/shape, and in the new render they're completely separate and in the 2D portrait they're fused
ehhh... I like the new design, it bore good fruit so far, but... why not make this one an option alongside the old one?
There's already two Mario & Luigi's for 2D and 3D assets/renders
Don't worry you can TOTALLY get the old DK render back, just make sure you have redeemed that icon element while the DKCRHD icon elements were available(or save up Platinum Points for when they come back) and use it that way under the Switch Online button on the HOME menu-
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https://youtu.be/xc_YjHqqTm0?si=a6AmMiopUI9pWFp6
dk is just the most obvious one
There's already two Mario & Luigi's for 2D and 3D assets/renders
...for now.