The artist was previously a part of in the PlayStation's Uncharted series and, due to some reason, that led fans to make the connection. But, Kozlowsky and D2R Ladder Items Retro Studios were actually working on Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze which was released in late 2015. When the game was officially unveiled at the time, many Zelda fans trashed it because they were expecting something different. In a brand new interview with The Kiwi Talkz podcast, Kozlowsky exposed the source of the rumor that caused frustration for the developers.

"Sometimes it's frustrating since it leads to false expectations. This was the case when we announced Tropical Freeze. It was saying 'they're working hard on some kind of Zelda game It's something like a Zelda game,' but like nope. Then we revealed Tropical Freeze and it looks amazing and gorgeous and then people are like 'oh but it's another Donkey Kong.'

Then you see that people are going on about it on Neogaf or some other site and you're all like 'oh it's because everyone believed that we were doing a Zelda game, and then it's like we don't do that. we do.' So it's both in that we sometimes laugh at this, but it's also aggravating when it lasts a way too long," said Kozlowsky.

Kozlowsky's statements are an interesting window into how rumors spread, and how that can adversely affect a game's popularity. While Tropical Freeze might not have been the game fans hoped to see released but it did receive a lot of critical appreciation upon its release. It's not easy to invest a lot of effort into something, only for the internet to react with disappointment based on false rumors. It's difficult to predict how fans will react to a game's announcement, but hopefully that situation gave some fans a better understanding of staying on the right side of expectations!

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