Jenuall wrote:Miyamoto himself said it best (probably, this could be made up I found it on Wikipedia
)when he uttered the words:
"Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good."
Even though this often does the rounds, no one has ever provided a source for this as far as I'm aware and add in the fact if it was real, it could easily have been lost in translation it's likely bullshit.
Here's a real quote from him in 2010, from an interview with IGN:
The first point that I want to make is that I actually worked very closely with Rare on the original Donkey Kong Country. And apparently recently some rumor got out that I didn't really like that game? I just want to clarify that that's not the case, because I was very involved in that. And even emailing almost daily with Tim Stamper right up until the end.
And let's not forget it was Miyamoto's idea to bring the series back at Retro.