It’s Donkey Kong Bananza time!

Have played a little bit, it’s really fun being a strong gorilla and destroying everything in the path!

I am only in the first world yet, well, the first proper world after the starting / tutorial one, so can’t say how the game progresses, but for now it’s really fun. Some things make it feel like a spin-off of Odyssey, like some UI elements and in some cases the bananas look very similar to Super Mario Odyssey moons. These things are minimal though, the gameplay itself is pretty different.

The biggest issue now is to keep Switch 2 away from the kids so that I can get the time to play it.

In the week leading to it, I had some itch for Donkey Kong, I ended up playing Donkey Kong Country 3 on the NES app. I generally play these games with certain rules about rewind and save states, but I knew I am never going to finish it soon if I do that, so this time I cheated fully, with excessive use of rewind, and finished the game in a few days.

Didn’t specifically rushed through the game, even tried to find any hidden items I could, and do as much of bonus stages as I could find, but it wasn’t a high priority.

Also, finished The Hong Kong Massacre, just had a few levels remaining, finished them in couple of sittings. After that when I tried to look up if devs have made any other game, I realised that Switch version looks pretty bad compared to other versions. Image quality is pretty low. Not that bad if you haven’t seen other versions, but still not great.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

  • picandocodigo@lemmy.worldM
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been playing Gaucho and the Grassland on Steam for a review. Really nice game inspired by Zelda but with it’s own Latin American fantasy twist.

    Today I got Donkey Kong Bananza delivered, so it’s on like Donkey Kong for the rest of the weekend. Like you, I only played a little bit. You can definitely find the “Mario Odyssey” dna in it, but it’s different enough. I had so much fun just destroying stuff, I didn’t advance the story at all. So far seems pretty fun!

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      11 days ago

      Haha, yeah, I spend tons of time in the first world, when it wasn’t even needed, there isn’t actually anything useful hidden in that 😀

      Edit: Gaucho and the Grassland looks nice. Is it coming to consoles? Can give it a look if it does.