Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 8
Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch 2
4.30 from 256 ratings
508 members have it in their collection · 84 playing now · 69 backlogged · 140 wish listed
How long? Main story 26h · with extras 33h · 100% 58h (from 31 logged playthroughs)
Status Jace Jul 19, 2025
I've been trying to think about what this game has been reminding me of and I finally figured it out.
Released 20 years ago next month... coincidence? You tell me. Alls I know is this is the most Ultimate Destruction I've seen in a game in some time, bar Crackdown.
Status ZoldathGaming Jul 18, 2025
Never thought a game could make punching rocks fun, let alone this fun.
Still fairly early, idk if it'll be able to beat out Expedition 33 for GOTY, but I'm willing to bet this will be the most fun game of this year from my time so far
Status DucksOnQuack Jul 18, 2025
SL900 sure seems to be taking from
Status BMO Jul 18, 2025
Ok, I think I get it now. Between the conversation here about favourite 3D platformers on Grouvee and a conversation on Discord, I think it's the fact that games like Super Mario Odyssey and DK Bananza are all about exploration and collecting things, while something like SM3DW is about structural platforming that distinguishes them for me and establishes why I …
Read moreOk, I think I get it now. Between the conversation here about favourite 3D platformers on Grouvee and a conversation on Discord, I think it's the fact that games like Super Mario Odyssey and DK Bananza are all about exploration and collecting things, while something like SM3DW is about structural platforming that distinguishes them for me and establishes why I like the latter more than the former. Both have platforming, both have collectables, but one type of 3D platformer has platforming in service of exploration and collection, and the other has collection in service of structural platforming challenges. And I really like the latter, and find the former less engaging (still fun, but I lose steam faster). So while I still like games like Odyssey, and I can still make myself some fun platforming challenges, they always end up feeling flat compared to a game like SM3DW that wants me to focus on the forward momentum of every increasing platforming challenges, with collectables a second tier goal there just to add mild motivation beyond just completing levels. Being left to my own devices works better in a game like BotW where I feel like I'm inhabiting a living, breathing landscape. Platformers always feel a bit more like an amusement park, and I guess I like spending all my tine on the rollercoasters (SM3DW, Galaxy) more than I do walking around the park, picking up trinkets and occasionally jumping on a coaster (Odyssey, DK Bananza).
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Status georgeypoorgey Jul 18, 2025
Move over, Baldur's Gate 3. There is a new number one in town!!!
Status BMO Jul 17, 2025
Ok an hour and a bit spent with Bananza. Need to take a break. It’s cute and has hilarious energy as well as a pretty fresh control scheme. But it’s kind of exhausting and I’m not feeling the push to continually see what’s past the next horizon quite the way I think I did with Mario Odyssey (to compare it …
Read moreOk an hour and a bit spent with Bananza. Need to take a break. It’s cute and has hilarious energy as well as a pretty fresh control scheme. But it’s kind of exhausting and I’m not feeling the push to continually see what’s past the next horizon quite the way I think I did with Mario Odyssey (to compare it to something else by this team). It’s certainly not “whoops it’s 4am and I’m still playing this” like I remember BotW was when I first played that. Bananza has the makings of a solid title but I think I haven’t reached the point that I’m fully sold on its ideas yet.
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Status DucksOnQuack Jul 17, 2025
I have 100% completed 5 layers so far. Making me want to Donkey Kong Jungle Beat my meat, Donkey Kong Bananza is the greatest 3D platformer since best game of 2024, Yellow Taxi Goes Vro-
Status BMO Jul 17, 2025
After a thorough tour of the game, here is a preview of my forthcoming DK Bananza review that I'm working on:
Donkey Kong Bananza is a a huge step up from the DKC series for Nintendo, largely thanks to the transfer of the franchise to the much more capable internal Mario team, however it remains a safe and ultimately trope …
After a thorough tour of the game, here is a preview of my forthcoming DK Bananza review that I'm working on:
Donkey Kong Bananza is a a huge step up from the DKC series for Nintendo, largely thanks to the transfer of the franchise to the much more capable internal Mario team, however it remains a safe and ultimately trope laden trek through some of what are clearly Nintendo's C-tier ideas rejected during Mario Odyssey's development cycle.
Status ArthasFordragon Jul 17, 2025
It's frickin AWESOME!!! Worries to rest about this game being ONLY a DK smash as much as possible. There is so much more. Nintendo's second amazing game following Mario Kart World.
The Switch 2 is off to a beautiful start, and I can't wait for Metroid Prime 4!!!!
Oh, and I really hope other people are experiencing this on a …
It's frickin AWESOME!!! Worries to rest about this game being ONLY a DK smash as much as possible. There is so much more. Nintendo's second amazing game following Mario Kart World.
The Switch 2 is off to a beautiful start, and I can't wait for Metroid Prime 4!!!!
Oh, and I really hope other people are experiencing this on a large OLED TV since the handheld is not OLED. The colors POP!
