{"id":19459,"date":"2025-07-16T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/donkey-kong-bananza-review-delirious-destruction-derby-takes-hammer-to-platforming-conventions\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:37:37","slug":"donkey-kong-bananza-review-delirious-destruction-derby-takes-hammer-to-platforming-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/donkey-kong-bananza-review-delirious-destruction-derby-takes-hammer-to-platforming-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Bananza review – delirious destruction derby takes hammer to platforming conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>Given that its hero can smash through any barrier \u2013 which is delightful fun in itself \u2013 Nintendo\u2019s new 3D platformer has a surreal freeform audacity<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A lot rests on Donkey Kong Bananza. As Nintendo\u2019s first major single-player Switch 2 game, it will set the quality bar for the console in the way Breath of the Wild did when the original Switch was released. But as the latest game from the team responsible for the exceptional 3D Mario series, it is already begrudged by some Nintendo fans as a distraction: what could possibly be so exciting about a tie-wearing gorilla to justify making Bananza ahead of another Super Mario Odyssey?<\/p>\n

Donkey Kong demolishes those concerns. He demolishes a lot in Bananza. It may resemble a Mario 64-style 3D platformer on the surface, with its themed worlds festooned with giant bananas to sniff out and collect, but DK\u2019s fists show total disregard for the playground as built. All terrain is destructible. Mash the buttons and his powerful arms thump tunnels through hills, pound pristine lawns into muddy craters and tear up wodges of stone to swing as sledgehammers for even speedier landscaping. He is less a platforming mascot than a potassium-powered level editor.<\/p>\n

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\nNintendo Switch 2; NintendoGiven that its hero can smash through any barrier \u2013 which is delightful fun in itself \u2013 Nintendo\u2019s new 3D platformer has a surreal freeform audacity<\/p>\n

A lot rests on Donkey Kong Bananza. As Nintendo\u2019s first major single-player Switch 2 game, it will set the quality bar for the console in the way Breath of the Wild did when the original Switch was released. But as the latest game from the team responsible for the exceptional 3D Mario series, it is already begrudged by some Nintendo fans as a distraction: what could possibly be so exciting about a tie-wearing gorilla to justify making Bananza ahead of another Super Mario Odyssey?
\nDonkey Kong demolishes those concerns. He demolishes a lot in Bananza. It may resemble a Mario 64-style 3D platformer on the surface, with its themed worlds festooned with giant bananas to sniff out and collect, but DK\u2019s fists show total disregard for the playground as built. All terrain is destructible. Mash the buttons and his powerful arms thump tunnels through hills, pound pristine lawns into muddy craters and tear up wodges of stone to swing as sledgehammers for even speedier landscaping. He is less a platforming mascot than a potassium-powered level editor. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo Switch 2; NintendoGiven that its hero can smash through any barrier \u2013 which is delightful fun in itself \u2013 Nintendo\u2019s new 3D platformer has a surreal freeform audacity A lot rests on Donkey Kong Bananza. As Nintendo\u2019s first major single-player Switch 2 game, it will set the quality bar for the console in the …<\/p>\n

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