Donkey Kong Bananza

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It's the new Donkey Kong game for the Nintendo Switch 2!


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Thought this a new Wario game when it showed up! This looks awesome, and that new redesign for DK has really grown on me.

Nice to see the game embracing the Rareware days of collect-a-thons it looks like!
 
This new Donkey Kong design is quite good, actually! He's very expressive here, I kind of wonder if this is the current DK or a different iteration of Donkey Kong. I don't mind either way.

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Super hype and it saved the Direct for me. Insta-buy. But are they phasing out the Kong family or something? Mario Kart didn't even have any of them besides DK.
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I feel that at least Diddy Kong would still be around (not sure about this game, we do not know much about it yet), at least because one of the new art has Donkey Kong (w/ updated design) interacting with him.
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If it them phasing out the other Kongs were true... it would be interesting to see how we would receive yet another Donkey Kong where he's the only returning character (one previous game like this was Donkey Kong Jungle Beat).

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I hope we're gonna have a good new character.
 
winstein said:
I feel that at least Diddy Kong would still be around (not sure about this game, we do not know much about it yet), at least because one of the new art has Donkey Kong (w/ updated design) interacting with him.
Donkey_Diddy_Clap_New.png


If it them phasing out the other Kongs were true... it would be interesting to see how we would receive yet another Donkey Kong where he's the only returning character (one previous game like this was Donkey Kong Jungle Beat).

Thank you for reading.
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There was a female Expresso at least 😆
 
I'm sure it'll play excellent but the style doesn't feel Donkey Kong. The faces, rounder designs, less naturalistic backgrounds, brighter palette, etc.
 
I got a good feeling about this game. It combines multiple previous Mario and Donkey Kong games (DKC2, DKJB, SMO) as well as redesigning Donkey Kong to resemble a hybrid between Donkey "Cranky" Kong Sr. from the original 1981 arcade and his first 90s redesign when Rare first started making Donkey Kong games, while also adding a new couple of cartoony elements such as a pair of overalls resembling those Lanky Kong wore in DK64. Overall, this looks like it could be an interesting game to kick off the advent of the Switch 2.
 
I have been hankering for a 3D Mario for a while, so seeing this during the direct got me down, but after another look.. okay, fine. It's peak. Surprisingly a fan of the new DK model, I really like how he looks in the game. Wonder how the whole breaking things gimmick's gonna turn out because that looks funny lol
 
If not Diddy Kong, then who's P2 for co-op? I mean, this is assuming there is co-op, but that tends to be a given for Nintendo platformers. Some other Nintendo Direct I suppose?

My big concern is how the camera's going to look when we're underground and digging forward. There seems to be stuff in there to collect so just showing DK's shadow might not offer enough clarity.

I like the overalls and the shapeshifting crystal npcs. Shapeshifting characters tend to be the most fun designs because secretly they're like 10 designs and just seeing what comes next is fun.
 
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it stole a new 3d mario from me

I can never play DK games all the way through (I lose interest). I might try this one though. I guess. I'm happy for all the DK fans though!
 
It really is just DK Odyssey. The bananas are replacing moons, though.
 
Monkey Odyssey; you can destroy things too.

I think it's too early to say Diddy won't show up, but at the same time I definitely don't think he'll be playable. The whole game is about destroying everything and taking max advantage of DK's strength, that's not something Diddy can really do lol.

Also keep in mind this game's clearly being made by the 3D Mario team, and their mentality is that characters are functions more than anything else; even Luigi is low priority if they can't find a role for him in a game.
 
The Treehouse stream showed them go through a load zone, then return to the main map with the destruction done in the main map still being saved. This is the kind of thing that sells me on extra processing power.

I could see Diddy in co-op being unable to break things but using the Barrel Jet as a vacuum to make collecting items more efficient. There were a lot of baubles in the Treehouse stream. Also I didn't like the solution to the underground camera issue, though I guess a few cases of the game incorrectly assuming the player is about to enter a tunnel and fading the wider environment out where it shouldn't isn't too bad.
 
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