Donkey Kong Banana Review – one of the best Nintendo games in history

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Donkey Kong Banana This is the latest entry from the 3D Donkey Kong series and the first in almost two decades. While he marks all the right fields and leaves you a lot of things to find, collect and do, it’s demanding not to see his minor shortcomings in the massive masterpiece of sandbox.

Banana It is a great presentation of what is capable of various damaged environments and lovely graphics. But only when you start to break the layers and start playing the game within its borders, you finally realize in what incredible experience you are going to immerse.

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He is here (and time)

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You play as Donkey Kong, who mostly meant his own business, gathering and eating bananas until he was mowed a storm that forces him to underground. Through exploration you will come across a group known as Voidco, a gang of vile monkeys who want to steal bananas to reach the planet’s core. And as a banana lover, you won’t let it.

While growing, however, a youthful singer named Pauline, who wants to go home, so you try to assist her, going further to the planet’s core, where it is said that everyone who reaches him will have their greatest wish.

Nintendo came out of this story, and the beginner relationship between DK and Pauline takes place naturally. There are also unique interactions between the duo. When you stop resting and sleeping to regain your health, Pauline will talk about something that happened recently and share her worries and hope that as a player, stimulating the pursuit of safety and returning home.

Donkey Kong hits the enemy of snow in Baananza
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A lot of time has passed since DK was the last in the huge adventure in the open world, and the Nintendo band did not disappoint this time. A huge game on a scale and scope, filled to the brim with various destructive worlds, all hiding hundreds of secrets, seems that the band expressed the idea of previous games in the open world Super Mario Odyssey And he expanded it.

And although the world is not the only thing that seems live and expressive. The reconstruction of DK allows the monkey to be so expressive and crazy in a way that we have never seen before. He creates witty film cutscenes and interactions with various characters in the game, combined with extensive movable movement for exploration and fighting, which give a sense of freedom and emotion that other platform games and characters can only imitate.

You can destroy almost everything around you and although you can go through the game in a linear sense, you are awarded for descending from a side path and discovering (or creating) your own way to various purposes. Regardless of whether it is climbing, destruction and even using the area to create up-to-date platforms, there are many gameplay options.

Donk Bananza's ability
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To assist DK discover these extensive worlds, you have access to up-to-date forms known as banana, which turn DK into other animals, such as a zebra, which allows you to run quickly and delicate paths or ostrich, which allows you to glide to achieve unattainable obstacles. You can turn into these forms at any time, but only for a minute before you have to boost the number of meters, collecting gold.

You exploit and move between all up-to-date forms not only to gain access to up-to-date areas, but also return to the previous levels that you visited to exploit up-to-date forms to unlock to reach collector’s items and areas that you could not reach before you have.

Banana Slammer

Pauline Singing
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Bananada gems (bananas) are the main collector’s items and are a key part of your task. Collecting them strengthens up-to-date skills and improvements (such as increased health, up-to-date skills for various forms, etc.). It is far from Super Mario OdysseyWhere the collection of moons was fun, but it served miniature purposes except unlocking the next level. Here you are awarded for slowing down and collecting things, not accelerating the game.

And trust us, it is vital to do this. The first few hours seem quite straightforward and effortless, and you can easily take off the first handful of bosses. But the difficulty increases rapidly, the further. We return to increasing DK power, getting more health and more unique skills that make it easier to pass on the line. Under no circumstances is it effortless to find these bananas, and some places sometimes seem completely accidental. We found randomly through the area when we tried to extend our search.

Although there are missions that can be completed to unlock bananas, many of them just got stuck in the rocks or in places outside the available, which was one of our greatest animals. WITH OdysseyYou have been awarded with moons for performing tasks or tasks that seemed unique, while here it seems that you are constantly smashing things in the hope of finding a banana or one of other collector’s items in the game.

Although there are mini challenges and repetitive tasks, such as quizzes, many collector items have left much to be desired. Fortunately, you can buy maps (or find them in chests): they point to the direction of these collector items, which makes finding them a little more bearable.

Dydy Dydy Dixie DK Banza
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It’s effortless to get lost if you start hitting the depths of the earth and you can easily confuse yourself. I would like to have more options to have noticeable high heels on the map to see where I am going underground, but instead you are forced to open the map countless times to make sure you are going in the right direction.

At this point, DK Sonar’s ability is at stake because he emphasizes the nearby hidden objects for a split second. This is a key tool that we have used much more than we want to admit. It was one ability that we paid as much as possible, because it was useful to have an additional distance during exploration. Hidden crates contain maps that will lead you to collecting, which you missed, but they are quite infrequent finds most of the time.

There are ways to boost specific statistics by various clothing items that can be unlocked from stores in the game. While most of them only apply to the show, some give you strengthening, for example, increasing the likelihood of finding the above -mentioned treasury boxes, increasing certain improvements or the time in which you can perform action or skill.

Switch 2 bananaaaaaaaaaa

DK in the railway system
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Donkey Kong Banaza He has everything I wanted from it. History advised, the wealth of various worlds, a lot to discover, witty and unique bosses – a good time banana.

I must admit that sometimes it can be overwhelming, especially at the beginning, and it took me a few hours. But when I got a hug of mechanics and slowly went down towards the planet’s core to unlock up-to-date things, there was no reversal.

Nintendo hit him in the park with this and I think that every Switch 2 owner should receive this game. You won’t regret it, I assure you. Now, if I’m sorry, I have one more banana to boost the strength and hours of gameplay.

Bananasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!


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