Mario can be the most critical platformer in Nintendo gameography, but depending on your generation (especially mine), Donkey Kong represents very, very close. Maybe even the first, depending on my mood that day. Rare Donkey Kong Country Games is a formative video game for me, and Retro and Tropical Freeze return are one of the best 2D platformers that have ever been created. Donkey Kong, however, was often a franchise grown for talented developers from outside Nintendo. The internal team of Nintendo, which put full weight to the iconic ankle monkey, was a surprise, but absolutely welcome after she met her Banana’s application.
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Donkey Kong Banana is undeniably a platformer, but his basic mechanic of destruction makes him seem to be something else, set as part of which Nintendo popularized and almost improved. The plot follows Donkey Kong and his accidental reception of youthful Pauline (the first Damsel-in-Distress from the original Donkey Kong arcade game from 1981), when they go deeper underground to the core of the wishes to get home.
Perhaps I was embarrassing by this story – the element of her video games Nintendo never prioritized priority. I took care of Pauline as quick as Donkey Kong and admired, watching how her confidence grow during the game. I was looking forward to her conversations every time I rested at the escape and enjoyed getting to know about her with diminutive fragments that she offered about herself. Sometimes youthful helpers can be annoying, but Pauline is always charming and often helpful.
The ability and accuracy of jumping are still necessary to succeed in banana, but the star of the series is destruction. With shockingly a few stars, each environment can be destroyed and passed away again by giant Fists of Donkey Kong. The effect is impressive on many fronts. It creates a sense of wild chaos with which it is nice to get involved with them. It also often allows you to bypass the elements of the environment and find all kinds of unexpected secrets. Breaking the gigantic granite from the ground and using him to break the evil guy and the unveiling of his golden, broken skeleton is something that was invented by video games.
However, breaking everything becomes exhausting at some point. Destruction never becomes completely old-fashioned, but I hit a point where I would not hit the Punch button. Fortunately, banana recognizes this. Mysteria areas that resemble temples from Zelda’s last games appear at every level. They offer a witty relief from constant destruction and allow developers to stretch their brilliant design muscles in a way I was ecstatic to chase.
I found the structure of the game, going deeper underground, extremely charming. Something about diving in every sink and falling miles to the next area makes everything seem strange, and even a little claustrophobic in the way I took. The raised sense of space meant that I still wanted to see what would happen next, who and what I would discover in the next layer. And I was especially disappointed during the last few layers.
Although it never moves fully from destruction, later parts of Banana focus more on creating and forcing Donkey Kong to think out of fists in the way I appreciated. In fact, the final and final levels leading to it represent my favorite parts of the game. Banana closure hours are almost as robust as Donkey’s arms and they definitely moved me from robust sympathy to full romance. The levels become stranger and more fascinating when you go deeper underground, and I willingly came back to them and find every banana of Zakopane under its many layers.
Donkey Kong Banana is the first exclusive exclusive Switch 2, which seems really and completely novel. This is a completely unique adventure with known characters and novel mechanics, which I suspect that it would not be possible on the original switch. Donkey Kong and Pauline’s Adventure is a show of the novel Nintendo console and meets the incredibly high standard that the developer has set since the 1980s.
