IT'S OUT TONIGHT
It's reviewing well, I'm so excited man, this looks like an absolute classic. I'm seeing people compare it to Mario Odyssey in spirit, I think it was the same team(?) but yeah, I loved Odyssey a lot so give me more of that feel please. 
It sounds like to 100% it you're really going to get into the weeds here, and I'm all for it, let me clock in an absurd playtime. I'm hearing people discuss spoilers as if that's a thing here, is it a thing here? I guess it's a thing here!
Anyway, DK thread
Roughly two hours in and so far it's as fun as I expected, the dark mines you start off in aren't bad by any means but the second area you land in with the regenerating explosive rocks was when it really had me hooked, at one point I kept throwing the exploding rock at a cliff until I had made a massive hole all the way through. I can see where the Mario Odyssey companions come from now and I have found a lot of bananas almost by accident, at least a few from me just punching a tunnel through the stage, Red Faction style.
I'll be picking this up eventually, but my backlog is bloody huge at the minute. Plus I've just finished another playthrough of Odyssey, so I don't want to burn out on delightful platforming.
Yep, Zelda's taking up most of my gaming time at the moment plus I'm away for a few weeks so it'll be a while until I get around to this - but it does look great.
I'll definitely be going the other way and playing Odyssey after this, but damn, Switch 2 is going to be great for platforming.
I have it and haven't played it. IT's all my kid talks about though currently! And I have made her play in docked mode on the TV when I am in there and it looks amazing, can't wait to give it a go, once the summer holidays end in September and she stops hogging the Switch 2…
Holy motion sickness, Batman.
I've never had motion sickness, aside from a couple of the more demanding VR games I've tried. But this sends my head spinning.
As long as I can get past that, Bananza seems brilliant. Early days, but smashing stuff is suitably fun, and it's clearly an Odyssey successor with the bananas scattered everywhere. It's also lacking in polish, and I think I mean that as a compliment. The framerate stutters constantly, the camera can't keep up, and you'll find yourself in some fairly bland, ugly spaces quite often. It's all a consequence of the destruction, and the freedom that allows, so it's a worthy compromise. But it's constantly surprising seeing a Nintendo game with such rough edges.
Edit: Of course Donlan got there first, and explained this better.
https://www.eurogamer.net/donkey-kong-bananzas-glitchy-visual-weirdness-is-nintendo-at-its-supremely-confident-gameplay-trumps-all-best
I think the bananas are even more densely packed than Moons, I've had some found within seconds of each other
I checked the list on one of the layers last night, there are seventy two on that one alone.
Sounds about right, some are sold to you, some are in challenges, some are for doing unmarked side quests, and some are literally just buried all over the place in the terrain, I've somewhat prioritised upgrading the sonar clap due to this.
My attitude is still very much bring it on too, mostly brainless smash smash good.
Reached a new layer last night that had me grinning like a maniac, right as I'd started to think I'd seen everything the game had to offer mechanically.
I feel like I'm moving through the layers quicker than I'd like, but I also want to finish the story; I know that spending too much time rinsing every layer would burn me out. I can always go back post-game.
Last couple of bosses have really tested my patience; it feels almost like they're designed for co-op rather than single-player, with the need for hitting them from a distance.
Spoiler - click to showThe second stage of the bat thing in the Tempest Layer is a real bastard; I'm using the Elephant Bananza to suck up the lava he drops, but the way the voxels are deformed often means there's a crumb left on the floor that kills me when I stand on it.
I just got that banaza and holy shit it's crazy OP, I know people consider the Bananzas kind of game breakey a bit but I let it slide for the most part because they're so fun but this one is so tempting to spam
Only played about 2 hours but loving this. It's got such a joyous and fun feeling to it. Whilst not as revolutionary obviously, it does feel really fresh and exciting, like playing Super Mario 64 or Banjo K for the first time all those years ago.
I do find myself struggling a tad with the right stick at times but I think that's just because of how open the movement is.
I do find myself struggling a tad with the right stick at times but I think that's just because of how open the movement is.
Yes! This was the cause of my motion sickness. The camera constantly tries to drag itself back behind DK; it doesn't trust the player at all. And the FOV is so narrow most of the time (I assume because going underground was already a camera headache for the devs, without adding distance into the mix) that it's like you're playing two games at once. Bananza, and Bananza Camera Wrestling.
