You won and had sex, Eric

I loved it but I'm sad it doesn't seem to have been as successful as it deserved

>>738478964
never understood why this game was praised, it's just babies first "mash a to look cool" spectacle

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>>738478964
It was GotY 2025, but gamers betrayed DK... they only want Mario...

https://youtu.be/UtGL5yKdSCk

it just felt like a reskinned Odyssey with terrain destruction and worse level design

I really didnt like how the game looked and played, its just flat out ugly. The terrain deformation gimmick was mostly annoying and just resulted in me getting stuck in weird spots and having to dig myself out. I wasn’t a huge fan of DK64 but I’ll take that game any day over whatever that crap was. Also it’s so absurdly babified, the stupid woman dangling off my back would not shut the fuck up and it was driving me crazy.

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>>738478964
>no memorable ost
>no memorable levels
>no memorable designs
Just your modern game sloppa.
And the worst of all is that nintendofans will defend anything nintendo related to death and i say this as an ol' nintendo fan.

>>738479159
because it was the second game to release

>>738479929
That Harry Potter game was weirdly fun, I didn’t expect it to be an RPG but I was pleasantly surprised.

>>738478964
dk has feathers instead of furr, it looks like a ps2 game, and the ahegao faces and voice acting are cringe. i haven't played it but i bet the gameplay is piss easy too

Because they had the brilliant idea to redesign DK into an ugly retard and shill it in every game, annoying fans.

>>738478964
Too expensive. Looks fun, good even.

>>738480031
It’s a modern Nintendo game dude, it’s basically impossible to die unless you’re actively trying.

>>738478964
because open world shit isnt fun. the game is essentially go anywhere and theres a banana or fossil hidden underground, not even a platforming challenge.

To those who’ve played it, is it challenging at all?

>>738478964
90€ game (110$)
But the hype will revive when switch 2 get cracked / emulated

>>738480164
No, it’s absurdly easy. The closest it comes to giving a challenge is the time trials.

>>738480164
End game boss kicked my ass

>>738480164
>is this kid game challenging ?
if your a kid and don't level up your HP you will get beaten in some part

I stopped playing once I got to the Snow layer. It just never clicked for me.

>>738478964
>hey let's make a new mario game!
>but wait let's give it to DK instead because he did't get anything in ages
>wait how do DK games go again
>wait how does DK even LOOK again
>whatever they'll buy it anyway
I still don't understand why this game exists

>>738478964
I just dont like playing as a retarded monkey with a tie

Woke Donkey Kong. Bring back the real DK.

>>738478964
>shitted and flopped
>sold 4.5 million copies

why would you lie on the internet like that?

Might as well take the chance to shill DKC2 with a duck while I see people talking about DK.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1660960/Windswept/

>>738478964
10/10

lets see Paul Allen's snoy 10/10

>>738480336
The excuse of "its for kids, it has to be easy" only started in the late 2000s when all games were being dumbed down. Before that point, games for kids were not afraid to be hard as fuck. Ironically, games like donkey kong tropical freeze were way more challenging than many M-rated releases of its time. Also ironically this period is also when kids stopped playing cartoon platformers and began exclusively playing minecraft and online shooters.

>>738478964
It didn't fully flop, but it really seems like people only cared about it or bought it because people who bought a switch 2 at release had nothing else to buy for it other than mario kart. It's just an inoffensive, bland, safe game that I'm sure some people who are kids now will remember fondly, but there is nothing intrinsic to it worth remembering.

>>738480909
it's not an excuse, anon is asking and im answering what Nintendo do, go be a jew somewhere else

>>738479258
DK betrayed us.
His face morphed into a Onions.
His demeanor changed into that of a safechungus.

DK died and has been replaced.
He was my go to guy at Mario games, but I don't want to even see him again. It's like watching the dead face of a relative you loved.

>>738481189
it is literally better and more creative that mario odyssey

>>738480164
Not really but I was watching some other people play it and they really sucked ass. It actually has very complicated controls which seems to be a sticking point with olds and women. People get filtered immediately because they don't think to use the option to swap the terrible default jump button.

>>738481515
>His face morphed into a Onions.
lol newfag

>>738478964
I want you to have a stroke and become bedridden.

>>738479929
>no memorable ost
>no memorable levels
>no memorable designs
It had all of that thoughbeit

It felt like Odyssey with better core mechanics and writing (that last one is admittedly not hard), but it takes a while to really get going. The first few worlds are way too easy and not particularly memorable.

>>738480164
It gets challenging near the end, particularly the post-game shit

STOP DEMORALIZING ME.
THIS THREAD IS FULL OF CIA AGENTS.

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>>738480164
Its about as hard as your average EPD8 Mario game, so most of the challenging stuff is at the end or in the post game. Its also like an EPD8 game where the fun comes from how fluid it is to control and using skill with those controls to interact with the environment in novel ways.

>>738482048
fpbp

>>738482093
>Ost
The Pauline songs and Gangplank galleons are, but everything else is fine at best and I forgot most of them. I do like the DLC songs tho
>levels
Which one? They were fun but not memorable at all, there's nothing like New Donk
>designs
I agree i think there was lot of great designs

>>738480909
>games like donkey kong tropical freeze were way more challenging than many M-rated releases of its time
i remember that and the original release pissed off a lot of people, metroid fans cause it wasn't a new prime and a mere platformer was a waste of retro's talents and journalists cause it was a cartoony platformer about gorillas that wasn't braindead easy. it took until the switch release before it really got the praise it deserves, which still kinda pisses me off considering how often i tried to recommend the game to people who were either too butthurt to enjoy the game on its own merits or too apathetic about another 2d platformer from nintendo

>>738478964
Donkey Kong Country sold so well because it was cutting edge when it came out. Bananza is just Odyssey 2 but with no Mario.

>>738482636
>Bananza is just Odyssey 2
No, it ain't. Play the fucking game.

>>738482367
Every time I think about this game I hear the Lagoon Layer theme. I also love the Forest layer theme, underground Canyon layer theme, and Groove layer theme.

My favorite levels are Forest layer and Frost layer. Feast layer was also awesome. The Resort layer sticks out in my mind because of the sharks with the rainbow gas material and exploding fruit. Tempest Layer had really cool aesthetics and variety and probably the best boss fight outside of the ending. I think they are natural extensions of the level design introduced in Odyssey, but bigger and layered.

>>738482661
Nah, he's right. Odyssey 3 is gonna be a Wario game where we meet granny Pauline in New Donk City

>>738482367
>They were fun but not memorable at all, there's nothing like New Donk
You didn't find the Planet Core, or the Radiance, Feast, Groove, or Resort Layers memorable? There's some real yawners like the Racing or Hilltop Layers, I admit, but I wouldn't say there were no memorable levels at all

>>738478964
As an old fag, I felt no attachment to this Kong Dong or anything in the game. Gameplay, enemies, world and music were so far detached from any Arcade Dong or Country Kong I have experienced in my life and thus felt no need to experience this new title. Maybe it's a good game but I feel it's a bad Dong Kong entry.

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Eric is right this time.
This is the single worse videogame i have ever played in my life, and the single worse characterization in a videogame. Even nukratos is at least a proud cuck.
And then Prime 4 and the new starfox did nothing but confirm that the switch 2 was a terrible investment. Is time to finally mod my snes mini and play some Maui Mallard with the boys.

>>738482939
ESL drivel

>>738482779
Pauline in Bananza is the same Pauline in Odyssey and Donkey Kong is the same one we always knew. Nintendo retconned Cranky Kong being OG DK

>>738479916
>I wasn’t a huge fan of DK64 but I’ll take that game any day over whatever that crap was.
I saw a lot of gameplay and trailers yet still felt nothing. It really is Odessey with a Kong Dong skin. Even after the game released, I was waiting to see or hear something that would change my mind but all we got was the K.rool reveal at the end? It's like mocking us instead of giving us what we wanted.

>switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time across its first 10 months
>Sony has a horrible investors report showing the acquisition of Bungie was a horrendous mistake
>10 Nintendoom threads in the catalog

>>738481189
This is why I bought it and man do I wish I hadn’t. What a boring fucking tech demo.

>>738483324
It's selling well for now but long-term forecasts are uncertain. It's not making a profit because of how expensive parts are now and investors are unhappy with the lack of Mario and Zelda

>>738483324
Software sales status?

>>738478964
these old IPs are used up. need something fresh

>>738480164
There's a couple of points where you can lose, mostly near the very end. I played 3D World after DKB and 3D World was harder.

>>738478964
they shouldve made a tropical freeze 2 instead of this shit

>>738483235
no one cares old man

>>738483485
Long term conservative forecasts by Nintendo have it continuing to be the best selling console across 22 months

how many posts itt are just niggerdeen and how many are eric? percentage guesses only

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>>738478964
Lame art direction. That's the real reason. The gameplay itself is fine. But Donkey Kong Country games on SNES had way more charm and a clear identity for DK compared to Mario. Bananza levels are just ugly, like tech demo stages.

>>738478964
kys eric tranny

>>738481515
You're a tranny with a tiny cock. DK was always like that

>>738483502
In one year it has an exclusive on track to outsell every PS5 exclusive to date and has three 4+ million sellers in 10 months compared the the PS5 having only 9 in 7 years.

How did it flop? Vinny vinesauce said it was one of the best platformers ever made

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>>738482939
>Eric is right this time.
>This is the single worse videogame i have ever played in my life, and the single worse characterization in a videogame. Even nukratos is at least a proud cuck.
>And then Prime 4 and the new starfox did nothing but confirm that the switch 2 was a terrible investment. Is time to finally mod my snes mini and play some Maui Mallard with the boys.

>>738478964
>sold 4m

I'm happy but do wish it was higher.

>>738479929
>no memorable ost

ZEBRA ZEBRA ZEBRA ZEBRA

>>738482821
I really wish I found them memorable because I had fun in all of them (except Radiance, I hate the snake for some reason) but I don't find them that memorable no idea why, I think the game is better than Odyssey too I really love it but for me the levels didn't particularly interest me, I 100%ed all of them too but thinking abot them now I only get vague ideas, I'd say the most meorable one for me was Canyon and Forest? Core was great but I find the reveal that the enemies were bonified DKC one more memorable than the lzvel itself, it was a linear gauntlet so I thought it was great just not memorable as a layer. I still love this game a lot, I fucking love the final and New Donk as a final level I just don't think it had the most memorable levels. Maybe they didn't felt as lived in as Odyssey because of the destruction aspect, no idea why I feel like this

>>738478964
I'm just surprised that it did less than half of what Odyssey did in the same period. I guess name is all that matters....

>>738486245
It's also a mediocre piece of shit

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>>738478964
It is part of he modern cultural shift on "loli" characters becoming mainstream, and will be mentionned as such in history books next to Pragmata and others

it's still the best game on the switch 2. i caved in and bought it and it was one of those games i couldn't stop playing. the level design is great and so are the transformations and music. smashing through everything is wildly addicting and creating new paths is fun. it's a very polished and well made game.

Gay, cloying waste of time

>>738486538
>Hulk Ultimate Destruction but worse
>Red Faction Guerilla but worse
>gets glowing reviews as it's the obligatory buyer's remorse humiliation ritual exclusive for your new console

>>738486538
Creating a retarded bridge in that first layer to get to the elder kong was so fun, game is so fun to mess arounf with. I'll probably do a new playtrought without usingthe skilltree

>>738478964
>1 in 4 Switch 2 players owns it
>flop

>>738478964
It's a fantastic game, but DK doesn't have the same brand power to draw in a huge audience. If it were called Mario Titans = ^) and featured the same mechanics, I imagine it'd sit at a 97 on MC and everyone would be clapping like a seal over it.

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>>738478964
Nobody cares about DK.

>>738479258
No that was Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, but nobody wants to admit it.

>>738486458
Adult Pauline is for fugs, kid Pauline is for hugs.

>>738486664
i will never play those two games and i know nothing about them, but i automatically know they are shit and garbage compared to bananza.

>>738486705
the skill tree was cool too. i literally never upgraded health till the very end if i remember. it is a bit too easy otherwise but i still had plenty of deaths and the end game was so fucking kino when normal enemies turned to the kremlings.

>>738486803
also remember that fucking lava portion, where it was all lava and the two lava walls with enemies? yeah that was bullshit and i died like 20 times there. i couldn't figure out a real practical way to get through that except going back and forth to the ice cube and trying to make a path. that shit was a random difficulty spike for me

>>738486879
>i automatically know they are shit and garbage compared to bananza.
Tendies really not beating the allegations

>>738480164
Just overcoming the bad controls.

What’s with the influx of negative Nintendo threads? They’re either coordinated or created by one person with too much time on their hands.

All the inflammatory comments sound the same.

Anyway, DK is a weaker IP but it did well with respect to the platform. A 25% attachment rate is an objectively good metric. Unfortunately, economic conditions aren’t allowing for large raw sales numbers. This is apparent across all platforms - except PCs, though that’s because PCs are more accessible to less developed markets (this is a fact).

/v/ is anti wokey kong
get this shit off my board

>>738480164
Some parts of the post-game are. It could definitely use some more challenge, but my niece already struggles at the current level of challenge, so I doubt the target audience would benefit.

I’m just hoping that licensing issues topple things like Fortnite and Roblox. They’re so cheaply made and predatory - gacha for children.

>>738487058
I remember making the path to that was a little finnicky, but manageable. I thought the final level was the real difficulty spike, especially if you were going for the collectables. Definitely harder than anything else in the main story.

>>738478964
Why does a children's game need to have cultural impact? I think sometimes you people forget that you aren't the target audience of these games.. they're for literal 6-10 year-olds.

>>738480164
The DLC timed missions are rape in video game form.

>>738487340
i agree with that too. very good end game

My only issue with Bananza is that New Cronk City or whatever wasn't an actual level. Feast being the last "real" layer just seems like an odd choice to me.

>>738479159
N64 syndrome. When a console's library is utterly barren, people will cling to anything that comes out on it.

>>738487601
retard

>>738485479
>they didn't felt as lived in as Odyssey
Hm, I suppose Odyssey did put more of a focus on making the world feel alive and real for Nintendo standards. Bananza's worlds are pretty abstract by comparison, even keeping in mind that some of Odyssey's levels are floating platforms in a void.

>>738484750
OH ZEBRA, ZEBRA, ZEBRA
OH ZEBRA, ZEBRA, ZEBRA

>>738487562
I liked the fact it was a gauntlet, it added tension to the finale. And I'm not gonna lie, seeing what they were doing with the checkpoints being labelled as "NDC 100m, NDC 125m" etc and the red construction girders and neon everywhere, it made me grin like a maniac. I was literally shouting "Holy shit! We're doing the arcade game except this time it's K Rools cabinet and we are taking the role of Jumpman".

>>738489379
It was great yeah, but I just thought it needed either it or New Donk as a post-game layer perhaps.

>>738488401
i felt the total opposite
i mean on an objective level theres so much more story in dk bananza everywhere, so many cutscenes, pauline has her own motivation, she constantly chats to you both in gameplay and at rest spots, there are waaaaay more npcs to speak to, so many signs too
not jsut signs from exploritone, i mean signs and lore books written by locals too in all sorts of hidden places that you wont find unless you are looking really hard cuz they arent tracked on the completion log

also every society in both odyssey and bananza has their own local culture and export, like the seaside world in odyssey being a water refinery, and the freezer layer in bananza being an ice cream and chocolate factory, both are good at this but i think bananza is better because of the aforementioned greater focus on story and lore everywhere

>>738479258
>It was GotY 2025, but
But it isn't, it wasn't GOTY 2025

>>738478964
My boys love it

>>738478964
Nintendo fans have no attention span so they stopped caring about this game 2 weeks after it was released, and now it's just ammo for console war threads

>>738478964
I find it horribly sad how men in their late 30s early 40s latched onto this game purely because K.rool appeared in it as if it reaffirms their childhood. Disgusting display of how nostalgia rots people to their core

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>>738488401
Most of Odyssey's levels are abstract nonsense, even the Mushroom Kingdom. Nintendo really needs to stop with this stupid shit already. Abstract design works for 3D World or Galaxy, not movement-based games about exploring worlds. Sunshine utterly mogs the rest of the series in this department still by making every location make geographic sense

>>738490073
twas twas

>>738490240
Hey I liked it before the finale, that was merely icing on the cake

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>>738490240
source?

>>738490407
I will continue to shit on Odyssey until Nintendo makes a new 3D Mario that is a PROPER follow-up to 64 instead of a half-assed linear level gauntlet that can't move on from 3D World

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>>738478964
im immune to member berries but the ones in this game are so well done they got to me. fucking loved it, im sorry.
mkw dlc with young pauline and krool, any day now..

>>738490601
Same, I also believe that it's the shock value of being blasted with Mario memberberries for decades now, but never having that for DK, it changes things. All those references to DKC on Super Nintendo and also of course DK64, well I guess it just scratched an itch that hadn't been scratched before. I can't wait for the next 3D DK and I hope they expand on the mechanics they introduced here in interesting ways. I could probably go without a fully voxel world next time but obviously I still want the destruction mechanic to become a core part of 3D DK from now on, it's just too much fun.

>>738490601
nintendo's entire business strategy for 30 years has just been memberberries

>>738478964
>Shitting all over Retro's legacy, trying to retcon everything they ever did for DK
>New (old) DK redesign doesn't even look good
Nintendo fucked it all up with their pride and their ego.

>>738479159
It was fun. No one called it the greatest game ever. I don't even think it was as good as Odyssey, but it was still a good time and if Nintendo consistently had games of that quality they'd be better off. Maybe it's more to say about nintendo that saying a 7, 7.5/10 game is the best thing they've put out in years.

>>738490601
>I'm immune to memberberries
>EXCEPT FOR MY WHOLESOME CHUNGUS BINGTENDO!!! *basedfaces*
Why the fuck are you subhumans like this?

>>738491815
>basedfaces
lol newfag

>>738491984
I've been conning here for over a decade, I'm well aware of the filters retard I just don't care desu senpai

>>738492253
suuuure lol

>>738492309
>election tourist calling an oldfag a newfag

>>738478964
It doesn't really have good replay value.
Its very much a one playthrough and never touch it again kind of game.

weird DK design and ugly underground levels didn't resonate with players

>>738492506
>election tourist
go back
>>738492536
for you

>>738492739
For anyone who isn't a retarded puerile manchild

>>738480743
how is 4.5 million sales not a flop when there was nothing else to buy at the time????

>>738492820
seething projection

I just played it a bit more, seeing if I want the DLC. I stopped after an hour.

>>738492253
Lmao yeah ok pal

>>738492883
Nigga you're a manchild virgin living with mommy

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>>738478964
same problem as odyssey and galaxy 2, no hubworld (or peach/rosalina/daisy)

>>738478964
I don't think Mario Odyssey had any cultural impact either, but this game didn't flop, it's a fucking Donkey Kong, it did really well and it was fun. I'm not a big fan of 3D platformers but this one actually made me stuck till the end.

>>738493014
>more projection
>nigga

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It wasn't a DKC title. Donkey Kong as a brand isn't as strong as it should be.
Donkey Kong Country however, is a tried and tested IP. If Nintendo was smart, they'd have Bananza 2 in development by now along with a DKC title.

>>738493014
Dude, you're taking bullets for a silly gorilla and yapchild game

>>738479258
>only dk can be self deprecating without it being unfunny and forced
powerful

>>738490596
Conversely, I'd be happy if they returned and refined the 3D World formula some more, honestly. It's genuinely one of my favorite Bing Bing Wahoo type games.

>>738480164
Play without upgrading health, and 99% of this website couldn't beat it.

>>738479705
I honestly hate this kind of games, open 3d levels collectathons, they're so fucking boring. The only one I liked is Mario 64, it's still fun to play nowadays, it doesn't feel like Odyssey, Banjo or DK, it's more based on actual platforming so I guess there's that.
Somehow I had way more fun with Crash 4 than with Astro bot or DK yet these 2 are the ones getting all the praise.

>>738482367
the only level i still remember is the beach one with the big fruit, no idea why they didnt make a hubworld like that

>>738493176
its kino when DK does it

>>738480572
I like how all NPCs are clearly scared of you when you go apeshit and destroy everything and pretend it's alright.

>>738492843
Yes there was? Mario Kart? This is not a snoy console releasing with one game for an entire year.

>>738478964
I looked at it and thought "this reminds me of Mario Odyssey: all spectacle, zero substance." Then people were like "it's just like Mario Odyssey! sugoiii!!!!"

>>738493517
DK has substance doe
Even odyssey haters enjoy it

>>738478964
nintendie hasn't made a good platformer since mario sunshine

>>738493517
>"it's just like Mario Odyssey! sugoiii!!!!"
I said that verbatim when it was revealed while jumping up and down

>OP shits himself at this >>738434817

>>738479159
Doubled down on mario odysseys shit game philosophy

>>738493240
Crash 4 would've sold better if wasn't for the terrible artstyle. Being sold on battlenet on pc didn't help either

>>738493187
They did all they could with it already in 3D World and Galaxy 2