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What are you playing this weekend? 2025-07-18 (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by slimerancher@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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It's Donkey Kong Bananza time!

Have played a little bit, it's really fun being a strong gorilla and destroying everything in the path!

I am only in the first world yet, well, the first proper world after the starting / tutorial one, so can't say how the game progresses, but for now it's really fun. Some things make it feel like a spin-off of Odyssey, like some UI elements and in some cases the bananas look very similar to Super Mario Odyssey moons. These things are minimal though, the gameplay itself is pretty different.

The biggest issue now is to keep Switch 2 away from the kids so that I can get the time to play it.

In the week leading to it, I had some itch for Donkey Kong, I ended up playing Donkey Kong Country 3 on the NES app. I generally play these games with certain rules about rewind and save states, but I knew I am never going to finish it soon if I do that, so this time I cheated fully, with excessive use of rewind, and finished the game in a few days.

Didn't specifically rushed through the game, even tried to find any hidden items I could, and do as much of bonus stages as I could find, but it wasn't a high priority.

Also, finished The Hong Kong Massacre, just had a few levels remaining, finished them in couple of sittings. After that when I tried to look up if devs have made any other game, I realised that Switch version looks pretty bad compared to other versions. Image quality is pretty low. Not that bad if you haven't seen other versions, but still not great.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm still on Star Ocean Second Story R.

I'm about half way through the game, but I now have it broken to the point that 'Universe' difficulty is a joke. Now it's time to focus on the story, I think.

On that note, if any of you want to play the game: Be warned. You can recruit up to 6 additional characters in a single playthrough, which means you cannot get everyone. Some choices even lock you out of other characters.

In addition, you get to choose between two protagonists: A fantasy one and a sci-fi one. They are together for most of the story, but if you want everything out of your companions, it does make sense to recruit the sci-fi ones with the sci-fi protagonist, as they will talk about stuff the fantasy protagonist wouldn't understand. I missmatched these and would have to do three playthroughs now to get most of the interesting stuff - which I won't. Learning this even killed my motivation for a second playthrough...

Other than that, I still highly recommend the game!

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting. So 2 playthroughs to fully experience everything. I rarely do multiple playthroughs, so will have to look up which one to go with.