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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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[–] MisterDeutsch@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My love of card games comes from long form games like Rummy and Euchre (sp?), so Phase10 is a game I enjoy. However, the game itself never finished. I think my record is getting to phase seven before we quit. But then again, I’ve only ever played it two-player.

Golden Lap is fun! I played it last night and ended with my main driver for the last two seasons crashing when I didn’t even push him to race faster and my second driver running out of fuel on the last lap. Then after the race, the game announced that my driver had died. Yikes.

Now I’m out of the running for the championship this year, out a top five driver, and out of enthusiasm to play for today. The things Golden Lap needs most in my opinion:

Randomized drivers, engineers, and crew chiefs (when I start a new game, I know that Levi March and Moretti will be on the podium every race. At a certain point, the only hope is to do well enough to hire one of those two)

Multi-player (I have not been taking races seriously since I hired the aforementioned Moretti and still finding top three every time. I want my friends playing so that there’s bragging rights of some kinds involved)

Overall, it’s definitely worth its full price of $15 USD for me. Maybe I need to make a randomization mod for the game to fix the first of my problems.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I love Rummy, never played Euchre though. It's just with age and responsibilities, and to find a time when everyone is willing to spend long time for a game is pretty difficult.

We played Phase10 with 3 people, me, wife and my older kid, finished the game, though it took a bit of a time. Haven't played again so can't say how it will turn out in the future.

I would be pretty sad if something like that happened to me in a management game. Hope they improve these in future.

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

Regarding Golden Lap, the death of drivers is something in the game’s sales pitch: this is F1 in the 1970’s, a dangerous time without a lot of safety precautions. It was still surprising, but I’ve moved on. I stopped popping the champagne corks when I make top 3, though.