Jesse Lennox
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If there’s one word I would associate with action-platformers during the NES generation, it would be rage. Games like Mega Man, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden felt unbeatable even for a kid with endless amounts of free time to beat my head against them. Home console games were still following the design philosophy of the arcade, where the more a player died, the more quarters they had to pump into the machine to keep going. That, and the stiff difficulty helped hide just how short these games actually were. Rage was part of the experience — the fuel I needed to surmount those games where the deck was so heavily stacked against me.
Last year, Nintendo wrapped up its trilogy of Mario Party games with its most ambitious title yet in Super Mario Party Jamboree. With more minigames, boards, and modes than any entry before it, it was bordering on losing its focus on the core board game gameplay that makes it such a popular and approachable series. That makes it a natural choice for a proper Switch 2 Edition to bring us back for a little afterparty to show off some new tricks.
Right from the title screen, Donkey Kong Bananza made it clear it wasn’t going to play by normal 3D platformer rules. I’m not greeted with a traditional menu, but a rock wall and a single button prompting me to smash through. Bananza constantly rewarded me for keeping that mentality in mind and refusing to play by the rules.
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