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![kiwitalkz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::2838699038.png) Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly [@kiwitalkz](/creator/twitter/kiwitalkz) on x 1860 followers
Created: 2025-07-18 19:34:52 UTC

So I’ve finished DK Bananza(one of the good things about NZ is we get games first before anyone else)

Great game, but Tropical Freeze and DKC2 are still the GOATs. 

Nintendo are absolute masters of having a main mechanic and a bunch of branching mechanics and fusing them altogether at the end. Western devs need to study this

The final X levels are a straight 10/10 masterpiece stuff, the rest of the game not so much. The destructible terrain can get a bit repetitive at times and the frame rate drops are absolutely brutal im talking 60fps dropping to 20fps sometimes 10fps!! I died a bunch of times because of it, very frustrating

And David Wise is missed, he’s irreplaceable on the music front, I dont know why Nintendo didn’t just get him and Grant Kirkhope on the music,

I think I am realising i prefer linear platformers as opposed to open worlds which is probably why Astro Bot and Super Mario Galaxy X are my X favourite 3D platformers

I’m planning a review of Bananza with former devs on DKC Returns and Tropical Freeze once they finish the game

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