Thread 718723810

Now that the dust has settled, what do we think?

>>718723810 (OP)
favorite game I've played this year, the absolute best 3D platformer I've played

>>718724694
Soon to be beat by bubsy, get ready.

fractones have been around since dkc3

>>718724694
I think it's kind of boring and would rather play party house...

>>718723810 (OP)
10/10 and goated and >>718724694

>>718726661
for me it's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00iWoe55zYE

sounds a bit like something okabe could have composed for nier, man the ost is great

>bosses outside of Void and K. Rool are shit
>Racing Layer is a waste of time and should have been an early game area
>no volume slider sucks because busting certain materials is way too loud and you can barely hear the music in most areas
>elephant bananza ruins the game, shouldn't have been in
>why isn't there any kind of retro DK costume
>postgame is disappointing, rehearsals drag
~8/10

>>718723810 (OP)
donkey kong is made to destroy my dick

>>718727134
>no volume slider sucks because busting certain materials is way too loud and you can barely hear the music in most areas
No 5.1 speakers bruh?

Honestly I love it and its a 10/10 for me. The bananas didn't feel as pointless and obscure as the some of the moons in Odyssey did. My only real criticism is I wanted more of those 2d sections because boy when I played the room that had the 1-1 remake and the minecart section I damn near shit. I hope DKC gets more sidescrollers.

>>718723810 (OP)
It's a 9/10.
Not as good as Mario Odyssey, or Mario Galaxy or Mario 64 for that matter (haven't played Sunshine).
It's also not as good as DKC2, DKC3 and Tropical Freeze.
It's better than DKC1 and DKC Returns though.

>>718727134
The rehearsals were fine. I honestly prefer the more linear level design over the open zone meme.

>>718726661
also I've spent way too much time in the postgame playing a bunch of different songs in the groovetones concert, I'll never get tired of the way the fractones dance moves and singing change depending on the song you play

Solid 9 but I can't get over how terrible DK looks in this game
It's not even the redesign, it's how he looks in this game specifically because he looks just fine in Mario Kart World

>>718726859
Radiance layer was the best. It's so pretty.

>>718727457
I don't see how anyone can think odyssey is better, bananza mogs it in every category save the postgame

>>718727579
he's pure sex though?

>>718727457
>Not as good as Mario Odyssey
>less filler
>more movement options
>better finale

>>718727649
For Banandium Gems, first thing I did was maxing out my sonar, and kept spamming it and digging towards the collectacbles. They all felt the same to me.
I feel like Mario Odyssey's moons had more creativity and variety to them. Except for the Toadette ones.

>>718727580
it is and the theme is fantastic as well

also loved how they brought back their kishotenketsu design style from the previous games with the light/dark mechanic: first it's introduced by the scorpion enemies that you have to soften with light to beat, then it's developed with having to use a hard scorpion shell with the zipline, subversion is when you light up the entire level and can change the orientation of the suns and finally the conclusion is the last puzzle where you have to manipulate shadows to solidify clouds

top tier level, the best I've seen in a 3D one I think

>>718727716
The feather fur looks horrible and the lighting always makes him look almost red. If they couldn't get him to look like the art, they should have just made his fur look simple like the Kong family's does.

>>718727862
didn't have that experience at all

sure there's a bit of repetition with bananas stuck inside walls and the likes but there's far more variety in objectives than that and it's not like odyssey didn't have a metric ton of basic ass moons obtained after ground pounding a shiny dot on the ground or breaking a crate

>>718728001
honestly i never noticed it being too bad, lol. stop looking for issues and you won't find them.

on the fur color thing though, that one's definitely weird. he actually changes colors when he has higher bananza energy, i have no clue why they made that a thing and i don't think the game even tells you that happens. a bit odd but it's harmless cause the pink furs didn't have much of a difference and that's what i used

>>718727862
>I feel like Mario Odyssey's moons had more creativity and variety to them
The majority of Odyssey's moons are getting to specific pillars or ground pounding.

>>718723810 (OP)
Based game, simple as

>>718727134
>Racing Layer is a waste of time and should have been an early game area
I was so disappointed with the Racing Layer.
>expected a race with all the other monkeys on Rambis
>Rambi controls are really bad
>stupidly easy to 'cheese'
>it's not actually cheesing because the rematch expects you to do it
>Funky Kong doesn't show up
>ONE track
>Diddy and Dixie barely have any fun dialogue

>>718728446
>Funky Kong doesn't show up
I really thought he was going to be the rematch
I had hope

>>718728446
Races in general should have been a thing that show up on every large-sized layer. The other kongs feel like an after thought with Cranky not even having unique rants bitching about the current level.

>>718728446
>Rambi controls are really bad
this is the reason i'm glad it was only one floor plus you can just skip it

post fits

>>718728446
>yeah we had some materials so we just built all this shit
The crazy monkeys went below the death zone to put up those foundations

>>718723810 (OP)
Loved it. Probably worth a replay in a year or so too.

>>718723810 (OP)
good game, 9/10

next game can be 10/10 with more natural looking levels, different transformations (no zebra), less annoying songs and more kremling and jungle beat stuff

>>718728446
I feel insulted that ive been waiting for donkey kong racing ever since i saw it in a vidya magazine over 20 years ago and that level is the bone they give me

>everyone says it's 8,9,10 but I get bored of it
what's wrong with me...

Overrated, overhyped. Odyssey was so popular it had people with thousands of viewers doing speedruns for months. The entire DK Bananza page on Twitch has 1k viewers.

inb4
>caring about Twitch viewership

I don't care but you can still use the numbers for comparison.

>>718728001
>the lighting always makes him look almost red
That's another thing actually, his fur glows whenever your Banandium gauge is full, it happens with the other dyes but it's not as noticeable

>>718727134
>8/10
The Nintendo Bonus is real

I am in the resort layer and I keep wishing the game had even a tiny bit of challenge to give me. I really like how it looks, sounds and plays but I get bored of playing because I never die, the enemies provide zero threat and the "challenge" levels are piss easy.

>>718723810 (OP)
Worse than Sonic Frontiers

>>718723810 (OP)
>chuddy kong

>>718735867
>>718733812
same. It's too easy and I just get bored after like 20mins each time I've tried to play it since my first couple longer sessions.
It's too overstimulating. Lots of noise and shiny gold everywhere.
Bananzas are too op. You can just vaccuum up the whole level or smash everything with the kong bananza and it feels pointless after a while.
Feel like it would have been better to have animal buddies instead of bananzas and have them used sparingly.

There is a list of games we need, now that we got Bananza. We need Conker's Reunion, Banjo Threeie, and Yooka 2 Hope you hear me, Nintendo.

>>718737440
Barking up the wrong tree. Ask Rare and Playtonic.

>>718739563
This jpeg is what my eyes are going to do when Rare and Playtonic really do their job.

Pretty fucking fantastic game. My only wish is that there was a full layer dedicated to K Rool and the kremlings instead of the shitty micro island shit in the core. Still, I cannot understate how much I loved seeing the real DKC enemies back instead of retarded tiki shit. And the game had both a fake out AND another boxing match finale? Pure, unfiltered kino. E33 will win GOTY, as it should, but this better win something.

There was zero (0) good music tracks in the game. They should have gotten Koji to help out

>>718728446
>it's not actually cheesing because the rematch expects you to do it
what are you actually referring to?

>>718740943
The kremlings in the Planet Core and the old Sutherland voice clip was an incredible reveal.

>>718741494
Yeah. Knowing the K Rool twist ahead of time, I noticed the main mook enemies wore croc masks and had the croc skeleton. But I never thought about any of the other enemies until the part of the core was named something about Necky. Then I soifaced when I saw the vultures.

>>718741104
If by Koji Kondo, you mean David Wise, then yes. The only one I liked was Mossplume Marsh, mainly because it felt like a revamp of a DKC track. Probably Vine Valley's music, but maybe something else.

>>718741184
You can use the lift blocks to jump on the other side of the race track, skipping half the course.

>>718723810 (OP)
masterpiece

>>718734005
Bananza speedruns are far more interesting thobeit. Odyssey had the asynchronous multiplayer with Balloons, DKB needs something similar

>>718740943
*OGH*

>>718741104
The soundtrack is badass, does its own thing while still having a lot of DKC Wise/Novakovic tracks (Ingot Isle, Sinkhole, Hilltop, Fractone Village, Divide, Cold-Colt Crest, Canter Creamery, Mossplume Marsh, Hot Shower Cave, DARKNESS) and TF Wise tracks (Lagoon, Beaky Thicket, Resort Layer). The music might be my favorite part of the game.

>>718741104
There's tons of good music. What are you talking about?

>>718723810 (OP)
GOTY

>>718728001
>The feather fur looks horrible and the lighting always makes him look almost red

That's your banandiam glow bro.

bananza is easily the best game of the year, but we all know geoff won't give the GOTY award to anyone else when kojima is a candidate

>>718741104
>>718744115
Probably my favorite track in the game

https://youtu.be/AAHfR1LN_EY?si=xPi7juEao_0A2uuC

>>718723810 (OP)
It's no masterpiece.

>>718745274
I see you and I raise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ3eYLtm03o

>>718745274
>>718745393

>>718727716
I thought DK only had one expression throughout the entire game which was the tongue-out banana eyes because people were frightened of how manly and masculine he was in the Rare era.

>>718746243
Never listen to 4troon shitposters.

>>718737440
You'll have to settle with Bubsy

>>718746243
the fact that there are people on this board who regard a redesign of a video game ape as some kind of assault on masculinity and these same people go around calling everyone else manchildren is levels of absurd i honestly didn't think 4chan had in it anymore

if you have literally anything else going on in your life you're already doing better than these guys

I'm in the forest layer and I'm scared of playing more of this game because I don't want it to be over
I keep playing it in little bits at a time
I also keep building mud huts by throwing chunks and putting up walls to box myself in
am I autistic

>>718747596
>banandium gems in DKC ads
How deep does the hole go

>>718723810 (OP)
After beating it 100%(not all records) I know really get the "too easy" complaint.
Because it is so easy, a lot of gameplay mechanics(if not all) never evolve past the gimick stage. Never is your understanding of a mechanic pushed and never are you really wow'ed by seeing how far a mechanic is pushed.

They are cool but never deep. This shows the hardest in the final challenge, which is a total push over compared to other Mario post game levels.

I enjoyed the game and would recommend it, but its not one of the all time greats in my opinion

>>718728160
>just consume

>>718728001
i like the in-game fur better than that render desu

>>718747942
>which is a total push over compared to other Mario post game levels
The Perfect Run is the only difficult Mario post game level.

guys what does "need it or keep it" mean?

>>718741104
The fucking Ingot Isle layer and Lagoon layers right off the bat have good music, the hell are you on?

>>718723810 (OP)
I don't know, I don't play DK games, the only donkey kong game I have played is the original.

>>718745393
>>718745274
Can I just say how fucking charming the Fractones are? In the reveal trailer I was pretty indifferent to them, but they all have such fun dialogue, and I loved reading Exploratone's tablets. The hostile ones in the forbidden layer took me aback too because of that, like up until that point they all seemed so unserious, then you're suddenly hit with the 'BEGONE OUTSIDER' shit.

>>718746243
>I thought DK only had one expression throughout the entire game which was the tongue-out banana eyes because people were frightened of how manly and masculine he was in the Rare era.
Yeah, I didn't like that expression at all.
But, he is called DONKEY kong.

>>718727134
>elephant bananza ruins the game, shouldn't have been in
It's the last one you get for a reason, finishing the game trivilizes gold too and that's ok

>>718728706
Yeah when I noticed the rants were all pretty much the same I was rather confused

>>718753229
>reach slab that reads "here lies exploratone" at the planet core
>turns out they're just living right down there underground and you can burrow into their home

heh

Nerds are gay.

>>718753501
I was booty blasted by this and it made me regret ever going back to that area, it was all nice and kino when all I saw was the slab but then I returned and actually discovered him
also they needed to make it way harder to accidentily destroy readable slabs

Wait that costume that gets unlocked by the amibo was just meant to be for early unlock right how do you get it normally? is it for finishing all the rehearsals

>>718723810 (OP)
It's way too easy, is this what modern gaming has become? Basically theme parks with some theme park rides

>>718754025
I felt the same at first, but honestly, it's so in-character for a Fractone to do that, like he's literally lying down whenever he goes to sleep.

>>718754240
How much did you upgrade Dong?

>>718728706
>with Cranky not even having unique rants bitching about the current level.
How hard would it have been for him to do this? Instead it's just the one foreshadowing rant over and over. He could have bitched about the level having too much water/not enough water/being too big/being too small/being too cold/being too hot something stupid and inane but no. Lazy writing.

>>718723810 (OP)
Boring crap

>>718723810 (OP)
Earlier areas were kinda boring but it kept getting better and by the Storm layer i was fully on board. I always make sure to grab everything on the layer before moving on to the next.

Then i saw K.Rool punch the shit out of Void and i knew this game was fucking great.

>>718723810 (OP)
Game of the year. E33 and silksong can fuck off

>>718727134
don't forget the too subtle cranky dialogue changes and you think that fucker is saying the same shit over and over again.

>>718723810 (OP)
The scepticism/measured expectations this was met with upon reveal was genuinely bewildering imo
I'm not even as head over heels for the 3D Mario team's previous games as most people are and even still I could recognise that a game with destructible environments handled by them was obviously going to be really, really fucking good

>>718754472
That's because Nintendo doesn't get the character. I'd argue they don't get the Kremlings and King K. Rool either. Cranky is supposed to be breaking the wall constantly making self deprecating jabs toward the game.