Thread 724910394

Donkey Kong Bananza is boring & frustrating, and I detest that Nintendo used 7 years doing it

Crap camera
The camera clips constantly. It's so fundamentally ingrained to the concept that they had to craft a clipped camera view, which is just disorienting and ugly. But it's not just the destruction mechanics and ground, the camera is constantly your enemy in the bosses.

Frustrating mechanics
So many encounters had me cursing the design of this game, how trial and error it is, absolute frustration at times. The two final bosses are the epitome of this, with a mandatory minute long run up to them you need to repeat every single time, and a mechanic where each punch takes 1% out of the boss energy bar so you need to grind forever, while battling the rubbish camera. Equally frustrating are the house destruction missions, where you battle against the controls as much as the clock.

Collectibles I stopped caring about
For the first few worlds I tried to max out all the bananas, like I was a completionist in Odyssey. I quickly lost interest, not caring to ram through everything and slam the ground to find seven hundred of them. Not to speak of the other collectibles which were truly meaningless.

Powerups that don't matter
The different costumes were a nice touch, but so irrelevant that I ended up upgrading almost none of them, I just sat on the skill points until the final bosses where in my frustration I maxed out the elephant.

Exploration made cumbersome
I might have been more prone to explore and find bananas if it wasn't for the cumbersome mechanic of changing levels, where you need to always go to the warp guy in the level. With dozens of layers, that gets tedious.

Ugly environments
Because of the conceptual design of the game - you can break almost anything - the geometry is low poly and low res. There are tons of misaligned textures that don't properly warp around their objects.

Anyone else hate this POS

>>724911451
OP for advertising his YouTube video here? Yeah, me.

>>724910394 (OP)
it's just a boring game. they had a cool concept but forgot to make a compelling game out of it.

I didn't have any of those problems but I'll at least agree some of the environments are pretty ugly

>just copypasting neogaf threads now

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/donkey-kong-bananza-is-boring-frustrating-and-i-detest-that-epd-used-7-years-doing-it.1689767/

kill this board please this is just miserable

>>724911451
Yeah it's just not a good game, tendies slurp it down because they got nothing else

>>724911774
We really need a rule that you can't just copy paste reddit/Twitter/neofag posts without at least adding something to the OP discussion.

>>724910394 (OP)
TL;DR
you lost
DK won
Pauline won
Cranky won
K. Rool won
Rambi won
Void Kong won
Poppy Kong won
Grumpy Kong won
Diddy won
Dixie won
Its KotY - Kino of the Year

I'm still buying it

I liked it except for how they still did those fucking filler bait layers even though the game took forever to develop. We should've had 16 REAL layers. Also the final post-game level is pretty bad, you do "bananza mastery" stuff before accessing it and then the final level is just more bananza form stuff, and it's pretty short.

>>724912647
you mean inside the big eel? I agree it was an underwhelming final level, I really liked the elders rehearsals though, some of them were genuinely great platforming challenges (zebra especially but elephant also had great little puzzles)

>>724912647
>Diddy and Dixie Rambi racing layer
>Only 1 track
>Only 2 races
Was so disappointed. Not even a secret third race against Cranky or something?

>>724912778
I like the Zebra and Snake one, Elephant was pretty good too. Kong kinda sucked and Ostrich kinda felt like one of the smaller layers with how it was laid out which was cool.
>>724913026
Yep, I hated this one, probably the most disappointing part of the game all things considered.

>>724911774
>NeoGAF is still around
Huh... Never posted here but it seems pretty relaxed nowadays, used to pop up whenever I searched a question about a game all the time.

>>724913236
Still sucking Sony's dick, still whining about Nintendo

>>724911774
Honestly, does it even matter if it’s right?

>>724910394 (OP)
Agreed except git gud it's not frustrating.
Bananza is the Forza Horizon 5 of Platformers.
Instant gratification. Zero challenge. Brain dead slop.

>>724910394 (OP)
it's an interesting game because it was obviously in dev hell for a long time before they finally landed on a gameplay loop that "felt good" and hacked together this whole layered digging/destruction concept. i think it's fine for a weird japanese AA platformer thing but seeing people get psyopped into declaring it an alltime great game was extremely funny and revealing

>>724911774
I was the og poster u fucking jerkoff

>>724911930
zazed

>>724911637
I see no links do you?

>>724913651
well your thread fucking sucks either way nigger

>>724914339
What points did he even make that you can argue against

>>724914751
all of them? that faggot cries about the last boss being hard for fuck's sake

>>724915392
Cause it is.

>>724915548
it obviously isn't, you probably haven't even played the game

>>724915392
It’s a huge difficulty bump you fucking moron

>>724915617
DSP is around the level of the average /v/ gamer and he struggled. It's a hard final boss.

>>724915643
I first tried it, looks like you're just incredibly shit at games as expected from a /v/zillian

>>724910394 (OP)
i boughted it, it was fun, it was great, you're mad

>>724915878
I know you died in New Donk City.

Should I buy it?

>>724915989
Yeah but that doesn't count cause it's not the boss fight.

>>724911843
Would lose 90% of traffic. Same as if you banned India and Canada

>Frustrating mechanics
>So many encounters had me cursing the design of this game, how trial and error it is, absolute frustration at times.
what is this even refering to

I could see how trial and error tropical freeze could be sometimes but there's nothing like that in bananza, it's insane how retards post vague meaningless bullshit like that and think it constitutes valid criticism

>>724916000
How you liking the switch 2 so far big guy?

>>724916000
Trips of buying donkey kong

>>724916343
I bought it for Metroid and Pokemon and im liking it so far for pokemon

>>724917363
The new Pokémon? Or the older ones that run at 60fps?

>>724910394 (OP)
Yeah but the klimax of the game is probably the best thing Nintendo has done in years.

>>724910394 (OP)
Kill yourself

>>724917519
You probably ate up that slop dlc they served up too.

Bananza is so fucking good.

>>724917739
Everyone on here hated it months ago

>>724918082
No one on here had a Switch 2 months ago.

>>724918082
No, shitposters pretended to hate it drspite knowing nothing about it because it's a Nintendo game.

>>724918284
I had it on launch

>>724918803
whats being implied here? that all women are exactly 5'4?

>>724910394 (OP)
Ok OP since it seems you be trying to have serious discussion I will engage without baiting.

My thoughts: This is almost every single 3D platformer OP. I personally hate the entire genre, so I don't like bonanza, I don't like mario 64, I don't like odyssey. So, I'm not seeing why this is more shit or boring than odyssey. Yes you have minor gripe like camera etc but fundamentally all collectathon platformers is the same.

>>724918803
Ok?

K. Rool is honestly the only reason anyone gave a shit about this game. Before the news of his inclusion, "discussion" of the game was just talking about how ugly the new DK design is. Even attempts to force kid Pauline into a "pedo shitposter icon" failed.

>>724920091
It’s a decent game thats it

>>724920091
No one but aging millennials gives a fuck about K. Rool. Even after Smash and this game no he's not a household name.

>>724920431
I never argued that he was a household name, just that his inclusion was the only real spark of genuine discussion and interest in the game. Hell, even before he was confirmed, the only talk besides criticizing nu-DK's face was theories of Rool's inclusion despite comedicially little evidence (e.g. "uhhhhh this tree is K. Rool's face")

>>724910394 (OP)
Is this the BotW schizo's latest target?

>>724921050
He's a GameCubesnoy, so probably. Cubies hate nothing more than a modern installment being better and more successful than the originals.

>>724921151
>GameCubesnoy
The slang this board has developed is total nonsense.

The level design does suck, thanks to being able to demolish mostly everything. If Kongs basic punch couldn't destroy everything, the game would be better.
The way the destruction works now, becomes super boring within two hours of playing the game because it's something you do constantly.

>>724910394 (OP)
I believe everything you said even though I'm not buying a switch 2 to verify it. Thanks for the info

>>724921275
Seethe harder, cubie snoy.

Rebuttal: loli lips

>>724917476
ZA
It was pretty good as someone who hasn't played a pokemon since Moon