Topic: Donkey Kong Bananza

Anyone else notice that there will supposedly he 5 bananza transformations in total? When they show off the skill tree, you can see the 3 right most columns are for the transformations, one for kong, one for zebra, and one for ostrich. To the right of those are two more empty columns, suggesting that there will be 5 bananza transformations in total, unless more columns appear as the game progresses. But at least 5 for sure

One thing I couldn't quite work out.
Is it full open world? Or is it more like Kirby Forgotten Land or Mario Oddessy? With levels, but a little bit of free roaming space to it? I prefer levels myself.

@Mana_Knight The Direct showed different levels of the underground world with different themes and each with their own map. So yeah, it's gonna have levels, both literally and figuratively.

@Polvasti Oh, cool.

A youtube comment I read. No idea of the source he got it from.
"Pauline was cursed by The Rock, apparently it de aged her, so it's not a prequel to the original DK."

This would make sense. Again, no idea if any truth to it at all.

I mean.. Forgotten Land has tons of pretty small/linear levels and Odyssey has relatively few but pretty huge and open. I'm guessing Bananza will be more like Odyssey in that respect.

In the direct I think she says she has a dream of becoming a singer? So young would make sense, definitely pre Odyssey.

Edit: Oh, apparently Nintendo confirmed she is actually 13. there was just an article about it.

Maybe the Pauline in this game is not the Pauline from the original game but her daughter or grand-daughter, just like the Donkey Kong in most DK games is the grandson of the original game's antagonist?

If we want to imagine there's any kind of continuity between various Mario universe games, then Pauline as seen in Odyssey certainly should be old enough to have a 13 year-old daughter. You don't become the mayor of a big city while you're still in your twenties.

@FishyS It is funny how this really is the biggest complaint now, if we can even call it that. Just...wanting to know how it all fits with the original arcade game and Oddessy. Bodes well if that is the main thing we are hung up on!

@Mana_Knight Nintendo should make some kind of official Nintendo multiverse crossover game (like an RPG, not Smash) just to allow for parallel time lines and shut up all the complaints about lore 😆

The half DK half other animal transformations are revolting.

@Dev-N Nooo. Stop. She promised they'd get to the surface together. They made plans! They made plans!
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At the Switch 2 direct I was a no to this game, planned to skip it altogether.

NOW....

I CANNOT for the life of me understand how this isn't the Oct/Nov game???

I can totally see an ending where DK looks the exact as Pauline grew up. Or we find out that Pauline we helped throughout the game is her Daughter and her name is "Pauline jr."

That would be awful; Switch 2 only has one real exclusive game right now; they need another big hitter early on, just like how Switch 1 had Zelda and Mario Kart in the first 2 months. DK is taking that role.

Agreed. Regardless of Mario Kart's popularity, not everyone cares about that type of game. I'm one of those people who don't, so Bananza is the first Nintendo-developed Switch 2 game I'm gonna buy.

That's because they don't feel beholden to it. They'll do world-building and establish character dynamics and such, but generally they're pretty loose when it comes to fitting everything together. Case in point, we don't have a straight answer on Cranky's relation to DK and probably never will.

I have the strong feeling of "This is very Disney" from this game, when Pauline sings she sounds like straight from Frozen animated movie. Hope its not just game for little girls like Princess Peach was.

And im sorry but she absolutely does not look like 13 years old, more like 10 years old or younger.

@barabara Its definitely not that type of game. But I agree its very Disney like.