{"id":1016,"date":"2025-06-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:16:05","slug":"reaction-donkey-kong-bananza-has-instantly-become-my-most-anticipated-game-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/reaction-donkey-kong-bananza-has-instantly-become-my-most-anticipated-game-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction: Donkey Kong Bananza Has Instantly Become My Most Anticipated Game Of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sorry, Samus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, before the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/donkey-kong-bananza-direct-every-announcement-how-would-you-rate-it\"><strong>Donkey Kong Bananza<\/strong> Direct<\/a>, I wasn&#8217;t <em>massively<\/em> enthusiastic about Nintendo&#8217;s upcoming Switch 2 platformer.<\/p>\n<p>I played about 20 minutes of it at one of the Switch 2 Experience events back in April, and although I was charmed by the aesthetics and the ability to smash up pieces of the environment, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder if there was something more &#8211; that Nintendo was holding back a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/reaction-donkey-kong-bananza-has-instantly-become-my-most-anticipated-game-of-2025\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, Samus. I have to admit, before the recent Donkey Kong Bananza Direct, I wasn&#8217;t massively enthusiastic about Nintendo&#8217;s upcoming Switch 2 platformer. I played about 20 minutes of it at one of the Switch 2 Experience events back in April, and although I was charmed by the aesthetics and the ability to smash up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}