{"id":1331,"date":"2025-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:05:59","slug":"review-donkey-kong-bananza-switch-2-absolutely-smashing-but-can-it-beat-mario-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/review-donkey-kong-bananza-switch-2-absolutely-smashing-but-can-it-beat-mario-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Donkey Kong Bananza (Switch 2) &#8211; Absolutely Smashing, But Can It Beat Mario Odyssey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big DK energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though it confirmed my suspicions, the reveal that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> was coming to us from the team behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a> couldn&#8217;t help but strike a <em>little<\/em> bit of fear into my heart. We know that the group within Nintendo EPD is a talented bunch, but how was I ever going to be able to fully throw myself into another 3D adventure, with the all-timer &#8216;Jump Up Superstar&#8217; sequence lurking at the back of my brain?<\/p>\n<p>This was my overwhelming thought as I made my way through Bananza&#8217;s opening layer. It was all fantastic, but I couldn&#8217;t shake the feeling that I&#8217;d seen these slick moves and shiny object hunts before, albeit with a touch more punching this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big DK energy. Even though it confirmed my suspicions, the reveal that Donkey Kong Bananza was coming to us from the team behind Super Mario Odyssey couldn&#8217;t help but strike a little bit of fear into my heart. We know that the group within Nintendo EPD is a talented bunch, but how was I ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1333,"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\/1331"}],"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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}