179: Honest First Impressions of Donkey Kong Bananza
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Hello!! Welcome to episode 179 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast and the exciting conclusion to Donkey Kong week! Wow, we had a great time and we hope you enjoyed all the videos this week as well. Now that we have Donkey Kong Bananza and have been playing the game on the Switch 2 non-stop, we want to share our first impressions of what we think of the game so far. We went in with SUPER high expectations so does this game live up to them? Also in this episode, we talk about Nintendo discontinuing the game voucher program and upcoming Nintendo Switch Online playtest. We wrap it all up with some great questions from our wonderful Patreon community. OH BANANA! Let's go!
0:00 - The bananas are getting too ripe in the studio!
11:33 - Honest thoughts about Donkey Kong Bananza after playing the game
1:07:00 - Games we are playing (Shadow Labyrinth, Cyberpunk 2077, Fantasy Life i)
1:18:15 - News news news
1:31:05 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have been playing Donkey Kong Bonanza non-stop. |
| 0:13.0 | Our bananas have rotted. |
| 0:16.0 | Banana. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, banana. |
| 0:19.0 | It's the last day of Donkey Kong week. We've lost it. And it reeked of bananas when we walked through the door. Yes, these bananas, we need to eat them or make them into banana bread. They did their service. I am giving them a respectful salute before I eat them later today. You had two yesterday. I'm going to eat them all today. Yeah, you ate it so... One after the other. |
| 0:38.2 | You ate it so fast, too. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm inspired. |
| 0:40.2 | Literally, you were like, I'm going to eat a banana, and then, like, one second later, |
| 0:43.2 | it was gone. I was like, whoa. Banana ain't no thing? You were eating it like Donkey Kong. I'll take it down. We are here, though, to tell you about what we think of the game so far. |
| 0:53.5 | We're playing nonstop. |
| 0:54.7 | I think I'm a bit further along than you. |
| 0:56.9 | We also did a couple of... here, though, to tell you about what we think of the game so far. We're playing nonstop. |
| 0:54.7 | I think I'm a bit further along than you. |
| 0:56.9 | We also did a couple gameplay videos on this channel. |
| 1:01.0 | And for Patreon, you know, just playing the game for the first time. |
| 1:04.9 | From the beginning? |
| 1:06.0 | And so, yeah, we have been playing, but we also have very high expectations. |
| 1:13.1 | We had very high expectations going into this game. |
| 1:17.1 | The hype just got more, more inflated as we learned more about this game. |
| 1:20.8 | Oh no, hype inflation. |
| 1:21.9 | Hype inflation. |
| 1:23.3 | In this economy? |
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