Donkey Kong Bananza And The Complicated Pac-Man Metroidvania

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4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, we rave about Donkey Kong Bananza on Switch 2, which shines on the new Nintendo console, and the complicated Pac-Man Metroidvania called Shadow Labyrinth. We also recommend a great new stealth game, Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream, praising it for its gorgeous art direction and brilliant final act. Finally, Charles rounds out the podcast episode, briefly chatting about the Bravely Default HD remaster and a house-decorating Picross-like puzzler called Squeakcross.

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00:00 - Introduction
06:53 - Donkey Kong Bananza
36:33 - Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (New Stealth Game)
50:55 - Shadow Labyrinth (Pac-Man Metroidvania)
01:02:57 - Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
01:08:16 - Squeakross

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game industry.
0:26.5	Join us every Thursday for discussion with the latest gaming news, reviews, and exclusive reveals alongside Game and Homer staff and special guests around the industry.
0:35.8	I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken, aka a Yonkevong.
0:39.9	And today I'm joined by Chonky Hong.
0:42.9	How you doing, Chonky Hong?
0:44.6	Hello, you know, chonking, hunging around.
0:48.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:49.2	Of course, your human name is Charles Hart.
0:52.2	Thank you for joining us today, Charles.
0:54.3	And rounding out the show today, we've got Wanky Long.
0:59.1	Oh, my God.
1:00.1	Feeling very long, feeling very wonky.
1:03.2	Wesley, LeBlanc, how you doing?
1:05.5	I'm doing pretty good.
1:06.7	Excited to be here, excited to fully embrace my Kong.
1:12.4	Yeah.
1:13.4	I'll say of the Kong names we have, Wonky Kong for sure could be one.
1:19.4	Wonky long.
1:20.4	It might be.
1:21.4	I'm saying if it was just Wong Kong.
1:23.4	Oh, if it was just Kong.
1:24.4	And you told me that existed and he was just like, oh, side-year, you're on DK-64, I'd
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