Mario + Hulk + Red Faction = Donkey Kong Bananza

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Donkey Kong Bananza isn't the game we expected Nintendo would create to launch the Switch 2. But we're so glad they made this weird, wonderful, and inverted platformer. Who needs to jump when you can smash? Plus, what other Nintendo series deserve the AAA treatment?

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0:00.0	Chris Plant, here's the deal. I have a, uh, the sides in front of me and really we just have
0:07.4	one line that we need you to do. And hopefully you can take as many tries as you want. You
0:13.7	don't need to get it perfect the first time through. But, uh, if you just read this line for us,
0:20.7	uh, just however you want to deliver it, and we'll go from there.
0:26.3	Okay.
0:27.9	Oh, banana.
0:29.9	Okay.
0:31.8	You don't sound so excited about the banana.
0:34.5	I want a little more enthusiasm like you just found a banana and you're pretty pumped about it.
0:40.3	Oh.
0:41.5	Banana?
0:43.0	Okay, now you're just confused. You don't know what a banana is. You've never seen a banana in your life.
0:48.5	You love bananas. You're a banana-loving creature. So I want to hear that in the delivery.
0:55.5	Ova Nana!
0:57.7	Okay, that's just, I don't know what that is.
1:01.7	Can you give me one more try?
1:03.4	Yeah, one more try. Go for it.
1:05.6	Oh, banana!
1:08.1	Okay, there it is.
1:09.7	Check the gate.
1:10.6	We got it.
1:11.9	He's got the job.
	...

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