Unleashing Thoughts On Donkey Kong Bananza

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Video Games, Leisure, Games

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 153 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Jacob Geller, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman pile in to unpack our thoughts on Donkey Kong Bananza for the Nintendo Switch 2. Then we talk about Shadow Labyrinth, the new dark and atmospheric Pac-Man metroidvania from Bandai Namco and how to keep arcade franchises around in 2025. After that, we talk about the great new game that's Scrabble meets Balatro called Word Play from Mark Brown at Game Maker's Toolkit! Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:37 - Rumor Meister Tease

00:02:43 - Win a Nintendo game!

00:04:46 - Donkey Kong Bananza

00:48:17 - Hello Fresh

00:50:46 - Shadow Labyrinth

01:07:07 - Word Play

01:24:02 - Pokémon Presents

01:26:14 - Pokémon Friends

01:31:08 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:33:28 - Community questions

02:19:18 - Get A Load Of This

02:25:20 - Rumor Meister Message #4

Janet’s GALOT - https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-12/ice-raids-deported-los-angeles-cats-and-dogs-left-behind

Jacob's GALOT - https://youtu.be/kRqxyqjpOHs?si=Hm30DZiQR4KuzWNv

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUTZ0fY1y0c

JeffM's GALOT - http://neal.fun

Bosman's GALOT - https://us.mentos.com/products/mentos-mints-with-vitamins

Community GALOT - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWI-UVkD_-M

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Minnags show.
0:07.0	I'd argue it's a damn huge. Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of The Minmax Show.
0:23.8	I'd argue it's a damn huge episode of the Minmack show.
0:26.3	I'm Ben Hansen, joined by Kelsey Lewin and her pet bird.
0:30.0	Waka, waka.
0:30.8	We're joined by Jacob Geller.
0:32.7	Oh, banana.
0:34.1	Join back Kyle Hilliard.
0:36.4	Hello.
0:37.3	I don't expect him more bananas from you. Jeff Mark your father. Jacob, Bucknine. I get joined by Kyle Hilliard. Hello. I don't expect more bananas from you.
0:39.3	Jeff Mark your father.
0:39.9	Jacob, McName.
0:40.8	I get it.
0:41.5	That's me.
0:42.3	You talked over.
0:43.7	Forget it.
0:44.4	Janet Garcia.
0:46.9	Hi, my cat left.
0:48.4	Perfect.
0:49.0	And we're joined by Kyle Bossman guest cohorts.
0:51.7	Oh, he's here, everybody.
1:00.0	Everybody has gathered for a huge conversation about some new game called Donkey Kong Bananza. We need to give this game the discussion it deserves, not with the deepest dive, but with
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