Nintendo knew Donkey Kong Bananza wouldn’t be nearly as fun if you were destroying basic blocks: “It is more fun to destroy that which is beautiful”
Nintendo knew Donkey Kong Bananza wouldn’t be nearly as fun if you were destroying basic blocks: “It is more fun to destroy that which is beautiful”
by AlwaysBlaze_
11 Comments
rechambers
Is the timing of this article shading Pokopia 💀
mossylungs
DKB is boring. It’s just the exact same gameplay throughout just recolored. Got stale incredibly quick. I’m prepared for the downvotes 😇
automaticphil
Nintendo throwing shade at basic b’s.
ButtsFartsoPhD
If only the layers actually felt like real environments. There’s a night and day difference between the atmosphere and level design in Odyssey vs Bananza.
CptAwesomeMan
It sounds so sinister when you say it like that, but having played the game, they are so right. You can tell that the devs at Nintendo spend a lot of time thinking about the concept of “fun”
Dr_Nik
Actually, destroying what is beautiful is exactly the reason I don’t like this game…I would have loved this as a teenager, but as someone who has had anger issues in the past, DKB is asking me to abandon all the restraint and respect I developed over the past two decades for no real payback. When I break things I only feel shame. I couldn’t get past the second stage. My kids liked the game at least, so I get how this could be cathartic, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a popular game with the core mechanic bothered me on such a deep philosophical level.
pages10
I never thought about it before but I’d rather have blocks with some physics applied to them than the janky floating dirt slivers you end up with if you punch anything in bananza. The geometry gets very ugly and hard to navigate fast
Icalivy
That is the most disgusting Nintendo quote I’ve ever heard
DueAd9005
I definitely agree. If this was a blocky game like Minecraft I wouldn’t love it nearly as much.
That said, I do like Pokopia as well, but in a different way.
And Minecraft is great as well in what it does, but it has a different focus than a game like DK Bananza (more focus on building/survival and not destruction).
pay_the_cheese_tax
It reminded me of the quote in Fight Club where the protagonist beats the crap out of Jared Letto and says “I wanted to destroy something beautiful”
soliddd7
Ive been fantasizing about putting DK in pokopia though
11 Comments
Is the timing of this article shading Pokopia 💀
DKB is boring. It’s just the exact same gameplay throughout just recolored. Got stale incredibly quick. I’m prepared for the downvotes 😇
Nintendo throwing shade at basic b’s.
If only the layers actually felt like real environments. There’s a night and day difference between the atmosphere and level design in Odyssey vs Bananza.
It sounds so sinister when you say it like that, but having played the game, they are so right. You can tell that the devs at Nintendo spend a lot of time thinking about the concept of “fun”
Actually, destroying what is beautiful is exactly the reason I don’t like this game…I would have loved this as a teenager, but as someone who has had anger issues in the past, DKB is asking me to abandon all the restraint and respect I developed over the past two decades for no real payback. When I break things I only feel shame. I couldn’t get past the second stage. My kids liked the game at least, so I get how this could be cathartic, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a popular game with the core mechanic bothered me on such a deep philosophical level.
I never thought about it before but I’d rather have blocks with some physics applied to them than the janky floating dirt slivers you end up with if you punch anything in bananza. The geometry gets very ugly and hard to navigate fast
That is the most disgusting Nintendo quote I’ve ever heard
I definitely agree. If this was a blocky game like Minecraft I wouldn’t love it nearly as much.
That said, I do like Pokopia as well, but in a different way.
And Minecraft is great as well in what it does, but it has a different focus than a game like DK Bananza (more focus on building/survival and not destruction).
It reminded me of the quote in Fight Club where the protagonist beats the crap out of Jared Letto and says “I wanted to destroy something beautiful”
Ive been fantasizing about putting DK in pokopia though