Ba Ba Ba... Ba Ba Banana!

Hello my people! Your favorite Miicord Crew streamer gets the oh so amazing honor of being the first to showcase a game for the Winter Jackpot 2026! Isn't it amazing? And I am very... VERY thankful that I wasn't given a stupid dumb piece of shit game like... Big Rigs or Golf With Your Grandmother or even fucking Rock Simulator. Also what the fuck was V thinking getting those games? I swear I think he legit wasted money on some of these games. Nevertheless, I didn't even end up getting one of the new PC games to play. I actually ended up getting Donkey Kong Bananza, a Switch 2 exclusive game. It's... not fully my type of game. But I'd say it's still better than several other games.

So we have some monkey business going around and underneath it all is our hero himself. Right off the bat I get one of many banana's I will be helping DK collect on his journey. Seems like DK too is working in the mines and his ability to just POUND rock walls helps especially for the other miner monkeys. In my mining adventure, I collect me some gold and eventually the Banana-Mining Belt... Banana. Seems like there was another monkey waiting to eat that one I just collected. OH WELL TOO BAD SO SAD! A little scared pussy ass monkey is pissing their pants because of a few very non-hostile enemies surrounding it. I mean seriously I stare at those guys and they pop. And my reward? A heaping pile of precious gold to collect! I mean seriously this monkey has been holding at least 10 years worth of gold here! AND IT'S ALL MINE BITCHES! Once I collect gold, I am off to collect another banana... but hold your horses. It ain't that easy. A violent force is sucking everything up including our big guy himself. And whatever this big magma ball is pushes the Ingot Isle down deep into the ground. Seems like though everyone miraculously survived. Damn... no brutal bloody death? Come on Nintendo you can go a little wild once in a while. A few barrel cannons are able to blast me higher. But one very important one is unusable because of some liquid metal that conveniently covered it up and hardened. Ain't that nice? Along with that, down the road is this interesting rock I pick up... oh it's alive too... and it doesn't like DK. Fucking thing is monkeyist. But singing to it makes it trust me? Sure... okay. At least it has a useful ability that helps me show where I need to go and can break seals. Like some that hold down this one device to when I break it, it melts away the metal that covered the last barrel cannon! FREEDOM! HELL YEAH!... well... not much freedom that I thought. Headed up higher lies a rock monster I must take down. Which is actually easier done than said. I rip the key out of its ass and break the monkey face statue which reveals a triple banana. Once again though, it's not just a free gimme. I have to earn it by jumping down a massive hole taking me to the Lagoon Layer!

It's not a Nintendo game if there ain't some sort of tropical region. I collect my bananas. Collecting 5 of them gets me a skill point that I use to upgrade my health from 3 to 4 hearts. One of the monkeys I meet on this island is a complete dick to me. But another seems more worried about the lack of water this place has and wants me to fix it. Certain block chunks sit around the island. They contain boom bomb energy. Taking a piece and chucking it does indeed make shit go boom. Once I take down another rock monster fuck, I'm able to rush down, and get 3 more bananas. From there on I find one of many challenge courses. This one is very... thorny. Pretty easy. Avoid the thorns and get the bananas. I get another skill point and this time I level up my jump shot. So if you didn't recognize it already... this game has a very Mario Odyssey like feel. It makes sense as apparently Nintendo actually started to develop Donkey Kong Bananza right after they finished Mario Odyssey. I blow up some more thorns and find the 2nd moon of this challenge area and eventually the 3rd. There's a shop I run into and I collect some Red Britches which increases my swimming. It's like costumes in Mario Odyssey but if they were fucking useful. Now it's time to solve the water flow crisis. There's a concrete pillar not too far from me. I blow that sucker up and that opens up one of many clogged water pipes. Another one is a big higher up. Once I figure out how to get up, I climb across the mesh fence thing and find another banana. I find another challenge area first before getting to the 2nd pillar. Those monkeys can wait. They'll be fine. This challenge area is a bit tougher. I have to hang on to the wire mesh above me and break down walls in my way. I end up using my 2 safety balloons along the way. But I'm still able to make it to the 1st banana of the area. The 3rd one is at the end of the area. The 2nd one is a little more tricky to get. I have to make my way across these moving walls with holes in them. But it's so fucking hard to get through them especially if you can't see the damn holes because the walls are like 2 inches apart from each other! After taking so many unnecessary deaths and also losing a shit load of gold, I actually found it was easier to just bust down the walls and get the last banana.

Why go through the pre-made holes in the walls when I can just make my own holes?