As I crashed and smashed my approach to the primary official stage of Donkey Kong Bananza, the Lagoon Layer, I used to be excited to take a look at how the builders of Tremendous Mario Odyssey would go above and past with customization. I wished to make DK look fly as hell. Or a minimum of costume him up like Waluigi.
Throughout my cease on the Lagoon Layer Model Store, the equal of the Loopy Cap shops in Odyssey, I picked up the Treasure Tie, an ensemble-clincher that was additionally most helpful for my treasure-hunting journey. Bananza being a collectathon, and having the 100%-everything mind worms, I wished to get each Banandium Gem and each fossil. With the banana-adorned yellow tie, which elevated the possibility for locating Treasure Chests below the rock, I noticed clues to fossil and banana places popping up all over the place. I additionally picked up some pants for DK that elevated his swim velocity — no diss to Donkey Kong’s unique britches, however they’re meh and missing in bonus options.
The factor with the outfits and costume choices in Bananza is that only a few of what you’ll be able to choose up in later phases tops these unique purchases. They’re simply not that particular! Or cool-looking. So I’m by no means searching via the chances, desirous to unlock all of it to see the way it appears to be like in movement on DK or Pauline. A hat is a hat. A tie is a tie. And due to that, I spent the whole thing of my Donkey Kong Bananza playthrough, nearly 30 hours, sporting the identical actual factor: the fantastic Treasure Tie.
I went to the following layer’s model store and the following layer and the layer after that to perhaps discover a minimum of one stable outfit that I’d hold DK in for the remainder of the sport, or maybe a lewk half as iconic because the Tremendous Mario 64 polygonal go well with in Odyssey. Hell, I’d have taken the chance to simply chill and roam with no shirt, boxer shorts, and a backwards cap. It’s simply not the identical.
Even the act of buying outfits in Bananza isn’t as gratifying as it’s in Tremendous Mario Odyssey, as a result of the forex that you need to use in Bananza (Fossils) isn’t as satisfying to gather because the Purple Cash in Mario’s 2017 journey. These cash again then have been positioned so fastidiously and delicately, they have been typically hidden in locations you labored exhausting to search out, otherwise you may’ve thought have been inaccessible.
In Bananza, not solely are there means too many fossils, however most of them will be positioned by randomly breaking all the pieces in your path. Is it enjoyable at first to be a monster and actually tear the world layer by layer? Nicely, sure. Sure, it’s. However it will get outdated, and monitoring fossils down isn’t enjoyable with out the prizes to lure you in.
The style sport may be a unique state of affairs if the bonus results on the outfits you discover in a while have been spectacular and game-changing, however they’re pretty mundane. Improve the quantity of well being you acquire with apples? By sporting an unsightly apple tie? I’m not incentivized by making a comparatively simple sport simpler.
You possibly can turn out to be invisible, however few enemies must be thrown astray in that means. You possibly can enhance the possibility of getting Banandium Chips, however fossils and gems are extra vital. Even Pauline’s outfit results are primarily concerned with preserving your Bananza Types going for longer. Nonetheless, everybody who’s performed Bananza is aware of that the varieties already final an affordable period of time, and with the ability to freely swap between them already appears like dishonest.
Possibly at some point I’ll get the Halloween DLC I so deeply crave, however proper now, my goals of dressing up and always switching my outfits round to match the encompassing setting have been dashed. Let the ape put on a Mario outfit! Give him a Hyperlink tunic! Let him run round in boxer shorts or one thing, please.
Within the subsequent 3D Mario sport (quickly, please), I don’t need Mario to get 5% poison resistance for sporting a silly hat. I simply need him to strut round in some enjoyable garments. Let the residents of Mushroom Kingdom, Kong Isle, and New Donk Metropolis work it, Nintendo.
