OOOOOOOH BANANA!!! - Let's Play (Blind) - Donkey Kong Bananza - Part 1 (+ Fanart)

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Chapters:

00:00 - BRB Starts
05:08 - Game Starts
4:16:42 - End of Stream Talk
4:20:40 - FANART TIME, ZAMERS!!!

GAME: Donkey Kong Bananza
AUTHOR: Nintendo

Donkey Kong Bananza is a 3D platformer and adventure game that emphasizes destruction and open-world exploration. Journalists have compared it to Super Mario Odyssey (2017), with some describing it as a successor. As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the player seeks to collect the Banandium Gems, golden banana-shaped diamonds, while exploring sandbox-like levels in an underground world. Each underground layer has a unique theme, including ice, lava, and tropical biomes. Donkey Kong can roll, punch, slap the terrain, pick up and throw objects, and climb most surfaces. The player learns five animal-themed power-up transformations from non-player character (NPC) elders: a gorilla transformation that increases Donkey Kong's strength; a zebra transformation that increases his speed; an ostrich transformation that allows him to glide and drop egg bombs; an elephant transformation that allows him to inhale and spit terrain; and a snake transformation that increases his jump height. The player can use and swap between transformations at any time, though their duration is limited by an energy meter. Donkey Kong travels to Ingot Isle to search for Banandium Gems amidst a gold rush. A mining company, VoidCo., steals the gems to power its ship. VoidCo.'s president, Void Kong, seeks to travel to the planetary core to find the Banandium Root, a magical object that grants the wishes of its wielder, and obtain riches. Donkey Kong is swept underground, where he rescues Odd Rock. They discover a vast Hollow Earth-like region inhabited by animal societies and their ancient elders. An enormous Kong elder grants Donkey Kong transformative powers and restores Odd Rock to its true self, the teenage girl Pauline. She explains that Void Kong kidnapped her, believing her singing voice could awaken the root. After Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (EPD) Production Group No. 8 completed Super Mario Odyssey, EPD's senior general manager Yoshiaki Koizumi—who directed Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (2004)—asked the team to develop a 3D Donkey Kong game. The last original Donkey Kong game was Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014), and Koizumi wanted to expand the franchise. Furthermore, Nintendo had not developed a Donkey Kong game internally since Jungle Beat, and wanted to establish separate 2D and 3D Donkey Kong series as they had with the Super Mario series. The Odyssey director Kenta Motokura, who worked as a character artist on Jungle Beat, was assigned as producer. Motokura said EPD wanted to innovate as Donkey Kong (1981) had with story-driven gameplay and varied stage design and Donkey Kong Country (1994) had with pre-rendered graphics, using the skills they gathered from developing Super Mario games. The team consulted Koizumi and Donkey Kong's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, to better understand Donkey Kong; they emphasized Donkey Kong's strength. Koizumi highlighted his large arms as distinguishing him from Mario, while Miyamoto highlighted his wild, goofy nature and varied abilities, such as slapping terrain.

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