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Donkey Kong Bananza review

A brilliant core mechanic and clever design make Donkey Kong Bananza a delightfully sticky 3D platform adventure topped off with a sweet central partnership.

Bananza's late-game spectacle feels like a direct descendant of Mario Odyssey's wedding set piece, but also exactly the sort of thing that its new-to-Nintendo project lead might bring to the table. You can't completely flatten a level - the broad framework is set out in unbreakable material, quite often metal girders reminiscent of the original Donkey Kong's backgrounds - but vast swathes of the terrain can be obliterated. There's a hierarchy of hardness (oo-er missus) - so that means that stone will smash thorny terrain or mountains made of dirt or sand to bits, but if you want to break down concrete you'll need a chunk of something harder like obsidian to hand.

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