Dear Donkey Kong Bananza,

You were gifted to me for my birthday by my brother, and oh banana have you been a fun time. I really enjoyed my time with you, though I do feel like at times it dragged on a bit. I’m not going to lie, I think there were times when I felt like I would’ve been fine with one less sublayer. But oh my gosh, the ending. And the work up to the ending. Incredible. Even though the lyrics to the song are gibberish, I couldn’t get that dang Zebra song out of my head for weeks. Even now, just mentioning the Zebra song, it automatically starts playing in my head.

It felt so good to just wreck everything. It was a bit of an anger management sim lol. It just felt fun and controlled so well to punch everything you saw. I appreciated that. And Odd Rock. Oh Odd Rock! I wish you were in the game for longer. And you are one of those games that need to be played with the sound on. Because the music is good. It’s so much better with sound, and the sound design is also good. It just all works so well together. 
I also think it was so clever that in the final stage, in order to beat the final boss you made me use all the bananzas. Like you almost knew I hadn’t been using most of them during my gameplay. That final boss fight was harder than I expected, but I appreciate it because once I finally beat it I felt so good that I did it. I really enjoyed my time with you. You had some beautiful levels, some I still think about to this day. I know I didn’t come back to do any post game stuff, but that doesn’t mean I did not love my time with you. I mean, I stayed up way past my bedtime for you. My only quirk, is having you on the tv made me nauseous. I could only play you in handheld. Which I don’t mind, it’s my preferred way. But yeah, that was weird.

Anyway, I hope you’re doing well. You’ve got a DLC out, which I haven’t checked out and quite honestly, now that time has passed between us, I’m not really that interested in checking out. But thank you for the 20+ ish hours I spent with you.

Xoxo,

Jo