{"id":1119,"date":"2025-07-22T09:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:14:24","slug":"how-donkey-kong-bananza-made-me-finally-appreciate-the-iconic-nintendo-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/how-donkey-kong-bananza-made-me-finally-appreciate-the-iconic-nintendo-character\/","title":{"rendered":"How Donkey Kong Bananza made me finally appreciate the iconic Nintendo character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to say something controversial: I didn\u2019t really care for Super Mario Odyssey, as I always felt like the Galaxy duology was the red-capped plumber\u2019s best adventure. However, I still enjoyed my time with it, and I definitely prefer it to the long history of Donkey Kong games, which I understood the hype around, much to my editor\u2019s dismay. However, <strong>Donkey Kong Bananza<\/strong> has finally made me say, \u201cI get it\u201d when it comes to the villain-turned-hero in his first <strong>Nintendo<\/strong> <strong>Switch 2<\/strong> exclusive.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/donkey-kong-bananza\/appreciation\">How Donkey Kong Bananza made me finally appreciate the iconic Nintendo character<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/the-best-switch-games\">The best Switch games<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/new-switch-games\">The best upcoming Switch games<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/best-switch-rpgs\">The best Switch RPGs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to say something controversial: I didn\u2019t really care for Super Mario Odyssey, as I always felt like the Galaxy duology was the red-capped plumber\u2019s best adventure. However, I still enjoyed my time with it, and I definitely prefer it to the long history of Donkey Kong games, which I understood the hype around,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}