I like the game. Really original, it's quite cathartic to break almost everything, the game is very colorful and pleasant.
The more I see of it, the more desperate I am to play it, I am so in love with the concept of it and creativity, along with it being a new 3D DK game FINALLY, took them damn long enough! It really does seem to be the Mario Odyssey of DK games and that excites me even more.
Nintendo are in another renaissance lately, I hate the direction Zelda has gone in but I've bought the BOTW and TOTK games to try them as well as Switch OLED and some other games (I've got myself completely obsessed with and addicted to Hyrule Warriors all over again, Wallahi and RIP) and I'm totally regretting not buying a Switch 2 instead now LMAO. I really wanna try Mario Kart World too.
It's really weird to have a new Nintendo console with no flagship new Mario and Zelda games but they will come in time I imagine ofc.
I really love this detail of Pauline actually singing whilst on DK to make him transform, all lip synced and lovingly animated, so much charm, character and thus attention to detail too!:
This game already has the same kind of spirit, vibes, imagination as the games that brought me endless joy as a child, the games I fell in love with and made me want and actually try to become a games designer and developer too. Fuck man, it's like I'm reliving my best memories in a whole new form, somehow re-experiencing that wonder decades later through new eyes (metaphorically ofc).
For what it's worth, this is why I can never truly hate Nintendo and have gone back to them after so many years of swearing I would never. No other games company captured my heart so determinedly as Nintendo has done.
You could call this very Disney style with the direction Nintendo is going in, especially Wreck It Ralph here ofc, but I've always felt Nintend is the Disney of gaming and with them making that Super Mario World theme park, it fits even more so ofc.
If I could only go back in time and show my younger selves what Nintendo are doing now and the state of gaming (the good parts I mean ofc), they would cry so much and be stunned from the shock.
Fuck man, I have very few reasons in life to ever be happy anymore, I struggle to feel any happiness in general and enjoyment, ambition etc in anything but this sparks some hope, some long lost joy in me, it's cliché but going back to Nintendo lately has been helping to "save me" and bring me some good back into my life and make me less grumpy, cynical, despair laden and even numb at worst.
The transformations are so hilarious too, I would have loved more of them but oh well. They remind me of some of my favourite games, some of the best I've played and I love this sheer amount of creativity, like with Mario Odyssey. Mario Sunshine and Galaxy 1-2 were such great games as well and there are some things the new Zelda games do extremely well, both the main games and the more spinoff games like Echoes of Wisdom, Cadence of Hyrule (tried it out briefly, have an intense love/hate relationship with it so far but still appreciating it), Hyrule Warriors ofc and so on.
