Donkey Kong Bananza is my first platformer.

I’m having a blast so far. I have been looking for a game to scratch that TOTK/BOTW itch since I’ve replayed those games over and over due to their near-infinite replay ability in my mind. While Bananza isn’t exactly open world, the openness of the layers allows me to explore how I want without a strict linear progression. This is probably why I haven’t been into platformers until now. Donkey Kong’s abilities also make progression really fun, and the combination of his abilities to travel is excellent, even outside of the Bananza abilities. I’d like to see more of this inventiveness from Nintendo in the future.