When the Switch 2 was properly unveiled, I couldn't really get past Mario Kart World in terms of my excitement – after years of waiting, a new Mario Kart title was everything I wanted, and it ate up the first couple of weeks of having a Switch 2 in my hands. Donkey Kong Bananza was a bit of a footnote for me, something that I thought I'd pick up because it was at least fully native to the console and promised a bit of fun.
In fact, despite being a big Nintendo fan stretching back as far as the Game Boy Color, I'd never actually played a Donkey Kong game. The stars hadn't aligned in a way that brought a cartridge in my direction back when I was a kid, and its more recent titles just hadn't been on my radar for whatever reason.
