{"id":757,"date":"2025-07-16T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:14:16","slug":"donkey-kong-bananza-review-the-first-nintendo-switch-2-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/donkey-kong-bananza-review-the-first-nintendo-switch-2-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Bananza review &#8211; the first Nintendo Switch 2 masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last decade or so, Donkey Kong fans have had it pretty rough. The last real standalone game we got was 2014\u2019s Tropical Freeze, and while it was a lot of fun, it didn\u2019t feel like the revitalizing breath of fresh air that the series was longing for. Then, during this year\u2019s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct showcase, the Japanese gaming giant revealed <strong>Donkey Kong Bananza<\/strong>, the second 3D platformer in the history of the series after 1999\u2019s Donkey Kong 64. Since then, I\u2019ve barely been able to think about anything else.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/donkey-kong-bananza\/review\">Donkey Kong Bananza review &#8211; the first Nintendo Switch 2 masterpiece<\/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>For the last decade or so, Donkey Kong fans have had it pretty rough. The last real standalone game we got was 2014\u2019s Tropical Freeze, and while it was a lot of fun, it didn\u2019t feel like the revitalizing breath of fresh air that the series was longing for. Then, during this year\u2019s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct showcase, the Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}