Donkey Kong Bananza was launched last week and no wonder many people think it's a pretty good video game. Although it was not as highly evaluated as Super Mario Odyssey – the latest game created by the developers – he still managed to hit the metacritic and opencritic score of 91, making it one of the best games of the year and leaving Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 fans sweating bullets about the year.
It is quite a solid return for Donkey Kong, especially because it seems that Donkey Kong Bananza considers much more to be fans than critics. Now that a little time has passed, the fans seem to have decided that the game is actually the best platform ever made by Nintendo.
Donkey Kong Bananza is Nintendo the highest User Plateau ever
If you look at the top games on Metacritic sorted by user score, you will find that Donkey Kong Banaza is sitting at a very impressive score of 9.2, which is much higher than 8.7 scores that Super Mario Odyssey is currently enjoying. In fact, the only other game Nintendo is even near Donkey Kong Bananza is the legend of Zelda: Major's mask, which also has a user score of 9.2.
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I'm so glad we got Donkey Kong Bananza instead of Super Mario Odyssey 2
Donkey Bananza is not Super Mario Odyssey 2. In fact, I think it's even better.
This means that in the eyes of Nintendo fans, Donkey Kong Bananza is the best game that the company has ever created. In fact, the game is considered the best platform ever made because Donkey Kong Bananza is the highest rating on the website. The only one who is near Bananza is Banjo-Cazooi, which has a user score of 9.1.
Of course, we should absolutely take the score of a user with a pinch of salt, because they do not always guarantee quality. I could be out of the line by saying it, but I don't think people really believe that Disney Cory in the house is really an experience worthy of 9.3.
It is also worth emphasizing that Donkey Kong Bananza has much less reviews than the above games, so there is a lot of time to score up or down. You never know, Nintendo might accidentally decide to update the game with a feature that no one asked, and extremely ticked their entire fanbase.
Donkey Kong Bananza

- Released
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July 17, 2025
- Esrb
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All 10+ // fantasy violence
- Developers
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Nintendo
- Publisher (s)
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Nintendo
- Number of players
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Single-player