I’ve not had much time with Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo’s latest triumph of game design. Yes, this is partly because video games must fight with my other interests to get a piece of my spare time pie (this is a small pie, in case you need it spelling out), but it’s also because my kids won’t stop playing it. My son, a Mario Odyssey completionist, was obviously going to be keen on DK’s Switch 2 debut, but the real surprise in all this is just how much my four-year-old daughter has got in on the action. In my house we’ve now dubbed the ability for a second player to control Pauline’s shouts the “little sister mode,” and it’s brilliant fun. Well, it’s fun for everyone apart from my son.
