Bananaguy

Bananaguy is a cute 2D platformer seasoned with good humor, goofy characters, pleasant music, and colorful worlds. The game can be finished in a few hours or less but 100% completion will require you to spend some time exploring a bit. Finally unlocking the "Find all powercoins in the game!" achievement was very satisfying for me knowing that I'd combed through every corner of this game to find them all. I highly doubt I will ever finish the game in under 20 minutes but I'm more or less at peace with that.

A really delightful little platformer/collectathon. Feels a little like Mario Odyssey with the way it heaps rewards on you for doing just about anything. And just like Mario Odyssey when you continue your game after finishing the main quest the world is repopulated by new NPC's from all the the lands you've visited, having their own adventures. It's all very adorable, even with all the swearing. If I have any complaints, it's that the wall jump feels a little finicky. You have to wait a beat for the "sticking to wall" animation to play to jump off of it. Also, I found a bug where you'll get stuck if you open the Coin menu while playing the coconut kicking video game and have to close the game to escape.

This Game is truly Bananas, also did you know why did the monkey like the banana? Because it had appeal.

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This is one of those times where the recommendation is up to what you want to take out of this game. For the casual gamer it can provide enough content for a somewhat wacky experience. From lines filled with comedic banter befitting the world of your banana character, goofy interactions with the environment and a bunch of stages to explore while looking for coins and completing mini side quests. It doesn’t overstay its welcome, the tracks fit the simplistic and bubbly aesthetics and by the end you realize that the developer just wanted to create a short experience to make people smile. Having said that, for those looking for a platformer with competent controls like yours truly it’s a shame to be flawed in that department. In fact, one can attest to that by dealing with an imprecise double jump mechanic to trying to complete some really annoying mini quests in pursuit of collectibles such as kicking a coconut to a frustratingly moving character or racing on a slippery pig’s back. Furthermore, some characters just wouldn’t stop yapping even without a prompt to talk to them, glitches here and there would teleport you to different places and some infuriating obstacle placement by the end made speedrun and no hit runs a test for patience more than anything. To me it comes as a bit of a disappointment considering I was willing to go the extra mile with it. In the end it’s quite the task to eclipse its several problems with what it could’ve been.