Unleashing Thoughts On Donkey Kong Bananza

Jul 24, 2025

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Win Donkey Kong Bananza, Xenoblade Chronicles X, or Squeakross! Subscribe to The MinnMax Show and review us on Apple Podcasts (including your social media handle), we're randomly choosing three winners on Monday, July 28th. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-minnmax-show/id1484599827

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Jacob Geller, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman pile in to unpack our thoughts on Donkey Kong Bananza for the Nintendo Switch 2. Then we talk about Shadow Labyrinth, the new dark and atmospheric Pac-Man metroidvania from Bandai Namco and how to keep arcade franchises around in 2025. After that, we talk about the great new game that's Scrabble meets Balatro called Word Play from Mark Brown at Game Maker's Toolkit! Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:37 - Rumor Meister Tease

00:02:43 - Win a Nintendo game!

00:04:46 - Donkey Kong Bananza

00:48:17 - Hello Fresh

00:50:46 - Shadow Labyrinth

01:07:07 - Word Play