Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "DONKEY KONG BANANZA DIRECT 6.18.2025"

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

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Pour one out for the drop the price movement. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Like, sometimes I'd be talking with my girl Leara, and I'd just be looking at the whole landscape of music. And then sometimes I just realized to myself, y'all really had a whole movement, and you dropped the ball. You know, with this being halfway into the year, of course,

And if people would have sat out at least a month or two sticking to the drop the price movement, guess what? Nintendo would have folded because they would have been very, they would have been, they would have been definitely aware of the quarter for sales needing to be at a certain level to where they would have discounted the prices, right? to have those quarter four earnings looking glorious. So for the earnings call, they could tell their investors, hey, look, this is how much we sold when they dropped the prices, right? But of course, people making the Switch 2, the fastest selling console ever, is what is on pace to be, you know, objectively speaking. If we look up, let me give you the actual number, right?

Just in case people think I'm making up stuff. So when it comes to Nintendo, switch to, it's set to become the fastest flagship console ever, selling more than 3.5 million units in its first four days, which goes back to my point of the drop-the-price movement being the worst movements we've ever seen in gaming history. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? So with that being said, of course, Donkey Kong Bonanza is here to capitalize

off of the movement because guess what this is not going to drop in price at all because you know what they already tested you they tested your chin like every boxer does in the boxing match and let's just say y'all folded so donkey connanzas is definitely going to come out at full price i want to be surprised if they bumped it up to 90 you know i'm saying but you know to be fair the game is priced at 70 currently so as far as me looking this up and looking at the actual price it is 70 dollars now as far as the $80 price tag. I think they only reserved that for Mario Kart World, which you already know all the controversy that came up about that. But Donkey Kong is 70. And the reason why I talk about the prices is because I wouldn't be surprised if they come out with a version that's $90 or $100 because

guess what? They're like, if y'all going to throw money at us like this, then we might as well not even be fair with the prices. So anyways, let's get into the trailer for Donkey Kong. Well, now, this is a deep dive. So of course, we're going to skip around. But as far as the beginning, let's get into Donkey Kong Bonanza right now. analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio when the world okay they're starting off with a little song you gotta love it they said we're gonna give you some tunes oh they're supposed to be friends i'm kind of confused this man to found him another buddy now you know what being a cover of music you know what i want to know

are they gonna change his son's name because if you don't know i gotta do it if you don't have first i thought nintendo was being funny right but um this is actually his son's name now some would say that the name right now is going under a lot of turmoil what i would say is i would find it hard to believe that ditty kong would be left out of this game right so i just want to see are they going to include ditty in this game and what did he be bringing the baby or okay my fault let's get back into the trailer. Alright, so where Diddy Kong get? That's all I want to know.

They're gonna stick to the source material? Okay. Discovery of the century made right here on Ingot Isle. I do like bananas. You know, I gotta get your potassium in. Donkey Kong. However, just as he's about to enjoy the notable nanas, a sudden tempest sends him deep.

As his adventure begins, D.K teams up with Odd Rock. Okay, I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't like, didn't that rock just explode into a whole woman? I'm so confused It's no rock at all. It's actually a talented young singer named Pauline Oh, so that is Pauline. I thought that was a whole new character. Pauline looks different from from Odyssey. Let me see Pauline Odyssey. So as far as what I'm used to her looking like It's kind of close, but you know, it's a little different. Hold up. Can I show this? Let me see. There you go.

Trying to give a close comparison. So this is why I'm used to her looking like. Obviously, it looks a little different. But, you know, I guess they got, like going over these other pictures, I guess it makes sense. Why is Mario? But anyways, you can tell why I didn't even, I didn't even know that was Pauline at first. She looked way different in the Odyssey, but I guess different art style. Now, Donkey Kong just wants bananas.

And Pauline wants to find a way. back home to the surface. Hey, she's like, get me away from Dr. Khan. I'm trying to go back to my New York. The story takes place in the underground. All right, and that's what we're going to do. We're just going to give you the first two minutes. So actually, I do want to jump in a little bit.

Let me see the gameplay. Dr. Umar, we're not like this. Some are mysterious and aren't too bothered by D.K. Oh. I'm about saying. Why he just pushed that man? Kong and his companion Ramby are also That's how y'all be.

It looks like cranky Kong. Back in my day, we had a bunch of sports games to play for him. This is how y'all look. Back in my day, it wasn't just old 2K. It wasn't just madden. We had NFL Street. We had NBA Live.

We had NBA Street. We had all type of basketball and football games. But nowadays, you young blood is just out here playing the same same sports games oh back in my day and his companion rambi are also venturing through the layers of the world then there are the giant elders all right not to you it looks fire after looking at the gameplay my score i mean my initial reaction um definitely became more positive

because you know at the beginning i didn't know what was happening it was just a whole rock i'm like this man if i'd about to go through a whole game with a rock as a companion but of course um pauline being with donkey con i think that would help out lot because you know Mario um Pauline mission so it's definitely the standout I was say an Odyssey especially from just the overall world being so unique just putting Mario in that setting because usually you see Mario in different galaxies you see him in the desert you see a lot of different things for Mario so to see him in New York with the Pauline character and the setting work with the Mario mechanics I think

Odyssey definitely is one of the better Mario games in my opinion but you know of course you know i'm opening for debate so with that being said uh donkey kong banaza definitely looks like a great continuation of the overall platforming addition for the nintendo platform so um with that being said click my link to my bio let me know one of my social me oh wait hold up hold up y'all probably want to know when does this game come out and that's that's definitely a huge deal so donkey kong um is coming to the switch to july July 17th, 2025. So yeah, July 17th.

So that's a huge date to pinpoint because of you either had to get a switch two by then, which you already know. There's a story out there about 3,000. Switch 2's got straight a boom gang from a, I don't know if it was a GameStop truck. I think it was a GameStop truck, right? It was 3,000 switch units.

They pulled it over like a continuation of a GTA heist. and stole it with the with the quickness you know expeditiously got out of there with 3 000 switch 2 units so um and reportedly it lost game stop over like 1.2 million dollars it was a pretty big deal uh like literally if i type in it right now it probably just pop up let me see game stop switch 2 let me just type in heights yeah uh someone robbed 1.4 million worth of nintendo switch 2 consoles Look at this. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.

Who in the world? Shepherd. Just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Like, sometimes I think to myself, what is going on through your minds to steal 3,000 consoles? Not consoles, because, you know, I can understand.

But 3,000 Switch 2s? Like, do you not know that Nintendo would brick your console with the quickness? It's the reason why all of these initial launches of the Switch 2s is coming back with people staple in the screens. We shout out the GameStaw for that. which is why they probably stole it in the first place um joycons drifted um uh orange screen

of death you know y'all remember the red screen uh the red ring of death for xbox 360 apparently for the switch two you getting the orange screen to death or the red screen whatever it is it's breaking down basically and then somebody wrote a whole dissertation talking about the doc not working i'm like goodness this is one of the worst um reviews i've ever seen for from a popular a console. It's almost like y'all should have listened to me when I said to support the drop the price movement. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Anyway, that's my side tangent. You know, at some point, you know, I just tried to say things

to help you out, but y'all spend your hard on money and wonder why the staple was connected to the screen and no longer works. So anyways, that being said, click my link to my bio. Let me know one of my social media. What do you think about Donkey Kong Bonanza? And once again, it is coming out July 17th of this year so click my link to my bio let me know one of my social media is what do you think about donkey Kong bananas and all you're looking forward to getting this game when it eventually comes out July 17th 2025