{"id":777,"date":"2025-07-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/for-nintendo-freedom-means-more-than-an-open-world\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:00:00","slug":"for-nintendo-freedom-means-more-than-an-open-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/for-nintendo-freedom-means-more-than-an-open-world\/","title":{"rendered":"For Nintendo, freedom means more than an open world"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"Donkey Kong Bananza.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/NS2_DonkeyKongBananza_SCRN_14.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tDonkey Kong Bananza.\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In past <em>Donkey Kong<\/em> games, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/1\/17301860\/nintendo-switch-ports-wii-u-obsolete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tropical Freeze<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24343009\/donkey-kong-country-returns-hd-review-nintendo-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>DKC Returns<\/em><\/a>, I would often find myself stuck against a particularly challenging platforming sequence. And there wasn&rsquo;t much I could do. If I wanted to progress, I had to nail those jumps or avoid those spikes to move on. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games-review\/707704\/donkey-kong-bananza-review-nintendo-switch-2\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games-review\/707704\/donkey-kong-bananza-review-nintendo-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a><\/em>, on the other hand, offers a different tactic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/nintendo\/703468\/donkey-kong-bananza-developer-interview-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smash some shit up<\/a>. While the game is a 3D platformer, it also introduces destructive gameplay that lets you find new solutions or pathways just by smashing up the world around you. It perfectly suits the character, and also builds on a design trend Nintendo has steadily been pushing on for years now. In some \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/nintendo\/707449\/donkey-kong-bananza-switch-2-nintendo-design-open-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey Kong Bananza. In past Donkey Kong games, like Tropical Freeze or DKC Returns, I would often find myself stuck [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}