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Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z Kai are my favorite things to watch ever, and as I'm rewatching the series, I honestly find their bonds and friends across the original and Z Kai to be really cute, wholesome and sweet! I always loved Krillin, he's nowhere near as powerful as Goku and Gohan but he was brave enough to still put up fights with beings like Frieza, he was honestly really good in the Namek/Frieza too! I love his attitude in the original DB and how much more tame he is in Z! Seeing how he'd always so happy to see Goku, like in the Cell Saga when Goku recovers from the virus is very sweet! Even when Frieza blew him up, the poor guy cried out Goku's name before exploding! Also both Goku and Krillin in Z at least are silly yet can still get serious, so they really do match lol!

Anyways, does anyone else think Goku's and Krillin's relationship throughout the original Dragon Ball and Z/Kai to be really cute, wholesome and sweet? :)

I have a lot of favorites, but Bananza has won my heart as my number 1 favorite game of all time! All throughout the game it's incredibly fun and satisfying, I don't find it repetitive, boring or braindead, there's multiple things you can go and you don't just destroy, it's not even that easy imo, especially when you only have 5 -6 hearts like I do, you can also never use the Skill Tree in the main game, I even think the OST is underrated and shading, but while I do enjoy every layer greatly, and it'll never get old and boring for me no matter how many times I played it, the finale is my favorite part from the Forbidden Layer to the final picture end screen! It has my favorite version of DK and it has my favorite version of its true twist villain and his return, King K Rool! He is my favorite villain of all time, Bananza has my favorite version of him and Bananza has my favorite final bosses of all time!! It's not only a percent return but a percent final fun challenge with great difficulty imo!

I love the Void Kong boss fight too, he's my close second favorite villain ever and both of his bosses are amazing too, especially his final one! I love his design too! Bananza's Planet Core and New Donk City is my favorite video game finale of all time, with it's music, to K Rool returning, it's atmosphere, it's visuals, the challenge, even tho it's more linear, it's still really fun to go through, the return of the Kremling Krew with their original grunts, the corrupted NDC section is amazing and fun to go through through all for it to be a perfect build to the the final boss! I love all of K Rool's designs and forms in this game, his Banandiam King K Rool form, his original form, him with the propeller pack and his Bananza K Rool King of Rot forms! Each phase is pretty challenging and incredibly fun to fight and go through, even the second phase being the easier and simplest, it's still really fun, satisfying, epic and hype! The Fake Kredits returning with that amazing remix of Gangplank Galleon, the best drop as K Rool wakes up and crashes out is all perfect too imo! All of DK's Bananza forms are useful in these fights too depending on how you fight him! I also love his attacks and new blunderbuss! Punching his giant cannon ball back and whaling on him with punches is incredibly satisfying imo! One of my favorite things about K Rool is while he sometimes uses brute strength, magical or not, he relies on weapons and tech most of the time, which perfectly differentiates him from Bowser! The arenas you fight him in are really cool and visually appealing too imo! I also love that we can suck up the rotten banandiam mush and throw chunks when he's vacuuming to clog him up like in DKC2 and then it explodes doing a bit of damage to him and cleaning up most of the mess ! Finally, the final slow motion punch sending him flying off again is incredibly satisfying too like in DKC2 once again!

Anyways, Bananza is an amazing masterpiece and makes getting the Switch 2 worth it imo! The finale with the Forbidden Layer, Void Kong final boss fight, K Rool's Return, Planet Core, Corrupted New Donk City, the 3 phased final boss fight with K Rool and ending are the most enjoyable time I ever had in a game! Super Mario Galaxy 1 Bowser's Galaxy Reactor and final Bowser boss fight is a close second tho! What are your opinions on Donkey Kong Bananza's finale and final bosses? :)

I love the connections and friendship with these characters, it wasn't just with DK and Pauline, but it was always in the series since the first DKC! In DKC1, Donkey and Diddy Kong are best friends and when you switch them they give each other a double high five from behind, in the credits they playfully beat each other up and mess with each other as bros, then in DKC2 Dixie joined Diddy to support her bf even when it's extremely dangerous, they playfully kick each other from behind like his healthy playful relationships can act, they trust each other to carry one another and throw each other, and in the true ending you see Donkey Kong having a hand over Diddy's shoulder while watching Crocodile Isle sink like he's saying without any words "I'm so proud of you, little buddy!", in Tropical Freeze, we have the team attack turning everyone into extra hearts, balloons and banana coins while giving each other high fives and ofc in Bananza with DK giving Pauline a beat to encourage her to sing, how terrified and heartbroken DK was when Pauline was swallowed by the brainwashed eel, and in the ending Pauline realizing she needs to let DK follow his dreams even if they won't see each other again in a while, DK looking concern and sad, getting distracted by bananas, but immediately snapping back to look sad and concern again cuz he cares about his family and friends more than bananas only for Pauline to encourage him to go and she'll be okay with a chest beat just like how DK did with her! It's all so wholesome, cute and sweet and it makes the DK games my favorite franchise ever, all without any words and without DK hardly saying much in Bananza!

Then we have K Rool and Void Kong who are the opposite of their friendships and connection! With us learning from Klubba how K Rool treated the Kremlings and betraying him if paid with Krem Coins, to him possibly cutting the Kritters legs off for peg legs to match the pirate theming, to eventually the Kremlings loosing loyalty to him due to his mistreatment and being the cause of losing their home! Eventually he had to hide behind, build and control Kaos to control the rest of the Kremlings in the Northern Kremisphere and you saw how he treated his Kremling Krew in DK64! Then we have him calling his Kremling Krew toothless and useless and a sign message saying how the Kremlings still feared their King! Void Kong is about the same way, overworking Poppy and Grumpy, I think he underpays them, all for his own gain and greed that eventually leads them to quitting and befriending DK!

I really enjoy this aspect of the DK games, it says something about the Odyssey Team being true DK fans when they even got the theming of friendship and connections against the opposites right in Bananza! It makes the DK series my favorite franchise ever, with DKC2 and Bananza being my top favorite games of all time! What do you guys think? :)