Eight years after Super Mario Odyssey was released, Nintendo just showed off a game that feels eerily similar to the beloved Switch platformer – it's a new open-world game set in the Mario universe. This time,

Rather than Mario taking center stage, though, this time it's Donkey Kong's turn to have a giant world to explore, and as you'd imagine, he'll be taking a slightly different approach to solving problems.

There were a lot of surprises during the Direct, the most exciting being all the . While the show opened with the highly anticipated , there was one surprise reveal that took everyone off guard. Donkey Kong Bananza is the first 3D Donkey Kong game since the and has a whole new style and gameplay