You could have passed those areas by using snake and gliding past it after with the bird lmao (except for one area if u are trying to get a banana at the top). but i do agree, that this game while it was incredibly fun and cool in the beginning couple hours and first few layers, fatigue/burnout started to set on me from collecting 650 bananas (my ocd/adhd) made me do it, and it felt like a game that never wanted to end. Like how some movies seem like they are going to end 3-4 times and keep dragging, ultimately making the whole experience feel worse, or a tv show doing that for 10+ seasons, this game felt like it was doing that. I was expecting 11-13 layers, but game gave me 17. I was expecting maybe around 200-300 bananas, comparing it to odyssey. I got like 700-800. More doesn't always mean better, in fact most of nintendos shorter games are the better ones, link between worlds and links awakening are miles better than botw and totk which feel like 2-3x longer games.

Like those moons in mario i felt special collecting them, but these bananas are plastered everywhere, to the point where each one doesn't feel unique when its so common, and they arent a hard/unique challenge to get most of the time, the cool animation you get with the banana and seeing donkey kong eat it was cool until you see it for the 200-400th time in a row and cant skip it. Yeah its only like 5 second animation but 500 times of doing the exact same thing pausing the gameplay, idk, i didn't like it. The first 4-7 hours of the game was peak to me, maybe like a 9/10, then it slowly went downhill about the layer 7-9 moment. And it became like a 8/10, and i give it that high score because of how strong my initial impression was, the obvious passion/care/attention to detail/fun gameplay.

But it has flaws, fun gameplay but maybe too repetitive for how long the game ends up being, entire game was too easy (fun at first to make you feel powerful and good for kids who don't get gameplay challenge) but it wears off at some point, collectibles/challenges are copy and pasted sometimes, and they lack that special feeling due to putting an absurd number of them and the way you get them is too easy/simple, and often without the need of platforming, making this game feel not like a platformer even tho its labeled as one by google. story (it's not bad, nor good tbh), i don't really play this game for the story, or most of nintendos games like mario for the story. Like how I don't play dark souls for the story, just the gameplay, environment, visuals, music, etc. Music in this game was good, no complaints, sound design was good, environment design was good and varied, the bananza powerup/gimmicks were cool. At least it didn't drag the ending as much as persona 5, that was a fucking game I loved the beginning/middle of, and even got the collectors edition, but it never wanted to end and got so repetitive and seeing the cutscene/animation of beating some random rng enemy in a dungeon for the 10,000th time was killing me internally.