2.5/5 ★ – jdraco's review of Banana Kong.

Happy Monkey Month Everyone! This month I’m starting with a mobile game, and a pretty standard one at that… This is one of them side-scrolling, endless runner games where you play as a gorilla who’s running away from an avalanche of bananas for some reason So already the premise of the game doesn’t make sense However despite the dumb premise the game actually can be kind of fun from time to time I like how you can swap between these different zones in your runs. For example you can stay in the jungle or you can decide to go down in the caves, you can get on a rocket and go to the beach, you can go to the treetops, underwater, it’s actually pretty cool all the different areas there are What isn’t cool is the controls. In this game you got like 3 main moves, jump/parachute, dropping down, and a boost move. To jump you tap the screen, to boost you swipe right, and to drop you swipe down. Except every time you swipe down, you do a jump beforehand and this leads to a lot of your drops being really imprecise and it led to probably like 50 deaths for me so far There are also these animal buddies in the game, but honestly they don’t really do anything or change up the gameplay at all, and I usually just lose them immediately anyway Oh and another complaint I have is that some of the auto-generated obstacles are complete bullshit and I have no way of dodging them at all So yeah, this is just a pretty mindless, average mobile game, but you can have the gorilla wear a cowboy hat, so it’s alright 2.5/5