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,

Namely, the two most notable games I played were Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong: Bananza. The latter isn't a launch game, but they both made strong first impressions – not only as games themselves, but also as demonstrations of what the Switch 2 can do. Let's dig in.

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