One moment in Donkey Kong Bananza felt like a revelation – like seeing the image of the Mona Lisa for the first time. I’d simply punched my way straight down a mountain and landed on a Banandium Gem. Sprawled behind me was a lengthy platforming puzzle. My wanton destruction had let me punch my way out of doing an entire puzzle, and now the possibilities seemed endless.

Donkey Kong Bananza gives Mario’s rival ape the biggest adventure he’s had since the Nintendo 64, and it’s hard to think of a better killer app for the Nintendo Switch 2 right now. But even more than that, Bananza feels like one of the most innovative games that Nintendo has put out in decades – adding it to the already lengthy list. It’s a fantastically freeing platformer that gives you the tools to shape and mold the environment how you see fit, and complements it with wild powers, smart puzzles, and fantastic boss battles. A Nintendo platformer hasn’t felt this revolutionary since Super Mario Sunshine – and even though I’ve done everything in the game, I can’t stop playing.

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Disney’s acquisition of Fox solved a massive problem for Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, which had been without its two most popular teams for 17 years, but it also sired a few plot holes that Marvel creatives have had to get, well, creative about solving. Fans really want to see the X-Men and the Fantastic Four in the MCU, but introducing them this late in the game, after threats like Thanos have come and gone, offers a continuity challenge.

Marvel learned this the hard way with Eternals, which revealed that the team had been forced to live in the shadows since the dawn of humanity. Not every fan appreciated that attempt to reconcile the characters with the timeline, and it’ll be even harder with these far more popular absentees.

Neither the X-Men nor the Fantastic Four live by a code like the Eternals’ — if they were around when Thanos was threatening universal genocide, they would have helped. That’s why The Marvels introduced mutants in a different universe, and according to director Matt Shakman, that’s also why the Fantastic Four find themselves on a parallel Earth in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.