Revenge of Banana

Genre: First-Person Shooter

Players: 1

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Review:

(Note: This game is included in Capybara, Ducks, Rats and Bananas Bundle, along with Capybara Madness, Get Ducky Quacky, and Ratyboy Adventures.)

Revenge of Banana is a First-Person Shooter released in 2023 on Nintendo Switch. In this game, players go through an office building trying to find an exit while contending with large, anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables, fighting them off with weapons consisting of… other fruits and vegetables.

The presentation here is okay, with fairly simple 3D characters with some fun character designs, and levels that seem to evoke the earliest First-Person Shooters like Wolfenstein 3D. This is all backed by extremely repetitive techno music that I suppose works but isn’t at all memorable.

The problem with Revenge of Banana is that this game’s developers seemed more invested in the amusing joke of a First-Person Shooter where everything is fruits and vegetables, but less invested in creating compelling gameplay. Your weapons’ reload speed is abysmal, but so too are enemies’ movement speeds, and apparently to offset the otherwise low challenge level everything in this game kills with one hit, meaning that slipping up and letting an enemy get to you will force you to restart the current level. And that’s not even getting into the times where an enemy managed to kill me through a wall somehow.

This makes for pretty unsatisfying gameplay, and while it may seem amusing at first to slap a giant strawberry monster to death with a cucumber or fire off a banana gun at an exploding tomato monster, that amusement will wear off pretty quickly, and when it does all you’re left with is a pretty terrible First-Person Shooter.

As such, I suggest that if you want to have a laugh because of a game about shooting fruits and vegetables at fruits and vegetables, you do so watching YouTube videos for free. Don’t waste your money on this terrible game.

tl;dr – Revenge of Banana is a First-Person Shooter where players use fruits and vegetables as weapons to fight enemies that are also fruits and vegetables. As amusing as this silly premise is, the gameplay is so tedious and poorly-constructed that you’ll bore of it very quickly. Skip it.

Grade: D

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