While nowhere near as popular as Mario games, Donkey Kong has continuously released some of the best 2D platformers in the entire market. The Donkey Kong Country series, which started on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, has released two remasters on Nintendo Switch specifically. One of these is Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, launched earlier this year for Nintendo Switch, …
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Image: Nintendo This week marks the return of DK in a brand new 3D outing, and as part of the celebrations, the My Nintendo Store in North America is now offering a new themed reward. It’s a Donkey Kong Bananza Rally Towel and it’s available exclusively from this store for 650 Platinum Points. Here’s the official description, along with a …
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Summers are about big, fun, mind-numbing movies. Great escapes in the best of ways. I need that right now, and maybe you do too. I’m happy to say that Donkey Kong Bananza is here to whisk you off to multilevel worlds of satisfyingly smashing madness, to cheer you up and give you an excuse to punch the heck out of …
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Icon elements featuring the Donkey Kong™ Bananza game are available at these times: Wave 1: 7/16 at 6:00 p.m. PT – 7/23 at 5:59 p.m. PT Wave 2: 7/23 at 6:00 p.m. PT – 7/30 at 5:59 p.m. PT Wave 3: 7/30 at 6:00 p.m. PT – 8/6 at 5:59 p.m. PT Wave 4: 8/6 at 6:00 p.m. PT – …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube827k For those interested in how Donkey Kong Bananza holds up on the Switch 2 in terms of its technical presentation, the chaps over at Digital Foundry have presented their latest analysis for your persual. It’s mostly positive stuff, with John Linneman praising the destructive nature of the environment, noting how it …
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At the time of writing, shortly after the review embargo lifted, Bananza has a rating of 91 on review aggregation site OpenCritic and 90 on Metacritic. (Sadly, you’ll have to wait a while for Polygon’s own review, as Nintendo did not provide us with a pre-release version of the game.) IGN’s Logan Plant awarded Donkey Kong Bananza a full 10/10 …
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Is Donkey Kong Bananza the Super Mario Odyssey-sized adventure the Switch 2 needs? That’s the question players have been asking ever since the 3D sandbox smasher was first revealed earlier this year. Based on early reviews, it just might be. With rave assessments and perfect scores from some outlets, Nintendo’s first big single-player adventure for the new hardware sounds like …
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This Kong’s got a funny face… Credit: Nintendo This Kong’s got a funny face… Credit: Nintendo As the game progresses, you’ll also unlock a handful of animalistic “Bananza” transformations from a menagerie of gigantic animal DJs (don’t ask). These temporarily grant DK new powers—a quick-dashing Zebra or a fluttering, hovering ostrich, for instance. The game builds some specific gatekeeping challenges …
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In a new interview, Donkey Kong Bananza producer Kenta Motokura shared that he’s hoping the game leads to separate 2D and 3D branches of the series, similar to what we’ve seen with Mario. Mario clearly has a subset of 2D and 3D games. With Donkey Kong, however, things are murkier. Part of that is simply due to a lack of …
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Image: Nintendo We’re in the second month of the Switch 2’s life, and this week marks the release of Donkey Kong Bananza. After hearing so much about this new DK game in the lead up to the big release, it’s finally launching on 17th July 2025. As part of this, the first review has now been released by the famous …
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