Overview

• Leading publications give Bananza top marks in early reviews, with Famitsu awarding a 38/40 score and some outlets rating it up to 4.5/5.
• It is the first in-house Donkey Kong 3D platformer developed by Nintendo since Rare’s Donkey Kong 64, created by the Super Mario Odyssey team at Nintendo EPD Tokyo.
• Bananza’s fully destructible, voxel-based environments let players reshape levels by punching through ground, walls and cliffsides.
• Animal-based “Bananza” transformations allow DK to adopt forms like ostrich for flight, ape for strength and zebra for speed to navigate challenges.
• Set to launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 on July 17, Bananza is positioned as a system-seller despite reports of docked-mode frame rate slowdowns.