New Donkey Kong Bananza details revealed

Hands-on previews of Donkey Kong Bananza are coming in, and we’ve now got fresh details about the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive. The game was just revealed yesterday and is coming out in a few short months.

IGN is one such site that has provided information about what to expect. Get the full roundup of tidbits below.

– DK is joined by a purple rock who talks and sings
– Scour self-contained explorable sandboxes for Golden Bananas
– Some of these are obtained through story missions
– Others are sprinkled throughout the landscape
– You’ll come across isolated linear challenge rooms that test your combat and platforming abilities
– Other collectibles to find such as gold, dozens of fossils, and currency
– UI is reminiscent of Super Mario Odyssey
– Donkey Kong can demolish most of the terrain in his path,
– DK punches forward, upward, and downward
– Donkey Kong can pick up giant stone boulders from the ground, walls, or wherever, and hurl them to defeat enemies
– Can also use the stone slab to boogie board at a rapid pace across the landscape
– The map is a fully-rendered 3D model of the entire area in its current state, which includes your destruction
– The entrance to each bonus room tracks how many Golden Bananas you’ve found and how many more are waiting within

Donkey Kong Bananza launches for Nintendo Switch on July 17, 2025. We have lots more news about the system here.