Donkey Kong Bananza

Rare card · No. 61844

Donkey Kong Bananza is a 2025 platform game developed by Nintendo EPD for the Nintendo Switch 2. The player controls the gorilla Donkey Kong, who ventures to the planetary core with the teenage Pauline. Similar to EPD's Super Mario Odyssey (2017), the player explores sandbox-like levels while completing objectives, battling enemies, and collecting objects. Bananza is distinguished by its destructible environments; the player can destroy most terrain to create paths and find items. They upgrade Donkey Kong's abilities by collecting banana-shaped diamonds and obtaining power-up transformations. EPD began working on Donkey Kong Bananza following Super Mario Odyssey's completion, following a request from the manager Yoshiaki Koizumi. It was the first internally-developed Donkey Kong game since Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (2004), and Koizumi and Donkey Kong's creator Shigeru Miyamoto provided input. EPD wanted to honor Donkey Kong's past while establishing a new direction. They made greater use...

Read on Wikipedia