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Platform, Adventure, Action
OpenCritic91IGDB90
Donkey Kong Bananza is exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2! Explore a vast underground world—by smashing your way through it! Bash, throw, and climb through just about anything in DK’s brand-new 3D platforming action-adventure game!
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Epic, clear, richly built and plot-driven.
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Nintendo Switch 2; NintendoGiven that its hero can smash through any barrier – which is delightful fun in itself – Nintendo’s new 3D platformer has a surreal freeform audacity
IGNLogan PlantJul 202510/10Donkey Kong Bananza is a truly groundbreaking 3D platformer, with satisfying movement, powerful abilities, impressive destructible environments, and clever challenges that all come together in complete harmony to create Nintendo’s first Switch 2 masterpiece.
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COGconnectedJames PaleyJul 2025100/100Mario Kart World was a great introduction to the Switch 2, but Donkey Kong Bananza is the first can’t-miss game to come to the platform. You’d be a fool to pass on this one.
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Gaming NexusEric HauterJul 202510/10Just as Super Mario Odyssey cemented the original Switch as a must-have platform, Donkey Kong Bananza smashes it's way into the Nintendo hall of classics, bumping the Switch 2 from "really nice" to "must buy" status. Don't let the smashing mechanics fool you, this game is just as smart, deep, and clever as any of the Mario or Zelda titles. Nintendo has set up and intricate and beautiful playground, and then releases the player into it as a wrecking ball. Fun doesn't get much more fun than this.
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EurogamerAlex DonaldsonJul 20254/5A brilliant core mechanic and clever design twists make Bananza a delightfully sticky 3D platform adventure topped off with a sweet central character relationship.
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TheGamerStacey HenleyJul 20254/5 starsDonkey Kong Bananza is a fantastic platformer with a lot of ideas hidden inside of its barrels, but falls short of the perfection it aims for by playing a little safe.
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IGDB rating 9.1/10 from 85 ratings.
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