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DK punches through gold Banandium chunks in Donkey Kong Bananza
Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Bananza player spends over 4 hours pushing its destruction to the absolute limit by smashing up an entire level: "Well, that took a while"
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Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Bananza players have managed to blow it wide open in less than a week, and the speedrun potential is bananas: "It's wild how much of the game you can bypass with the right tricks"
Donkey Kong Bananza screenshot of Donkey Kong punching through the landscape with pieces of banana flying through the air
Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Bananza can be beaten without collecting a single banana, meaning the "Potassium Deficiency%" speedrun is entirely possible
Donkey Kong Bananza screenshot of Donkey Kong swiping at the ground and destroying the terrain
Donkey Kong Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto spent his time testing Donkey Kong Bananza "smashing and digging" in one spot, which tracks following his hour-long Breath of the Wild playtesting stint "just climbing trees"
Donkey Kong Bananza purple rock exploding to reveal Pauline
Donkey Kong I beat Donkey Kong Bananza feeling 100% confident about Pauline's true identity, but now I'm deep in a rabbithole of fan theories and I don't know what to believe anymore
Donkey Kong Bananza DK and Pauline after she is released from purple rock
Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Bananza wins the praise of Donkey Kong Country artists who also had the job of redesigning the ape 31 years ago: "Reunited at last!"
Donkey Kong punches a rock enemy in the face in Donkey Kong Bananza with a large purple glowing area in the background
Donkey Kong My Donkey Kong Bananza playthrough is being haunted by the remains of numerous iconic enemies and allies from classics like Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Bananza DK and Pauline looking intrigued
Donkey Kong As scholars analyze every frame of Donkey Kong Bananza for lore implications, the game's director says "please enjoy it without thinking too deeply about it"
Donkey Kong punches a rock enemy in the face in Donkey Kong Bananza with a large purple glowing area in the background
Donkey Kong I'm glad to announce Donkey Kong Bananza has the Super Mario Odyssey sauce: it's taken less than a day for players to skip a boss fight entirely with speedrunning tech
Super Mario A Super Mario lore specialist issues an important correction: "Mario does not 'die and go to hell' - he is sent there directly while still alive"
Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Somewhere in Nintendo's recycling bin is the god of all Goombas, gifted the giant hands of a Super Mario Odyssey boss during experiments for the Switch 2's Donkey Kong Bananza
Donkey Kong Bananza DK and Pauline looking intrigued
Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Bananza's Pauline sometimes gets confused about fruits: "We love an occasional girlfailure who eventually grows up to be a bonafide girlboss mayor"
Screenshot of Donkey Kong and Pauline in Donkey Kong Bananza.
Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Bananza features a young Pauline, immediately raising lore implications and many questions about the very serious DK timeline
Donkey Kong Bananza DK flying around a whirlwind
Donkey Kong By smashing together Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Donkey Kong Bananza has finally justified my Nintendo Switch 2 purchase
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