Donkey Kong Bananza: DK Island and Emerald Rush DLC Launches Today

Extra contented is coming to Donkey Kong Bananza, today's large Nintendo Direct broadcast has confirmed, successful the signifier of a paid DLC pack: DK Island and Emerald Rush.

DK Island looks to beryllium a caller level with immoderate nostalgic nods to Donkey Kong's past, and a elephantine chromatic Kong look you tin ascent up oregon pummel through.

This country features emerald, alternatively than the main game's acquainted gold, which ties into the DLC's different main addition: the all-new Emerald Rush mode. This situation enactment sees you exploring DK Island and returning to different existing areas to amass emerald arsenic accelerated arsenic possible, with mini-goals acceptable against the timepiece that volition extremity your tally aboriginal if you fail.

Developed by members of the Super Mario Odyssey team, Donkey Kong Bananza launched for Nintendo Switch 2 backmost successful July to cosmopolitan delight among fans and critics alike.

IGN's Donkey Kong Bananza reappraisal awarded the crippled a uncommon cleanable score, and dubbed it "a genuinely groundbreaking 3D platformer, with satisfying movement, almighty abilities, awesome destructible environments, and clever challenges that each travel unneurotic successful implicit harmony to make Nintendo’s archetypal Switch 2 masterpiece."

For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine the Nintendo Direct September 2025.

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