Latest Donkey Kong Bananza Trailer Focuses on Gameplay

Nintendo shared more Donkey Kong Bananza details ahead of launch, with the latest reveals coming in an overview trailer on YouTube highlighting gameplay. It spends almost nine minutes going over the characters, story, and unusual elements added in this installment.

Things begin by explaining Donkey Kong was working on Ingot Isle unearthing Banandium Gems. When things go awry and those are stolen by Void Company, he ends up underground and meeting a young girl named Pauline. The two end up heading to the planet’s core, a place that can allegedly grant a wish, with him hoping to find bananas and her hoping to get home. They go through multiple underground worlds, digging into different layers. 

After establishing the concept , it shows how DK can run, jump, climb, and smash through environments. This means destroying areas or digging into the ground. Some footage also showed some enemies affecting the environment too. It also highlights how Pauline’s voice can be used to make DK transform. This can unlock the Kong Bananza form, which allows terrain that could normally not be destroyed to be wrecked. Zebra Bananza form turns him into a zebra that can run faster. Ostrich Bananza can glide. Banandium Gems can unlock Skill Points for new skills or abilities for DK. 

Around the halfway point, the VoidCo opponents come up. We get a glimpse of the major enemies and some bosses. This points out how they’re locking away entry points to lower layers.

Here’s the latest “Donkey Kong Bananza Overview Trailer” highlighting different gameplay elements.

The last time Nintendo talked about Donkey Kong Bananza, it highlighted the cooperative elements and revealed the Oddrock sidekick is actually Pauline in new gameplay reveals. A second player can join in either locally or over GameShare and GameChat. If the latter option is chosen, then only one person needs a copy of the game. 

Donkey Kong Bananza will come to the Switch 2 on July 17, 2025.