People are a little too excited about DK's comeback in the live-action trailer for Donkey Kong Bananza

July 02, 2025 | 12:16am

This Live-Action Donkey Kong Bananza Trailer Is Bananas

People are a little too excited about DK's comeback in the live-action trailer for Donkey Kong Bananza

YouTube user MikeyOrlando6665 summed it up pretty well in the top comment on the video: "Thank you for telling me this trailer wasn't representative of the gameplay experience. I totally thought I'd have to play DK in front of a large crowd of people chanting DK instead of my usual gameplay experience of sitting alone in my basement in my underwear crying."

Most of the footage features the game's 3D platforming experience, but it also showcases a side-scrolling sequence that serves as a callback to the original Donkey Kong Country from 1994. Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto recently explained why Bananza ditched DK's long-standing Donkey Kong Country design in favor of a more contemporary look.

In GameSpot's hands-on impression of Donkey Kong Bananza, it was called "the next evolution of [Super Mario Odyssey's] ideas," while noting that it is "full of playful new mechanics and ideas." Ahead of the game's release, older Donkey Kong games have been discounted.

Donkey Kong Bananza will launch on July 17 exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2.

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