The Switch 2′s technology grants “Donkey Kong Bananza” destructible environments, in a perfect crystallization of Nintendo’s game design philosophy.

A brilliant core mechanic and clever design twists make Bananza a delightfully sticky 3D platform adventure topped off with a sweet central character relationship. To properly encapsulate how I feel about Donkey Kong Bananza, you almost have to start at ...

Destruction is at the core of Donkey Kong Bananza, with seemingly every bit of the environment ready to burst into voxels (tech that was actually developed first for Super Mario Odyssey ), which naturally can result in dropped frames, as some Donkey Kong Bananza preview s have noted.

Donkey Kong Bananza is out later this week, but a heap of physical copies seem to be finding their way into the hands of gamers, including one lucky Aussie who had the game almost a week early thanks to a Harvey Norman store in Sydney.