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Donkey Kong Bananza: DK Island & Emerald Rush Nintendo Switch 2 User Reviews
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Sep 17, 2025
Don't be an idiot like me and blindly give $20 for this. I loved the base game so much and have such a soft spot for DK that it was a no-brainer for me buuuuuuut ~ THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN END GAME CONTENT INCLUDED in the 2 month old release. Imagine if peach's castle in Mario Odyssey had been DLC?? DK Island is a nostaligic museum for 30 mins. No new bananas, just the new mode.
Nintendo is just bending their fans over a this point and only discouraging new ones all at the same time!
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Sep 16, 2025
Good just not worth the price, should have been a free update. The emerald mode is fun for two minutes and the island is nostalgic and cool to explore, but for 20 dollars it's a big no no. You could buy silksong which is an entire fullgame for that price
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Sep 16, 2025
This should have been a free update. It doesn't worth the price at all. I wish I didn't buy this. Guess I will never go blind on new contents.
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Sep 15, 2025
There is not much content here to begin with and what you get is disappointing. DK island should be a great throwback and it is but there are no real reasons to explore, all you get is 5 bonus levels which we already seen on the main game. As for the emerald rush it's just a rogue lite for collecting gold and in reality it lacks what makes that genre interesting and the speed it often has. Overall skip this... which is a shame considering the base game is amazing
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Sep 15, 2025
Shameless cash grab containing content obviously cut from the base game to milk more money from the player.
DK Island is just nostalgia bait - one new island with no banananas, fossils, or really any reason to explore at all. S
The new roguelike element is cute but not worth the price at all.
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Sep 15, 2025
Loved the main game. Over 200 hours of play, and I’m already on my third playthrough. At this point, I should probably list it as a part-time job on my résumé. The base game alone is worth $70 — especially if you went physical, since it’ll always hold a $50 trade or resale value. (Not that I’d ever trade mine, but hey, nice to know it’s basically gaming currency.) So when Nintendo surprise-dropped the DLC on Friday 9/12 for $20, it was a no-brainer. And wow — what a treat. This expansion is a big, glorious rogue-like romp across six of the game’s areas, plus a brand-new Donkey Kong Island. You can even decorate it with nearly 100 collectible 3D statues, which I’m proudly hoarding like a pixelated interior designer with a banana obsession. The game eases you in, but once you climb from difficulty levels 2 through 6, things get serious fast. Each new layer adds more devious layouts, and the challenge ramps up harder than a Mario Kart blue shell. I’m already 20+ hours deep into the DLC, nowhere near done with all the layers, and I’ve only collected 40 out of 100 statues. So yes, this thing has **** short: the DLC is fun, frantic, and dangerously addictive arcade gaming. It’s absolutely worth $20. Stop whining that Nintendo should’ve made it free — the base game was already absurdly generous. If you love rogue-likes and Donkey Kong, this is an instant buy. If you’re too busy being mad about the price… then don’t buy it. We’ll be over here having fun while you yell at clouds. :)
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Sep 15, 2025
Great Dlc if you love roguelikes, goes all in into fleshing it out. Don't buy if you don't care for them
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Sep 14, 2025
A really good and well done DLC. The new soundtrack hasn't got that many songs but all of them are excellent. DK's Island is cool and full of references to past games, and the new statues' shop is... useless, but cool. The things gets better with Emerald Rush, an amazing and really fun gamemode that also allows you to unlock new music disks and amazing outfits. The replayability of this DLC is huge, with tons of levels of difficulty and the possibility to do the Emerald Rush in 7 layers. A really good DLC for an already amazing game.
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