Below, we’ve listed a bunch of beginner’s tips that we wish we knew before starting Donkey Kong Bananza. 1. Press ZL to roll during a jump and cover some extra distance to hit those platforms that are just out of reach.

Donkey Kong Bananza capitalizes on everything that made Super Mario Odyssey so fresh while perfectly adapting it DK, visiting classic concepts in new ways.

Even a rampaging ape needs to take time to stop and smell the roses. Or so it would seem in “Donkey Kong Bananza,” the new game released Thursday starring Nintendo’s well-known simian mascot and the company’s second major release for its Switch 2 console.