Donkey Kong Bananza adds to its planet-breaking adventure with DLC, available today

If your idea of a good time is turning the environment into rubble with your fists, Donkey Kong Bananza just handed you another excuse to clock in.

Today’s surprise DK Island & Emerald Rush DLC announcement from the September Nintendo Direct drops straight into the action once again, layering fresh reasons to do what DK does best: bash through walls, carve tunnels, pile-drive the earth, and rip chunks of terrain to swing and yeet across the map.

The golden rule still applies in this new DLC adventure of the more you smash, the more the world opens up, but now there’s even more of that world to ‘peel’ back.

DK and Pauline descend beneath the surface and discover a subterranean sprawl that’s far bigger (and stranger) than the postcards suggest. One minute you’re shoulder-checking sandstone in arid canyons, the next you’re threading vines in lush forests, then boot-skating across frigid tundra while the soundtrack eggs you on.

The DLC also leans into the duo’s chemistry, once more. Pauline’s singing supercharges Bananza Transformations that flip your approach on a dime. Need brute force? Pop Kong form and plow through whatever dares stand upright. Chasing a time-save between hazards? Zebra form gives you that long-legged sprint burst.

Drop in with a friend and let one of you pilot DK while the other takes Pauline’s mic for a spin. Her voice can blast enemies and terrain alike, setting up alley-oops for DK to finish with a meaty right hook. It’s the kind of asymmetry that keeps runs lively and speed-strats interesting.

Narratively, the race to the Planet Core is heating up. Legend says the Core grants any desire and Void Kong wants it all for himself. DK and Pauline have got different plans and a quicker route, if you can keep momentum snappy and the rubble flying.

If Bananza’s planet-breaking loop already got its hooks in you, today’s DLC is more of the same. More space to destroy, more routes to discover, more ways to turn the Underground into your personal jungle gym.