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Scott McCrae

Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto spent his time testing Donkey Kong Bananza "smashing and digging" in one spot, which tracks following his hour-long Breath of the Wild playtesting stint "just climbing trees"

Donkey Kong Bananza screenshot of Donkey Kong swiping at the ground and destroying the terrain.

The team behind Donkey Kong Bananza has revealed that series co-creator Shigeru Miyamoto got to playtest the game, and what he got up to is seemingly quite on brand for the industry icon.

Donkey Kong's latest game is all about breaking stuff. Bananza started as a Switch 1 game, but when the developers realized the console couldn't handle the full scale of this destruction, it was moved to Switch 2 in 2021. Thanks to the game's in-depth voxel tech (which a developer says "must have been an absolute nightmare for the programmers"), everything in the environment is destructible, which fits perfectly with a giant gorilla.

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