Donkey Kong's first new game since 2014 has revitalized one of Nintendo's most recognizable characters with a new installment.

"Bananza wonderfully balances honoring its star’s various incarnations over the decades – with lovely nods to both Shigeru Miyamoto’s seminal arcade original and Rare’s classic Donkey Kong Country trilogy – while also fearlessly punching through a mountain to forge its own path."

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.