As you near the end of your time in the Hilltop Layer in DK Bananza, you’ll find a treat of a challenge course in the form of Nostalgia Country, where you’ll get to play through a remake of the first level from Donkey Kong Country.

After years of Donkey Kong hype starvation, it feels like, Nintendo’s biggest and burliest boy is back in the spotlight. With Donkey Kong Bananza showing up as the first post-launch Nintendo Switch 2 game, the people out there are finally giving DK his due.

The Hilltop Layer is the second full layer you’ll visit in Donkey Kong Bananza. This area is much smaller than the previous Lagoon Layer, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t tons of Banandium Gems to collect.

Knowing the Nostalgia Country Banandium Gem locations in Donkey Kong Bananza will help you collect them all on this challenge course in the Hilltop Layer. There are three Banandium Gems on this course in Donkey Kong Bananza, and it's very easy to miss the first one if you go speeding ahead.

Nintendo’s first big swing after Mario Kart World is Donkey Kong Bananza, a new 3D platformer from the studio that brought us Super Mario Galaxy. If our review here at Shacknews is any indication, Bananza is a banger.

Donkey Kong Bananza's success could mark the start of a new age for Nintendo, with Mario and Link no longer standing alone at the top.

Donkey Kong Bananza is the gorilla's first 3D platformer since 1999's Donkey Kong 64 and the first to be internally developed by Nintendo since 2005's Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. In our preview, it was confirmed that it is being developed by the same team behind Super Mario Odyssey.

A Donkey Kong movie looks like it's currently in the works, if a new copyright filing in the US is to be believed, in what's expected to be a follow-up to The Super Mario Bros. Movie. As reported by Vooks,