
There are a few hours left for the official launch of Donkey Kong Bananza, which was evaluated today by the specialized media and boast 90, standing out as one of the highest rated games of the year so far.
Being one of the first major releases as the exclusive Nintendo Switch 2, the public should certainly have doubts about how the game is running in the new hardware of the Japanese company.
The ElanalistDeBits channel shared a new video, analyzing Donkey Kong Bananza running on Nintendo Switch 2, and the result is very good.
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Additional Details:
- Donkey Kong Bananza has a single view mode. In this video, we compare the visual differences between the dock and portable modes.
- The resolution in both modes is dynamic, with a resolution that oscillates between 1552p and 1008p climbing to 2160p in the dock and 1080p dynamic with minimum resolutions of 648p on the laptop, although in both cases it tends to be smaller and FSR does not do a job as good as DLSS would do.
- Portable mode reduces some graphical settings, such as rendering distance, post-processing effects and some shadows or textures, but in general, the portable mode experience is identical to playing on TV.
- As a curiosity, the portable mode compensates for the shorter rendering distance by prioritizing larger resources, with an interesting result.
- Charging times are one of the fastest I’ve ever seen in a Nintendo Switch 2 game to this day.
- Portable mode also shows a little more noise in contact shadows due to temporary reconstruction.
- Donkey Kong Bananza is a great visual evolution compared to Super Mario Odyssey, with an important novelty: destruction.
- Its Voxel -based scenarios allow us a great interaction with the environment, but with a certain cost of performance at times.
- Donkey Kong Bananza remains stable at 60 FPS in most gameplay, with some punctual falls during times of stress and great destruction.
- However, kinematics suffer performance problems during camera changes (this also applies during gameplay when we get a new banana).
- The map menu is undoubtedly the most irregular part in terms of performance, but as it is a menu, this is not a problem.
Finally, the channel notes that Donkey Kong Bananza is clearly one of the highlights of Switch 2 and a strong candidate for Goty.
Source: https://www.gamevicio.com/noticias/2025/07/donkey-kong-bananza-switch-2-analise/