Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFnJWn9ApiTia7pvovpGUX_Dg2ua0xvXc
Held in May 12, 2026 to May 19, 2026
Surprise! To those who've known me for long enough may have wondered where any DK Bananza content was for this channel. Well first, there were other priorities for me to attend to. Second, I wasn't really sure how to go about making my playthrough of the main campaign and all the collectables. Third, even if I did, I decided to pivot to doing playthrough of a different game before this. Well I now feel ready to start tackling some content for the game, and this is a good way for me to further figure things out on how I want go about it.
So uh... rant aside, what's dis? Well a month or so after the game came out, this DLC mode released known as Emerald Rush. Once you beat the main story mode, you can talk to Void Kong to start up a run through whichever layer is available to you. More layers will unlock as you play more of this mode.
It is basically a rouge-like score attack mode where you aim to get as many emeralds as possible. The main ways to do so are either braking vains, defeating enemies, or completing goals Void gives you. Any goal you complete or any fossil/active banana you obtain will allow you to choose one perk to upgrade getting more emeralds in some way. Also all skills you got from collecting bananas and all Bananza transformations are deactivated at the start. By breaking open active bananas, you'll either get a skill or bananza determined by the icon above the banana. Every few rounds, the bananas remaining in the level will shift to being either active or de-active. So if there's a skill/bananza you really want, you may want to try and gun for it as long as it's not to far out of the way. You can also use banana chips to unlock whatever skills from your tree you want. Void goals provide a consistent source of chips.
Also you'll have a quota of emeralds you must reach each round, getting bigger each time, especially on higher difficulties. On normal emerald rush runs, all perks, skills, bananzas, and goals are randomized on what you get even though the placements of fossils and bananas are the same as in the regular game. So knowledge on where all those things are will be key. The best strategy here is to prioritize a certain selection of perks that will give massive multipliers whenever you defeat enemies in certain ways and/or with certain bananzas based on what you can get.
This is where these limited time events come in to shake things up. Only a limited pool of perks can appear, and everything is fixed. From the locations of perks, skills, bananzas, and the order of Void goals. These events provide a way to really test how well you can score when you know how everything will play out and where everything will be. By reaching certain score thresholds, you will be rewarded a limited time statue for DK Island based on a either a bananza form or a legacy DK character. As for this event. It focuses on the Snake Bananza and all the perks related to it. You'll see that the early game is spent gathering perks that when combined will give out massive multipliers for defeating certain enemies. In this case, the red scorpion critters who become vulnerable when under the shade.
I suppose writing all this would have made sense had I put out the first event rather than the seventh one we've gotten so far. For the record, I DO actually have all the other events recorded, I just chose to put this one out now since it was still recent at this point in time. I also thought about incorporating these events into my playthrough, but figured by this point, I should just get them on Youtube as their own thing before I began work on my playthrough.
Playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFnJWn9ApiTia7pvovpGUX_Dg2ua0xvXc
Held in May 12, 2026 to May 19, 2026
Surprise! To those who've known me for long enough may have wondered where any DK Bananza content was for this channel. Well first, there were other priorities for me to attend to. Second, I wasn't really sure how to go about making my playthrough of the main campaign and all the collectables. Third, even if I did, I decided to pivot to doing playthrough of a different game before this. Well I now feel ready to start tackling some content for the game, and this is a good way for me to further figure things out on how I want go about it.
So uh... rant aside, what's dis? Well a month or so after the game came out, this DLC mode released known as Emerald Rush. Once you beat the main story mode, you can talk to Void Kong to start up a run through whichever layer is available to you. More layers will unlock as you play more of this mode.
It is basically a rouge-like score attack mode where you aim to get as many emeralds as possible. The main ways to do so are either braking vains, defeating enemies, or completing goals Void gives you. Any goal you complete or any fossil/active banana you obtain will allow you to choose one perk to upgrade getting more emeralds in some way. Also all skills you got from collecting bananas and all Bananza transformations are deactivated at the start. By breaking open active bananas, you'll either get a skill or bananza determined by the icon above the banana. Every few rounds, the bananas remaining in the level will shift to being either active or de-active. So if there's a skill/bananza you really want, you may want to try and gun for it as long as it's not to far out of the way. You can also use banana chips to unlock whatever skills from your tree you want. Void goals provide a consistent source of chips.
Also you'll have a quota of emeralds you must reach each round, getting bigger each time, especially on higher difficulties. On normal emerald rush runs, all perks, skills, bananzas, and goals are randomized on what you get even though the placements of fossils and bananas are the same as in the regular game. So knowledge on where all those things are will be key. The best strategy here is to prioritize a certain selection of perks that will give massive multipliers whenever you defeat enemies in certain ways and/or with certain bananzas based on what you can get.
This is where these limited time events come in to shake things up. Only a limited pool of perks can appear, and everything is fixed. From the locations of perks, skills, bananzas, and the order of Void goals. These events provide a way to really test how well you can score when you know how everything will play out and where everything will be. By reaching certain score thresholds, you will be rewarded a limited time statue for DK Island based on a either a bananza form or a legacy DK character. As for this event. It focuses on the Snake Bananza and all the perks related to it. You'll see that the early game is spent gathering perks that when combined will give out massive multipliers for defeating certain enemies. In this case, the red scorpion critters who become vulnerable when under the shade.
I suppose writing all this would have made sense had I put out the first event rather than the seventh one we've gotten so far. For the record, I DO actually have all the other events recorded, I just chose to put this one out now since it was still recent at this point in time. I also thought about incorporating these events into my playthrough, but figured by this point, I should just get them on Youtube as their own thing before I began work on my playthrough.
