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It took a year to come up with Donkey Kong Bananza's watermelon sound effect

Donkey Kong Bananza features a variety of levels with their own unique theme. One level in particular features giant fruit, including a watermelon that players can tear apart and walk into. It turns ...
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It took Nintendo devs a year of "squashing and crushing watermelons" to record sound effects for Donkey Kong Bananza: "There were no more good watermelons"

Please, next time you play Switch 2 platformer Donkey Kong Bananza, consider having a moment of silence for all the melons crushed under Nintendo devs' hands while they were recording sound effects.
IGN

How Shigeru Miyamoto Influenced Donkey Kong Bananza's Sound and Movement

Donkey Kong: Bananza is a triumph, earning a rare IGN 10/10 and prompting our reviewer to call it "a brilliant successor to Super Mario Odyssey and a smashing return for a classic Nintendo character." ...
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Fruit ninjas.

Released back in July for the Switch 2, Donkey Kong Bananza lets you go bananas as Nintendo’s giant ape character Donkey Kong. Players can explore and find goodies by freely punching, smashing and ...