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Donkey Kong Bananza

Game Length: How Long to Beat

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Donkey Kong Bananza Game Length How Long to Beat

It takes 10 hours to beat the main story and around 50 hours for a completionist run of Donkey Kong Bananza. See the game length for casual players, completionists, and speedrunners, as well as things to do after completing the game, and available post-game content.

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How Long to Beat Donkey Kong Bananza

10 Hours for the Main Story

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Players can beat Donkey Kong Bananza's main story in about 10 hours. This involves progressing through each level and ignoring most side content until you reach the end credits.

100% Walkthrough Guide

50 Hours for Completionists

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For completionists looking to get 100% completion, the game will take around 50 hours to complete everything that the game has to offer. These include unlocking and upgrading all Skills, collecting all Banandium Gems, Fossils, Clothing Items, Discs, and completing all Challenge Courses.

Post-Game Guide

7 Hours for Speedrunners

Boss

Speedrunners can play through Donkey Kong Bananza in around 7 hours, thanks to skippable cutscenes and the option to bypass one layer entirely.

With roughly 1.5 hours per layer in a standard run, skipping a layer and cutting out over an hour of story scenes brings the total way down for players aiming purely for speed.

How to Skip Layers

Things to Do After Clearing the Game

Collect All Banandium Gems

Banandium Gem

Collecting all 777 Banandium Gems from each level is required to reach 100% completion. You can check the map of the level to see the nearby Banandium Gems available.
Banandium Gems List and Locations

Unlock and Upgrade All Skills

Skills Screen

Unlocking and upgrading all skills is also required to reach 100% completion. Some skills are unlocked as you progress the game and upgrading them requires you to collect Banandium Gems.
Skills List and Best Skills to Upgrade First

Collect All Fossils

Leaf Fossils

Collecting all 696 Fossils allows you to exchange them for clothing items in the Style Shops. Each layer has unique fossils to uncover and these count towards 100% completion.
All Fossil Locations

Unlock and Upgrade All Clothing Items

Clothing Items

Buying all the clothing items from the Style Shops are required to get 100% completion. Note that levelled-up versions of some clothing will only appear after purchasing their lower-level counterparts. So make sure to save up those Fossils to buy them all.

All Outfits and How to Change Costumes

Collect All Discs

Discs

There are a total of 110 Music Discs to collect in Donkey Kong Bananza. Defeat enemies to find new discs and play them at your Getaways.

List of All Music Discs

Pauline's Diva Dress Outfit Increases Disc Drop Rate

Scan the Donkey Kong and Pauline Amiibo to Unlock Pauline

By scanning the Donkey Kong & Pauline amiibo, you can unlock the Diva Dress, one of Pauline's Outfits that increases the chance that Music Discs are dropped by defeated enemies.

How to Get Diva Dress

Get All Smashin' Stats Rewards for All Layers

Smashin

Smashin' Stats lets you check your overall progress for 100% completion on all layers. Completing these gives you rewards.

Smashin' Stats Guide

Post-Game Content

Bananza Rehearsal

Bananza Rehearsal

After reaching the ending sequence, you will receive the Bananza Rehearsal from the five elders. However, this feature requires you to collect a total of 600 Banandium Gems to unlock all Bananza Rehearsals.

Completing this post-game content will add another 10 hours, totaling your playtime to around 60 to 70 hours.

Rehearsal Halls Guide

How to Check Playtime

No Option to Check Playtime

No Option to Check Playtime
There is no option to view your current playtime for your save in Donkey Kong Bananza. The save slots only show the date, current layer, and total number of Banandium Gems collected.

Check Play Activity on Your Profile

Check Play Activity on Your Profile

The only way to check your playtime is from the Profile screen. However, this only shows a rough estimate number of hours and will start to show "Played for 95 hours or more" if it reaches at that point.

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1 Anonymous Anonymous 4 months

??? The main path of the game is much longer than 10 hrs. It takes up to 20 hours.

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