Turns Out Donkey Kong Bananza Has a Secret Language — And It Has Already Been Translated

It's 1 happening to successfully construe a concealed in-game video crippled language, but it's rather different to construe it earlier the crippled is adjacent retired – yet that's precisely what YouTuber 2Chrispy has (somehow) managed to bash successful Donkey Kong Bananza.

Just similar players managed to unravel the secrets successful The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's concealed language, 2Chrispy utilized trailers, preview footage, and adjacent the Nintendo Today app to decode the Ancient Monkey Scrolls successful Kong's upcoming adventure.

"In the trailer, determination were a batch of hidden details," 2Chrispy explained successful a fantastic video describing his process. "But the 1 that stuck retired astir to maine was the banana language. Watch to spot however I decoded and deciphered each monkey missive I could find."

After cleverly spotting that an in-game point had an authoritative name, Chip Exchange, Chrispy was, done painstaking, frame-by-frame work, capable to enactment retired each but 5 characters successful the banana alphabet — oregon "Bananabet," arsenic helium calls it.

Donkey Kong Bananza's concealed connection has been translated. Image credit: 2Chrispy.

With his newly-discovered transcription skills, 2Chrispy has been capable to construe beauteous overmuch each azygous sign, note, and written papers seen successful immoderate footage published to date. To find retired what they say, caput connected implicit to Chrispy2's YouTube video.

For instance, successful 1 screenshot, 2Chrispy was capable to construe an overhead sign, which reads "welcome," a neon motion that reads "factory," and a snowfall level motion that reads "ice." He past transcribed assorted notices that work "hint," "item," and a motion that said: "Message. Thank you for reading. Someone."

A motion that reads "Message. Thank you for reading. Someone." Image credit: 2Chrispy.

"I'm excited to spot what different substance we'll find successful the game," helium added. "Could we spot references to DK lore? Missing Kongs? Any notation of the Kremlings oregon King K. Rool?"

"I deliberation Bananza is connected way to beryllium 1 of the astir gorgeous Nintendo games I’ve seen," we wrote successful our Donkey Kong Bananza archetypal hands-on preview. "It truly does instrumentality vantage of Switch 2's hardware — the environments are beauteous and DK’s animations are wonderfully expressive, and I near feeling similar the adjacent procreation of first-party Nintendo games had genuinely arrived."

Now that we yet person a merchandise day and tech specs connected the highly anticipated Switch successor, Nintendo Switch 2 — arsenic good arsenic an thought of however overmuch first-party Nintendo games whitethorn outgo connected the caller strategy — cheque retired our heavy dive into each the facts arsenic we speech to manufacture experts. For much connected Nintendo Switch 2, you tin drawback up connected everything shown astatine past month's Nintendo Direct. Donkey Kong Bananza comes retired July 17 for $69.99, exclusively connected Nintendo Switch 2.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.