You can only access Donkey Kong Artist Mode from the title screen. There, instead of pressing a face button to start or continue a game, you press the “+” button. The tool will give you a random object that you can start to carve into a 3D shape. You can even paint it and add lighting, and then share your creation online.

There are five Ancient Bananza transformations in Donkey Kong Bananza: Kong, Zebra, Ostrich, Elephant, and Snake. Below, read on for details about when you unlock each transformation and how to use them. You unlock this Bananza pretty early in the game in the Lagoon Layer (101).

Donkey Kong Bananza's destructible levels make the game unlike any other in the series, but this doesn't undermine its platforming.