
One day on Donkey Kong Island, a large stream of lava erupts from a volcano sending out small boulders. The animals are hypnotized to steal Donkey Kong's bananas If anybody can run, jump, cling, and swing to the bottom of all this banana burglary, it's those two!” - Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong Country Returns manual And get this: they've even gone after Donkey Kong's secret hoard! Nothing burns that boy's biscuits like someone messing with his precious bananas! Just what do they want with all those stolen bananas? Back in my day, I'd take care of this mysterious predicament without breaking a sweat, but Donkey Kong and his little pal Diddy Kong are all worked up and ready for action. They've been putting some kind of musical mojo on all our animal buddies and toting off every banana in sight. Story “Can't a tired old ape take a nap around here? A bunch of shifty-eyed musical miscreants just kicked our volcano into overdrive and took over Donkey Kong Island! Enough with the noise, already! These rhythmic rabble-rousers are up to no good. Nvidia eventually posted about the game on July 12 at 3:13 pm UTC+8.

Unlike the other Wii/ GameCube ports, this game was never advertised by Nvidia and was only known to exist by approval information from government websites.

On Jat approximately 9 pm UTC+8, the game was silently released on the Chinese Nvidia Shield store without any prior notice from Nvidia's Chinese website or its social media accounts. The game was later made publicly available on the North American Wii U eShop on September 22, 2016. On March 31, 2016, the digital re-release was made available in North America exclusively for My Nintendo users. The original Wii game was later released for digital download on the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U on January 21-22, 2015 in all regions except North America.

In 2013, the game was ported to the Nintendo 3DS, titled Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. In 2014, a sequel was released for the Wii U, titled Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. The game stars Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong, who must recover the banana hoard from a new group of villains, the Tiki Tak Tribe. It is the fourth game in the Donkey Kong Country series and a reboot. Donkey Kong Country Returns is a side-scrolling 2.5D platform game developed by Retro Studios for the Wii in 2010.
