I tried beating Donkey Kong Country without touching a BANANA! 

Nico went from making mario unable to take princess peach out to dinner to making DK starve from lack of food, he’s a true monster

Anyone else notice how Nico said tropical cheese instead of tropical freeze. Lol

I love when he does these challenges. Now try beating Sonic Mania without touching any rings!

Can confirm I tried to do DKC returns without touching a banana... didn't end well

You know, now that this episode is out setting people's expectations, you could make a series of minimalist runs to see what the fewest bananas possible would be for each game. I'd be here for that new content :)

I'm shocked he went through all this for one video. Let alone the fact that he just posted a Short explaining that you can beat DKC 3 using a trick to make it Christmas themed, turning the bananas into ornaments - thereby making this challenge possible in that game. I can't believe he didn't utilize this trick for this challenge, seems very overlooked to me lol

Now we just gotta wait for Nathaniel Bandy to make a video called "Can you beat Donkey Kong Country while touching every banana?"

Nico: I’m going to beat all of the Donkey Kong Country games without collecting any bananas! Levels 1 and 2: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

The second stage can actually be beaten in DKC 2 without collecting bananas by either hopping off the insect at the beginning, or doing a somewhat precise slide-crouching motion.

8:11 "Donkey Kong Country: Tropical C H E E S E"

I've been waiting for you to try this challenge! I'm really glad to see you doing new and cool challenges that aren't just Mario! Keep up the good work Nico!

8:10 DK: *happy monkey noises *

You can actually beat the first game without collecting a banana. But you have to use glitches to achieve this...

7:17 “welcome to Donkey King Country: Tropical Cheese!” 😂

8:12 Tropical Cheese

look at the Rhino laughing at you at 1:21 like “hah, you fucked up”

I'm glad you are doing DK. Hope you continue the series with the minimum required bananas. In DKC3 you could have kept going with well placed throws.

That's interesting to see. I would also be interested if you try to beat the story mode of Splatoon 1 and 2 without touching the Calamari eggs or whatever they are called but I hope it's clear what I mean. Because of Splatoon 3 which maybe has a story mode just like the two previous games.

Remember kids, gotta avoid touching as many bananas as possible or else they won’t be good enough to eat later

7:18 T R O P I C A L C H E E S E

Donkey Kong Land I, II and III are stand-alone games and not just GameBoy ports. In fact, each Land game is a direct sequel to its Country counterpart. DK64 is the direct follow-up of the DKC and DKL trilogies, and thus part of the DKC series. There are notable differences between DKC123 and its demakes for GBC and ports for GBA- maybe you'll have some luck with those over the SNES trilogy. The same can be said about DKCR for Wii and 3DS, and DKCTF for Wii U and Switch. As much as I disagree, officially Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is also a "main DK platformer". I'd say give it a whirl. ...I don't think the Jungle Climber games enjoy the same "official recognition" as Jungle Beat, but they *are* platformers... technically. Good luck

Even though it is not possible to avoid the bananas, I wonder if banana coins can be avoided entirely?

Thanks Nico, I was really hoping you would do one on my favorite franchise donkey Kong.

Donkey Kong Country Returns brings back so many memories

Donkey Kong country was also my first video game ever too

Nico, you must've not known this for DKC2, but there's a Glitch that allows to jump infinitely with the Tag Move (exclusively on v1.0, I'd suggest seeing the "Versions Differences" video); by jumping on the frame as the second Kong comes back on your shoulders, you can jump in midair, this could allow you to dodge the bananas in the second level and other thereon out. But I did not took into account the rest of the levels, just that this could maybe work later down the line too.

The irony! 🍌 (Just like how when EezySpeezy speedran PVZ without using sunflowers and at the end there was the song about how useful sunflowers were).

I like how it was donkey Kong tropical freeze but Nico said tropical cheese 😂 😂

But beating all DK titles without touching a single COIN should be possible, right?

Even though you can't best them with no bananas I'd still watch a minimum banana video. Also would love to see the challenge on the dk land games since they are pretty much part of the series.

These Kongs are making sure you get their bananas back

Ahh yes. Donkey Kong county tropical cheese.

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME

had lots of fun, keep doing more like this!

I have been waiting for this for a year, three months, four days give or take

Thanks for the video Nico! At some part of the video I almost cried. I really want to play DKC Returns and Tropical Freeze, I am a HUGE fan of the DK Series

Now he just has to do Tropical Freeze without a banana.

Now we need the other banana collecting monkey games, super monkey ball without a banana time is next baby!

I knew it wouldn’t be possible but I was hoping for at least a minimalist run

Nintendo does not want you to avoid bananas if you can’t get past two levels

I love this video because I love your channel and could never stand the Donkey Kong games. So it was actually really satisfying for me to see all of these challenges one right after the other like this. Don't think of it as five failures, think of it as five questions answered successfully! :)

Funnily enough, I got the game again a couple of days ago and was wondering about this.

After seeing sullypwnz's channel struggling like hell, and cobi being inactive, im glad that at least one of my childhood heroes is still doing well. First time i saw your channel was on videos like: why sonic is not a hero. The fact that you didnt stray away from your roots is nice. Keep it up nico

Mario can go a whole game without coins but Donkey Kong can't go one level without a banana? That's epic, it means Donkey Kong collects what he wants and doesn't have to worry about losing his bananas and I see this as an absolute win. Maybe a different Nintendo character can help you with this "Without a ____ Quest" series. Keep up your great content, stay safe and have a great day.

This is cool. A natural evolution of your channel.

Now this is a big change! I like this! Find it hilarious that he’s not gonna be greedy anymore

I've been waiting for this video for so long,,, I thought about doing this challenge myself

You should do a video about collecting all bananas in Donkey Kong Country.

3:21: I managed to slide under those bananas, but it doesn’t matter because of the fourth level.

Hey Nico, think you could continue where you left off in nsmbds and sm3dw coinless?

theres a secret that lets you skip worlds, ironically its able to be done after beating the first level, so it may still be possible!

Can probably still do a mostly pacifist run of of one or more of the DKC games where the only enemies you defeat are the bosses.

Actually, coins in Mario games serve the same purpose as bananas in donkey Kong games. Showing you which path you’re supposed to take

Ya this would be hard to beat but great job Nico love the Videos

actully, it is very possible to beat dkc with no bannanas using warp barrels

Could you try the Crash Bandicoot trilogy without collecting a single Wumpa Fruit?

I wonder how many bananas you have to collect to beat each DK game.

7'19 Tropical what now?

I thought of a idea what if you tried Mario party challenges like beating one of thos games without collecting any coins

You should try DK64 without touching bananas. There are many glitches you can use to avoid bananas.

Finally something with donkey kong thank you

What about playing Donkey Kong country returns and/or tropical freeze without touching a (banana)coin?

Next you should try not touching bananas in Donkey Kong 64.

Normally games like dk and sonic that have auto sections that leave a trail of bananas/rings that are unavoidable. Mario games doesn’t have those meaning they can be dodged easier due to better mobility

Nico the 2nd level in dk2 you can beat just slide under with diddy

mmmm unavoidable bananas

I am thinking about beating bowser's fury without touching brown

As a resident Donkey Kong connoisseur… very humorous. You do a great job of representing the monkey and his love of bananas. This love unfortunately turned to lust. A great attempt.

Good to do all DKC games

Nice vid Nico! Your the best!

Ah, yes. I love tropical cheese

If Yoshi Crafted World has oins, do that one. Or just try the yoshi games in general.

You can warp in donkey Kong 1 but probably still not even with warp

I would love to see how many bananas it takes to beat these games.

Try a minimum banana run? Enjoyed the video.

Alternative title: "Donkey Kong and co. tries to take a diet"

Donkey kong country but you starve donkey kong to death

You should try minimalist run next

This is amazing

If it's any consolation, at least they're not coins.

coins are disguising as bananas

When he says donkey Kong Country tropical freeze he says “cheese”

can you try all the DK wiyhout pressing left, without doing the DK throw and without using violence ?

"Impossible, how does one beat "Donkey Kong: Country" without feeding DK need for Bananas" -Every News Outlet Out there

Donky Kong country tropical cheese sounds fun

There it is

Dread it, run from it, potassium is inevitable

So many times you made Mario poor. But DK is not like Mario, he is so greedy, that he needs those bananas🤣

Glad u tried these games!.. new challenge! Video idea. Redo these challenges. In stead mark which levels can and which can't be beaten without bananas.. and do a minumum banana count.. if u can be sane

Donkey Kong country with o bananas i can’t even get pass the fourth stage normally

Please do DK 64 without bananas

I challenge you Nico. Darker Side, coinless. Good luck!

Nico can not deny the kong

Donkey Kong Country Tropical CHEESE.

I tried beat donkey kong country 2 without hair twirling

nice vid keep up the good work

Please rank all of the donkey Kong country returns bosses worst to best please

Do them like the mario ones. See how many Bananas u need to collect to komplette the game

Already knew the results but still get video dude.

Well, how about doing this instead: "It is possible to beat Donkey Kong touching ALL bananas?"