{"id":470,"date":"2025-07-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:46:35","slug":"donkey-kong-bananza-takes-inspiration-from-dark-souls-for-these-gold-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/donkey-kong-bananza-takes-inspiration-from-dark-souls-for-these-gold-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Bananza Takes Inspiration From Dark Souls For These Gold Statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You Refined.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> is stuffed full of amazing little details and references, and thanks to some chatter online, we&#8217;ve discovered yet another incredible detail that takes more than a little soul from&#8230; well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dark_souls_remastered\">Dark Souls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, we spotted a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/donkeykong\/comments\/1m8z5ya\/did_anyone_else_know_this\/?share_id=aSVBH1olEymD2Q9gTScEH&amp;utm_content=1&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=ioscss&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_term=1\">thread from the donkeykong subreddit<\/a> being shared which revealed to us that, if you die in DK&#8217;s latest adventure \u2014 whether it be to an enemy, in the lava, or by taking too much damage in any of the standard layer levels (not the challenges) \u2014 DK&#8217;s corpse will be left waiting in a mound of gold.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/donkey-kong-bananza-takes-inspiration-from-dark-souls-for-these-gold-statues\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Refined. Donkey Kong Bananza is stuffed full of amazing little details and references, and thanks to some chatter online, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/donkey-kong-bananza-takes-inspiration-from-dark-souls-for-these-gold-statues\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donkey Kong Bananza Takes Inspiration From Dark Souls For These Gold Statues<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}