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The Resort layer is a breath of fresh, fruity air after a tough battle against Void Kong inDonkey Kong Bananza. Home to many differentchallenges and lots of collectibleshidden beneath the flesh of the region’s enormous fruits, the Resort layer features one three-part challenge room that will test your abilities with the teleporting goo mechanic.
Challenge Room 3: Ice Serve Switcheroo is not obviouslyhighlighted on the map inDK Bananza, but it’s worth uncovering for a fun brain-twisting puzzle and three Banandium Gems. Follow this guide to learn how to start the Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle inDK Bananzaand how to complete all three of its goo puzzles – including the third, secret puzzle.
Where To Start Ice-Serve Switcheroo
Ice-Serve Switcheroo Location In Donkey Kong Bananza
The Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle (Challenge Room 3) can be found in the first Resort Layer (SL800). From the starting point in the level, look to the back left of the enormous melon in the middle of the map. You should see a small island with a square pear below a floating island with a strawberry chunk.
Make your way to the island by swimming (or Surf Surfing on a piece of terrain), then either Dive Punch onto the top of the fruit to destroy it in one punch, or dig through the side. You willuncover a Challenge Room entrance doorbeneath the yellow, pear-like fruit – smash through this to find the Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle location inDK Bananza.
The Ice-Serve Switcheroo challenge is home to three puzzles, each of which uses the teleporting goo mechanic introduced in The Divide. To get all three Banandium Gems on offer in the Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle,Donkey Kong Bananzaplayers must use this mechanic to create slides that guide ice cubes into a specific container.
Ice-Serve Switcheroo Puzzle #1 Solution
How To Solve The First Ice-Serve Switcheroo Puzzle
The first room features two boxes of pink and blue goo with an ice receptacle in the middle on the left side. When you destroy red goo, the destroyed portion is recreated as blue goo in the other box (and vice versa).
You must use this mechanic to create a slide that will guide ice cubes (from the top right) into the container.
Follow these steps to solve the first Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle:
Remember that the teleporting goo works both ways. If youmake a mistake in thisDK Bananzapuzzle, you can just run up to the blue goo box and punch the terrain away. The destroyed terrain will be mirrored in the red box, essentially serving as a way to reset your work.
When you fill up the container enough, a large serving of shaved ice will be created, and a Banandium Gem will spawn at the bottom of the room. Continue to the right to find the second Ice-Serve Switcheroo challenge.
Ice-Serve Switcheroo Puzzle #2 Solution
How To Solve The Second Ice-Serve Switcheroo Puzzle
The second challenge is a little bit more complex, but uses the same mechanics established in the previous puzzle. This time, the red and blue boxes are adjacent but slightly askew, with the container in the bottom right of the field and the ice machine in the top left.
Your goal in this level is to carve out a tunnel, which creates a ramp, to guide the ice cubes through both boxes and into the shaved ice receptacle.
Follow these steps to solve the second Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle:
ThisDK Bananzapuzzle can be a bit tricky to beat, but as long as you have a ramp on the blue side and a small bit of terrain left on the bottom-left side of the red box, the ice cubes should tumble into the container with few issues.
When the container is filled, a giant shaved ice will appear once again, anda Banandium Gem will spawnat the bottom of the map. The room to the right contains a barrel that will take you out of the Ice-Serve Switcheroo challenge – but there’s still one secret Banandium Gem left to get before you go.
How To Get The Secret Banana & Solve The Hidden Puzzle
The secret third room in the Ice-Serve Switcheroo challenge is located to the right of the exit barrel. Punch through the concrete on this far-right wall of the puzzle room, and you will beconfronted with the hardest challenge yet.
In this final, secret puzzle room,DK Bananzaplayers must use four boxes of red and blue goo to transfer ice cubes around a large hole in the ground to get to the container just below. Essentially, you must divert the ice cubes to the right, around the hole, then redirect them to the left to fill up the container.
Follow these steps to solve the final, secret Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle:
If successful, you will form the final shaved ice and spawn the last Bandandium Gem in the Ice-Serve Switcheroo puzzle! Pick this up and exit via the barrel to the left to continue with the rest ofthe Resort layer inDonkey Kong Bananza.
