Donkey Kong 64 Review: 20 Years Later - Was It THAT Bad? (2019)
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- čas přidán 18. 11. 2019
- Donkey Kong 64 for the Nintendo 64 has a reputation for being bad or having bad game design after following up to Rare's Banjo-Kazooie. But looking at having five characters, Donkey, Diddy, Lanky, Tiny, and Chunky Kong does it ruin the collectothon genre?
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wait people HATED the DK rap?, everyone i knew growing loved it.
Wish we had the original in smash ultimate
Creating conflict sells, that's why good things get hate
"And then there's Chunky, he's dead."
It was bad because it said hell
the people who hate it are the people who think that it was trying to be serious. it was, in fact, never meant to be serious. grant and robin were just goofing around.
This game is a masterpiece. I don’t care if everyone hates on it, I love it.
I agree. It wasn't perfect but it was a special game.
Great for you.
If you were able to switch kongs on the fly it would be much more bareable
@@TheAngryGamer8393 It would be but, I don’t think it would make it that much more fun.
@@TheAngryGamer8393 No, that defeats the point of a lot of the multi-character puzzles throughout the game. Tag barrels are frequent enough throughout the game that this is a non-issue.
The only think I want is a Donkey Kong 64 Remastered. Can you just imagine a Nintendo Switch Donkey Kong Edition? I would definitely buy it!
I think the licence is split between rare and Nintendo so it probably won't happen now that rare is owned by Microsoft.
WillToNihilsm I think DK64 was re-released on the Wii U virtual console so I don’t see why there could be a version on the switch.
WillToNihilsm
Or maybe find another developer
@@WillToNihilsm no
Would be so cool with dixie instead on tiny. And new funky mode
I thought this game was so magical as a kid. It had different atmospheres across each world that felt alive.
Yeah I loved that. Swimming and just hearing mostly silence. So serene. This was a masterpiece.
same- Fungi Forest had a very unique feel to it, I remember playing this in the middle of the night in winter 2000
Yes omg I feel the same way but I do d not now how to explain it
I learned how to read because of all the subtitles rare ware had in its games Sesame Street can kiss Ass
11:49 “Weird chipmunk looking things” homie really don’t know that’s a beaver.
He also called a level called a jungle a "forest". XD
So Gnwaty
@@Metalwario64 Well, jungles are a type of forest.
Gigigigiigiii!!
I couldn’t even finish the video after he said that.
"Angry Aztec"
"Egyptian desert theme"
Hmmm...
Yeah that never made sense to me
I literally said something similar haha 👌
How does that sound more egyptian than aztec?
i was about to write the same coment
@@SilverAegis39 I think it's just that the level's in a desert. At least that's what confused me.
It's NOT Diddy Kong's Quest.
It's DIDDY'S KONG QUEST.
As in, CONQUEST.
#NerdRage
And also, he's on this quest to rescue a fellow Kong.
Also that's the best platformer ever fight me
@@eyeconqueror1185 honestly id tie it with tropical freeze, as i think freeze is the best of its type of country games and 2 is the best of theirs, since they do play diffrently
Haquize and also he’s the first member of the DK crew
To save yourself 34 minutes: The game was never bad.
Thank you, seriously how did this become known as the bad one, it may be my favorite 3D platformer period
@@firenze6478
Many of the games that came to be my favorites eventually came to be seen as 100% terrible. I enjoyed Donkey Kong 64 so much so that it's my favorite N64 game of all time. I had so much fun with Kirby Air Ride that me and my childhood friends collectively put at least 1,000 hours into that game. I loved Super Smash Bros Brawl so much that I kept playing it with friends and family for almost eight years after it's debut. Despite how good these games were, they all get so much shit that many people view me saying that I had any sort of fun playing them as a cardinal sin so much so that they feel the need to harass me over my opinions.
When it comes to games I enjoyed as a child, the only game that I can express any sort of positivity about without living in fear of being mocked, called out, and harassed is Super Mario Galaxy.
TheTrueBrawler I feel you there, I loved this and skyward sword but hated botw, and everyone acts like I’m a troll looking for attention.
Well excuse me if I went into botw expecting to play a Zelda game.
I played it for the first time in 2014 and I like it
Agreed. DK64 was a childhood game of mine, and I'd love to be able to play it again. I really hate it when people keep bashing in your childhood games and saying they were crap because it feels like they're saying you wasted your childhood, or at least that's how I see it. DK64, Smash Bros Brawl, Skyward Sword, they're all games I played as a kid and early teens and I love to this day but they keep getting bashed in. I've even seen Mario Galaxy get hated on by Mario 64 purists, and that's one of my favorite games of all time.
Oh, and I also agree on the BotW statement. I don't hate it, or think it's bad, on the contrary it's a very good game for what it is, but it's not what I personally like in a Zelda game, and I worry it'll most likely drive the franchise into a direction I don't like as much. Twilight Princess remains my favorite Zelda anyways.
Imagine thinking the DK rap is cringy
I mean it is but its also epic. Also it has The He has no Style, Grace, but has a funny face line
Ocarina of time 9.7/10
Donkey Kong 9.2/10
Banjo Kazooie 7.2/10 (boring and shitty compared to DK64)
SNES Nes you listen to juice wrld don’t you
I literally cant.
@SNES Nes the song is terrible how?
I'm glad to see that someone else out there actually appreciates this game. This is my favorite game of all time and it was the one I spent the most time with growing up with an N64.
It's my favorite game ever too.
same
It had a lot of love poured into it and it really shows 🥰😁💜
Fighting the enemies in this game was one of my favorite pastimes, especially against those Kremling skeletons found all over Creepy Castle, as seeing them fall apart from being hit by explosive oranges can be _very_ satisfying.
I really wish beating the two arcade games wasn't necessary for getting to the final boss.
I hated the fact that you can't kill some of the enemies like the pufferfish and the starfish.
Creepy Castle was by far the best world in the game, best design, best music, other than the boss the boss was just meh
Where are the starfish located? How do you lure them onto the surface so you can play the instrument?
@@christiangledhill4848 They're in Gloomy Galleon at the bottom of the area with the sunken ships.
To lure them to the surface, the player must catch the starfish's attention and slowly swim to the surface without moving too far ahead so they don't lose interest.
The player should then jump onto one of the floating platforms and quickly play their instrument.
@@enzuronyx7691 thank you
Her: I like rap it's my favorite genre. What about you?
Me: Yeah I love rap it's my favorite
Her: Who do you listen to?
Me: 8:01
This game is absolutely one of my favorites despite the fact that there's some ridiculously bad game design in it. Opening doors with one Kong only to find bananas for another Kong, tag barrels, and the relative uselessness of the warp pads in larger areas are the biggest obvious things but those things can be worked around easily. But this game is easily one of my favorites from the N64 despite the fact that it's a bit of a hot mess and does not deserve the hate it gets.
That's a matter of opinion. Games should be challenging in mine
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess ITS NOT CHALLENGING, ITS TEDIOUS.
@@msma8437 most games are 80% tedious.. telling a story, player/character/skill development.. look at GTA for examble.. most of the time your driving here picking someone up, or picking something up from store.. doing 2 small things before a heist or mission
This had more of a puzzle feel .. gotta click this and this before that, find this here. thats just the way it was in the time due to technical liabilities.. plus remember.. we might be 30 now, yea not that challenging to us, but it was designed for 5-15 year olds, cant be super technically hard
I reviewed a rom hack for this game that helps address the biggest flaws of this game.
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People hated the DK rap? It was the 90's! Even the grandma of the haters had a rap song!
Bruh this is one of my favorite games of all time.. I'm definitely gonna order me a N64 just too play this game.. the bosses the levels the multiple characters.. this game was the shit... I wonder why they never brought back Chunky Lanky and Tiny back in another DKC game
It's also on the wiiu. Get it digital. Wiiu has most of the n64 gems
@@mania4270 Assuming he has a Wii U. It didn't sell particularly well, and is pretty expensive now.
Clnr0n05 tbh you can usually find one used for around $100 which is about what a good ps3 or 360 will cost you. They’re really nice for retro gaming since they support composite and component as well as hdmi so you can play retro games on a crt if you have one
Yeah why Tiny, Chunky and Lanky?
Just played it again like yesterday its still fun af
I would love a remake jesus it would look crazy with todays tec
Redo some of the collectables and it'd be great
“The first world known as Jungle Japes, it’s a forest area” love the video just thought this comment was funny
I remember first playing this and being mind blown. I still complete this game yearly. It still blows my mind that this came out 20 years ago. SWITCH NEEDS TO BRING BACK N64 GAMES!!!
This is actually my favourite Rare game on the N64, so nice to see a review not completely bashing on it! I subbed.
same
It was a big hit when it came out. The reason is caught criticism later on was because we had moved onto to more sophisticated open world 3d games especially in the RPG genre. Collecting sort of morphed into grinding for levels.
Slight correction on the Expansion pack:
The game didn't have a bug that required the expansion pack to run. Rather, the game on original hardware has a memory leak that causes the game to eventually consume all the ram on the standard Jumper Pack without the span of only an hour or two. The game WITH the expansion pack, still has this issue, however, because it's just an increased amount of ram, it takes much longer. If you let the game sit for something like 16 hours it will still often crash.
Rare and Nintendo instead chose to make the game require the expansion pack, as they couldn't fix the memory leak and didn't want people to experience a game that would so often crash. IE, the requirement for the pack came AFTER the bug, not before.
Source please?
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Timestamp: 6:50
Jumper pak has no RAM. It is basically the same thing as a "continuity RIMM" (used with early Pentium 4 systems with RDRAM, to fill the empty RAM slots).
A memory leak is still a bug. If the game was unplayable without it due to the memory leak, then for all intents and purposes the game needed the expansion pak to run due to a bug.
Actually, the Expansion Pak was developed in response to the memory leak.
What? I loved this game as much as oot. I have literally tons of memories with my brother playing this game
My favorite rare game on the N64, alongside Perfect Dark.
"Look at this boss!" I would but the lightning keeps flashing.
I was born in ‘92 and this was the definitive 64 solo game for me.
By the way: It's actually not "Diddy Kong's Quest." Read the title again ;)
Yeah, I always find it weird that it’s supposed to be said like that. Unless there’s something I’m not realising and I’m being really stupid.
TheMaceTrace it's a pun. "Diddy's Kong Quest" sounds like "Diddy's Conquest."
Ewolf5150 yeah. That is the literal meaning. Sounding like "conquest" just makes it a pun.
When I read the title of the video, I was like, “was it that bad?? What are you talking about? How could anyone think this game is bad. I understand everyone has an opinion, but from the amount of endless content, to the cartoonish charm, to the diverse and immensely immersive atmosphere; I just don’t get how anyone can think its bad.
I feel that even though there may be quite a few shortcomings, the game is still at the very least good, and at best, it’s close to being a masterpiece.
It’s such a unique game, there really isn’t any other like it. I mean, sure it’s similar in its aesthetic to Banjo, and the previous Country series, and it is by all means, a collectathon platformer, Akon to the likes of Mario 64, Spyro, Banjo, and the lot, but when it comes down to it; the gameplay puts its own exclusive spin to that genre. There’s five different characters you can play as, and all have vastly different attributes, personalities, and gameplay styles. Sure, it gets pretty convoluted sometimes, but still, the game is an object of its time, and game developers were still experimenting with the whole 3D realm of gaming as a whole, so I don’t see how we can blame it. And regardless of all that, it still holds up as a great experience to this day.
The game is filled to the brim with personality in every facet of its design. You can just feel the ambition put into it, and the music, just like Banjo, is extremely well done and is so catchy, that it will be stuck in the reaches of your mind for a lifetime.
I know the game is not perfect, and I know that by today’s standards, it is not the most polished piece of art, but when it comes down to it, I believe it to be a well above average game, and seeing how it’s now about 21 years old, I think the fact it still at least basically holds up, speaks volumes to the fact that it is the definition of GOOD.
Though I personally think it’s unbelievably amazing
This game looks better than any of the Banjo-Kazooie games from what I seen. I tried to get into Banjo. Didn't click with me.
1:01 fun fact, it’s actually “Diddy’s Kong Quest” not “Diddy Kong’s Quest”. It’s a pun on “conquest”. Also, 9:30, the island looks like DK’s head because the overworld in DKC looked like DK’s head too. And lastly, 33:25, I think you meant to say Banjo-Kazooie as opposed to DK64? Lol
If you unlock the arcade of Donkey Kong video game, you have to collect 30 tokens. It is not so easy to clear all 4 different levels, such as the red board, blue board, mud factory board, and the elevator board to unlock it for the unlimited time.
12:51
"One of the targets is outside the game's render distance."
Fool, that's not the intended area to shoot it from. Get on that hill next to Funky Kong's hut!
you’re on every video
The fool
XD
You’re right there’s a couple different angles on the side of the mountaintop that you can easily hit the target
Other than the horrific disaster that is the beaver bother mini game this is still one of my all time favorite games and the first video game I ever played! Just recently completed it again 101%
Don’t forget the Rabbit and Beetle...
The bug in the Crystal Caves was awful. You had to get virtually every coin on that track to win.
I can still hear that beetle laughing in my head
@@MrJohnlennon007 the freaking beetle man, gave me PTSD both times
Was probably one of my favorite N64 games back in the day. I remember when my sisters got the jungle edition N64 with DK64 and I promptly stole it and played the hell out of this game.
I was very late in playing this game during my life. I had played Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie when I was younger, and when I got Donkey Kong 64, it was like playing Banjo-Kazooie again. So much similarities, but also some differences, too.
"Was it that bad?"
If you ask DSP, he would say yes and stake his life on calling it bad when he's just sucks at any game he touches. I personally loved the game
This game, LoZ: OoT, LoZ: MM, Star Fox 64, Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 64, Banjo Kazooie, Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart, etc... so many amazing games that made the N64 one of my favorite consoles of all time
And this game was never bad
-“Lanky kong ... is weird”
Me: - Can relate
As someone who was a fan of this game in youth... I'm one of those who came to dislike it in adulthood. Nostalgia goggles easily removed.
And I'm a fan of Banjo Kazooie... so the collecting in and of itself wasn't the problem. The problem is replay ability.
It's a slog to get thru which is the problem too much back and forth, and I like metroidvania games
Yeah it wasn't my favorite either. It's a very lengthy platformer tho which is very good. The DK country games are the ones that are true masterpieces.
It’s quite exhaustive I agree but it’s still a fun game especially if you enjoy collecting.
Every time I play this game I want an online multiplayer mod where you play through the story with each person controlling one kong.
Because of the “collectathon” elements mixed in with the back tracking and vendor elements, I always thought of it as a collectathon with an RPG mix
I will never ever ever forget that I rented this game from blockbuster when it first went to blockbuster, got my mom to get me the 10 day rental, imagine my face when I put it in and get a screen that says expansion pack required...
Just found your channel looking for reviews/retrospective on this game, amazing video! Thank you for breaking everything down, I subbed.
This was a lovely and fair review of a classic! Criticisms were justified and tribute was paid 💖
Great review, I enjoyed it! Love your enthusiasm for this game (a nostalgic game from my younger days)
Aaay! Hey weasel! Amazing video, dude!!! :D also heck yeah that Donkey Kong rap is a bop
The Nintendo 64 was my first Nintendo Console Sure I had fun playing Mario 64 and my dad helping me on the final boss and playing Mario Kart 64 with my dad and my brother but Donkey Kong 64 was a game I can call my own and I played Plenty hours of it and I still have my old n64 today
I like the collectathon. Basically shows you how far the world expands. Makes it feel truly huge. Like climbing that giant mushroom or whatever. Just totally blew me away. Still takes my breath away to jump off it.
The game would be so much better if small bananas and coins could be collected by any Kongs. Obviously you would need different Kongs for the Golden bananas but that's okay.
DK64 was the first "big" game I remember playing. At one point my whole family was playing it: even my parents 100%'d it by themselves! It may have not been perfect, but it always has a special place inside me.
I Really enjoyed this game a lot as a kid! Collecting the Golden Bannanas really got fun!
Yeah, I honestly don't feel like the blue prints should be considered as a truly separate collectible. It's like if you had to collect ten objects from the beach for school, and give of them have to be shells, it's not like you're now collecting fifteen items, the blue prints are just a fifth of the golden bananas, that's all. Not even as tedious as the blue coins in Mario Sunshine.
This was the first game to introduce mystery and excitement to me as a kid! Every level was packed with adventure and a different flavour every time. We spent weeks in the same world finding new secrets every day, it was a blast! Seeing Diddy's red bananas on a place we only thought Donkey could enter was super intriguing to us, and we spent many hours trying to figure out how.
I guess this game needed the patience of a 90's gamer.
This game was never that bad... This game was THAT great
Bro who the fuck said it was bad, we gone fight.
I always really enjoyed this game growing up. Completed again recently and still love it. I have heard the criticisms he is referring to and I can see what they mean. But the controls hold up 100% unlike Spyro, and that game never seems to get criticism.
The only bad control mechanic is the drinking and jetpack, especially if you get caught on a wall. It's too tight in the wrong areas and too floaty in the wrong areas. Apart from that, the controls are rock solid
"Wait, DK64 is good?"
*Always has been*
I didnt even realize there was ever hate for this game. I remember playing it when I was young young loving every single second of the rap and gameplay!
I like how it goes from 240p to 8K resolution near the end of the video
Here's the one thing I never understood about DK Isle.
To get to DK's Treehouse, you have to go inside the mountain. Then when you get to the Treehouse, the sky is a hazy orange hue.
Question: How is there sky INSIDE A MOUNTAIN??!
How could a Forest be inside a cabin flating in the sky? How could a shipwreck cliffside be inside a boat. How could a Jungle be inside a mountain? How could a desert be inside a tempel AND on a tropical island?
The answer to all these questions is:
Donkey Kong Island is, obviously, not the same Island from Donkey Kong Country (because the game is in 3D and old, that would´ve been wayy to big as a overworld).
Most areas you enter in this game are located somewhere else on the mushroom world. That´s way you enter worlds through portals. Because those worlds are not at the same place as the portals are.
Jungle Japes Portal teleports you straight into the Kongo Jungle on Donkey Kong Island from Donkey Kong Country, Fungi Forest Portal into the Vine Valley.
The Island from DK64 is just a rock in the ocean. It would be too small to contain anything but portals to somwhere else.
Game was way too amazing for simple minds to comprehend.
Weasel! I remember you! You commented on one of my videos about 2 or 3 years ago! Glad to have you back!
Same
Nice Video! It's good to have you back!
I'm glad that someone else had trouble unlocking Tiny as a kid. I loved this game but I sucked at it lmao. I didn't get past Frantic Factory and Gloomy Gallon until I picked it back up in highschool.
Appart from collecting the two coins to enter K Rool's level (it is so frustrating to play those old style games) that game was a blast. Felt like a theme park. HELL what a fun thing it would be if they decide to make a theme park inspired by it!
I’ve always loved this game. In fact I’m currently doing another play through right now. Never understood why collectathon games were hated on so much. Yeah there’s a lot of backtracking in this game, but I never found it that tedious. Just as good as every other game Rare made in the 90s.
Am i the only one who considered it a classic all this years? 😂 No idea it was hated by mosy.
This was my favorite game back in the day! The marketing hype around it was insane. I remember Nintendo advertising it as their biggest game ever. "Was it that bad?" Oh yes. It was. I couldn't muster a second play though when I got it on the Wii U. But its okay, I still love it for what it was. Very much a product of its time, IMHO.
Yeah this and DKC3 are like 1a and 1b for my favourite all time game. I realize there is a lot of bias and nostalgia for me but I’m also not blind. I see it’s flaws, and they’re minor and I even jab at the game for it. I love it for it’s strengths and it’s flaws. I was able to laugh and agree with many of the complaints here and enjoy the positives you pointed out as well. Thank you man. Good one!
Pretty sure the rap was self aware doing a ridiculous early 90's rap that was even outdated at that point. So it's hard to call it cringy when the whole point was to be absurd and taking the piss.
DK64 is more advanced than Super Mario 64 or Banjo -Kazooie, but it is also sequel to those games. It is not sequel to Donkey Kong Country. Many peoples were expecting it to be a platformer, like Rayman 2 for example. I think Rare heard that Sonic Adventure was going to have multible playable characters and wanted to beat it. Even thought in fact, Sonic Adventure has only Sonic, other characters are waste of time. But on DK64 multicharacter gameplay works well, while making game little bit too complex.
This is my absolute favorite game from my childhood and I'm working on getting 100% on it >:)
For the expansion pack, that story is false. They had the idea to use it from very early on in the development.
You know what, subscribed. I enjoyed this content. Between this and your Gex video, you have my support. Keep it up!
I just discovered your channel, I love it haha
Best thing about the DK Rap is for the funny memes and YTP videos that use the DK Rap as its source for the dialogue.
CK Coconut Gun CK Coconut Gun is here.
DK Donkey Kong DK Chunky Kong is dead.
Steamed Hams but it is the DK Rap
people hate to grind thats why they hate the game, i finished it like 10 times already 101%
amazing video ,,,,plz make more about n64 games ,,,,,and how long it took to finish donkey kong n64 ,?
"weird chipmunk looking things" chipmunk? CHIPMUNK?! Das a god forsaken BEAVER! Not just any beaver, Gnawty! You can't talk about Rare being split into 3 teams to make games, and then mislabel the most common enemy from DKC :(
Boss Boom Box Right his credibility dropped a bit with f-in chipmunk
@@ducks698 Then he proceeds to pronounce names as KAY-Rool, KAY-Lumsy and BEE-Locker completely missing the puns.
I did a huge write up on this game and I'm wondering if you noticed the thematic quality of the Crocodile Isle levels compared with the DK Isles smorgasbord. On Crocodile Isle you have Frantic Factory where Mad Jack is waiting for you in the bowels of this sinister dankly lit Chinese sweatshop at night allegory. Then as you noted, the DKC2 ode that is Gloomy Galleon where you have the iconic K Rool Galleon Lighthouse set piece. Creepy Castle follows up with the whimsical Addam's family jig fantastic ball room and bone chilling dungeon set pieces (not to mention a phenomenal mine cart section). Hideout Helm obvs is unique with its dynamic pressure cooker theme but I digress as it is not a normal level. All the DK Isles levels are cobbled together by comparison. Jungle Japes is your standard Jungle start up level, Angry Aztec is a mess of thematic inconsistency with Meso America mashed up with Saharan locales.. probably the weakest level of the game, Fungi Forest is a fine level but it is quite frankly a Banjo level copy/pasted here, and Crystal Caves while aesthetically gorgeous in sections, is by and large a dull grey level with ski lodge/igloo tropes.. The bosses feel random on DK Isles as they are Dogadon x2 and Armydillo x2 whereas every boss on Crocodile Isle is thematically appropriate. I love Donkey Kong because the games tend to build head canon in ways IPs like Mario and Zelda cannot. I find I eagerly anticipate the Crocodile Isle levels since there is a definite opposition and the theme is cohesive whereas DK Isles is occasionally boring respite from the real game. I love Creepy Castle, Gloomy Galleon, and Frantic Factory. What are your favorite levels?
You 've earned a new subscriber my friend , I love DK 64 and its good to see some people showing love to what i like too
I never accepted the criticisms of this game, I don't find the exploration overwhelming, I simply love walking through this world, listening to this soundtrack, seeing the richness of the devs' constructions. The Kong animations, everything is perfect and I honestly wish the game was even bigger. Proof of this is that the criticism at the time had an average of 90%, this unfounded "bad" reputation was born with the internet in a generation where they want to finish a game quickly instead of enjoying it, now imagine the time when you paid a lot for a game and finish it in 2 hours?
I haven’t watched this Video yet because I wanted to comment first. I’d like to clarify that Donkey Kong 64 is an amazing game. It came out in 1999 when I was 8 years old. It’s my childhood favorite. I still replay it from time to time. I didn’t realize people had a problem with this game until recently. I hear common complaints that it’s Grindy and you collect a lot of stuff. Particularly people don’t like that each Kong has its own collectibles. I personally love this about DK64. It feels bigger and larger with lots of stuff to do. I thought the collecting was fun. The levels were beautiful(Fungi Forest Especially), the music was beautiful and awesome throughout. The Golden Banana Challenges were always fun. And then you have the classic arcade games you had to play to get the Rareware Coin and the Nintendo Coin. I thought that was pretty ingenious. DK 64 wasn’t ever meant to be your typical game. You want a typical game you can just blow right through with out feeling Grindy, then play super Mario world or something. But this game was beautifully made, hillarious, lighthearted and it was really fun. DK 64 also feels like it has its own identity because of all The collecting and things to do. They put a lot of work into this. DK 64 is tied with Metal Gear Solid 3 and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time as my all time favorite Game. Now that I have said my peace, I will watch your Video.
Isn't this among one of the most beloved donkey Kong games ever made? To the point a massive part of the Nintendo player base has been asking for another game like it. And let's face it even if you get board it's super fun to just glitch the wrong monkey into boss fights. You haven't truly lived till you beat mad jack with diddy
I use Chunky for Mad Jack.
@@MrJohnlennon007 when I beat him with Diddy I only had 3 monkeys, Diddy was just the one I could make the jump with
Yo what’s poppin weasel, decided to come back to your channel after going through old comments of my videos. Great video
Really enjoying the review so far. I would love to see you review Jet Force Gemini.
While I don't like this game quite as much as Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, or Banjo-Tooie, I still really love it and I feel that its one of my most nostalgic and fun games from the N64 era. I was absolutely enchanted by this game as a kid, it was so easy to lose myself in its beautiful worlds.
One thing this game did really wonderfully is atmosphere. Each level has its own distinct atmosphere, and in true DKC fashion, a lot of them are somewhat foreboding and mysterious. I love Frantic Factory's grungy and spooky aesthetic, I love Fungi Forest's day/night mechanic where everything becomes creepy once it gets dark, and I especially love Creepy Castle's haunting and genuinely chilling atmosphere. They even managed to make a water level feel ominous! Their level themes weren't the usual happy and bright playgrounds that you would see in Mario or Banjo-Kazooie, they genuinely felt layered and intriguing.
I also love collectathons, and I've 101% this game several times throughout my life. It may not be perfect, but it sure is awesome!
33:09 Exactly this. This is the one problem I've always had with reviews that negatively talk about this game. Just because it was made during the time that collectathons like Mario 64 and Banjo which were just as popular doesn't mean it should be held in the same standard as them. If i was to judge the games with that mentality then i would miss out on this entire genre cause my complaints would be not of the game itself but the genre. It's why i harshly disagreed with reviews like Squared Eyed or The Geek Critique who described the game as something that killed RARE or the collectathon genre as a whole. But here this is one review i can appreciate for giving a balance to the criticism and the praise of the game itself.
Lol people were saying it was bad? Damn I'd give my left testicle to relive the moment in my childhood of playing through it for the first time
After so long, still my favourite game of all time.
It's funny how there's so much hate for this game, everyone I know absolutely loved this game. Personally it was my 3rd favorite N64 game behind Majora's Mask and Ocarina Of Time.
I will say that one issue with the multiple characters is certain collectibles being arbitrarily-assigned to certain Kongs, even when another Kong can easily reach them. The worst example would be the bananas. With "breadcrumb collectibles" like bananas in a game like this, a big part of their purpose is to make movement through a level more engaging by trying to line up and grab them as you move along. If you see a line of them you can't collect because you aren't the right Kong, that defeats part of their purpose.
That would be the purpose in a linear platformer game. Their purpose in a game like DK64, Banjo-Kazooie, etc. is to guide you in different directions and give you an excuse to explore the world, and in this case explore the world with different characters, which keeps things fresh.
The levels are all designed with natural switching points--you're supposed to ignore certain trails of banana and keep going and come back to them later. For example, in the main area of Jungle Japes, there's a tunnel to the left near the cracked floor with a rock on it. Inside the tunnel there's a trail of green bananas for Chunky but at the end there's a switch for Tiny's gun, and a yellow haired Kremling for DK.
Well first of all, you'd have already explored that area as DK earlier in the game, so you'd know about the switch at the end and already got the Kremling. So instead of grabbing Chunky and getting the green bananas, then going all the way back, switching to Tiny and running all the way back to open the gate, you'd go with Tiny (you unlocked her first), activate the switch, and lo and behold there's a tag barrel on the other side. In this little area, there are several things you can only do as Tiny and Chunky. Since you're already playing as Tiny, you do all the Tiny stuff and then switch and do all the Chunky stuff. And then you stay as Chunky and grab all the green bananas on the way out. And then outside the tunnel, you can use Chunky to lift the rock and smash the cracked floor.
Or alternatively you might go to Jungle Japes right after unlocking Tiny and do all her stuff, and only do Chunky's stuff afterward when you unlock him (the green bananas aren't visible until you unlock him anyway.).
Almost the entire game works this way and all the levels have a sort of natural flow to them. Problem is that some people are block headed and insist on doing stuff like playing as one character and never switching until they're done, or have ADHD and switch the moment they see something for a different character. As opposed to first exploring a bit, learning the layout, seeing where everything is and what characters are needed for which sections, and then planning out a route, switching characters where it makes sense. It's very similar to how you'd approach a metroidvania game--just because you can see a pickup right now doesn't mean you can unlock it right now, just keep going and come back to it later
the fact I never completed this game, because of the fact couldn't get the Nintendo Coin. I have tried recently again and just fail at 3rd level if even get that far, the arcade is pain in my flesh XD
Been waiting all week for this video
I have never in my life heard anyone that has played this game utter one negative word towards it. The only thing I've always been baffled about was, how in the world did the devs fit this game in one n64 cartridge ? It's literally packed with so much content, levels, worlds and side missions, & even optional missions that it feels never ending. there where so many n64 games that had to cut a lot of features because of space and yet ..DK64 somehow was able to fit anything and everything inside the cartridge.
Glad other people enjoy this game as much as I do. Thought I was nearly alone on the internet! Great video man took me back :)
I got nostalgia looking at this video I remembered everything about this game
Around 15:00 min what background song is that?
Donkey Kong 64 has aged well.
I was so excited when we rented this game as a kid, just to get home and put it in my N64 just to find out I needed an expansion pack. My heart was broken
Started playing this game again recently, absolutely love it!
It still holds up today. It has so much charm. The gameplay /graphics /music, it's so much fun. They don't make games like they used to. I'll always have so much love for the N64
Did you just diss my boy Kinect Sports at 0:39.
Granted, it did rick roll me but we don’t talk about that