What’s there to say... Crystal Shards is a Kirby game, but that’s kind of the joy of this back to basics title. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, with its remarkably simple, bold, colourful, and basic style, still holds up.
While the Nintendo 64 didn’t sell the most units during its hallowed run, it did see multiple genre-defining games.
It’s true that graphically some of them are a bit rough around the edges, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t games on the N64 that still hold up.
Star Fox 64, Ocarina of Time, Mario 64… man, this was seriously a time where you were feeling gaming gong to the next level. I still think the PS1 library stomped the sh*t out of the N64’s, but I’d be lying if I said there weren’t more than a few bangers on that console.
I think the n64 is one of the worst consoles for holding up over time, the 3d polygons of the games were very early iterations and pretty much all look like crap today, such as Mario 64.
Yea, I mean for sure, a lot of things don’t hold up, but it’s got plenty of games that were on PS1 (sans FMV except for whatever black magic was done for RE2), that despite looking outdated, the art direction, charm, and passion behind it sells it for me.
Like visually Mario 64 is pretty rudimentary, but man… when you play that game, at least for me, the nostalgia hits f*cking hard. Ocarina of Time was one of the games that changed my perspective from games just being something you do out of boredom to things of art. Gokdeneye was something me and my friends would just gather around and play for hours after school. So, the N64 will always have a special place in my heart.
The Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (64DD) is one of the company's most interesting releases. A long-delayed, quickly discontinued, infamous flop, the 64's bulky expansion was supposed to provide the console with an additional 'middle-ground' between cartridge and CD. Instead, it ended up being a black mark on an otherwise pretty spotless record (hey, we said "pretty") with only 10 games and a handful of sales to its name.
