Donkey Kong 64: The good, the bad, and the Miiverse reaction

GameCrate: "DK64 did too much and ended up with some heinous flaws — flaws that stick out now more than ever. Still, that doesn't take too much away from what is an overall solid 3D platformer. Let's take a look at the good and the bad, as well as the general Miiverse reaction toward the game."

[Snookies12]

This was one of my favorite N64 games, still is actually.

[Geobros]

It was good, but I waiting something better to be honest. One thing I can remember now I didnt like it was the final boss. Banjo's Grutilda battle was amazing!!

[TheSanchezDavid]

I actually enjoyed the K. Rool battle, but yes, the encounter with Grunty was much more awesome.

[Lighter9]

JINJONATOR!!!

[Concertoine]

That was a damn hard final boss too.

[TheSanchezDavid]

Same here. I still had a lot of fun with it, but there was also plenty of frustration.

[bacrec1]

I wish we could get bad fur day in the eshop.

[TheSanchezDavid]

If only.

[Mikito11]

I wish, with multiplayer made to work online would be amazing! Shame they wrecked the whole multiplayer on the xbox remake :(

[Germany7]

I really liked the game, a great 3D platformer and a classic Rare game. Would be great another Donkey Kong game like that.

[TheSanchezDavid]

Yeah, as much as I love the new DKC games, I'd definitely be up for a new 3D DK.

[DialgaMarine]

DK64 was an amazing game. Very few N64 games were without flaw, so that's an unfair argument. I hope Nintendo is considering a remake

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

If only Nintendo had kept Rare...
That said, I've been replaying DK64 for a while now.
It's still as fun as I remember in most areas, but...
It never really struck me how much I disliked some of the minigames until now.
There was this one minigame later on where you have to hit a golden banana by shooting melons at it during the brief moment the lights are on, while avoiding hitting the kongs.
The first time you do it, this stage is cake.
But the second or third time, the lights stay on so briefly that the melon won't hit unless you fire RIGHT as the lights turn on.
Superhuman reaction speed would be needed to do it normally.
Since I lack that, I found myself pausing just as the lights were coming on so I could get a bead on the thing, then do an instant shot after unpausing.

Other minigames suffer from the same thing: cake the first time, bat-shit crazy difficulty spike in subsequent versions.
It made the game slightly less fun for me than it used to be, for some reason, but I'm still having one hell of a fun time.XD

[TheSanchezDavid]

Ah, Krazy Kong Klamour! Hate that one! And yes, I beat it pretty much the same way you did. I didn't even feel bad about it considering just how crappy that minigame really is.

[Gemmol]

I love this game, I had the bundle with the green N64, my favorite color green, so getting that bundle for Xmas made me the happiest little boy ever. The hardest part for me was the mini game with mario and donkey kong. This game was the first game I had to take a break like 2 months away from gaming to get my mind striaght to beat that mini game. After I beat it, then I beat the game same day or same week. I cannot remember, but all I know, I had a blast playing it.

[Picnic]

Given that I'm someone who felt that Banjo Tooie was a step too much towards an adventure game rather than a platform game, I see Donkey Kong 64 as being midway between the style of Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie.

But what might seem a shame is that the silky smooth platforming of Donkey Kong Country was so difficult to try to get close to on the blocky textures of the N64. So DK64 is a more awkward game and it seems to revel in this, making you backtrack time and time again with different characters.

It's quite easy to think that if they'd never decided to make a Donkey Kong game for the N64, they could have used the environments in this game for a Banjo Kazooie expansion instead.

It is amazing that Rare had so much time on their hands to make so many hugely sized games for the N64.

DK64 is worth playing as a curiousity in epic player baiting but don't expect anything very different from what they did before it, except additional backtracking.

But if you only play 2 Rare N64 platformers, do yourself a favour and play Banjo Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day. DK64 (and Banjo Tooie to a smaller extent) have gone down in history as one for collectathon lovers, thus taking away some of the simpler pleasure in enjoying the tighter, classic environments of arguably the best of the bunch, Banjo Kazooie.