I would take a bullet for T.T. the stopwatch
What if mario kart was worse
Eu vou dar nota máxima pra todos os jogos da minha infância ?........ sim eu vou
Loved this as a kid, still liked it alot when I played it a few years ago. I genuinely like this more than Mario Kart. You can play this single player with more enjoyment imo because it's a story mode. The characters are also better because you can be Timber.
Better single player than MK64, but worse multiplayer. Great game.
This game was much harder than I remember. As a fan of all kart racers, I was excited to play this as it had a fleshed-out hub world and an interesting story to go along with it (at least for when I was a 5 year old of course).
However, this game is not for the average kart racer fan. Trying to do all the challenges, unlock all of the courses, get the secret characters, and even just trying to beat the final boss requires a mastery of the game I have yet to accomplish even today. Don't get me wrong, this is still a fantastic time and is super addictive, but this was difficult. Only play if you want a challenge.
However, this game is not for the average kart racer fan. Trying to do all the challenges, unlock all of the courses, get the secret characters, and even just trying to beat the final boss requires a mastery of the game I have yet to accomplish even today. Don't get me wrong, this is still a fantastic time and is super addictive, but this was difficult. Only play if you want a challenge.
overrated as hell but it does what it’s supposed to
What a weird game lol. Piggybacking off the success of Mario Kart, Rare’s vision of a kart racing game most hits the mark and differentiates itself from its inspiration with an open world setting. The cultural appropriation is probably a bit difficult to stomach these days, but the eastern influences did set it apart from other games in 1997.
Damn shame that this game never got a sequel.
Love the aesthetic, love the soundtrack. Cute, silly animal characters. I have to play as Tiptup to make the game playable.
Like with so many games of this era, I remember me and my siblings spending long play sessions not even racing all that much but just exploring the courses, playing mostly in certain sections, or checking out odd angles and the like. Some of those tunes catchy as all hell, too, David Wise you mad man.
lol I realize rating games like this one higher than OoT/MM is ridiculous, but I honestly played and re-played most games more than I ever did those two.
lol I realize rating games like this one higher than OoT/MM is ridiculous, but I honestly played and re-played most games more than I ever did those two.
the driving is solid and it certainly feels better to play than mario kart 64 but my personal version of hell is just the same as this world except every good video game's progression system was designed by rare meaning that you gotta find 20 golden schmeckles to unlock the scrmiblo door where you gotta fight a mighty jumbo wumbo to get a blumbo dabloon and you need four blumbo dabloons to debumbify the skronklo bonklo and
memories
Has so much personality and charm that I find lacking in MK64
I almost got crazy on the final boss
SEQUEL COWARDS, BRYAN SHUT UP
DKR is awesome! Blew my mind that you could drive a kart and fly a plane.
This review contains spoilers
Where Mario Kart 7 takes the cake for me as the greatest kart racer in general, Diddy Kong Racing competes in a single player lane in a totally different way.
I'll admit, when me and my partner first booted this up, I was uninspired by the multiplayer. It seemed mediocre at best. However, if you dig into the Adventure mode, which is definitely the main thing on offer here, you get an enjoyable, challenging experience which unlike Mario Kart often feels balanced and fair, despite it also having items, albeit in a different way.
If you're a standard kart racer fan this may not be for you, but as someone who absolutely loves mastering courses in Sonic Adventure 2 (yes, I just compared a kart racer to a Sonic Adventure game), the challenges in single player for these tracks are rewarding, enjoyable and addicting, with minigames and unique boss races to boot.
Whilst Mario Kart 7 took the water and gliding segments and combined them into the tracks, Diddy Kong Racing innovated by letting you choose which you wanted from a boat, car, or plane, each of which control fantastically, but spoiler - not all characters are built equally. Some of them do feel bad in certain vehicles, the only real option is Bumper with Pipsy being a close second.
People who hate on Bumper have no bitches.
I'll admit, when me and my partner first booted this up, I was uninspired by the multiplayer. It seemed mediocre at best. However, if you dig into the Adventure mode, which is definitely the main thing on offer here, you get an enjoyable, challenging experience which unlike Mario Kart often feels balanced and fair, despite it also having items, albeit in a different way.
If you're a standard kart racer fan this may not be for you, but as someone who absolutely loves mastering courses in Sonic Adventure 2 (yes, I just compared a kart racer to a Sonic Adventure game), the challenges in single player for these tracks are rewarding, enjoyable and addicting, with minigames and unique boss races to boot.
Whilst Mario Kart 7 took the water and gliding segments and combined them into the tracks, Diddy Kong Racing innovated by letting you choose which you wanted from a boat, car, or plane, each of which control fantastically, but spoiler - not all characters are built equally. Some of them do feel bad in certain vehicles, the only real option is Bumper with Pipsy being a close second.
People who hate on Bumper have no bitches.
they need to make another game like this
has an enjoyable single-player experience, unlike mario kart. but still i dont exactly see the entertainment value playing multiplayer when something like mario party exists.
eh
Unpopular opinion but I never found the greatness that many other gamers have found in this game. With that being said, this game is fun and offers a ton of content and variety starting with the obvious addition of other types of vehicles with boats and planes. Being a kart racing game at its core, I found the kart levels more fun, followed by airplane levels, and last boat levels which were a bit on the clunky side in terms of controlling and overall level design.
Graphics were great for the time, and the story-driven single-player mode added more weight to the game. There were a bunch of forgettable things in this game such as the "rest" of the characters (with the obvious exception of Banjo and Conker). Non-playable characters like TT and Taj also felt like run of the mill additions.
Overall, DKR is a fun kart racing game with a very ambitious setup but it does fall short in certain areas such as characters and some track designs.
Graphics were great for the time, and the story-driven single-player mode added more weight to the game. There were a bunch of forgettable things in this game such as the "rest" of the characters (with the obvious exception of Banjo and Conker). Non-playable characters like TT and Taj also felt like run of the mill additions.
Overall, DKR is a fun kart racing game with a very ambitious setup but it does fall short in certain areas such as characters and some track designs.
Loved playing this as a kid, still really fun to play but frustrating for true 100%
Probably the best single-player design for a mascot racing game
Most racing games give you a list of tracks to play on and you do it till your bored. This game gives you courses, collectable progression, then replayability to each one with added challenges to keep it fresh. The challenges are a good teacher for alternate paths but since you can’t watch someone else grab the coins, you kinda have to learn some mechanics on your own and back in the day, you just had that 10 page paper manual if your mom didn’t throw it out.
Most racing games give you a list of tracks to play on and you do it till your bored. This game gives you courses, collectable progression, then replayability to each one with added challenges to keep it fresh. The challenges are a good teacher for alternate paths but since you can’t watch someone else grab the coins, you kinda have to learn some mechanics on your own and back in the day, you just had that 10 page paper manual if your mom didn’t throw it out.
Esta bien, pero le falta algo para sentirse excelente
Better than Mario Kart, still holds up incredibly well today. Lots of secrets and that Rareware magic.
It is debated whether this or Mario Kart 64 is the definitive Kart racer for the N64. Diddy Kong Racing has the edge in single-player, the adventure mode is frustrating towards the end as you have to be basically perfect, but it is still a lot of fun for the most part. Having planes and hovercraft brings some variety to the courses, though I think on average the courses are a little less interesting than Mario Kart 64 -- too many of them feel kind of empty.
The music is fun and catchy, the character sounds are charming, and the controls are intuitive but a little slippery.
Multiplayer is fun as well, but I prefer MK64 for playing with friends; the items are more fun and the battle courses in Mario Kart are top-notch. Overall anyone who likes kart racers and doesn't mind aged graphics should give this a try
The music is fun and catchy, the character sounds are charming, and the controls are intuitive but a little slippery.
Multiplayer is fun as well, but I prefer MK64 for playing with friends; the items are more fun and the battle courses in Mario Kart are top-notch. Overall anyone who likes kart racers and doesn't mind aged graphics should give this a try
one of the more enjoyable racing games i've played. definitely like it more than mario kart in terms of gameplay, it's easier to pick up in that aspect.
It’s Mario Kart’s mentally challenged cousin. Has it’s moments, but has godawful controls.
We all know that one song from this game. You know it, I know it, we all know it