this is the first game i've ever played, and upon replaying it so many years later i...really don't understand why it gets so much shit

it's larger in scale than banjo-kazooie and also slightly worse than it, but despite the size of the levels and the amount of collectables, it's very easy to find everything you need to just by looking for the golden bananas, which are also pretty easy to find because of how they're split up by kong

if you want an actually mediocre rare game on the N64 play banjo-tooie instead, because DK64 is perfectly serviceable