I want to love DK64 more than I do, but it's just so bloated and frustrating at parts.
The DK rap is great, the new characters are great, the music is great, the final boss is fun (even if it does go on a little long), and the glitches are really fun to mess around with.
I don't mind collecting a lot of things, but DK 64 is a step down from Banjo Kazooie in that regard.
The backtracking is not as egregious as something like Tooie, once you get a kong you can get pretty much all of their collectibles on your first visit to a level and the levels are not as bloated as Tooie's.
The minigames and some of the golden bananas are where things kind of start to fall apart. There are a few mini games that just don't work (beavers....) and a few golden bananas are just obnoxious and made even harder with the fixed framerate of the wii u port.
Still fun at times, but it's a little intimidating to go back to.
Lanky and Chunky Kong are excellent editions to the DK lore though and Tiny Kong kind of breaks the DK timeline in weird ways in future games.
Still waiting for Nintendo to release a game explaining the time shenanigans that led to Tiny Kong growing faster than Dixie
The DK rap is great, the new characters are great, the music is great, the final boss is fun (even if it does go on a little long), and the glitches are really fun to mess around with.
I don't mind collecting a lot of things, but DK 64 is a step down from Banjo Kazooie in that regard.
The backtracking is not as egregious as something like Tooie, once you get a kong you can get pretty much all of their collectibles on your first visit to a level and the levels are not as bloated as Tooie's.
The minigames and some of the golden bananas are where things kind of start to fall apart. There are a few mini games that just don't work (beavers....) and a few golden bananas are just obnoxious and made even harder with the fixed framerate of the wii u port.
Still fun at times, but it's a little intimidating to go back to.
Lanky and Chunky Kong are excellent editions to the DK lore though and Tiny Kong kind of breaks the DK timeline in weird ways in future games.
Still waiting for Nintendo to release a game explaining the time shenanigans that led to Tiny Kong growing faster than Dixie