Where Banjo Kazooie is Rare putting together a collectathon you just want to get everything in, Donkey Kong 64 is a game where they force you to collect things you don't want anything to do with, in levels nobody likes or remembers, and it also requires you buy a memory adapter for your system (which frankly is not worth it).

I would not recommend this game unless you really just want to find bananas in a kind of bland Donkey Kong world, but I typically just stop once I unlock Donkey Kong within the game, as it is more engaging than the platforming in this game, and certainly more fun than the shooting.