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Pretty Good But Too Hard To Get Around

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphics but that doesn't make up for the fact that the game has way too many tiny little bits too keep track of. Much too hard to get around. It's good if you're patient.

A disgrace to the company, the title and the genre

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: March 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To say the least, Donkey Kong took everything this genre stood for, and made a muck-up of it. Endless item collecting, muddy details and slow action leave this one for the chimps, uh, chumps.

You have bananas, golden and coloured, coins, coconuts, ammo, musical notes etc. and for five characters. The collecting seems endless, and when i was forty % done the game, i just stopped. I looked at this forest level and i said, this looks just like the desert and water ones, only with a different backdrop.

And what's with the story? Some giant floating island or something? Why does K Rool have such a loathing for the Kongs? WHy doesn't he just butcher them instead of placing them in unguarded, easily escapable places???? Rare really messed up on this one. The sound isn't all that awesome (the DK rap, what the heck was that?), and the graphics were bleh; this thing required the 4mb expansion? Banjo Kazooie looked twice as good.

Even the characters are lame. I thought the release of Kiddy Kong in DKC3 was dumb, but now we have three new characters that couldve easily been replaced by 2 old ones. Tiny is the spitting image of Dixie, and Lanky is the babyish side of Kiddy while Chunky is, well the chunky side.

I think Rare thought their game was weak themselves, that must be why they added this mediocre 3rd person shooter multiplayer, isn't it? They didn't think they did a good job on the shooter part did they?

I have so many peeves about this game, it's nuts. What difference is tehre between the gun and the instrument??? They both unlock things. Why did Rare feel it necessary to have two things that can work switches??

Honestly, the only entertaining and redeeming part of this game are the Jetpac and Donkey Kong hidden arcade games.

Certainly a long game, but length is not always a good thing. Look at Conker's BFD, it was short, and still owned this game wicked bad. 15 hours of this, and you'll wish Rare had stopped there.

Not worth buying

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game was a major dissapointment. I play video games and i'm pretty good but this game was way too hard. do not get this game for younger kids they will get bored because they'll get stuck in the first couple of minutes. In the game you are supposed to find all of the Kong Klan(DK's relatives)so u can switch off to different characters instead of being DK all the time. that is a good idea but only excellerated video gamers would be able to get them. the first day my family got it, me and my siblings only played for a couple hours at the most. DO NOT get this for younger kids, i am 15 and couldn't figure it out and i have a ton of video games. This game is a rip-off and very confusing. Now the long awaited DK 64 is on the shelf collecting dust.

Good graphics don't make up for lack of gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: June 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first got the game for Christmas, I have to admit I was pretty excited. I'm a teenager, so I was silently pleading that it would have good enough gamemplay to satisfy me, something that would be playable on an adult level (Zelda64 comes to mind). Unfortunately, I was wrong.

I gave it 2 stars because it DOES have great graphics. But that's where any fun ends. Trust me, it's hard enough to get just one "golden banana." To conquer the game, you're supposed to get almost 200 bananas! You get the bananas by solving puzzles and beating mini-games. Most of the puzzles are just plain stupid-either way too hard, or way too easy. Some mini-games are fun, but others are almost impossible.

You have five characters you can choose to be. Each character gets their own golden bananas per level, and can collect up to 100 "normal" bananas. (Example: Donkey Kong's "normal" bananas are yellow, while Diddy's are red. Donkey can not pick up Diddy's bananas.) This means you explore tthe entire level as one character, then you have to go run around it AGAIN and AGAIN as other characters. This can get extremely boring, especially when you're stuck, and you feel as if you've been everywhere.

All in all, it's a game that really lacks any depth to it. Collect the golden bananas, collect the golden bananas, collect the normal bananas, collect the normal bananas, bananas, bananas....

YOU NEED AN EXPANSION PAK

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just a word to any of you ordering this game. We don't know how fun it is yet, because it requires an Expansion Pak...which we do not have. We didn't know this when ordering.

How is this supposed to be fun?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: April 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What a weird game. I got this expecting the same type of thing that was going on in those great super nintendo games. But hey, if you like confusing and weird puzzles than you might enjoy this game. I suggest that you get it anyway but only to see how different it is than the dk country games. This is a puzzle level game, not a dk country game. I got bored and annoyed with it and stopped playing after having it for a few weeks.

These are my updated comments. Recently, I challenged my review above and my view of this game. I decided to learn how to get good at it, thus, leading to enjoyment of the game. I actually got hooked, playing it for over 80 hours so far. Point being, this game is not awful, it is, however, tricky. If you enjoy Glover or even if you somehow found a way to enjoy Mario 64, you will like this game. I would say that my new rating of fun would be 4 of 5 and my new overall would be 3 of 5. The overall is still low because of how frustrating this game is.

the graphics are great with fun bosses and levels

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 14, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I tried DK 64 and I thought it was fun. The graphics were great. I thought the bosses were better than the ones on SNES. The levels were very exciting with many challenges.

Boooooooring!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is ridiculous. somehow, it is hard but boring. it's impossible to have fun or get addicted to it, like you can in other great games. this makes it extremely boring. in the beginning, the game doesn't state where you are even supposed to go to get to "the action." when you do get to "the action," it's is too hard. I of course shouldn't say that because I've never been too good at the game, but still, this is my opinion. The "action" (if you could call it that) is flying over lava pools or getting to a certain ledge- none of the classic, very fun, jumping on enemies and timing it right to blast yourself out of a barrel onto safe land. the gameplay is horrible. this new corrupted version of the great classic game makes it extremely boring. The only good thing is you get more characters than in the old games, with different special abilities. (...)

May be the game need some modification

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought Donkey-Kong-64 3 months ago for my 5-year old grandson.I always play with him. First, we couldn't get to
anywhere except the level-1, until I bought 2 versions of "Official Guide", and got "Walkthrough" from a web side.
Now, we are on level-3 and have hard time to fight the "Mad Jack"
before we can open level-4. This could be our last stop, because
it is too hard.
Following are some of my comments:
1. It seems the play to fight the "Boss" are getting harder from
one level to the next level. Since this is a game, the goal
should be letting people happy to play not make people
frustration.
2. I think this game should be modified to let people have the
option to choose which "Boss" to fight at end of each level
and which level people like to play next.
Thank you to let me to write something.
A old man in the Great State of Texas.

The best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game I have played since Zelda 64. I think this is a game everyone can like. But if you like to beat games in a day, this is not the game to get. It will take some time to beat it, but it is well worth it. Not extreamly hard, witch is a good thing. The beach part of the game reminds me of Florida, were I live. I rate this veary high. A must have game!

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