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The nine-year challenge

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was (and still is) awesome! I'm still amazed at the sound and graphics quality of this game, and I always have fun playing it! Some mini games are a bit confusing and incredibly hard. The golden bananas, which act like Banjo-Kazooie's jiggies, are sometimes also extremely hard to get. There's actually over 150 bananas in the game! To be exact, there's 201 bananas in the game, counting the giant (counts as 2) banana that you get for getting all of the banana fairies. This game took me about 6 years to beat (I still haven't gotten all of the bananas!) with other games in-between, including getting a Gamecube. Overall, this game is AWESOME! A must get for any N64 owner!

BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME SINCE 1999

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought my special edition nintedno 64 that came with donkey kong 64.
i have been playing this game on and off since 1999, i have 183 out of 200 golden bannanas.

If you like classic games then this is for you.

This game is pretty good.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this game is very good. There are a multitude of puzzles to conquer and hundreds of collectibles to collect. The only real problem that I have had with the game is the sheer size of it. Finding all 200 Golden Bananas is no mean feat. In fact, by the time I got to Creepy Castle, I shelved the game out of pure disgust. I was sick of finding everything in all of the stages. First, there are the bananas of your own color to find, there are 100 of them. Then you have to find all of the Golden Bananas, of which, each Kong is capable of finding five in each level. The levels are massive, but each have a set area in which a golden banana may be found. Anyway, I have never gotten to the final boss. Maybe it is high time to pick it up again.

Boring and difficult

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I actually owned this game far longer than the 2 first SNES Donkey Kong Country games (a couple of years), but I was scared of trying them out because I never liked this game.

First of all, I was so dissapointed with the graphics. The SNES game had graphics that was way ahead of its time, instead of flat looking sprites the sprites looked like 3D characters. Very detailed backgrounds, areas and monsters. In this game, Donkey Kong completely lacks any fur details, he looks like he was painted in paint.

The camera system is awful and makes the game difficult. Imagine you just climbed a tree, the camera is showing you from the back. You jump onto a wine - WHOMP! - the camera changes the angle so you can't see the next vine because you are shown from the front, so you have to jump "blindly" and hope that you catch the next wine.

This camera problem is constant, and makes it difficult to do simple tasks

like killing monsters, just as you attack the camera spins around.

I remember years ago when I played the game with my family, there was a boss that the girl-monkey had to defeat. It was some jack-in-a-box and she is suppose to fly to different platforms. But when she flies, the camera spins around and you often end up dying because you miss the platform.

We were so frustrated with this boss we never were able to defeat it.

It surprises me that this game requires an expansion pack, I noticed severe slowness on the first boss. Everything moved in slow motion and made it almost impossible to defeat the boss.

Instead of the fun of jumping around, climbing stuff and getting help of your animal friends, jumping and rolling on enemies has been replaced with a smashing system. Donkey Kong is so slow he takes damage just TRYING to hit monsters.

The animal friends are gone, I know the Rhino was still there, but he wasn't there enough for me to remember it.

I also didn't like the gun weapons, it's almost impossible to aim!

There is some humor in this game, but not enough to make me want to complete this utterly boring game. Get the first SNES games and don't bother with this one.

DK64

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall, DK64 is a great game. It's a blast and will have you playing for hours on end. With different levels including Aztecs, Caverns, Castles, Forests, and of course, a jungle, and five different playable characters each with their own abilities and golden bananas (similar to stars in Super Mario 64) to collect, you would think Donkey Kong 64 would never get old. And it won't. For a while.

The plot goes something like this - King K. Rool has another scheme. He's taken all of Donkey Kong's precious golden bananas and kidnapped all his friends. You'll have to navigate through a series of levels, rescuing different characters in each of them, unlocking golden bananas as you go, to eventually reach the final stage. Each level has its own boss which are usually the best part of the level. To reach the boss, you'll have to collect a certain number of regular bananas (scattered throughout the level, different from golden bananas). A certain number of golden bananas unlocks a new level. If you ever want to complete the game, you'll have to rescue all of Donkey's companions. Diddy, Tiny, Lanky, and Chunky Kong all await you in the first three levels. Meanwhile, you buy instruments from Candy, potions from Cranky, and Weapons from Funky. All these can be upgraded. The things you buy, especially Cranky's potions, will give you abilities that are essential to collecting all the golden bananas. There are also various barrel mini games that you must complete in order to finally get the banana.

Donkey Kong has graphics and gameplay very similar to Banjo Kazooie/Tooie. So, those who liked those two games will love DK64. Also, fans of the Donkey Kong franchise will not be let down. Donkey Kong 64 is addictive and you'll always love exploring the new environments the game places you in. There's always aspects to the level that are unique and also crucial to getting golden bananas (For example, in the forest level, there is a giant clock that switches the game between day and night. Some bananas can only be reached at certain times of the day.). The degrees of difficulty for getting the bananas range from stupidly easy to impossible. Many, however, are just pure fun. Overall, DK64 is a very enjoyable game and good for all ages.

A certain degree of frustration does come with the game, however. Some golden bananas are impossible to get you do absolutely everything right. You'll do lots of falling and retrying (especially in the factory level) to reach some. Another irk is that you must get two coins in order to advance to the final boss stages. You must beat the original Donkey Kong and Jetpak. The problem is, no matter what, I could not beat the original Donkey Kong, which prevented me from beating the game. I spent so many wasted hours trying to beat that stupid game. Last, this game requires an expansion pack. Nowadays, expansion packs are hard to come by and cost about $20, which is probably five times more than the actual game will cost you.

Other than that, Donkey Kong 64 is great fun. Even if you don't manage to get through the whole game, it is a very worthwhile title and surely a great value, especially now. You won't be disappointed with Donkey Kong 64, unless of course you're currently enrolled in an anger management class.

best Donkey Kong game so far!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Apes, monkeys, gorillas - you name it, are very interesting animals since their easy ability of scrambling on the ground, climbing up trees, swinging between them using lianas and having long arms and legs doing various other tricks with. These movements have been used in many of the Donkey Kong games, but probably not as good and funny as in this game. Here you meet up with some old characters like Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong, but also new faces are seen. And for the one who enjoy exploring different landscapes, locating special things in order to complete the game - just like Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie - this game will surely be much appriciated. Besides of the movements normal apes does, can many more things be performed by the characters. All the different apes have a certain gun and movement that only they can use and together the apes use all their specialities in order to complete the game. The beatiful nature, the melodic background music, the tough SFX sound, the cool way all the characters have been designed and the versatile gameplay in the game will surely captivate any 3D Platform lover!

Not Quite as Good as Super Mario 64!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: May 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Though this game plays a lot like Super Mario 64 it is not quite as good. That is because everything you do a each level you have to repeat as a different character so it gets too redundant. It was a lot easier to beat than Mario 64 as some of those stars are very difficult to get. There are very few in this game that are very difficult.

This game is officially really, really weird.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Donkey Kong Country holds a special place in my heart as one of my favorite series of all time. Here, Rare has carried the series into 3D. But something happened along the way. It kind of became a Banjo-Kazooie clone, with the distinction of being less fun and more weird. Seriously, this game has an odd sense of humor that I don't quite get. Somebody at Rare was really off his rocker on this one. For example, the entire opening sequence is super-dramatic and intense...in a kind of mocking way. Then there's the totally bizarre characters such as Lanky Kong. There's really, really disturbing boss fights with possessed giant toys and cardboard cut-outs. The final boss is in a boxing ring and is equally strange. I got a really weird vibe from this game, and I didn't enjoy it as much as Banjo-Kazooie or -Tooie. Still, it's got Rare's level of quality and charm at least.

One of the best games for the N64.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is defintely one of my favorite games for the N64. DK is back and this, he has 4 other kongs with him. The other kongs are Diddy, Lanky, Tiny, and Chunky. There is also a DK Rap before the title screen.

Each Kong's collectibles have their own color.

DK: Yellow
Diddy: Red
Lanky: Blue
Tiny: Purple
Chunky: Green

There are 7 worlds (excluding Hideout Helm). In each world you must 25 golden bananas (5 for each Kong), 2 fairys, 1 battle crown, and 500 colored Bananas (100 for each Kong).

If you don't have this game, buy it now. You'll love that action that's in it. It's definitely one of my favorite games ever. You'll get to control all 5 kongs, which is cool.

So, buy the game now.

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.

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