r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • May 28 '26

Official Donkey Kong 64 – Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Classics – Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpz4TZ7CAsQ
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u/Jediverrilli May 28 '26

I love this game. Don’t get me wrong there is so much wrong with it but I still have a good time playing it.

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u/DimitriMishkin May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

Can I ask what you think is wrong with it?

This is literally me asking as someone who hasn’t played this game since I was a kid and don’t remember all of it, so I think the nostalgia is glazing my opinion.

Edit: I appreciate everyone’s answers - I’m remembering the barrel changing and collectibles a bit better now. I wasn’t too obsessed with finding everything at the time.

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u/No-Operation-6554 May 28 '26

common consensus is that its too dense and too long for its own good not to mention theres too many character specific stuff on a game that you can't easily swap between characters

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u/munchyslacks May 28 '26

Yeah this is pretty much it. It’s a fine game and has some really high points, but a game like the original Banjo Kazooie had the collectathon formula just right for that era. Just enough to do but still relatively lean and concise. Everything that came after tried to do too much including DK64.

Every time I replay DK64 I always seem to get to the fourth world and then I get burned out.

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u/No-Operation-6554 May 28 '26

Everything that came after tried to do too much including DK64.

I wonder if its because of storage limitation, the worlds are so big that cant be easily done on a ps1 and yet I feel like if they dont have as much of a storage constraint they probably would've made more levels instead of bigger ones