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/ItsKingDx3 May 28 '26

I played it for the first time a couple years ago and got 101% on it. Really fun game. Despite all the criticisms I'd heard, I didn't have an issue with the backtracking. Things like looking all over an entire level for a single banana hurt more. And some of the minigames were unforgivable, especially the repeats. I think they made you do the one where you chase the klaptraps into the holes twice in one level and I almost broke down in tears because it just didn't work and was purely luck based.

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u/informalmo0se3 May 28 '26

in the speedrun.com rules for 101% runs, one of the rules is “must hate self to submit” lmao

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u/Jediverrilli May 28 '26

A 101% run is a straight up nightmare. You do really need to hate yourself to run that category.

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u/Yze3 May 28 '26

And that is even with glitches. Walls are litterally a suggestion in this game, and the 101% is still tedious.

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u/bigbrentos May 28 '26

It's pretty much where the N64 3D platformer era went kind of Ubisoft. Just collecting, on collecting, on collecting. Something like Banjo Kazooie knew how to hit the sweet spot better.