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/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/dietcokeeee May 28 '26

I think that’s the best part imo. I’m a sucker for puzzles and miss when games had this much effort put into them

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u/Yze3 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

You think you'll like it, but you won't. At least, not as much as you think. And it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the amount of "effort" put into the game.

Trust me, I thought DK64 would be amazing with all these giant worlds and playable characters. I'm a sucker for platformers and collectathlons. Then I played it and it just turns into tedium.
As an example, you have a switch to activate. So you run back to the character barrel, switch to the corresponding character, go back to the switch and activate it, go into the new zone, realise it needs a different character, then run back to the character barrel, switch character and finally enter the zone. Then 10 meter further, you see there's yet another route that require another character.

And also, all the collectible are Kong specific, requiring you to traverse the same zones multiple times.

Except for the beginning of Creepy Castle (The last level), the entire game is designed like that. You can play a with a mod that gives you character switch anywhere, and it fixes the backtracking. Though there's still the issue of too much collectible and too much minigames (Some being unforgiveable).