Rare Appreciation Thread

[Kosheh]

The big problem with DK64 was that many of the collectables were divided between the Kongs. That made grabbing everything a real pain.

This. Oh my god this. I liked DK64, but compared to games like Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie -- hell, even modern-day platformers like Super Mario Galaxy, DK64 was collectathon fetishist porn.

With a garnish of sadomasochism. Like, as soon as you FINALLY finished getting all 100 bananas as Donkey Kong, you just look at the roster and this "GOD damn it, time to do it with the other four characters" and then know that you have to do this at least fourteen more times. As a teenager, this was just plain grueling.

Lanky's handstand also made him the fastest runner of the Kongs.

Trying to remember back thirteen or so years, heh. I'm pretty sure I used Lanky to get around much like Kazooie-mode in BKZ.

...you mean I wasn't the only one to do this, lol?

I mean, Lanky actually was nowhere as fast as Kazooie but I remember the backtracking being just so much more tolerable with Lanky.