For the first time on Nintendo 64, Donkey Kong and his menagerie arrive with great fanfare.
And we can talk about a menagerie since three new characters come to accompany Donkey and Diddy Kong: Tiny, Chunky and Lanky.
To complete the game, you will have to play with all three, which increases the number of levels. There are a hundred of them divided into eight worlds.
And that's not all, the publisher has hidden 40 secret mini-games for you to discover.
Donkey Kong. A name that is enough to thrill thousands of players. Whether on the arcade in the early 80s, on Super Nintendo in the early 90s or on Nintendo 64, the adventures of the leaping gorilla have always been phenomenal successes.
It is therefore not surprising to learn how much this new episode transcends the series by making it take its first steps into the 3D era.
So technically Donkey Kong 64 pushes the Nintendo 64 to its limits. Note that it is also essential to have the famous Ram Pak accessory to run the game.
An additional investment that will open the doors to a platform/action game of rare depth.
Face the henchmen of the caiman K. Rool, find the rest of your monkey tribe, as well as your supply of bananas, this is a summary of what awaits you. First good surprise, apart from the famous Donkey, you will have the opportunity to embody 4 other monkeys, all with their own skills. Diddy, Tiny, Lanky and Chunky, they will not be too many to survey every square centimeter of the 8 gigantic worlds that make up the game.
To make matters worse, each location has a different objective for each character, which gives us a total of 40 objectives!
Impressive, especially since you will also have to deal with many minigames, various transformations (swordfish, rhinoceros), without forgetting the multiplayer modes bringing together up to 4 people in duels with bananas that are sometimes a little violent.
With magnificent graphic themes (virgin forest, desert, cave?) and offering a rare wealth of gameplay, Donkey Kong 64 literally rocks the house. A delight for lovers of the genre.
