Adventures and great challenges combined with our Kong Family on Nintendo. Hello, Steemit community today I want to share with you this game that has accompanied me from my childhood until nowadays. Donkey kong 64 was and is currently one of the wonders that left the Nintendo in the 90s for posterity, is a game that in my personal opinion is one of the best in the genre (Platform) designed by rareware and distributed by Nintendo, Donkey kong 64 was a total success for the company Nintendo during its launch in spite of having small graphics errors that were later solved with the creation and implementation of the accessory for the console (Expansion Pak).
In this post, I will relate my personal experience, the different playable modes, and history, characters of this masterpiece, certain cheats of Helpful hints and final conclusion
It all starts when the eternal enemy and nemesis of the kong family, King k Rool begins his plan to eradicate the island Donkey Kong (DK) along with the entire army of crocodiles, kidnap and muzzle the family and Donkey friends in different parts from both islands, stealing all the golden bananas, ignoring everything that is happening, an island parrot named Sqwawks informs him of the king k Rool's evil plans to build a gigantic laser capable of erasing his entire island in an instant, horrified, our dear DK sets off to stop him and save his friends.
here begins our adventure :D
Donkey Kong 64 is a genre platform game, however, this game has other very interesting modes not only the story mode, A versus mode called battle kong; in this title we have another variety of mini-games which are battle coliseum and Monkey smash, where we can find survival modes, save coins among others it should be noted that this option is very fun to play with friends of 2 and up to 4 players which makes it very frenetic and entertaining.
The adventure mode is the main course in this game, very much like Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie, DK64 takes us to explore an endless tropical landscapes and very fun worlds in which we must perform many activities not only with our beloved DK also with each of his friends, which makes this game very long but that does not take away the fun if not the other way around. Race against the clock, riddles, mini-games just to mention some of the activities that this game brings us
Each one with their characteristic skills, weapons, accessories, specialties and a great sense of humor. In each world, we must collect certain items that will help us to continue advancing in the game. Each and every one of these have their particular use either to open a door, learn a new skill or unlock some hidden secret, or master key to go towards a boss, most of these objects are to solve some riddle or challenge that will give us as a reward of our precious golden bananas, in total there are 5 for each member of the kong family in each of the 8 worlds which makes a total of 200 bananas to collect throughout the game.
The gameplay and controls are very similar to Banjo Kazooie not to say exactly the same, very easy and dynamic in my opinion excellently in accordance with the controls of the N64, the only difficulty I had was the movement of the camera, Something very difficult to control. at the time to perform certain missions such as photographing the mini fairies since they tend to be very elusive.
fooling around on DK island
DK:
Our beloved DK in this game is somewhat balanced to say it is somehow a character that combines great strength with some speed, their characteristic skills are the coconut shooter as weapon , these already after a certain moment change their color a reddish and are pursuing, apart from this he uses his bongos for massive lethal attacks, his representative kong wave and his power of invincibility that makes him immune to any attack during a certain time.
Diddy Kong:
the second kong to unlock and the most agile in my opinion, fast and jumps to very high ranges, very useful to reach very high places, Diddy is one of my favorite kong characters for his charismatic personality and courage and his great style one of my favorite techniques, is his massive electric guitar and his double gun peanut popgun that shoots at high speed and can also fly with its very cool barrel propellers.
Tiny Kong:
Agile as diddy but with her very characteristic and fun pigtails is not as strong as the rest but hits very fast, can fly for a short period of time using her hair this allows her to reach remote and difficult places to reach. Another of her abilities is to shrink to the size of a flea to enter through holes and very small entrances can also be transported to certain places to which the rest can not use her special ability, her instrumental weapon is a saxophone, generates great waves of power with her hair and also use a feather crossbow.
Lanky Kong:
the third of the family to be rescued, he attacks with his long elastic arms, is somewhat slow walking normally, however, this changes when he uses his maximum speed ability walking with his arms, his characteristic weapon is a kind of ancient darts throwing blackberries, another of his special abilities can inflate himself as an aerostatic balloon and float, his representative weapon is a trumpet
Chunky Kong:
is the last character to rescue and the most cowardly of the group, this characteristic chunky personality makes him very crazy, and fun to play, however, this is not always so when he gets serious he can be very scary,has the most powerful shots of the group but It is very slow, his great monstrous force compensates, the lack of speed, his characteristic weapon is a delicate musical triangle and his big bazooka of pineapples, other of his abilities is that he can increase its size and strength to knock down big walls or move large obstacles just for a limited time.
each and every one of these scenarios represented a challenge, but even the diddy bananas, were the most difficult to achieve, his missions tend to be a bit more difficult than the rest, personally The most difficult world for me, was the dark castle as I call it and the forest of mushrooms, it is noteworthy, that this level in specific, was first developed for banjo kazooie under the name of enchanted forest however they did not implement it, even in donkey kong stressing that banjo and donkey kong 64 they have too many similarities since they were developed by rareware for the nintendo 64, they share gameplay and dynamics styles something that I find very cool.
- One of the secrets that are hidden in DK are the fairies, many wonders why or what is the use of photographing them, they help me in something? the answer is, YES! the game contains a total of 200 golden bananas but finishing it in this way only passing all the worlds is not 100% since there is another hidden banana and this is on the island of the great fairy, it is 20 fairies we must photograph once this mission is completed we go to his island and this will give us our prize the great golden banana.
- When fulfilling the mission photographing the 20 fairies we will be enabled a hidden cheat, in the option mistery menu at the start of the game we can enable this option we will have all the items that can be consumed unlimited, fruits for our weapons, crystals among others.
- Photographing 15 of the 20 fairies will enable another secret, this one only available for the game versus mode, adding krush in kong battle.
Donkey kong 64 is a unique game that gave a lot to talk about despite being similar to other games of the same company. This particular one had that I do not know what, that makes it unique. A very funny title to pass the time playing alone or with family and friends. I can remember those family gatherings with cousins and brothers playing battle kong was total madness, many hours of entertainment without mentioning for this game and many others games I could learn a bit of English something unconsciously happens when you are forced to pass a game that comes in another language and there is no other way than to try to understand what you must do to be able to advance for these reasons and I recommend DK 64 for all ages
Friends this was my gamer experience with this great game that since my childhood until nowadays brings me only good memories and great teachings I hope you liked thank you for being here
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All the images without source in this post are of my property, however, the images in the characters section belong to the following website: Dk Diddy Tiny Lanky Chunky
game progress :D
