Thread: Country VS. 64
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Old 22nd April 2008, 09:46 PM
B-R-E-T B-R-E-T is offline
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Mario's foray into 3d added a lot of welcome additions to its already established gameplay. It didn't change, or take out anything important. It added. DK64 subtracted.

The Donkey Kong series' first 3 games had a very simple goal. Gregg Mayles himself has said that the approach they took with the franchise is for the player not to be overwhelmed with a whole library of items and scores and life bars, even going so far as leaving out any Heads Up Display. Everything was visual and on the play field.

Now compare this way of thinking with Donkey Kong 64 and tell me that it holds the same spirit the earlier games had. It doesn't even belong to the same series. The characters and title are interchangeable. Take out Donkey and Diddy, change the title to something that has nothing to do with Donkey Kong and guess what? No one will ever know it was originally meant as a Donkey Kong game.

Pretty good game though.

Last edited by B-R-E-T; 23rd April 2008 at 07:22 AM.
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