wizpig is like imagine how a person remembers a nostalgic childhood video game antagonist and then making the antagonist ACTUALLY like that for real with all the cheesiness and hamminess and horror, i love it
The thing that scared me the most in this game (or the DS version, at least) was the animation of the Wizpig head opening up after beating all the bosses
Yeah, I remember closing the DS screen halfway and looking away in fear when that screen showed up…and even then the sound still freaked me out Also that horrifying Game Over screen you get when you don’t place first in story mode always scared me
@@CLTurtle I never bothered beating the N64 version as a kid. When I saw the Wizpig head turn fleshy, I deleted my data in fear. Teenage me did finish the DS version years later though in redemption. Even then i cringed a bit at his awakening.
Man, I remember Wizpig giving me utter hell in the first race. Though like you said, we learned many skills by just playing the story mode. If you don't know everything about controls, location, and techniques, you already lost. I'm sure many players that have raced against Wizpig have their own stories and memories relating to the hell hexing hog.
the absolute mechanical precision required to beat wizpig was one of the many reasons i never beat this as a kid. coming back to it now, it's kind of insane how tall of an order this bossfight is
Same, he was a tough boss but I was DETERMINED to beat him. Yep got through took me two days, can't say the same for other games as I got older. Except maybe the Valkyries in GoW.
Wizpig (and DKR in general) is the EPITOME of the type of challenge that completely bottled-necked me and my abilities as a child and that only with revisiting it as an adult could I truly fully appreciate. Other hard games from my childhood either became this mountain of a task through genuinely being tedious, unfair, or cryptic, but DKR always made it's goalposts clear, but made getting to them a challenge that just was a tall mountain of execution that I just never attained at that age. But after revisiting the game years later, I finally got the closure my childhood self always dreamed of and it is to this day one of my favorite games to replay. Also, real men use Krunch.
@@TJ-Henry-Yoshi yes. It took me like a month, but it is possible. You need to use the trick where you angle your kart in mid air. If you do this, and take absolutely perfect lines over the water you can do it. Still easier than Hot-Top Volcano too.
I used to be absolutely terrified of the loss jingle that played when you lose to a boss or in multiplayer versus. It gave me nightmares for years, and I still genuinely can't see why I find it so scary. Even to this day, it sends chills down my spine. Easily one of my most unconventional fears lmao
Real talk, I thought I was the only one feeling like that. It’s not like Mario Kart 64 with its silly jingle. Followed by the ominously soothing pianos to try again. Diddy Kong Racing lose jingle felt like you let the racers down, let everyone down, and even let yourself down. Nintendo Era Rare showing once again, you should really feel afraid of game overs at high steaks.
The fact that he actually cheats, starting early before each race, further cements him as a completely dickish standout villain. Everyone had a person they knew as a kid like this...
The unlocking of future funland and the final wizpig fight were lowkey some of the most shocking memories of its era for me. That high was hard to beat, blasting through the rest of the courses and beating him on his own turf was electrifying. And that first boss, that brick wall of "Beatable with skill and that's it," gave me an appreciation for learning lessons from games and growing. It's something I would continue honing in other games, relishing the chance to learn, grow and be tested. Honestly just something good to have in general.
Ah man, took me frickin' _years_ to roast Wizpig, mostly because I took forever to find out about the Zipper trick. Despite that, I do respect the choice to make him a legitimately threatening boss, and this video helped me appreciate how well he works as a heel.
Diddy King Racing and Crash Team Racing are the reason why we can beat anyone at any racing game in this day and age. We were forged in fire. We are unbreakable.
I remember my family getting me this for Christmas back then and being somewhat disappointed because I didn't really like racing games. But I tried it anywise until i eventually beat the Wizpig at the footrace and I was happy with it. NOW after all these years I find out there was another set of levels after that?! serves me right for turning off the game to avoid dealing with a credit roll but dang. (goes and digs out the n64)
Diddy Kong Racing is a certified hood classic. Wizpig is a rather silly simple bad guy who does the job. I remember unlocking Future Funland for the first time and finding out how cool the final stages there were. All in all, great video. I feel like this channel is a little underrated.
6:30 I really like this part of Taj slowly teaching the racer per boss that in order to win they need to cheat themselves to win against him like letting go of the speed arrows before landing on one for a boost, Wizpig may be a threatening foe to go up against but Taj shows it isn't impossible with his knowledge on the exploits to racing Greenwood village coin challenge can go suck it that race is still hard
The Wizpig race may have been the very first insane challenge I accomplished in a video game. Looking back on it, it's not as bad as other things I did later in other games but it definitely is a brutal race objectively and I remember impressing my friend who could never beat Wizpig himself.
Oh, yeah, Wizpig was indeed meant to be terrifying, like Bowser. But you still can't help but love him, anyway. And yes, both his races were hard as heck, but satisfying when you win.
The first race is really intimidating and brutal until you realize how to zip with the green flame. I didn't know how to do that until I died at that race a thousand times. I had gotten to that point in the game without needing it. Once you start green flame zipping all over, it's only a matter of time before you learn that precision needed to jump from one zip to the next to the next without falling off into any of the pitfalls. Once you master that, you will beat Wizpig and it is so satisfying. With that being said, the last race with him on the rocket, is not as easy as he is making it out to be in this video. Sure, it seems like it should be easier with all your items and rockets you can pick up, but this one is a marathon whereas the other one was a sprint. And there's way more rough weird turns, traps and obstacles over a longer stretch of time that can trip you up. You have to be on your game for a much longer period of time. And no matter how good you became in the first Wizpig race, you are still guaranteed to lose this race a bunch too before finally beating it. And it remains very challenging when you pick it up years later, whereas the first one, it's very easy to memorize that short track and the fact that you need to hit a lot of zips and release the green flame to blow ahead. Those green zip boosts are so powerful that you can afford to skip a few and still win comfortably once you really know what you're doing. But no such cheap gimmick will save you in the other race. You have to be a legit really good pilot for a good, long 3 laps to win and it can be hard not to choke away any lead you have at the very end, whether in the throne room with all the lasers flying around or in the sharp turns in the final cave before the finish. But it all makes for that much more of a satisfying victory.
Im gonna be dead honest: I actually broke down and cried after the 50th time I tried to beat the crab boss. It just felt like some big bully shitting on me so many times that it became emotionally real. That is the only time a videogame has made me cry.
I remember Wizpig being almost impossible because back then I didn't know english therefore I never knew you could release A too get the max boost xD the strat was to be always in front of him and get him to push you all the way on those parts where he walks, and on the parts where he flies, take all the boosts in a row without missing any single one xD
I knew Wizpig was hard, but I hadn't realized how much people had trouble with him. It makes the achievement of beating him that much better, I remember taking hours upon hours to do it.
This was the first video game I ever played as a child, and hopefully the last game I ever play on my death bed lol, the way you describe the child like wonder of Diddy Kong Racing couldn't be worded any better, Timbers Island is a world of splendor that greatly influenced my entire life ..
DKR was one of the first console games I ever owned. I vividly remember getting it for my 8th bday along with the N64 itself and (I think) Rampage. Truly lil 8 year old me thought it was insurmountable. There were a lot of tears and all that, but the feeling of conquering the tracks for the first time and getting to 100% completion was unforgettable. I think it was some years before I even discovered the bonus tracks, I was just goofing off driving around the hub island lol, talk about a shock!
Absolutely fantastic video, you got me choked up practically the while way through! Such a great game and I really hope we do get a proper sequel, that pig has a rematch coming.
We beat Wizpig as a kid but I NEVER knew about this Future Funland. I wanna fire mine up to see what I need to do but I suck at Diddy Kong racing now. I don’t even come close to my old records lol
I think it's amazing how you opened a new way for me to see DKR. I remember I had fun playing, but I didn't own the game, only rented, so I couldn't really experience like that. Putting this way, this makes the game so underrated, we don't see it in Top 10 lists or deeper analyses of bigger reviewers, but it deserves. But it also highlights what writing for children should be. I know the Di$ney rule of writing for children aiming for adults, but writing and designing games having a primary target demographic for children requires treating them as independent and having confidence they can learn, and if you make a good job, you'll sure get other demographics.
" No No No... Wrong way" has become a personal Meme for myself that i use when someone driving makes a wrong turn. This game cures depression and i will forever love it.
Great video. Wizpig 1 is the boss I struggled the most against in my gamer life. 10 year old me cried out of rage after losing and losing again, but after much tries, I finally managed to beat him and I even beat Wizpig 2 after only one attempt. I guess it changed me as a gamer.
Man, Diddy Kong Racing is a childhood memory, I am saddened to hear that Rare Studio's disappeared or gone bankrupt, But they produced such amazing games.
Every few months or so this channel pops back up into my recommendations and I wonder how I forgot about it. I don’t know why the cycle happens, but it’s always fun to watch the videos I missed.
This game just had so many super fun details to it that made it such a classic. One of the little things I loved so much is how every character had different instrumentations they played the themesong to both in the opening and in the character select screen. Little injections of personality like that will always mean so much to me in video games and I truly think it's formative experiences like growing up with DKR that make me that way.
The scariest bit for me was the Wizpig ghosts on that one track. I never played that track as a kid because every time I did, one of those faces would always end up flying directly into the screen like a jumpscare.
Mm. I feel this video is going to hit different for a lot of people, but to those who've played it and witnessed the final credits... it's gonna feel like you're talking directly to us.
We had DKR at my daycare and I remember the giant Wizpig head freaking 7-year old me out. While I never got to reach him myself, I remember that even the other boss fights were really nerve-wracking because of how closely they tailed you if you somehow got ahead. I took pride in being one of the first to beat the triceratops boss.
I remember this fart. I used Pipsy just to beat him. You can't miss any turbo pad with him. Timber was my favorite. I used to pretend the other characters were some of my classmates in sixth grade at the time, lol. The racers just looked like a class on a cool kart racing field trip.
Great analysis! As a kid, I don't ever think I beat the octopus boss. Though, I beat the game years later. It definitely was challenging for a kid's game, especially the later races. I do miss old Rareware from that era. You could tell there was a lot of effort put into their games and they were just fun! I always hoped there would have been a sequel to Diddy Kong Racing. Wizpig was a silly villain, but it is too bad he never made a return. I can definitely understand the licensing to Diddy Kong Racing can being a nightmare between Nintendo and Microsoft!
Who else never reached the Wizpig fight as a kid, and when older found out that the childish fantasies like something being behind the Wizpig were real? Especially I never expected the lighthouse would really have a purpose in the end. I thought, it would just be decoration, even if I often got there as a child. And that there is a whole new fifth world, I never experienced as a child. It felt like as if you start up Mario Kart 64 when older and some day you free the caged thwomp, you bumped against with full speed many times hoping something will happen as a kid.
As a kid I was not able to beat wizpig in his first race, even after a million tries. I simply could not handle the "stress" of the advanced zippers where you need to step off the gas and LEAVE it like this some more seconds (I always hit the gas again after I saw the green flame). Came back like 10 years later - instant win. Funny when you look back :D
So for me, I got stuck on Greenwich Village's Silver Coin Challenge as a kid... For 20 years. I figured I would never beat it. Wizpig always represented this insurmountable challenge that I would never be able to beat. Hell, I remember writing a letter to Nintendo Power asking how to unlock Drumstick, and when they responded saying I needed to beat WizPig, I thought, "Well, guess I'm not getting him then." It wasn't until I was 28 and I committed an afternoon to not only beating the silver coin challenge, but Wizpig, the space levels and the Wizpig rematch that I finally felt like I had finished what I had started as a kid. I don't know if anything gaming-wise has felt more satisfying than that.
I remember it was the way he ran that creeped me out. His sprint-waddle, and being so gigantic and just plowing through everything, was real intimidating to 12 year old me.
if you data mine the original N64 game you can find files for a Wizpig 3 hovercraft race , that was never put in the game. kinda cool. some images of the race have leaked.
This was one of my first games if not the first one, my childhood, I’ve never thought about it this way, but so true. Now I know why The first wizpig race and music still to this day deep inside, makes me feel uneasy. So much effort poured into achieving that win, so many restarts, anger and shaky hands, together with greenwood village’s silver coin challenge,definitely the hardest thing I’ve faced on a game. So good, so nostalgic, all the music tracks are still a masterpiece to this day, David wise is a god. The remake was bad, I guess it’s time to go back to my 19+ year old copy of the game, hope that it still works, and revisit Those old memories that once made me so happy... thank you for this nostalgia evoking video and the way you presented this wonderful game.
It’s sad that pretty much the only way these classics can be enjoyed is through piracy. I think WizPig is a good comparison to make to a lot of video games publishers nowadays.
The needing all the mechanics part is so true. I arrived at the first Wizpig race knowing everything except the skidding or drifting mechanic or whatever is called, and just because of that small weakness alone I was forced to memorize every step of Wizpig race to take advantage of him kicking you forward when you stand ahead of him, which provides an oh so small boost and helps you keep up. There’s also the fact that his race is purposely misleading, with him taking a startup advantage and most of the useful boost being positioned at the end of the lap whereas the ones at the beginning are only there to help you overcome pieces of the race that purposely slow you down. This by design, tricks you into giving up and restarting if you’re not patient, as you’ll feel like you’re losing and left with not much choice to catch up. Especially when you’re a kid and even the smallest mistake makes this trick feel like a reality. I beat Wizpig when I was a child by being absolutely psychotic about winning, but I never did the space tracks because I assumed the game was over and I’ve never been a completionist so I never triggered the new zone. However coming across a video that showed me there was more I was missing, I quickly brought up my game and started it all over again. This time knowing all the tricks and that I should start the race losing and slowly catch up towards the end of the lap. Was still difficult, but I loved having a reason to come back to this as an adult. Truly one of my favorite games, and this time I completed it!
This is the first video I've seen from this creator. "No, jump good!" Has informed me that you are a real one. You are real, and this video is real good. Subscribed. I miss my grandparents... This and warioland 2 are the games I most closely associate with them.
Back then, i was like 6 years old, i never could beat Wizpig. I cried and said to my dad, that he should do it. He struggled too, but he beat him after a while. Now i'm 32 and i would love to see a Remake of Diddy Kong Racing (N64) on the next Nintendo Switch. I would accept the challenge again and will try to beat my most scared Villan of my Childhood, after 26 Years of procrastinating and crying, that i can't do it... I CAN. And i want to try it again, in a Remake Version of this specific Game and overcome this challenge. Edit: And also i wanted to mention, that your Voice Sounds exactly like Revali's Voice from the Zelda Game "Breath of the Wild." He is very dear to me and i love him, with all of my Heart. He trains very hard and is always by himself. He is a Perfectionist and never gives up. I see it as a big Sign, that you as Revali's Voice, is cheering for me and saying to me: That i can do it! #^ . ^#
Maybe someday there could be a "banjo kazooie nuts & bolts: designing for insult" episode breaking down the game's opening and explaining how goddamn insulting it is towards the series' legacy and fans!
I could never beat Wizpig as a kid. The summer when I was 15, I went back to the game and played a couple of the Wizpig races each day. Finally I beat the bastard. Right as I crossed the finish line I suddenly had a full beard and a hairy chest.
Everyone has that one game we all felt we were the best at. My sister, after watching me beat Sekiro Shadows Die Twice's hardest boss' hard mode (called Inner), assumed mine was that game. It was not. For me, that game is, and always was, Diddy Kong Racing. I remember as a kid my friend asking me to come over and beat Wizpig for him because he and his dad simply couldn't do it. I had no idea at the time, but after growing up and looking back, this game was utterly overtuned for a kid's game lol. Hell, the octopus boss was just as hard as Wizpig imo.
You did a FANTASTIC job of giving this game the credit it's due. From the music to the gameplay, the characters to the style, it's an essence so pure that SHOULD weather the test of time. If only it could make a comeback...
I love watching these videos, but the visual effects are starting to get a little disorienting. I hope future videos tone them down a bit, but I'll still gladly listen to them either way.
@@AuthorMx You are going to make the videos readable. I intend to let Icarus' wings burn, but not to have him crash into the sea. I want a cool phoenix-icarus of visual effects, not a corpse.
Every video game ever made that DOESN'T have a secret passage/collectible/surprise behind a waterfall is a betrayal of human sensibilities. So few people see waterfalls in real life, so if you put one in a game... put a treat behind it. Our inner child needs it.
One of my friends had this game and he let me borrow it, too difficult for me to get half way through, mostly I remember being really pissed off at it lol.
Born in 2000, I always just kinda *had* this game at my house, I always remember it being around. As a result, I don't even remember my first time playing it, i just would pick it up when i was younger, think it was fun and probably lose a lot. So when you talk about "finally beating wizpig and growing up" it honestly hit me pretty hard. As a 5/6 y/o, beating dino domain was simple enough but I could never do the silver coin challenges, and I certainly could never get enough balloons to race on any of the Dragon Forest stages. But it's totally true, bit by bit, as the years went by, I got better and better at the game, then finally when i was probably 11 or 12 I finally beat wizpig. It really was a huge accomplishment. But I never realized until now just how much time had passed.
Rareware during the N64 era really excelled at creating environments, events and characters that weren't totally tonally incongruous with the rest of the game, but that were just intimidating enough they scared kids rather than just signalling to kids "this guy is supposed to be scary" without actually scaring them.
It took me over a decade to beat this damn boss cause the stupid zipper trick was impossible for my aspie self to grasp, and fuckin' NOBODY at my school ever managed to take him down. Then you find out about the zipper thing and it flat trivializes the entire game, it was so stupidly broken. Caused me to smoke every track with or without those coins to collect.
I only recently was able to beat wizpig and i basically had to do the tap accelerate trick to beat him alongside perfect boosts the entire way. There was no way i could do it as a kid.
Wizpig was tough, but I think i had a harder time unlocking TT. It took me way too long to learn how to get a maximum boost from zippers, and doing so is absolutely required for some of the time trials.
Did not know about this mega zipper meta, and because of this every race against this chonker has been down to the absolute wire. Also had no idea Drumstick was the previous island champion, how did I miss all this!? Great video as always.
I never beat Diddy Kong Racing, not even close, I got to the ice world maybe beat it but then got stuck/lost. I do recall Wizpig's monument head lighting up though. I always thought it was him getting more active or something not that I was breaking away stone to see his skin.
Wizpig's 1st race was what taught me the green boost. Before that I went through the game with 0 issues for the most part outside of the 4 bosses. No matter what I could do, I could never beat him and thought he was unbeatable. It wasn't until reading the manual and players guide I owned that I finally understood how to green boost. As a child, I couldn't comprehend how letting go of the acceleration button would make you go faster on a boost and would assume it would make you slower. Learning that, I finally got to floor Wizpig and I was one of my greatest feats as a kid. Was so happy.
I had the captions turn off when I first played, so never saw Taj’s hints. It took me days to beat Wizpig. I had already unlocked Drumstick before I finally beat him. Learning how to use the green boost during the Wizpig race itself. I also discovered tapping A to go faster, which is how I discovered the green boost.
i'm sorry but what kind of lovecraftian idea is it to have the way to Wizpig guarded by a LITERAL DOOR OF FLESH? What dark magic lies within the amulets you are winning?
This is the first video of yours I've ever seen. At first I was uncomfortable with how often you show your face. Personally I don't think it needs to be in a video about games. Because of that I almost clicked off, but I'm glad I didn't because I would have missed some phenomenal editing and fantastic attention to detail. It's obvious you put a lot of hard work into this video and I just wanted to say thank you for taking me on this journey. Not many people I've seen on this platform do what you did. It's great work and I wanted to take this time to tell you. So thanks!
Funnily enough, his face showing up often is an editing choice. Before I begged him to give me more face material to use I had to resort to using the same graphic through every video. I like using his face because these videos are very much an extension of Pyrr and I like to exaggerate that. And thank you for your compliments! I hope you enjoy what we have coming up next and the things that we've made before this, welcome to the channel : ).
Funnily this is only one of, like, four vids I show my face through for more than a second, if at all. Thank you so much for sticking around through all this experimentation!
Its the game i was never able to beat thanks to that first Race with Wizpig but i enjoyed every moment with the game... Unfortunately the battery died since then and I'll have to replace it if i want to try it again. And laterally got shivers when i heard the sentence YOU CANT BEAT ME .. 😅 Maybe I'll have to get back to it again
There was going to be a sequel, donkey kong racing, but then rare was going bankrupt, nintendo didn't buy them, and Microsoft bought them instead so they had to cancel it
Wizpig may have a goofy design overall, but there's just something unsettling about the way he makes his presence. For me, what immediately tipped me off that this guy is a different breed of evil is how his face is the start-up icon picture for DKR DS. Usually the DS icons are just the most basic picture to represent the game... But nah. THIS DUDE makes his presence known before you even start playing the freaking game.
Nintendo definitely owns DKR just not the rare characters If Nintendo wanted to make a DKR 2 and replace all the rare characters with kong characters they probably could
That is not the case. Rare published Diddy Kong Racing, unlike titles like Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie, which were owned entirely by Nintendo (until the Banjo IP was sold back to Rare). This is why the "Rare Racers" line of merchandise is allowed to exist - Rare owns all tracks, music, and characters other than those directly tied to the Donkey Kong IP, such as Krunch the Kremling and Diddy Kong. And don't get me started on Tricky the Triceratops.
wizpig is like imagine how a person remembers a nostalgic childhood video game antagonist and then making the antagonist ACTUALLY like that for real with all the cheesiness and hamminess and horror, i love it
hamminess, i see what you did there
The thing that scared me the most in this game (or the DS version, at least) was the animation of the Wizpig head opening up after beating all the bosses
Yeah, I remember closing the DS screen halfway and looking away in fear when that screen showed up…and even then the sound still freaked me out
Also that horrifying Game Over screen you get when you don’t place first in story mode always scared me
@@CLTurtle I never bothered beating the N64 version as a kid. When I saw the Wizpig head turn fleshy, I deleted my data in fear. Teenage me did finish the DS version years later though in redemption. Even then i cringed a bit at his awakening.
YES LITERALLY SAME HERE!!
@@GearGolemTMF I swear, when it isn’t about Toads fighting some lady, Rare games are just nightmare fuel
Yes, that the classic moment for everyone. But that didn't bother me, even in the N64 version.
Nothing raised my anxiety faster than when Wizpig was stomping right behind me in the first race.
Man, I remember Wizpig giving me utter hell in the first race. Though like you said, we learned many skills by just playing the story mode. If you don't know everything about controls, location, and techniques, you already lost. I'm sure many players that have raced against Wizpig have their own stories and memories relating to the hell hexing hog.
Got there,but I don’t think I ever beat him
the absolute mechanical precision required to beat wizpig was one of the many reasons i never beat this as a kid. coming back to it now, it's kind of insane how tall of an order this bossfight is
I did it as a kid but it took around a month.
Same, he was a tough boss but I was DETERMINED to beat him. Yep got through took me two days, can't say the same for other games as I got older. Except maybe the Valkyries in GoW.
Yeah, looking back its kinda fucked up to expect that much from a child but I guess the games were built different back then
I beat him just now using save states.
This and King K rool.... I never beat as a kid.... I at least had a chance at Grunty, but goddamn were wizpig and King k rool hard boss fights!
Wizpig (and DKR in general) is the EPITOME of the type of challenge that completely bottled-necked me and my abilities as a child and that only with revisiting it as an adult could I truly fully appreciate.
Other hard games from my childhood either became this mountain of a task through genuinely being tedious, unfair, or cryptic, but DKR always made it's goalposts clear, but made getting to them a challenge that just was a tall mountain of execution that I just never attained at that age.
But after revisiting the game years later, I finally got the closure my childhood self always dreamed of and it is to this day one of my favorite games to replay.
Also, real men use Krunch.
Real men use Krunch, play on hard mode, don't mash A, don't let go of A on speed boosts, and don't get the boost at the start of the race.
@@kelpfries9042 I'll agree with all but the last 2, but is it even possible to beat wizpig 1 without A-releasing the zippers?
@@TJ-Henry-Yoshi yes. It took me like a month, but it is possible. You need to use the trick where you angle your kart in mid air. If you do this, and take absolutely perfect lines over the water you can do it.
Still easier than Hot-Top Volcano too.
@@kelpfries9042 okay buddy we don't need to make everything some nightmarish Uberchallenge.
@@StarkMaximum If you ain't playin your toddlers racing game on at LEAST Ultraviolence why we even talking.
I used to be absolutely terrified of the loss jingle that played when you lose to a boss or in multiplayer versus. It gave me nightmares for years, and I still genuinely can't see why I find it so scary. Even to this day, it sends chills down my spine. Easily one of my most unconventional fears lmao
Real talk, I thought I was the only one feeling like that. It’s not like Mario Kart 64 with its silly jingle. Followed by the ominously soothing pianos to try again. Diddy Kong Racing lose jingle felt like you let the racers down, let everyone down, and even let yourself down. Nintendo Era Rare showing once again, you should really feel afraid of game overs at high steaks.
The fact that he actually cheats, starting early before each race, further cements him as a completely dickish standout villain. Everyone had a person they knew as a kid like this...
that felt very close and personal, thank you so much for all the videos you make, they are beyond wonderful!
The unlocking of future funland and the final wizpig fight were lowkey some of the most shocking memories of its era for me. That high was hard to beat, blasting through the rest of the courses and beating him on his own turf was electrifying. And that first boss, that brick wall of "Beatable with skill and that's it," gave me an appreciation for learning lessons from games and growing. It's something I would continue honing in other games, relishing the chance to learn, grow and be tested. Honestly just something good to have in general.
Ah man, took me frickin' _years_ to roast Wizpig, mostly because I took forever to find out about the Zipper trick. Despite that, I do respect the choice to make him a legitimately threatening boss, and this video helped me appreciate how well he works as a heel.
Well, you roasted that pig eventually.
Diddy King Racing and Crash Team Racing are the reason why we can beat anyone at any racing game in this day and age. We were forged in fire. We are unbreakable.
I remember my family getting me this for Christmas back then and being somewhat disappointed because I didn't really like racing games. But I tried it anywise until i eventually beat the Wizpig at the footrace and I was happy with it. NOW after all these years I find out there was another set of levels after that?! serves me right for turning off the game to avoid dealing with a credit roll but dang. (goes and digs out the n64)
Diddy Kong Racing is a certified hood classic. Wizpig is a rather silly simple bad guy who does the job. I remember unlocking Future Funland for the first time and finding out how cool the final stages there were. All in all, great video. I feel like this channel is a little underrated.
HUGE ANIME BREASTS
I think what was cool about wizpig, he was actually difficult enough to back up all of his boasting
6:30 I really like this part of Taj slowly teaching the racer per boss that in order to win they need to cheat themselves to win against him like letting go of the speed arrows before landing on one for a boost, Wizpig may be a threatening foe to go up against but Taj shows it isn't impossible with his knowledge on the exploits to racing
Greenwood village coin challenge can go suck it that race is still hard
The Wizpig race may have been the very first insane challenge I accomplished in a video game. Looking back on it, it's not as bad as other things I did later in other games but it definitely is a brutal race objectively and I remember impressing my friend who could never beat Wizpig himself.
Oh, yeah, Wizpig was indeed meant to be terrifying, like Bowser. But you still can't help but love him, anyway.
And yes, both his races were hard as heck, but satisfying when you win.
same here
The first race is really intimidating and brutal until you realize how to zip with the green flame. I didn't know how to do that until I died at that race a thousand times. I had gotten to that point in the game without needing it. Once you start green flame zipping all over, it's only a matter of time before you learn that precision needed to jump from one zip to the next to the next without falling off into any of the pitfalls. Once you master that, you will beat Wizpig and it is so satisfying.
With that being said, the last race with him on the rocket, is not as easy as he is making it out to be in this video. Sure, it seems like it should be easier with all your items and rockets you can pick up, but this one is a marathon whereas the other one was a sprint. And there's way more rough weird turns, traps and obstacles over a longer stretch of time that can trip you up. You have to be on your game for a much longer period of time. And no matter how good you became in the first Wizpig race, you are still guaranteed to lose this race a bunch too before finally beating it. And it remains very challenging when you pick it up years later, whereas the first one, it's very easy to memorize that short track and the fact that you need to hit a lot of zips and release the green flame to blow ahead. Those green zip boosts are so powerful that you can afford to skip a few and still win comfortably once you really know what you're doing. But no such cheap gimmick will save you in the other race. You have to be a legit really good pilot for a good, long 3 laps to win and it can be hard not to choke away any lead you have at the very end, whether in the throne room with all the lasers flying around or in the sharp turns in the final cave before the finish. But it all makes for that much more of a satisfying victory.
Im gonna be dead honest: I actually broke down and cried after the 50th time I tried to beat the crab boss. It just felt like some big bully shitting on me so many times that it became emotionally real. That is the only time a videogame has made me cry.
Do u mean the octopus one?? Confused when u said crab, or is that something in the ds version.
@@SmashHDD oh yeah i meant the octupus
I remember Wizpig being almost impossible because back then I didn't know english therefore I never knew you could release A too get the max boost xD the strat was to be always in front of him and get him to push you all the way on those parts where he walks, and on the parts where he flies, take all the boosts in a row without missing any single one xD
13:23 Worth it! Conker's Bad Fur Day is a timeless masterpiece
I knew Wizpig was hard, but I hadn't realized how much people had trouble with him. It makes the achievement of beating him that much better, I remember taking hours upon hours to do it.
I beat it first try 🥱
This was the first video game I ever played as a child, and hopefully the last game I ever play on my death bed lol, the way you describe the child like wonder of Diddy Kong Racing couldn't be worded any better, Timbers Island is a world of splendor that greatly influenced my entire life ..
DKR was one of the first console games I ever owned. I vividly remember getting it for my 8th bday along with the N64 itself and (I think) Rampage. Truly lil 8 year old me thought it was insurmountable. There were a lot of tears and all that, but the feeling of conquering the tracks for the first time and getting to 100% completion was unforgettable. I think it was some years before I even discovered the bonus tracks, I was just goofing off driving around the hub island lol, talk about a shock!
Absolutely fantastic video, you got me choked up practically the while way through! Such a great game and I really hope we do get a proper sequel, that pig has a rematch coming.
We beat Wizpig as a kid but I NEVER knew about this Future Funland. I wanna fire mine up to see what I need to do but I suck at Diddy Kong racing now. I don’t even come close to my old records lol
Someday.. *WIZPIG SHALL MAKE HIS GRAND COMEBACK FIR HUS REVENGE!!!!*
I think it's amazing how you opened a new way for me to see DKR. I remember I had fun playing, but I didn't own the game, only rented, so I couldn't really experience like that. Putting this way, this makes the game so underrated, we don't see it in Top 10 lists or deeper analyses of bigger reviewers, but it deserves. But it also highlights what writing for children should be. I know the Di$ney rule of writing for children aiming for adults, but writing and designing games having a primary target demographic for children requires treating them as independent and having confidence they can learn, and if you make a good job, you'll sure get other demographics.
This is beautiful! Loved this video. Beating wiz pig really is a rite of passage!
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" No No No... Wrong way" has become a personal Meme for myself that i use when someone driving makes a wrong turn. This game cures depression and i will forever love it.
Great video. Wizpig 1 is the boss I struggled the most against in my gamer life. 10 year old me cried out of rage after losing and losing again, but after much tries, I finally managed to beat him and I even beat Wizpig 2 after only one attempt. I guess it changed me as a gamer.
Awesome video, some hilarious editing gags too.
Man, Diddy Kong Racing is a childhood memory, I am saddened to hear that Rare Studio's disappeared or gone bankrupt, But they produced such amazing games.
Every few months or so this channel pops back up into my recommendations and I wonder how I forgot about it. I don’t know why the cycle happens, but it’s always fun to watch the videos I missed.
This game just had so many super fun details to it that made it such a classic. One of the little things I loved so much is how every character had different instrumentations they played the themesong to both in the opening and in the character select screen. Little injections of personality like that will always mean so much to me in video games and I truly think it's formative experiences like growing up with DKR that make me that way.
I wonder if Wizpig was secretly a Saiyan. A super Saiyan pig that goes to destroy planets with his powers sounds like a beautiful story.
The scariest bit for me was the Wizpig ghosts on that one track. I never played that track as a kid because every time I did, one of those faces would always end up flying directly into the screen like a jumpscare.
Mm. I feel this video is going to hit different for a lot of people, but to those who've played it and witnessed the final credits... it's gonna feel like you're talking directly to us.
Excellent video man
We had DKR at my daycare and I remember the giant Wizpig head freaking 7-year old me out. While I never got to reach him myself, I remember that even the other boss fights were really nerve-wracking because of how closely they tailed you if you somehow got ahead. I took pride in being one of the first to beat the triceratops boss.
I remember this fart. I used Pipsy just to beat him. You can't miss any turbo pad with him. Timber was my favorite. I used to pretend the other characters were some of my classmates in sixth grade at the time, lol. The racers just looked like a class on a cool kart racing field trip.
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Great analysis! As a kid, I don't ever think I beat the octopus boss. Though, I beat the game years later. It definitely was challenging for a kid's game, especially the later races. I do miss old Rareware from that era. You could tell there was a lot of effort put into their games and they were just fun!
I always hoped there would have been a sequel to Diddy Kong Racing. Wizpig was a silly villain, but it is too bad he never made a return. I can definitely understand the licensing to Diddy Kong Racing can being a nightmare between Nintendo and Microsoft!
Bro I still haven't beaten Wizpig. I can barely beat that damn triceratops.
This was my very first N64 game so extra shame
Who else never reached the Wizpig fight as a kid, and when older found out that the childish fantasies like something being behind the Wizpig were real?
Especially I never expected the lighthouse would really have a purpose in the end. I thought, it would just be decoration, even if I often got there as a child. And that there is a whole new fifth world, I never experienced as a child.
It felt like as if you start up Mario Kart 64 when older and some day you free the caged thwomp, you bumped against with full speed many times hoping something will happen as a kid.
As a kid I was not able to beat wizpig in his first race, even after a million tries. I simply could not handle the "stress" of the advanced zippers where you need to step off the gas and LEAVE it like this some more seconds (I always hit the gas again after I saw the green flame). Came back like 10 years later - instant win. Funny when you look back :D
Sure, I'll watch a new Designing For video and learn that Wizpig is Frieza.
So for me, I got stuck on Greenwich Village's Silver Coin Challenge as a kid... For 20 years. I figured I would never beat it. Wizpig always represented this insurmountable challenge that I would never be able to beat. Hell, I remember writing a letter to Nintendo Power asking how to unlock Drumstick, and when they responded saying I needed to beat WizPig, I thought, "Well, guess I'm not getting him then." It wasn't until I was 28 and I committed an afternoon to not only beating the silver coin challenge, but Wizpig, the space levels and the Wizpig rematch that I finally felt like I had finished what I had started as a kid. I don't know if anything gaming-wise has felt more satisfying than that.
I remember it was the way he ran that creeped me out. His sprint-waddle, and being so gigantic and just plowing through everything, was real intimidating to 12 year old me.
When I beat Wizpig at age 9 it was easily my biggest videogame achievement at the time.
if you data mine the original N64 game you can find files for a Wizpig 3 hovercraft race , that was never put in the game. kinda cool. some images of the race have leaked.
This was one of my first games if not the first one, my childhood, I’ve never thought about it this way, but so true. Now I know why The first wizpig race and music still to this day deep inside, makes me feel uneasy. So much effort poured into achieving that win, so many restarts, anger and shaky hands, together with greenwood village’s silver coin challenge,definitely the hardest thing I’ve faced on a game. So good, so nostalgic, all the music tracks are still a masterpiece to this day, David wise is a god. The remake was bad, I guess it’s time to go back to my 19+ year old copy of the game, hope that it still works, and revisit Those old memories that once made me so happy... thank you for this nostalgia evoking video and the way you presented this wonderful game.
There are ways to play the game online but obviously the quality and the experience can’t compare to the n64 version
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Ugh the music in this game is by far the best in the n64 I can’t get enough of how uplifting it is.
It’s sad that pretty much the only way these classics can be enjoyed is through piracy. I think WizPig is a good comparison to make to a lot of video games publishers nowadays.
You can’t beat me. He meant all 4 of those words until drumstick came on the set. Shout out drumstick for the loser breaker reset to come back.
The needing all the mechanics part is so true.
I arrived at the first Wizpig race knowing everything except the skidding or drifting mechanic or whatever is called, and just because of that small weakness alone I was forced to memorize every step of Wizpig race to take advantage of him kicking you forward when you stand ahead of him, which provides an oh so small boost and helps you keep up.
There’s also the fact that his race is purposely misleading, with him taking a startup advantage and most of the useful boost being positioned at the end of the lap whereas the ones at the beginning are only there to help you overcome pieces of the race that purposely slow you down.
This by design, tricks you into giving up and restarting if you’re not patient, as you’ll feel like you’re losing and left with not much choice to catch up. Especially when you’re a kid and even the smallest mistake makes this trick feel like a reality.
I beat Wizpig when I was a child by being absolutely psychotic about winning, but I never did the space tracks because I assumed the game was over and I’ve never been a completionist so I never triggered the new zone.
However coming across a video that showed me there was more I was missing, I quickly brought up my game and started it all over again. This time knowing all the tricks and that I should start the race losing and slowly catch up towards the end of the lap.
Was still difficult, but I loved having a reason to come back to this as an adult. Truly one of my favorite games, and this time I completed it!
This is the first video I've seen from this creator. "No, jump good!" Has informed me that you are a real one. You are real, and this video is real good. Subscribed.
I miss my grandparents... This and warioland 2 are the games I most closely associate with them.
Bernkastel is in your banner, no way on earth are you based enough to have read higu and umineko. Unreal.
Also, finding out about the backstory of Drumstick was a bit dark, for a game that was pretty lighthearted
I beat everything in the game but that final boss fight. I remember crying some days as a kid over it.
The one minor thing that use to creep me out was the floating ghost heads in Haunted Woods
I mean, if Nintendo can put Banjo-Kazooie in Nintendo Switch Online - Nintendo 64, I don't see why they can't get Diddy Kong Racing on there.
Back then, i was like 6 years old, i never could beat Wizpig. I cried and said to my dad, that he should do it. He struggled too, but he beat him after a while. Now i'm 32 and i would love to see a Remake of Diddy Kong Racing (N64) on the next Nintendo Switch. I would accept the challenge again and will try to beat my most scared Villan of my Childhood, after 26 Years of procrastinating and crying, that i can't do it... I CAN. And i want to try it again, in a Remake Version of this specific Game and overcome this challenge. Edit: And also i wanted to mention, that your Voice Sounds exactly like Revali's Voice from the Zelda Game "Breath of the Wild." He is very dear to me and i love him, with all of my Heart. He trains very hard and is always by himself. He is a Perfectionist and never gives up. I see it as a big Sign, that you as Revali's Voice, is cheering for me and saying to me: That i can do it! #^ . ^#
Maybe someday there could be a "banjo kazooie nuts & bolts: designing for insult" episode breaking down the game's opening and explaining how goddamn insulting it is towards the series' legacy and fans!
I could never beat Wizpig as a kid. The summer when I was 15, I went back to the game and played a couple of the Wizpig races each day. Finally I beat the bastard. Right as I crossed the finish line I suddenly had a full beard and a hairy chest.
Everyone has that one game we all felt we were the best at. My sister, after watching me beat Sekiro Shadows Die Twice's hardest boss' hard mode (called Inner), assumed mine was that game.
It was not.
For me, that game is, and always was, Diddy Kong Racing. I remember as a kid my friend asking me to come over and beat Wizpig for him because he and his dad simply couldn't do it. I had no idea at the time, but after growing up and looking back, this game was utterly overtuned for a kid's game lol. Hell, the octopus boss was just as hard as Wizpig imo.
Yeah there is, it’s called piracy.
Soundtrack is really memorable.
I've have never gotten to Wizpig because I wasn't that good at the sliver coins and I could never beat that damn octopus boss's first race.
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You did a FANTASTIC job of giving this game the credit it's due. From the music to the gameplay, the characters to the style, it's an essence so pure that SHOULD weather the test of time. If only it could make a comeback...
I love watching these videos, but the visual effects are starting to get a little disorienting. I hope future videos tone them down a bit, but I'll still gladly listen to them either way.
I'm sorry, it's only going to get worse from here
@@AuthorMx You are going to make the videos readable. I intend to let Icarus' wings burn, but not to have him crash into the sea. I want a cool phoenix-icarus of visual effects, not a corpse.
@@pyrrhickong We can compromise by making the wings really high quality and easy to read but are absolutely packed with memes 🤝
@@AuthorMx Now THAT sounds ideal.
Every video game ever made that DOESN'T have a secret passage/collectible/surprise behind a waterfall is a betrayal of human sensibilities. So few people see waterfalls in real life, so if you put one in a game... put a treat behind it. Our inner child needs it.
Dunkey: “He would actually shit and piss all over the race course.”
You deserve atleast 100k subs man
One of my friends had this game and he let me borrow it, too difficult for me to get half way through, mostly I remember being really pissed off at it lol.
Born in 2000, I always just kinda *had* this game at my house, I always remember it being around. As a result, I don't even remember my first time playing it, i just would pick it up when i was younger, think it was fun and probably lose a lot. So when you talk about "finally beating wizpig and growing up" it honestly hit me pretty hard. As a 5/6 y/o, beating dino domain was simple enough but I could never do the silver coin challenges, and I certainly could never get enough balloons to race on any of the Dragon Forest stages. But it's totally true, bit by bit, as the years went by, I got better and better at the game, then finally when i was probably 11 or 12 I finally beat wizpig. It really was a huge accomplishment. But I never realized until now just how much time had passed.
I like the part where he puts his mouth over Diddy Kong and says what he says it's hilarious.
Thank you, I had to surgically remove my face and put it onto Diddy to make it happen. I'm committed to realism
Rareware during the N64 era really excelled at creating environments, events and characters that weren't totally tonally incongruous with the rest of the game, but that were just intimidating enough they scared kids rather than just signalling to kids "this guy is supposed to be scary" without actually scaring them.
It took me over a decade to beat this damn boss cause the stupid zipper trick was impossible for my aspie self to grasp, and fuckin' NOBODY at my school ever managed to take him down.
Then you find out about the zipper thing and it flat trivializes the entire game, it was so stupidly broken. Caused me to smoke every track with or without those coins to collect.
Could you please consider talking about ‘Jet Force Gemini’? It’s a similar vibe to what you’ve touched on here.
I only recently was able to beat wizpig and i basically had to do the tap accelerate trick to beat him alongside perfect boosts the entire way. There was no way i could do it as a kid.
Wizpig was tough, but I think i had a harder time unlocking TT. It took me way too long to learn how to get a maximum boost from zippers, and doing so is absolutely required for some of the time trials.
Did not know about this mega zipper meta, and because of this every race against this chonker has been down to the absolute wire. Also had no idea Drumstick was the previous island champion, how did I miss all this!? Great video as always.
I mean banjo makes me nostalgic and I'm a good 5 years too young for it.
I never beat Diddy Kong Racing, not even close, I got to the ice world maybe beat it but then got stuck/lost. I do recall Wizpig's monument head lighting up though. I always thought it was him getting more active or something not that I was breaking away stone to see his skin.
If we can get Goldeneye and Banjo-Kazooie on NSO, there's hope for DKR 🙏
Wizpig's 1st race was what taught me the green boost. Before that I went through the game with 0 issues for the most part outside of the 4 bosses.
No matter what I could do, I could never beat him and thought he was unbeatable. It wasn't until reading the manual and players guide I owned that I finally understood how to green boost.
As a child, I couldn't comprehend how letting go of the acceleration button would make you go faster on a boost and would assume it would make you slower.
Learning that, I finally got to floor Wizpig and I was one of my greatest feats as a kid. Was so happy.
I had the captions turn off when I first played, so never saw Taj’s hints. It took me days to beat Wizpig. I had already unlocked Drumstick before I finally beat him. Learning how to use the green boost during the Wizpig race itself. I also discovered tapping A to go faster, which is how I discovered the green boost.
I remember playing Vs. mode and munching cheese balls till i got sick
i'm sorry but what kind of lovecraftian idea is it to have the way to Wizpig guarded by a LITERAL DOOR OF FLESH? What dark magic lies within the amulets you are winning?
This is the first video of yours I've ever seen. At first I was uncomfortable with how often you show your face. Personally I don't think it needs to be in a video about games. Because of that I almost clicked off, but I'm glad I didn't because I would have missed some phenomenal editing and fantastic attention to detail. It's obvious you put a lot of hard work into this video and I just wanted to say thank you for taking me on this journey. Not many people I've seen on this platform do what you did. It's great work and I wanted to take this time to tell you. So thanks!
Funnily enough, his face showing up often is an editing choice. Before I begged him to give me more face material to use I had to resort to using the same graphic through every video. I like using his face because these videos are very much an extension of Pyrr and I like to exaggerate that. And thank you for your compliments! I hope you enjoy what we have coming up next and the things that we've made before this, welcome to the channel : ).
Funnily this is only one of, like, four vids I show my face through for more than a second, if at all. Thank you so much for sticking around through all this experimentation!
I think his voice is fantastic.
Its the game i was never able to beat thanks to that first Race with Wizpig but i enjoyed every moment with the game... Unfortunately the battery died since then and I'll have to replace it if i want to try it again.
And laterally got shivers when i heard the sentence YOU CANT BEAT ME .. 😅
Maybe I'll have to get back to it again
Wait. Why did Bumper go to prison?
This game was so frustrating as a kid
I would kill for a remake sequel hybrid where all the characters have grown up to their modern alterations, A comeback season if you would.
Diddy Kong Racing 2: Wizpig’s Last Strike
@@justinbarton8808 Actually I was just gonna add the "Comeback Season" to the original subtitle.
There was going to be a sequel, donkey kong racing, but then rare was going bankrupt, nintendo didn't buy them, and Microsoft bought them instead so they had to cancel it
Wizpig may have a goofy design overall, but there's just something unsettling about the way he makes his presence. For me, what immediately tipped me off that this guy is a different breed of evil is how his face is the start-up icon picture for DKR DS. Usually the DS icons are just the most basic picture to represent the game... But nah. THIS DUDE makes his presence known before you even start playing the freaking game.
I was born in 95, so most of these games were even more difficult since I couldn't read the dialogue. Timber gang fr
Nintendo definitely owns DKR just not the rare characters
If Nintendo wanted to make a DKR 2 and replace all the rare characters with kong characters they probably could
That is not the case. Rare published Diddy Kong Racing, unlike titles like Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie, which were owned entirely by Nintendo (until the Banjo IP was sold back to Rare). This is why the "Rare Racers" line of merchandise is allowed to exist - Rare owns all tracks, music, and characters other than those directly tied to the Donkey Kong IP, such as Krunch the Kremling and Diddy Kong.
And don't get me started on Tricky the Triceratops.