Thanks Johnny for making this Donkey Kong 64 video you're video was so funny 🤣 man at the end of it with DK Rap anyway I"m a big fan of you're bro anyway I left a 👍 like on video.
On the topic of the Coconut Gun, I feel it’s worth mentioning that the lead designer for DK64, George Andreas, recounted a story about its creation; Miyamoto was shocked at seeing prototype gameplay with the placeholder model for the gun - which was a realistic double-barreled shotgun - and quickly drafted the final design for it. If he didn’t visit Rare HQ, we could’ve had DK blasting people with a realistic shotgun. What a world we’ve missed!
@@skibot9974 Nah. PS1 era was way more transitional than PS2, so anything could happen. Final Fantasy could take place in a big-ass 1940s-style city with a cyberpunk plot, Mario and Sonic could be voiced, and DK could pack heat. Shadow's game came post nu metal and emo wave, so it seemed like a really bad design choice to try to appeal to that market.
Fun fact: This game holds the Guinness World Record of having the most collectibles in a video game, which is 3,831 collectibles. I guess Rare can pat themselves on the back of getting that achievement.
i'd be surprised if that's still the record with all of these ubisoft open world games that feel like they have a million collectibles, although 3821 is way too many still
@@ThirdXavier Ubisoft games can be mind-numbing and might feel like you're collecting 3,000 things but it's a seriously MASSIVE number if you think about it. Like I'll get exhausted counting to 300, nevermind 3000.
I don't know if you knew, but the rainbow coin at 29:37 is actually one that was not publicly found for so long. It wasn't in any known guide and the 100% collectibles speedrun did not include it until someone found it a few years ago
@@ddjsoyenby Fun Fact: You can use Lanky Kong's stretchy arms to ignore the B lockers, touch the portal and still enter the new world. However I don't think that was intentional, it might be an exploit.
This game played a huge role in my childhood. The orphanage I stayed in had a N64 with no memory card, but this game was the only game that maintained a save file and it was so fun!
Johnny did an actual parody of the DK Rap... out of his bitter experience of completion. Yes, he had help from Victor McKnight, but even still. Beautiful.
That tremor you felt upon this video's release? That was the sound of thousands of completionist gamers shuddering from the memory of how long it took to get every collectible in DK64.
Funfact: My Dad brought this game when I was 14 for my Birthday. I stopped playing after I got stuck on the Donkey Kong Minigame. I finally completed it. WHEN I WAS 26!
God, the journey into madness in this is so good. 17:56 "It's the constant back and forth that got under my skin (but little did I _fuckin_ know...) 18:20 "Since the quota isn't very high [...] this gives you a healthy degree of freedom [...] just for the sake of moving on- but I'm not just moving on, aren't I?" *crushes can* 21:32 *vine boom* "And there, right then and there did I see the big, IMMEDIATE problem. It was like a cosmic explosion going off in my brain." 22:45 "Lanky doesn't ask for much either. As soon as you do that though- uhp! Now, *their* collectibles are available and now the world was COVERED in bananas, coins, and balloons in all flavors. It's all coming together now. Starting to see the bigger picture." 24:51 "I won by a hare- _ba-dum tsss_ Eat shit you jerk *explosion* " 25:17 "You can win first place by a mile but that shit won't count if you didn't collect enough tokens. Oh, what the fuck is that about? A race should just be a race. Adding a required collectible on top of that is just overstuffing the challenge with needless _shit._ " 27:19 "When I also discovered that I can hold my altitude in place with the Z-Button, that made things a lot better- for turning especially, but I didn't find that out for myself until the end of the game. I don't know, did Cranky say I could do that one I first got this? I need to look back a the footage." *checks footage* "Oh fuck, he did, I'm just blind... _nervous chuckling* Clearly I'm not drinking enough of this shit. [DUMBASS]" 27:42 "And now the gang's all here and now my pain truly begins. You like classic Donkey Kong? How about completing the entirety of classic Donkey King with one life to get a mandatory collectible. Twice. I get respecting the classic, but what the _hell_ were they thinking? They do this kind of shit twice! Once you enough banana medals, Cranky lets you play 'Jetpack' [...] and getting a high score is mandatory to finish the game! Good God." 29:26 "That's the thing about Donkey Kong 64- like the number of collectibles is high, sure, and- *exhaustion sets in* there's a lot of collectibles." 30:14 *takes picture of banana fairy - not visible in photo - gets credit anyways* _exhausted_ "Whatever..." 31:22 "What this results in- basically replaying all these worlds front to back _five fucking times,_ one for each Kong- because the collectibles are fucking scattered! They're everywhere!" 32:35 "And when I saw I was 10 bananas off the max, I was just like 'It's a fuckin' balloon, I know it's a fuckin' balloon!'" 35:13 "Crystal Caves, I think by this point I was numb." 36:06 "At least this obnoxious journey had a silver lining, but that damage was already done." *lovingly pours more alcohol* And then, of course, where it all comes to a boil, starting around 45:00 and Johnny just finally embraces the madness. Beautiful.
Quick note about Dixie and Kiddy: The game initially only used DKC1 characters. This changed later on, adding abilities from later games or environments for example. By the time they considered adding Dixie and Kiddy, the game was almost completed and just created relatives. (Tiny Kong being Dixies sister and Chunky being Kiddy’s older brother)
@@19Szabolcs91 Maybe Rare replaced Dixie with Tiny because they wanted another two legged character on the team and wanted Diddy and Lanky to be the only quadrupeds here???
The rainbow coin you got at 29:37 was completely miss by most people until 2017. 100% speedrun records of the game had to be redone because nobody knew it was there.
Actually, that's a common misconception. Although the story about that specific rainbow coin being undiscovered by the community until 2017 is true, the idea that it affected 100% speedrun isn't, as (thankfully for speedrunner's sake), the Full Completion category for DK64's speedruns do not track Banana Coins, only Golden Bananas, Banana Medals, Banana Fairies, the Battle Crowns, the Keys and the Nintendo Coin and Rareware Coin. So they are allowed to select which Banana Coins they grab (As well as which bananas, since the Banana Medals only require 75% of any stage's bananas, and not 100%)
Your thumbnail artist absolutely kills it. Taking the collectibles (the aspect EVERYONE complains about with this game) and framing DK to look so triumphant and powerful in front of them is awesome.
This video has a lot of creative passion poured into it like the whole Donkey Kong series retrospective has been getting by Somecallmejohnny, and it warms my heart that he has a banger of an ending with the fitting DK Rap. Well done
I haven't laughed so hard in so long. Around the 35 minute mark where you have the footage of Tiny getting the banana fairy and you hear the enemy approaching and immediately hitting you man that takes me back. Of all the playthroughs I've ever done that happens every single time.
@@raziyatheseeker his sense of comedic timing is top-notch. I feel like no one talks about it as a selling point, but it's really one of the best parts.
The swap anywhere mod kind of just illustrates how every kong is exactly the same tbh. It also invalidates a few specific elements like areas only accessible to one Kong and needing to find an alternate way in you open up later. A lot of areas are gated off by the *same* mechanic, like a simian slam pad or a gun panel, which are simply arbitrarily coded for a specific Kong rather than actually different mechanics like Tiny being able to reach platforms the furthest away.
I feel like Lewis' editing is becoming better and better with each video, I really admire your work as a duo u guys! And mad props to Victor for the bonkers rap Edit: Well looking at the credits this wad edited by Johnny himself actually.. well oopsie
I can't help but imagine how hilariously insane an SGB Let's Play of this game would be if they had to switch players every time they change Kongs: DK = Johnny Diddy = Elliot Lanky = Mark/Uncle Greg Tiny = Sabrina Chunky = Matt
An interesting fact about the game having an expansion pack is that the game was originally planned to release without needing one, but Rare had a game-breaking glitch with the game that the pack somehow fixed, running low on time they had no choice but to incorporate the pack & even decided to bundle it with the game, indeed costing them a pretty penny.
My friend summed this game up the best: "Imagine an all you can eat buffet but you decided that you wanted to eat everything 5 times in a row". The bloat and excessive nibbling on everything this game has to offer will basically cause you to keel over in agony.
I have some memories with this one. When I was 5 in 2008, my dad had a save that was 101% complete. He never taught me to actually start the game, so when I went to select a file to play, I actually deleted his save. I’ve played it on and off for years but I don’t think I’ll ever reach that percentage.
Another case of: watching John drink to fully complete Mario Sunshine when I was a kid to, watching him drink to fully complete DK64 now. Life really does come full circle in many ways lol
Hey John, been a fan of the channel since 2011, just wanted to let you know that I’m super impressed with your growth as a creator over the years. You put a lot of time into your reviews and they always hit the right points while staying lighthearted. Much love, keep doing what you do.
Fun fact: Early footage of the game showed DK and Diddy with actual real ass shotguns and pistols before they were changed to funny wooden guns that shoot fruit and peanuts. Just thought you should know.
Johnny you have NO idea on how much I was laughing from this whole video, it got to the point where my head was hurting from laughing a lot! That moment of you and your pals playing multiplayer, and THAT FUCKING JOHNNY RAP AT THE END, MY GOD DUDE, GET SOME REST MAN YOU EARNED IT!
Ah, yes, Donkey Kong 64, the original completionist's nightmare, and might be the reason why we haven't seen another 3D Donkey Kong outing since then. However, with 3D Platformers making quite the resurgence over the last few years, it might be time for the DK Crew to get back into action...just without having to collect so much stuff, hopefully.
Honestly, just cut down the playable characters to just three (DK, Diddy, and Dixie) and be able to swap characters on the fly, and it'll be a much smoother experience.
I think a big reason for all the collectibles was to promote their strategy guides. I remember having to use mine often to try and collect everything back when it first released
Honestly, if collectibles and switches could be picked up and used by any Kong and switching characters was more smooth, a la Majora’s Mask, this game would’ve been amazing. Just have you switch Kongs naturally in the level to get past obstacles, instead of forcing the player to slog back to a tag barrel arbitrarily.
I'm writting this as I'm watching the video but man, I've been waiting for years for this review to finally happen ; 8 of them to be exact. But it's here ; it's finally here! My favourite video game of all time reviewed by my favourite reviewer on RUclips ; it's a great feeling of hapiness inside. I'll know later during the video about Johnny's opinion about the game but regardless if it's a positive or a negative one, I'm still happy that it happened. Many thanks, Johnny!
Ending off this video with your DK rap is just fantastic. Also, I remember DK64 multiplayer being hella fun back in the day. And hiding in the invisible walls to catch my friends and cousins off guard. They caught me too tho lol
Here's some info from the DK 64 manual about the three new kongs. Chunky is kiddie's older brother, Tiny is Dixie's younger sister, and Lanky is unknown in both origin and relationship to the other kongs. BTW, Cranky narrates the manuals for all three DKC games and DK64. He even mentioned that the DK in this game is a fully grown DK Junior, as opposed to his grandson from the country trilogy. This means that all three Donkey Kongs have been seen in two parts of their lives.
The timing on this coming out was perfect, since I'm currently recovering from an 8 hour session of playing Frontiers. From playing a collectathon to watching Johnny suffer through the mother of all collectathons, this should be fun
this game had a beast of a strategy guide back in the day and it was such a big game that the strategy guide didnt even take any of the fun away...hell...id say it added to the fun really. me and my sister 101 percented it thanks to the guide lol
Holy fuck that ending song tho I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣 Huge props for 100%'ing this monster Johnny, I still get PTSD just thinking about all the hours I put into it 20+ years ago XD
Remember how someone discovered a single hidden coin in this game that no one knew about and managed to _completely invalidate just about every 100% speedrun?_
According to another commenter, it was the rainbow coin at 29:37. I thought there were fucking around, but hearing that be corroborated by someone else just fucking kills me. How is something like that even possible hahaha
If someone every makes a game like this again, I hope they learn about the Tag Barrel and makes that thing portable for switching. Btw, this game STILL holds the Guiness World Record for most collectibles in a video game. Just tells you how loaded it is.
I always appreciate a Hotel Mario joke. I actually never considered how redundant Tiny and Chunky are to Dixie and Kiddy until you brought it up. 20:27 All these years playing that game and I never noticed that till now lol. 29:58 And I do too and I love it. I actually never noticed how Rambi and Engarde were used so little either. Happy to hear the multiplayer offered such an amazing time. 45:17 Thanks for this.
I love this game dearly. It is held together with copious amounts of duct tape, takes 7 levels to finally figure out how to structure itself, and used to literally be a porcupine simulator on older emulation. DK64 is a game I hold near and dear to my heart for being a huge part of my childhood, but it has an unbelievable number of problems, and despite how comprehensive your playthrough was, you only scratched the surface on that front. If you ever want to find out just how broken this game is, speedrunning will show you pretty well.
I was a young child when I played this game and speaking of glitches, I remember Chunky Kong glitched out and fell out of the cage and was just standing there on the ground. I got so excited that I freed him but couldn’t comprehend why he wasnt joining me and nothing seemed to change that. Either way, I figured out how to save him the next day and decades later, I still remember this. Lol
This is one of those games with the best love/hate relationship, I picked this game up from a friend of mine back in middle school, and it's one of my favorites of all time. It would be great to get a remake of this game that cuts out all the needless backtracking and fixes up the aiming controls, plus letting us collect things without color coding the collectibles to specific Kongs. I wonder how they would change up the DK Rap though?
It's funny. DK64 was everything that I and my group of friends would have told you we wanted at the time in a collectaton. I remember us reading the descriptions given by Rare itself of how the game was going to play and being excited about things that would now horrify me. I remember looking on boards online about it and other people felt the same way. Keep that in mind if you wonder how this game even came to be the way it is.
That DK rap at the end was fantastic. :D As someone who loves DK64, I agree with all of your criticism. But since I played it as a kid I lost all natural defense mechanisms against backtracking.
I always forget that this is what Tiny Kong used to look like. When Diddy Kong Racing came out for the DS, they needed a character to replace Banjo but be around the same size, so they aged up Tiny Kong an now she's like a full pop girl with tube top and everything.
You know, I've been subscribed to Johnny for....Literal years now, and it never really occurred to me that, he's still at 400k subs. ....it really puts it into perspective how truly insane a million subs is.
This game will always hold a special place in my heart. While I dabbled with gaming before, this was the game that made me a gamer. The scene: late 1999. I was in the kids room with my younger siblings when our dad walks in with a Jungle Green N64 that came with a free copy of DK64 (still have that green n64 and it still works). While this isn’t my fave N64 game (probably not even top ten), I’ll always remember it as the game that got me into gaming!
@@supermariof0521 funny story bout the gamecube. Our parents would pay for half if we saved up half. Then a few days after we bought it, the price dropped down from $200 to $150. Womp, womp…
I think diddys rocket barrel was my favorite move sure it sucked ass to control when your trying to aim but just flying around was a blast I remember just flying around as a kid again and again
Imagine doing a 100% run as a child, spending weeks hunting down everything, and then finding out your game glitches during the last boss fight and can’t be completed. I’ve still never finished the game.
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Dr. Pepper/Vodka optional.
No thanks I'm good. I hate food.
Can you review Conker's Bad Fur Day, and The Banjo Kazooie series too.
@@Pridetoons
Eventually.
How about Dr Pepper with Captain Morgan?
Thanks Johnny for making this Donkey Kong 64 video you're video was so funny 🤣 man at the end of it with DK Rap anyway I"m a big fan of you're bro anyway I left a 👍 like on video.
The ending was such a blessing, thank you Johnny.
Well, hey there, funny Sonic man!
Jehtt is a SomeCallMeJohnny watcher? Based as fuck.
Agreed. I wasn’t expecting his own rendition of the DK Rap, but I’m glad he did!
That ending was just fucking glorious. Godspeed Johnny for all your work through DK64!
Victor McKnight is a god among men for helping Johnny make the ending. Like, holy shit, it's an amazing bow to tie the whole video together. XD
Yeah after collecting everything's you a get a special ending along with a funny bloopers of Donkey Kong 64 seeing slap stick montages.
I know right I was dying of laugher.
@@nathansheldrick959 Yeah a lol moments.
PicJ
I.
Nice 48 minute part 1, John
Hey, the myth, the legend, Jesus himself, SPONS.
ITS THE BRICKS!
what do you mean part1?
Just wait for the part 2 Daddy Caddy, LOL.
Says mister hour+ long vids himself
I think you owe it to yourself to play Diddy Kong Racing after this and have some fun again
NATHANIEL BANDY is here with us. 😊😊
He really should try to review DKR, yes.
Ya know..at least until you get to the final boss race anyway...yikes
Great to see you man
@@cardshockmasterb234 YOU CAN'T BEAT ME!
Johnny's DK rap deserves to be an official part of the DK fandom lmao.
it's the greatest rap ever.
It deserves to be both it’s own video and officially on iTunes!
What about Brental Floss?
A real competitor to the Decayer App...
Glad Johnny has officially survived through the magnum opus of 3D collectathons .
Definitely need to see him complete banjo kazooie
@@beegamvs8929 and Spyro the Dragon
Did he complete Banjo Kazooie?
@@Neochrono I don't think he played it yet
@@beegamvs8929 You're correct. He said this game was his first Rare 3D platformer. I'm sure those are coming up though.
The Johnny rendition of the DK rap might just be the greatest thing on RUclips
I demand someone make that into a standalone video.
unironic banger
I was caught off guard when I saw that but it was hilarious
Based
It was truly amazing
48 minutes is the length of a single DK64 level.
and that’s just one of the 5 kongs
48 minutes? That's generous.
@@jess648 and 48 is also the number of items you have to collect in each level as each Kong.
@@colmhayes7750 true
@@SuperMSL and thats not even an over exaggeration lmao
On the topic of the Coconut Gun, I feel it’s worth mentioning that the lead designer for DK64, George Andreas, recounted a story about its creation; Miyamoto was shocked at seeing prototype gameplay with the placeholder model for the gun - which was a realistic double-barreled shotgun - and quickly drafted the final design for it.
If he didn’t visit Rare HQ, we could’ve had DK blasting people with a realistic shotgun. What a world we’ve missed!
Yeah but in that timeline we don't get the SIlvagunner coconut gun memes.
@@charziz6693 good
Would that be seen as jumping the shark like Shadow the Hedgehog
@@skibot9974 Nah. PS1 era was way more transitional than PS2, so anything could happen. Final Fantasy could take place in a big-ass 1940s-style city with a cyberpunk plot, Mario and Sonic could be voiced, and DK could pack heat.
Shadow's game came post nu metal and emo wave, so it seemed like a really bad design choice to try to appeal to that market.
@@scoobydoo7395 It is only now I realize how 1940's FF7 is. Thank you!
Fun fact: This game holds the Guinness World Record of having the most collectibles in a video game, which is 3,831 collectibles. I guess Rare can pat themselves on the back of getting that achievement.
YOU HEAR THAT ALL YOU LAZY F***S COMPLAINING ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF TROPHIES IN ARKHAM KNIGHT???
i'd be surprised if that's still the record with all of these ubisoft open world games that feel like they have a million collectibles, although 3821 is way too many still
@@ThirdXavier Ubisoft games can be mind-numbing and might feel like you're collecting 3,000 things but it's a seriously MASSIVE number if you think about it. Like I'll get exhausted counting to 300, nevermind 3000.
@@ThirdXavier probably individual items
@@fakenamerealchungus9851 and you need a total of 2000 to at least beat the game
You know you're in for a "Johnny Vs." treat when he starts pulling out the alcohol not even halfway in.
Alcohol thats way stronger lol.
Oh my god, that ending had me in stitches Johnny. Hats off to everyone for THAT reality
I don't know if you knew, but the rainbow coin at 29:37 is actually one that was not publicly found for so long. It wasn't in any known guide and the 100% collectibles speedrun did not include it until someone found it a few years ago
The dedication to not only 101% this game but to spit bars for it, too. What a legend.
we should all be like him.
@@ddjsoyenby Fun Fact: You can use Lanky Kong's stretchy arms to ignore the B lockers, touch the portal and still enter the new world. However I don't think that was intentional, it might be an exploit.
This game played a huge role in my childhood. The orphanage I stayed in had a N64 with no memory card, but this game was the only game that maintained a save file and it was so fun!
hope you're doing good man, being an orphan is hard.
@@cyanified 💀 he's not an orphan anymore lmao
@@oogaboogie i worded it wrong didn't i
@@cyanified Yes
adopte-
Johnny did an actual parody of the DK Rap... out of his bitter experience of completion. Yes, he had help from Victor McKnight, but even still. Beautiful.
😭👌👏👏👏
Not normally a RUclips commentator but that ending...damn. I laughed my ass off. Well done Johnny!
“Not normally a RUclips commentator”
*Has 18 comments on Johnny’s channel alone*
@@ludrixte1938 John is the only person who can get them to comment.
Me too.
@@LARKXHIN It’s just a weird thing to lie about.
@@ludrixte1938 Maybe try reading that again
That tremor you felt upon this video's release? That was the sound of thousands of completionist gamers shuddering from the memory of how long it took to get every collectible in DK64.
Did you also have trouble with getting the Nintendo coin/Golden Banana from the Donkey Kong cabinet?
They discovered a hidden rainbow coin 17 years after it was released. Gamers never 100% this game.
It took me 22 hours & 8 minutes to 101% complete the game.
I did longer things, it's really overblown.
Funfact: My Dad brought this game when I was 14 for my Birthday.
I stopped playing after I got stuck on the Donkey Kong Minigame.
I finally completed it.
WHEN I WAS 26!
God, the journey into madness in this is so good.
17:56 "It's the constant back and forth that got under my skin (but little did I _fuckin_ know...)
18:20 "Since the quota isn't very high [...] this gives you a healthy degree of freedom [...] just for the sake of moving on- but I'm not just moving on, aren't I?" *crushes can*
21:32 *vine boom* "And there, right then and there did I see the big, IMMEDIATE problem. It was like a cosmic explosion going off in my brain."
22:45 "Lanky doesn't ask for much either. As soon as you do that though- uhp! Now, *their* collectibles are available and now the world was COVERED in bananas, coins, and balloons in all flavors. It's all coming together now. Starting to see the bigger picture."
24:51 "I won by a hare- _ba-dum tsss_ Eat shit you jerk *explosion* "
25:17 "You can win first place by a mile but that shit won't count if you didn't collect enough tokens. Oh, what the fuck is that about? A race should just be a race. Adding a required collectible on top of that is just overstuffing the challenge with needless _shit._ "
27:19 "When I also discovered that I can hold my altitude in place with the Z-Button, that made things a lot better- for turning especially, but I didn't find that out for myself until the end of the game. I don't know, did Cranky say I could do that one I first got this? I need to look back a the footage." *checks footage* "Oh fuck, he did, I'm just blind... _nervous chuckling* Clearly I'm not drinking enough of this shit. [DUMBASS]"
27:42 "And now the gang's all here and now my pain truly begins. You like classic Donkey Kong? How about completing the entirety of classic Donkey King with one life to get a mandatory collectible. Twice. I get respecting the classic, but what the _hell_ were they thinking? They do this kind of shit twice! Once you enough banana medals, Cranky lets you play 'Jetpack' [...] and getting a high score is mandatory to finish the game! Good God."
29:26 "That's the thing about Donkey Kong 64- like the number of collectibles is high, sure, and- *exhaustion sets in* there's a lot of collectibles."
30:14 *takes picture of banana fairy - not visible in photo - gets credit anyways* _exhausted_ "Whatever..."
31:22 "What this results in- basically replaying all these worlds front to back _five fucking times,_ one for each Kong- because the collectibles are fucking scattered! They're everywhere!"
32:35 "And when I saw I was 10 bananas off the max, I was just like 'It's a fuckin' balloon, I know it's a fuckin' balloon!'"
35:13 "Crystal Caves, I think by this point I was numb."
36:06 "At least this obnoxious journey had a silver lining, but that damage was already done." *lovingly pours more alcohol*
And then, of course, where it all comes to a boil, starting around 45:00 and Johnny just finally embraces the madness. Beautiful.
Seeing Elliot and Matt again is such a treat. Also, God have mercy on you John for completing that behemoth.
This man made me lie on camera. He had a coconut gun aimed at my back, I had no choice.
Quick note about Dixie and Kiddy:
The game initially only used DKC1 characters. This changed later on, adding abilities from later games or environments for example. By the time they considered adding Dixie and Kiddy, the game was almost completed and just created relatives. (Tiny Kong being Dixies sister and Chunky being Kiddy’s older brother)
And then there's Wrinkly, she's dead.
@@autobotstarscream765 and so is chunky because this the last game we ever see him on. Like really he got the geno treatment.
This makes no sense, how is designing and adding 2 new characters different than just including Didie and Kiddy?
Also originally Donkey and Diddy used realistic guns
@@19Szabolcs91 Maybe Rare replaced Dixie with Tiny because they wanted another two legged character on the team and wanted Diddy and Lanky to be the only quadrupeds here???
oh man, that DK rap at the end made me laugh harder than I have in ages. I love it.
The way that he worked in “fkin disgrace” was masterfully done
The rainbow coin you got at 29:37 was completely miss by most people until 2017. 100% speedrun records of the game had to be redone because nobody knew it was there.
Actually, that's a common misconception.
Although the story about that specific rainbow coin being undiscovered by the community until 2017 is true, the idea that it affected 100% speedrun isn't, as (thankfully for speedrunner's sake), the Full Completion category for DK64's speedruns do not track Banana Coins, only Golden Bananas, Banana Medals, Banana Fairies, the Battle Crowns, the Keys and the Nintendo Coin and Rareware Coin.
So they are allowed to select which Banana Coins they grab (As well as which bananas, since the Banana Medals only require 75% of any stage's bananas, and not 100%)
@@BlackINKim ah, my mistake. Thanks for the info!
@@BlackINKim Actually there are also other categories like collect absolutely everything and this was obviously affected.
Your thumbnail artist absolutely kills it. Taking the collectibles (the aspect EVERYONE complains about with this game) and framing DK to look so triumphant and powerful in front of them is awesome.
That surprise ending is now officially one of my favorite moments from this channel.
This is now the canon DK Rap and you cannot change my mind.
The Elliot and Matt cameo Brightened my day up so much, glad to see the Chao beater is doing fine!
Wait, that was him with the Heihachi hairdo?
@@goldskarr Yep yep!
@@pyromaniacforhire what happened to him
@@dayknight03 Nothing. He's just working and getting older.
Matt looks like a homeless man. Still love him tho.
Johnny's gonna need a "I survived DK64" shirt
"The surviving member of the DK Crew"
@@LARKXHIN Well Wrinkly sure ain't getting that shirt.
Let's send him one. Does this man have a PO box?
Wait, he survived DK64 and all you want to give him is a "lousy t-shirt?"
Have you not plate banjo tooie? Jesus Christ I still have ptsd
This is an instant SomecallmeJohnny classic especially with that ending rap
"Dr pepper give me money!" Took me out 🤣
"Keep that shit to yourself." The look on Johnny's face had me ☠
the look on his face reiterated the words as they were said.
But are we allowed to talk about the Mermaid?
This might just be Johnny's best episode on the Dr. Pepper jokes alone.
This video has a lot of creative passion poured into it like the whole Donkey Kong series retrospective has been getting by Somecallmejohnny, and it warms my heart that he has a banger of an ending with the fitting DK Rap. Well done
yeah, makes it seem like he actually played the game and was just as frustrated as people back then when it first came out lol
Seeing Matt is like seeing an old friend, I miss him
Agreed
Well good news from the future! Lol sgb is back in full force~
I haven't laughed so hard in so long. Around the 35 minute mark where you have the footage of Tiny getting the banana fairy and you hear the enemy approaching and immediately hitting you man that takes me back. Of all the playthroughs I've ever done that happens every single time.
I love longer Somecallmejohnny reviews...
The way you articulate (and act out) your suffering in big games is so entertaining.
Visual gags for gaming RUclipsrs are always a treat. Johnny's got some of my favorites.
@@raziyatheseeker his sense of comedic timing is top-notch. I feel like no one talks about it as a selling point, but it's really one of the best parts.
The swap anywhere mod is an absolute must, changes the entire vibe from tedious to fun again.
I was gonna ask if there was a hack where you could switch kongs on the fly so that’s good to know
There a way I can install that shit on Mobile? I got an Android Phone.
@@TheAzureNightmare most likely you can patch it with an ips file or xdelta. Android apps can do that for you
@@TheAzureNightmare Yep, just played through it myself with a razer kishi.
The swap anywhere mod kind of just illustrates how every kong is exactly the same tbh. It also invalidates a few specific elements like areas only accessible to one Kong and needing to find an alternate way in you open up later.
A lot of areas are gated off by the *same* mechanic, like a simian slam pad or a gun panel, which are simply arbitrarily coded for a specific Kong rather than actually different mechanics like Tiny being able to reach platforms the furthest away.
To this day, still one of my all-time favorite Donkey Kong games.
Glad to see I’m not the only one here
I loved the Multi Player 🤣 I remember opening this game on My Birthday 🎉 so many good memories.
Same here! I still revisit it from time to time.
P.S. OH, BANANA!
@@moroseloki1912 Yes I'm so glad he at least tried the multiplayer because it is genuinely amazing
I don't want to ruin the 64 likes
I feel like Lewis' editing is becoming better and better with each video, I really admire your work as a duo u guys! And mad props to Victor for the bonkers rap
Edit: Well looking at the credits this wad edited by Johnny himself actually.. well oopsie
I can't help but imagine how hilariously insane an SGB Let's Play of this game would be if they had to switch players every time they change Kongs:
DK = Johnny
Diddy = Elliot
Lanky = Mark/Uncle Greg
Tiny = Sabrina
Chunky = Matt
Cranky = Uncle
that would have been great to see.
Ya gave Elliot the one with the janky jetpack controls. Because as we know, Elliot does spectacularly with vehicles in games.
@@DrSuperLuigiSeth1 Diddy Kong: Arson
@@darthyamideathbringer OH NO! I hear a hyena coming. He's saying four words on repeat. What are they?
BURN TO THE GROUND!
An interesting fact about the game having an expansion pack is that the game was originally planned to release without needing one, but Rare had a game-breaking glitch with the game that the pack somehow fixed, running low on time they had no choice but to incorporate the pack & even decided to bundle it with the game, indeed costing them a pretty penny.
it was a memory leak. the expansion pack didn't fix it, having twice as much memory just made it take much longer for it to crash the game.
@@poudink5791late but what was used for is the vertex lighting
Wow I can’t believe Johnny finished DK64, and had the time to record his own obituary since it took a lifetime probably! Appreciate the dedication fr
My friend summed this game up the best: "Imagine an all you can eat buffet but you decided that you wanted to eat everything 5 times in a row".
The bloat and excessive nibbling on everything this game has to offer will basically cause you to keel over in agony.
This is one of those games I enjoy THINKING about playing more than actually playing it.
My favorite fun fact about this game is DK and Diddy used actual guns in beta builds and Miyamoto saw that and got scared.
So that explains why Miyamoto immediately insisted before anything started that Mario Rabbids had no real guns
I have some memories with this one. When I was 5 in 2008, my dad had a save that was 101% complete. He never taught me to actually start the game, so when I went to select a file to play, I actually deleted his save. I’ve played it on and off for years but I don’t think I’ll ever reach that percentage.
Wait… and he let you live afterwards..?
Bravo, man.
@@ViltrumiteIsRite99 he has said since that day that if I ever get close to completing a game he will delete the save, and I can’t blame him
@@Unironic_Plant_Main So I imagine all of your games are sitting at 69%, for the memes but mainly, to keep dad away from your save files LOL
Another case of: watching John drink to fully complete Mario Sunshine when I was a kid to, watching him drink to fully complete DK64 now. Life really does come full circle in many ways lol
Hey John, been a fan of the channel since 2011, just wanted to let you know that I’m super impressed with your growth as a creator over the years. You put a lot of time into your reviews and they always hit the right points while staying lighthearted. Much love, keep doing what you do.
Fun fact: Early footage of the game showed DK and Diddy with actual real ass shotguns and pistols before they were changed to funny wooden guns that shoot fruit and peanuts. Just thought you should know.
My god, that DK rap.... I have no words - just wow!
It wasn’t improvised he wrote it???
Johnny you have NO idea on how much I was laughing from this whole video, it got to the point where my head was hurting from laughing a lot! That moment of you and your pals playing multiplayer, and THAT FUCKING JOHNNY RAP AT THE END, MY GOD DUDE, GET SOME REST MAN YOU EARNED IT!
Ah, yes, Donkey Kong 64, the original completionist's nightmare, and might be the reason why we haven't seen another 3D Donkey Kong outing since then.
However, with 3D Platformers making quite the resurgence over the last few years, it might be time for the DK Crew to get back into action...just without having to collect so much stuff, hopefully.
Honestly, just cut down the playable characters to just three (DK, Diddy, and Dixie) and be able to swap characters on the fly, and it'll be a much smoother experience.
I think a big reason for all the collectibles was to promote their strategy guides. I remember having to use mine often to try and collect everything back when it first released
Honestly, if collectibles and switches could be picked up and used by any Kong and switching characters was more smooth, a la Majora’s Mask, this game would’ve been amazing. Just have you switch Kongs naturally in the level to get past obstacles, instead of forcing the player to slog back to a tag barrel arbitrarily.
I'm writting this as I'm watching the video but man, I've been waiting for years for this review to finally happen ; 8 of them to be exact. But it's here ; it's finally here! My favourite video game of all time reviewed by my favourite reviewer on RUclips ; it's a great feeling of hapiness inside. I'll know later during the video about Johnny's opinion about the game but regardless if it's a positive or a negative one, I'm still happy that it happened. Many thanks, Johnny!
Ending off this video with your DK rap is just fantastic. Also, I remember DK64 multiplayer being hella fun back in the day. And hiding in the invisible walls to catch my friends and cousins off guard. They caught me too tho lol
The DK rap at the end made me laugh so hard that it even made me even forget the symptoms of covid for a couple minutes.
I like that Trav appears twice in the No part, once just casually without his shirt xD
Here's some info from the DK 64 manual about the three new kongs. Chunky is kiddie's older brother, Tiny is Dixie's younger sister, and Lanky is unknown in both origin and relationship to the other kongs. BTW, Cranky narrates the manuals for all three DKC games and DK64. He even mentioned that the DK in this game is a fully grown DK Junior, as opposed to his grandson from the country trilogy. This means that all three Donkey Kongs have been seen in two parts of their lives.
The timing on this coming out was perfect, since I'm currently recovering from an 8 hour session of playing Frontiers. From playing a collectathon to watching Johnny suffer through the mother of all collectathons, this should be fun
The dk rap is super hilarious, had me laughing like a maniac
That ending killed me with laughter, it was pure gold. Great review as always too.
One of his best. Definitely worth the wait
this game had a beast of a strategy guide back in the day and it was such a big game that the strategy guide didnt even take any of the fun away...hell...id say it added to the fun really. me and my sister 101 percented it thanks to the guide lol
You know what makes Tiny taking Dixie’s place hilarious? THEY ARE SISTERS.
Holy fuck that ending song tho I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣
Huge props for 100%'ing this monster Johnny, I still get PTSD just thinking about all the hours I put into it 20+ years ago XD
48 minutes? Well, I can’t complain with more Johnny content.
45:15 this is the greatest thing known to man
The end of this video makes this playthrough absolutely worth it lol
Remember how someone discovered a single hidden coin in this game that no one knew about and managed to _completely invalidate just about every 100% speedrun?_
According to another commenter, it was the rainbow coin at 29:37. I thought there were fucking around, but hearing that be corroborated by someone else just fucking kills me.
How is something like that even possible hahaha
Videos like these are why you are my unchallenged king of RUclipsrs, Johnny.
If someone every makes a game like this again, I hope they learn about the Tag Barrel and makes that thing portable for switching.
Btw, this game STILL holds the Guiness World Record for most collectibles in a video game. Just tells you how loaded it is.
I always appreciate a Hotel Mario joke.
I actually never considered how redundant Tiny and Chunky are to Dixie and Kiddy until you brought it up.
20:27 All these years playing that game and I never noticed that till now lol.
29:58 And I do too and I love it.
I actually never noticed how Rambi and Engarde were used so little either.
Happy to hear the multiplayer offered such an amazing time.
45:17 Thanks for this.
I love this game dearly. It is held together with copious amounts of duct tape, takes 7 levels to finally figure out how to structure itself, and used to literally be a porcupine simulator on older emulation.
DK64 is a game I hold near and dear to my heart for being a huge part of my childhood, but it has an unbelievable number of problems, and despite how comprehensive your playthrough was, you only scratched the surface on that front. If you ever want to find out just how broken this game is, speedrunning will show you pretty well.
The hype was insane for this game, the magazine screenshots promised the most stunning visuals ever seen on a console and it delivered on that front.
Yes
No it didn't. Literally every dreamcast game at the time had better graphics
I was a young child when I played this game and speaking of glitches, I remember Chunky Kong glitched out and fell out of the cage and was just standing there on the ground.
I got so excited that I freed him but couldn’t comprehend why he wasnt joining me and nothing seemed to change that.
Either way, I figured out how to save him the next day and decades later, I still remember this. Lol
This game is a nightmare to 100% but man it's so fun
This is one of the best DK64 videos I have ever seen. Loved the rap. Laughed the whole way through.
This is one of those games with the best love/hate relationship, I picked this game up from a friend of mine back in middle school, and it's one of my favorites of all time. It would be great to get a remake of this game that cuts out all the needless backtracking and fixes up the aiming controls, plus letting us collect things without color coding the collectibles to specific Kongs. I wonder how they would change up the DK Rap though?
Don't change the rap it's perfection.
10:03 Well there is the Donkey Kong DLC in Mario + Rabbids if that counts
It's funny. DK64 was everything that I and my group of friends would have told you we wanted at the time in a collectaton. I remember us reading the descriptions given by Rare itself of how the game was going to play and being excited about things that would now horrify me. I remember looking on boards online about it and other people felt the same way. Keep that in mind if you wonder how this game even came to be the way it is.
That ending was pure perfection.
That was the greatest ending I have ever seen. It should be a hit single!
I'd download it
Props to Johnny for going nearly 50 minutes talking about DK64 without once making a "Chunky's dead" joke
Thank you Johnny for providing the full kongtext for this game. Much appreciated. This certainly isn't a game to monkey around with its collectables.
That DK rap segment at the end was freaking magical.
I wonder what will happen if Johnny didn't drink any Dr. Pepper before playing this game.
I just recently played through this game again. It will always be one of my favorites. Thanks for letting us watch you play it!
That DK rap at the end was fantastic. :D
As someone who loves DK64, I agree with all of your criticism. But since I played it as a kid I lost all natural defense mechanisms against backtracking.
I always forget that this is what Tiny Kong used to look like. When Diddy Kong Racing came out for the DS, they needed a character to replace Banjo but be around the same size, so they aged up Tiny Kong an now she's like a full pop girl with tube top and everything.
You know, I've been subscribed to Johnny for....Literal years now, and it never really occurred to me that, he's still at 400k subs.
....it really puts it into perspective how truly insane a million subs is.
I loved the DK rap at the end. Really puts a ribbon on this whole thing huh?
This game will always hold a special place in my heart. While I dabbled with gaming before, this was the game that made me a gamer.
The scene: late 1999. I was in the kids room with my younger siblings when our dad walks in with a Jungle Green N64 that came with a free copy of DK64 (still have that green n64 and it still works).
While this isn’t my fave N64 game (probably not even top ten), I’ll always remember it as the game that got me into gaming!
Awesome. Was it something you recieved for Christmas? Or did he get it the day the game first came out? :)
@@supermariof0521 i forgot when we got it. It was just a random day that we got it. When we were kids, we did save up for a gamecube
@@BR-jw7pm I see.
@@supermariof0521 funny story bout the gamecube. Our parents would pay for half if we saved up half. Then a few days after we bought it, the price dropped down from $200 to $150. Womp, womp…
@@BR-jw7pm Talk about bad timing. XD
Lanky Kong's portion of the parody is when I had to pause the video and laugh for a solid 4 minutes.
21:32 The face you made alongside that classic *BOOM* sound effect just cracked me up!
This was one hell of a funny episode. The pain, the agony, the anguish... man this was fun. Excellent work Johnny.
The ending to this is probably the hardest I laughed at a RUclips video in years
This might be not only one of the best, but also one of the top 3 memable reviews you ever done. Well done, instant classic and favorite
I think diddys rocket barrel was my favorite move sure it sucked ass to control when your trying to aim but just flying around was a blast I remember just flying around as a kid again and again
Imagine doing a 100% run as a child, spending weeks hunting down everything, and then finding out your game glitches during the last boss fight and can’t be completed. I’ve still never finished the game.