1k in 2 days?! You guys… can we shoot for 50 likes? This is blowing up and I’m already brainstorming the next one. What’s a video you guys would like to see me tackle?😊
FINALLY someone points out that you don't have to collect everything in a collectathon to be satisfied. I've never understood the people who will disparage games for this reason.
Actually, I remember DK64 being pretty spooky in many places. Just off the top of my head (prior to watching the video): - The entirety of Creepy Castle, naturally (except arguably the boss) - Fungi Forest at night - Frantic Factory - The cyborg fish in Gloomy Galleon - Also, the sunken ships in the same level, with the pufferfish and dark areas - Mad Jack - Second battle with Dogadon where he makes the platform sink - Crystal Caves before you take out the giant Kosha that's causing earthquakes - The temples in Angry Aztec - "GET OUT" - Giant tomato monsters in Fungi Forest - Giant spider mini-boss in Fungi Forest - Giant toy... guy... in Frantic Factory And so on and so forth. The N64 had so many great games aimed at kids that also really delivered in the spooks department.
6:37 I'm probably burning in hell for this but that was the funniest joke end the video and it started out sus yeah I am guaranteed burning in hell for this one laugh
I should remaster it, doing a sonic adventure 2 one right now with better mixing in mind, when I record the lines I use Ableton and record a few sentences at a time so I can have better delivery but I seem to sway a bit while talking sometimes.
Really surprised you only have 300 subscribers, this was a well done video! (Though as someone already mentioned you should turn down the music because it was mildly overpowering your voice. 🙂)
Your video essay was compelling to say the least. I still see the game as a colorful chaotic stressful rareware collectathon if my copy of the game guide has anything to say about it. (Over 200 golden bananas?! Rare y'all were on crack!) However you did make some good points what with thalasaphobia, and with the fungi forest going from cute and colorful to dark and creepy with the clock. I forget if you mentioned how isolating the game can feel at times where you have to seek out a swap barrel to change characters unlike the old games where it was DK and Diddy Kong on screen or Diddy Kong and someone else. But its the same feeling I got when playing the forest temple in OOT like if Link dies there no one knows where he is unlike the fire temple or something. At least there's no creepy ass wallmasters dropping down to fuck your ass up and drag you back to the dungeon entrance
@@Jinxanator66 thanks for the feedback! Yeah wall masters are definitely a creepy foreboding element of the temple. The isolating feeling is something I never noticed until you mentioned it… that’s also a great point! Kroc with the “get out” in some sections is definitely something that I can compare to the feeling of wallmasters. I need to figure out a good idea for another video… the expectations from having a video somehow succeed like this is similarly surprising.
@rubberbandba11craft if you would like a suggestion if you decide to continue with this topic talk about the liminality of a lot of n64 games. Glover, mario 64, donkey kong, pokemon snap, so many more where you are just by yourself with enemies and nothing else
I'm surprised you didn't mention the final world. While it's no Creepy Castle, Hideout Helm is scary for a different reason. After you arrive K. Rool has had enough of this. With all his top minions thwarted he activates the cannon despite pleas from his Kritters that firing the laser in it's current state can cause a chain reaction that can destroy Crocodile Isle but K. Rool doesn't listen swearing goodbye to DK Isles. For most of the level you are on a timer. Even in the tag barrel and the mini games you are being timed. And if that timer reaches zero you lose. Game Over. This is the only way to get a true game over in this game that doesn't involve quitting the game. And it's made even more unnerving by K. Rool's laugh as the timer gets close to zero. After shutting down the machine the place simply goes silent with an ominous track playing as you enter the now abandoned throne room of K. Rool and even the bridge of the mechanical island finding at the end a key unguarded without any boss to fight. It really gives the vibe that this place is the end. You reached K. Rool's lair and the instant you put the final key in the cage the final battle begins aboard a a new version of the Flying Kroc.
I cant believe i didnt include the unnerving parts of HH... i will rectify it if i remake this one with better audio. Thank you for that. tho thats more of an action thriller type horror which is why i dismissed it this time around. sorry about that, i also forgot Wrinkly Kong TwT
Speaking of dreams the greenhouse maze in Creepy castle is a scene that feels like it came out of a dream. Really drink in the envrionment of the room and look at your surroundings. Its raining inside the roof is just a void and the room even has artificial lightning and thunder. There are many rooms like this in dk 64. They all feel like a scene from a lucid dream.
@@PomLamb I know right? For me the mad jack arena is similar, those pillars are so much higher during the fight. And the disjointed geometry of the factory certainly aides in this liminal feeling
@@rubberbandba11craft One of the things I love about the Frantic Factory theme is that it sounds like it is playing from an old casette tape. The static hiss that acompanies the music is so good and has a creepy feel. In my experiance in n64 games many have scenes that come from dreams and inspired new ones. I would be lying if I said that I never had dreams that were inspired bi some aspect of the n64 games I have played. And that is really awesome. 💛❤🐑
Something that keeps coming back to me is how arbitrary everything in DK64 feels? There's been no shortage of ink spilled on "The Liminal Elegiac Aura Of Mario 64", and in both cases you can peg a lot of it to "Technical Limitations forces us to give you Just Enough Of A World for the game to work" For DK64 though, it FEELS even weirder. In Mario 64, Bowser has stolen the Power Stars and enchanted the princess's paintings as a way of guarding them. In Banjo Kazooie, the Worlds are what you'd expect to see in a Witch's magical lair & in Tooie the worlds are just diegetically connected. ...so what is HAPPENING in DK64? What are these DK Portals? The ones on the K. Rool Ship are industrial, pirate & castle themed while the ones on the DK side are all more naturalistic so it FITS; but like what ARE they? Who is this wood block dude just waiting to see your Collectable Count? Why do you go to a separate pocket dimension to indulge the Hippo to get bounced back to the world you came from for a boss fight? What's going on??? It's a known fact by now that the version of DK64 we wound up with was a pivot from a more linear platformer, and I think if Super Mario 64's eerieness owes to it being such an early 3D title, DK's owes to its weird fumbling pivot to something Neither Country Nor Kazooie. From Kirkhope's score darkening from his work in Banjo to start approaching David Wise's work in the DKC games, to the way the structure of the game FEELS bolted together with bubble gum. It all leads to these worlds, dark and largely unexplained, that someone dumped collectibles all over so you can Do A Video Game in it. The Donkey Kong Land series on Game Boy operated on the premise that the very game you were playing was a bet or competition, and I wonder how much different DK64 would feel if Troff, Scoff, B. Locker, et al, were all some kind of cosmic referees like Rare would end up doing with Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts's character L.O.G. IDK. I adored this game growing up, came to despise it as I got older; and now my opinion of it wildly oscillates between love and hate, clinical interest and morbid fascination. It absolutely Has A Vibe, I can say that much.
I thought you were going to rug pull and tell me Luigi's mansion or Crash Bandicoot were the scariest game on the N64 despite telling me the whole time what this video was. Scary. Good job. 10/10 3 spoopy 5 me.
Creepy castle had the best theme So do fungi forest The other levels feel like they’re boring, but don’t let that fool you they could be very deceitful
@@christianmccarty8052 I will definitely work on the line delivery and levels next time, thank you for the feedback! Fortunately this time around the closed captions picked up the mumbling surprisingly accurately
@thatchesterguy gotta disagree, I found it difficult to hear the voice over the music, as a youtube video listener main, this was a good vid but the audio needs some mixing, I suggest some kind of balance, I dont have knowledge of how to do that but the music is noticeably louder than the voice and I turned it down and up a couple times and went back to catch what was said
@@martiano13bros unfortunately my editing software was fighting me the whole time, based on this feedback I might just have to go back and re-record the dialogue with a better voice
After Careful Consideration I decided to fix the Audio and add some other minor tweaks. this video is the remastered version. ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html I am not taking this original version down for a few reasons namely the algorithm will kill me if i delete my most viewed and liked video ever (thank you for 4k views!!!), but also so i can see how the remaster does comparatively among other things. heres to 500 subs!
funny you should mention that... theres a redone DX version of the video that attempts to address criticism, but im not gonna delist the copy with nearly 5k views as that would be channel unaliving.
@@Deadlock21 issue acknowledged, maybe a remaster of the video would be a good idea… though closed captions did pick up my voice enough to be legible. Thanks for the feedback!
I blame the multiple recordings and the fluctuations of my distance from the mic while trying to keep the music a little less silent. But I don’t have the best editing software
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1k in 2 days?! You guys… can we shoot for 50 likes? This is blowing up and I’m already brainstorming the next one. What’s a video you guys would like to see me tackle?😊
2k views is insane.
Personally, Mad Jack is my favorite boss. His theme is what makes him special.
The laughter is built into it. It’s such a good remix of such a great piece.
Love your vibe and style of commentary would love to see morr! Subbed!
@@christianoneal380 thanks! I try to balance the snark and information to keep it interesting and up to interpretation
FINALLY someone points out that you don't have to collect everything in a collectathon to be satisfied. I've never understood the people who will disparage games for this reason.
like seriously if you just play normally youll get all thje medals for the coin and not have to deal with any infamous gbs
Actually, I remember DK64 being pretty spooky in many places. Just off the top of my head (prior to watching the video):
- The entirety of Creepy Castle, naturally (except arguably the boss)
- Fungi Forest at night
- Frantic Factory
- The cyborg fish in Gloomy Galleon
- Also, the sunken ships in the same level, with the pufferfish and dark areas
- Mad Jack
- Second battle with Dogadon where he makes the platform sink
- Crystal Caves before you take out the giant Kosha that's causing earthquakes
- The temples in Angry Aztec
- "GET OUT"
- Giant tomato monsters in Fungi Forest
- Giant spider mini-boss in Fungi Forest
- Giant toy... guy... in Frantic Factory
And so on and so forth.
The N64 had so many great games aimed at kids that also really delivered in the spooks department.
see. it is a \horror game!
6:37 I'm probably burning in hell for this but that was the funniest joke end the video and it started out sus yeah I am guaranteed burning in hell for this one laugh
@@TheNewSoda I knew it would land! Thank you!
the audio mixing is the only thing holding this video back excellent delivery jontron vibe
I should remaster it, doing a sonic adventure 2 one right now with better mixing in mind, when I record the lines I use Ableton and record a few sentences at a time so I can have better delivery but I seem to sway a bit while talking sometimes.
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
Entertaining watch, looking forward to seeing the audio being improved.
@@Shinyslaking64 thank you for the feedback! I'm probably going to work on that real soon
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
Wow clicking on this video I thought you had 1m subs since it was so well made! Keep it up :D
@@headshooters112 some day, sooner than we think maybe. Just need to make another banger or 30 lol
Quack in the Box was mentioned. 11:10
Yep that goddamn quack in a box
To me, Creepy Castle was more of a fun horror than genuine scary. Like when you're a kid during Halloween
fun horror is still horror lol tho the crypt section was more horror
Really surprised you only have 300 subscribers, this was a well done video!
(Though as someone already mentioned you should turn down the music because it was mildly overpowering your voice. 🙂)
@@derekrequiem4359 thank you so much! Glad to finally use 4 years of tv broadcasting class in high school practically
I took the feedback to heart and redid the audio for the whole video
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
Your video essay was compelling to say the least. I still see the game as a colorful chaotic stressful rareware collectathon if my copy of the game guide has anything to say about it. (Over 200 golden bananas?! Rare y'all were on crack!) However you did make some good points what with thalasaphobia, and with the fungi forest going from cute and colorful to dark and creepy with the clock. I forget if you mentioned how isolating the game can feel at times where you have to seek out a swap barrel to change characters unlike the old games where it was DK and Diddy Kong on screen or Diddy Kong and someone else. But its the same feeling I got when playing the forest temple in OOT like if Link dies there no one knows where he is unlike the fire temple or something. At least there's no creepy ass wallmasters dropping down to fuck your ass up and drag you back to the dungeon entrance
@@Jinxanator66 thanks for the feedback! Yeah wall masters are definitely a creepy foreboding element of the temple. The isolating feeling is something I never noticed until you mentioned it… that’s also a great point! Kroc with the “get out” in some sections is definitely something that I can compare to the feeling of wallmasters. I need to figure out a good idea for another video… the expectations from having a video somehow succeed like this is similarly surprising.
@rubberbandba11craft if you would like a suggestion if you decide to continue with this topic talk about the liminality of a lot of n64 games. Glover, mario 64, donkey kong, pokemon snap, so many more where you are just by yourself with enemies and nothing else
@@Jinxanator66 the isolation and liminal nature of games as a whole from that era, good suggestion
As a kid I always got a creepy vibe from playing this game but I wasn't sure why
@@loganharvill5394 hopefully this helped you understand that vibe a little more
Also this is the old version of the video check the newe one for overcorrected better audio
Sir, take my subscribe. I'll be looking forward to more of your videos :D
@@spoti321 thank you I appreciate it greatly!
i wasnt spooked once while playing it back then.
@@kramer1916 it’s not something you notice without stopping to smell the proverbial bananas
I'm surprised you didn't mention the final world. While it's no Creepy Castle, Hideout Helm is scary for a different reason. After you arrive K. Rool has had enough of this. With all his top minions thwarted he activates the cannon despite pleas from his Kritters that firing the laser in it's current state can cause a chain reaction that can destroy Crocodile Isle but K. Rool doesn't listen swearing goodbye to DK Isles. For most of the level you are on a timer. Even in the tag barrel and the mini games you are being timed. And if that timer reaches zero you lose. Game Over. This is the only way to get a true game over in this game that doesn't involve quitting the game. And it's made even more unnerving by K. Rool's laugh as the timer gets close to zero. After shutting down the machine the place simply goes silent with an ominous track playing as you enter the now abandoned throne room of K. Rool and even the bridge of the mechanical island finding at the end a key unguarded without any boss to fight. It really gives the vibe that this place is the end. You reached K. Rool's lair and the instant you put the final key in the cage the final battle begins aboard a a new version of the Flying Kroc.
I cant believe i didnt include the unnerving parts of HH... i will rectify it if i remake this one with better audio. Thank you for that. tho thats more of an action thriller type horror which is why i dismissed it this time around. sorry about that, i also forgot Wrinkly Kong TwT
Speaking of dreams the greenhouse maze in Creepy castle is a scene that feels like it came out of a dream.
Really drink in the envrionment of the room and look at your surroundings. Its raining inside the roof is just a void and the room even has artificial lightning and thunder. There are many rooms like this in dk 64. They all feel like a scene from a lucid dream.
@@PomLamb I know right? For me the mad jack arena is similar, those pillars are so much higher during the fight. And the disjointed geometry of the factory certainly aides in this liminal feeling
@@rubberbandba11craft One of the things I love about the Frantic Factory theme is that it sounds like it is playing from an old casette tape. The static hiss that acompanies the music is so good and has a creepy feel.
In my experiance in n64 games many have scenes that come from dreams and inspired new ones. I would be lying if I said that I never had dreams that were inspired bi some aspect of the n64 games I have played. And that is really awesome.
💛❤🐑
Probably gonna reupload with fixed audio, need timestamps
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
I like your channel avatar.
@@fanfywriter8727 thank you! Zerda the channel mascot is definitely a favorite of mine
Something that keeps coming back to me is how arbitrary everything in DK64 feels?
There's been no shortage of ink spilled on "The Liminal Elegiac Aura Of Mario 64", and in both cases you can peg a lot of it to "Technical Limitations forces us to give you Just Enough Of A World for the game to work"
For DK64 though, it FEELS even weirder.
In Mario 64, Bowser has stolen the Power Stars and enchanted the princess's paintings as a way of guarding them. In Banjo Kazooie, the Worlds are what you'd expect to see in a Witch's magical lair & in Tooie the worlds are just diegetically connected.
...so what is HAPPENING in DK64? What are these DK Portals? The ones on the K. Rool Ship are industrial, pirate & castle themed while the ones on the DK side are all more naturalistic so it FITS; but like what ARE they? Who is this wood block dude just waiting to see your Collectable Count? Why do you go to a separate pocket dimension to indulge the Hippo to get bounced back to the world you came from for a boss fight? What's going on???
It's a known fact by now that the version of DK64 we wound up with was a pivot from a more linear platformer, and I think if Super Mario 64's eerieness owes to it being such an early 3D title, DK's owes to its weird fumbling pivot to something Neither Country Nor Kazooie. From Kirkhope's score darkening from his work in Banjo to start approaching David Wise's work in the DKC games, to the way the structure of the game FEELS bolted together with bubble gum. It all leads to these worlds, dark and largely unexplained, that someone dumped collectibles all over so you can Do A Video Game in it.
The Donkey Kong Land series on Game Boy operated on the premise that the very game you were playing was a bet or competition, and I wonder how much different DK64 would feel if Troff, Scoff, B. Locker, et al, were all some kind of cosmic referees like Rare would end up doing with Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts's character L.O.G.
IDK. I adored this game growing up, came to despise it as I got older; and now my opinion of it wildly oscillates between love and hate, clinical interest and morbid fascination. It absolutely Has A Vibe, I can say that much.
@@DetournementArc this just adds to the horror-ness of the game. Who are the feederism hippo and pig and why do they keep the gates to the boss arena?
Absolute classic
@@mikejones-zi5et Thank you!
I thought you were going to rug pull and tell me Luigi's mansion or Crash Bandicoot were the scariest game on the N64 despite telling me the whole time what this video was. Scary. Good job. 10/10 3 spoopy 5 me.
@@thatchesterguy Thank you so much! I’ve wanted to Make this for a while now. More people need to realize this sleeper horror’s potential.
Oh yea me and candy and tiny will slay in dk64 all night
Creepy castle had the best theme
So do fungi forest
The other levels feel like they’re boring, but don’t let that fool you they could be very deceitful
Need to tone down that music, man, can't really hear you.
@@christianmccarty8052 I will definitely work on the line delivery and levels next time, thank you for the feedback! Fortunately this time around the closed captions picked up the mumbling surprisingly accurately
Surprisingly, all the audio issues helped sell the horror.
@@thatchesterguy thanks for the reassurance
@thatchesterguy gotta disagree, I found it difficult to hear the voice over the music, as a youtube video listener main, this was a good vid but the audio needs some mixing, I suggest some kind of balance, I dont have knowledge of how to do that but the music is noticeably louder than the voice and I turned it down and up a couple times and went back to catch what was said
@@martiano13bros unfortunately my editing software was fighting me the whole time, based on this feedback I might just have to go back and re-record the dialogue with a better voice
After Careful Consideration I decided to fix the Audio and add some other minor tweaks. this video is the remastered version.
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
I am not taking this original version down for a few reasons namely the algorithm will kill me if i delete my most viewed and liked video ever (thank you for 4k views!!!), but also so i can see how the remaster does comparatively among other things. heres to 500 subs!
Almost 100 views in a single day! This is awesome! Remember to comment you advice for the next video below,
400 views in barely 2 days is insane for a small channel like mine… THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭
@@rubberbandba11craft Great video man! I gave you a subscribe!
@@jackpiotrowski6217 Thank you!
Fantastic editing, great commentary and I was blown away when I looked and saw you had less than 300 subs. I'll be adding myself to that list
@@tylerfortin3239 thank you so much for this!
I suggest for future videos lower the volume of the music. It's hard to hear your voice over it.
funny you should mention that... theres a redone DX version of the video that attempts to address criticism, but im not gonna delist the copy with nearly 5k views as that would be channel unaliving.
I really tried to watch this as i am super interested in the subject but the Musik is way too loud i can barely understand you
@@Deadlock21 issue acknowledged, maybe a remaster of the video would be a good idea… though closed captions did pick up my voice enough to be legible. Thanks for the feedback!
I took the feedback to heart and redid the audio for the whole video
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
You should turn the music down or your voice up. The music is way too loud to hear your voice.
@@UmutKursawe balancing was a losing battle but this is definitely on my radar
I took the feedback to heart and redid the audio for the whole video
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
Wow cc is accurate
I cannot hear you, like at all. Turn the music down!
@@cinnamonsugarcourtney6073 I recommend captions but the issue is known and will be fixed eventually
I took the feedback to heart and redid the audio for the whole video
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html
Your sound mixing is so bad I can’t hear any of your points. It needs to be UNDER the dialogue. As in quieter than it. Not louder.
I blame the multiple recordings and the fluctuations of my distance from the mic while trying to keep the music a little less silent. But I don’t have the best editing software
I took the feedback to heart and redid the audio for the whole video
ruclips.net/video/r8wpnWEJkC0/видео.html