Rare Appreciation Thread

[Gors]

The reason DKC2 is better than DKC despite them sharing the same basics, is that DKC2 added a whole new hidden world. There was a reason to look for the Bonus screens, other than getting 102% of the game. You were gifted more levels that are really good. Also animal buddies are given special abilities andI remember racing with my cousin to who could get more DK coins in the game (as they are the most well-hidden thing in DKC2). So it was a fun game and each pickup had a bigger role. Basically DKC2 got DKC1 and made it better with those additional gameplay ideas that worked.

As for Banjo, well, Banjo was nothing more than a 3D collect-a-thon game. If it was like Mario 64, it would be better: only three main collectibles: coins, red coins and stars. This is a case of less is more, I'd ofgen get confused in Banjo due to the sheer amount of items it had. You were forced to get musical notes to progress (those musical note doors were the bane of my existence); you had to get shiny skull tokens to get the transformation, which is crucial to beating the level; you had to save those fucking colored tapirs to earn a jigsaw piece; and the jigsaw piece themselves. At least in Mario 64 you weren't expected to get a fixed number of coins to access later areas; this was only determined by the number of stars you had in hand. Of course there's that 100-coins equal a star side-quest in every level but it can be substitued by any other star objective in normal gameplay.