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Anonymous

Diddy Kong Racing

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What can I say, this game was dumb! It's just a copycat of Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart 64 has freakin' fun! Diddy Kong Racing is a joke! I would have rated it as "0 stars," but unfortunately I don't have that option. If you want to give someone a hate gift, I recommend this. But don't blame me if they surprisingly love it.

Anonymous

Better than Mario Kart 64???

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As a matter of fact (DKR) diddy kong racing is a BETTER game than mario kart 64. I love the characters in Mk 64 but the game moves too slow and it is impossible to master that game. However, DKR is an incredible game. I love this game because it was my first videogame. It entales many memories for me. There are 8 starting characters. The big characters are faster and the light characters have better handling. If you have ever played that game you probably know that tip-tup is a fan favorite. The best character is TT. He is the clock in the lobby of each world. To unlock TT you must beat his ghost in all of the time trials. It took me 5 1/2 years to accomplish this. But once I did I found the secret behind nintedo's best racing game EVER. There are numerous ways to become a great racer. Using the R and B button together gives your character a tight powerslide to make extremlely sharp corners. Use sparingly. Im reallly good at that game now... because it is worth the time to get great and school TT ghosts and hold records. The best vehical is the CAR no hover or plane please. This game is arguably the best racing game for n64. And overall DKR is in my top 5 Favorite games of all time. for any consol ever.
I hope it is a remade game for DS or wii virtual consol. If you have an n64 buy it for that but if you don't these two options will be ok.

Anonymous

A Cool Racing Game

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This Is one of the fewest racing games a really like, it's cool you go through levels and even have a boss to beat. it's cool. It's a game i think everyone will enjoy.

If you liked this Game check out Mario Kart.

Anonymous

If it's a kiddy game, it's a very hard one

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Diddy Kong Racing will forever be looked at as a kiddy title, and in some ways Rareware did go overboard on this one. The character designs are very sugary sweet, accompanied by high-pitched voices that you want to slap in the face (Pipsy, I'm looking at you). Bright, cheerful colors, bright cheerful soundtrack. Yeah, kids love this stuff.

But strip all that away, and this is a very well-designed and challenging cart racer. It kind of does the opposite of Mario Kart 64, and offers a strong single-player mode and a fun but somewhat bare multiplayer-mode. Similiar to platform games, you race through courses and collect balloons, which in turn open boss fights and other worlds with more courses. There are three fully-tuned vehicles to choose from: your kart, a plane, and a hovercraft. Each has it's pros and cons, controls differently from the others, and takes skill to master. You can even race different vehicles against each other, often taking different routes in the same course. Like other kart racers this one isn't about speed, but the tracks have lots of detail and animation, and are consistently interesting to race through (one even looks like the Death Star trench from Star Wars).

Where the game starts to frustrate is Rareware's typical way of extending play time. Beat the courses once, then race through them again and collect 8 hard-to-reach coins while still maintaing first place. This leads to a harder boss encounter, and must be done to unlock the final levels and the best ending. Little kids will probably throw the controller down right here, but anyone who's worth anything in video games will find it immensely satisfying to clear Rare's requirements and unlock all that the game has to offer. Seperates the men from the boys, and all that.

If Rareware hadn't made the characters so sugary, this could've easily topped Mario Kart 64 in recognition among the older crowd. Definitely worth a purchase used, and good luck to all those up for the challenge.