Nintendo has announced that Rare’s Donkey Kong 64 — which, until last year’s Donkey Kong Bananza, was the only fully 3D Donkey Kong platformer — is coming to the Nintendo 64 collection in Nintendo Classics next week. The 1999 game will be added on Wednesday, June 3, for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers.
Although it was mostly well received at the time, Donkey Kong 64 has a complicated reputation today. Rare’s 2D Donkey Kong platformers, starting with Donkey Kong Country, were considered masterpieces of platforming challenge. But Donkey Kong 64 doubled down hard on the approach to 3D platforming the studio had taken in Banjo-Kazooie, emphasizing a vast and bewildering quantity of collectibles.
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