Hunter S. Thompson once wrote about the "high-water mark," the peak of momentum "where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
Donkey Kong 64 is the high-water mark of the collectathon platformer genre, where the form was pushed to its extreme and left nowhere else to go. Intimidating on paper, dizzying in execution, and when all is said and done, tiring. This was enough.
Donkey Kong 64 is the high-water mark of the collectathon platformer genre, where the form was pushed to its extreme and left nowhere else to go. Intimidating on paper, dizzying in execution, and when all is said and done, tiring. This was enough.