It's funny that the camera of Mario 64 has always been such a controversial aspect. I get why this is, but personally I've never had any issue with it. I actually always thought, back then and even still to this day, that it works perfectly well. You should just always set it to the Lakitu mode, where it smoothly auto follows you from a mild distance and doesn't move around too much. Sure the other two viewpoints, the closer Mario mode and the fixed one are kinda useless but the Lakitu mode never failed me. I guess I just can't really relate. In fact, even today in modern games, when I mess up yet again and die miserably because I can't see stuff, I often find myself thinking "why can't this just be good, you know, like Mario 64 was 25 years+ ago".