Yooka-Laylee is a 3D collect-a-thon platformer made by ex-Rare employees now known as Playtonic Games. The game is made as a spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie series and released on multiple platforms. Continue reading “Yooka-Laylee”
We’ve all got characters we’d love to see enter into the fray in Smash Bros. In fact, many of you already have your own personal lists like this. Well I’d like to share my top 10 picks for characters I’d like to see in the future of Smash Bros. A challenger approaches! Continue reading “Top 10 Super Smash Bros Characters Wishlist”
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge is an isometric platformer collect-a-thon for the Game Boy Advance. This game was released after Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie on the Nintendo 64, so I’m going to assume you’re up to speed on the previous two games from personal experience or perhaps from checking out my other reviews. While it was released after these two games, it actually takes place between them a few months after the events of Banjo-Kazooie. Continue reading “Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge”
Banjo-Tooie is the sequel to Banjo-Kazooie on Nintendo 64. Like its predecessor, Banjo-Tooie is a 3D platforming collect-a-thon. The story picks up two years after the events of Banjo-Kazooie. We open to a cutscene of Mumbo, Bottles, and our main heroes in a card game when out of a wall in Spiral Mountain appears a giant drilling machine. It turns out the drivers of this device are none other than Gruntilda’s sisters. They free her from her prison underneath a rock that her minion, Klungo, has been unable to move all this time. She emerges as a predominantly skeletal figure. Two years under a rock will do that to ya. But her sisters reassure her that they have a plan to fix this. The group hears the commotion and Mumbo volunteers to check it out. Continue reading “Banjo-Tooie”
Banjo-Kazooie is a 3D adventure platforming collect-a-thon on the Nintendo 64. It was developed by Rareware, a company well known for having some of the best games on the system, such as Donkey Kong 64, Goldeneye, and Killer Instinct Gold among others. The story of Banjo-Kazooie is much like a fairytale. The evil witch Gruntilda wishes to be the fairest in the land. However, she finds out that Tooty, a youthful bear, is prettier. So Grunty kidnaps Tooty and places her in a machine that will transfer their beauty. Continue reading “Banjo-Kazooie”
