A Rare Gem | Banjo-Kazooie (Banjo-Kazooie Series Retrospective)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2019
- One of the finest 3D platformers ever released, Banjo-Kazooie is a bonafide Nintendo 64 classic. Not only was it incredibly successful, but it was also the start of Rare's most popular franchise. Now, on the original game's 21st anniversary, it's time to look back at the entire series and explore just what makes the bear and bird so appealing to this day. #BanjoKazooie #RareReplay #SmashUltimate
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Sources/Recommended Reading
IGN: The History of Rare (bit.ly/2KNrJUB)
Rare: The Making of Banjo-Kazooie (bit.ly/2FHmQZ3)
Rare Revealed: A Rare Look at Dream (bit.ly/1ZAxQJQ)
Rare Revealed: Five Things You Didn’t Know About Banjo-Kazooie (bit.ly/2XFtzwO)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Banjo-Kazooie Reveal Trailer (bit.ly/2WZZwzy)
MTV Multiplayer: Why I Finally Accept What Happened To That 'Banjo Kazooie' Stop N Swop Thing (bit.ly/2RIHvR6) - เกม
What are some of your favorite Rare games or 3D platformers/collectathons? Do you have any Banjo-Kazooie memories?
Live and Reloaded
My favorite Banjo memory was getting over my fear of Clanker. The lovable yet terrifying trash compactor made the level difficult for me to concentrate. Now I think the level is awesome
@@papaG6423 same that's when I got past the second note door thats my best moment also because it took 70 Hours to do it
My favourite rare game was banjo kazooie. Tooie was a close second and dk64 was third. A memory that I cherish from when I was a kid, was beating banjo kazooie for the first time at my nan's house. I was then sat there at treasure trove cove trying to punch codes in to no avail. Eventually I found codes in a magazine months later that had the stop n swap items.
Conker’s bad fur day!
"Grunty isn't too tough of a boss"
Tell that to my 8-year-old self. Many tears were shed over that battle
To this day I can't think of too many bosses with that many different phases to learn and no checkpoints (other than, fittingly, the brutal Captital B in Yooka-Laylee.)
All these years later I can still be worried about losing to Grunty if I don't focus. Those leading shots near the end can still be brutal.
i just replayed the game a couple weeks ago. the grunty battle took me over a half hour. it's a great boss fight in theory but it's a very sharp difficulty curve, with a heavily combat-based fight while the rest of the game focused more heavily on platforming. filling up the jinjonator with the onslaught of bullets from grunty is brutal. and i had the double health upgrade.
I managed to beat it when I was a kid back in the n64 days. I didn’t think it was too hard but I recently beat it on the switch and boy was grunty a pain. Especially when I had to unlock the jingos to help defeat her. Took me several tries. Lol
At 33, I still have PTSD from fighting that witch.
@@patrickmeny1298 - I played Banjo-Kazooie on the Switch and beat the game 100% a couple weeks ago. The final boss was really difficult towards the end for me because of the egg attack being on the same control stick as the camera, so it was awkward aiming the eggs into the statues fast enough before Gruntilda threw those annoying fireballs at me.
It always strikes me as weird that a bird carrying a bear can run faster than a bear carrying a bird.
Cartoons, man.
Kazooie runs, Banjo saunters.
Also...leg length!
It's the law
Banjo's a big lumbering guy, while Kazooie is fast and nimble. Whoever's in the backpack is weightless :P
Also to consider, Kazooie is very gung-ho and in a hurry, while Banjo is a mellow, easy-going dude.
"Now that Banjo-Kazooie are in Smash, we may see a rebirth!"
Yeah! Just like those revivals for Earthbound, F-Zero, Metal Gear, and Castlevania!
@@SocialShortcuts tf are you talking about lmao
@@SocialShortcuts It was a fanmade trailer. It's not getting made.
@@SocialShortcuts nah check the description, it was made as an homage.
@@SocialShortcuts are you dense
@@SocialShortcuts lmfao that you actually thought that was a real trailer
The way that the main lair music changes to fit the level theme when you get to the entrance is just amazing!
Brilliant wasn't it
The notes made the fear of dying real. If you died, you would lose your note count for the world. Knowing you needed the motes, you would do your best to find most if not all of the notes in each world. Losing your notes was a consequence of dying. Now you can just run around carefree and die as many times as you want without worrying. There is no longer a consequence for it. Being afraid that a fall was gonna kill you or you were low on health, made the game seem a little more real to me. I loved and hated the note system at the same time lol
Same, that's why I play the original N64 version
Rusty Bucket Bay was the worst. Having to get the notes inside the ship in the fan section was a nightmare
@@andrewking4838 Yep that's why the Engine Room is most definitely the most hated room in the franchise lmao
The note counts make the engine room of the Rusty Bucket into an actual hell.
Sure. But its artificial difficulty. Instead of a fun challenge that tests your skills in an engaging and exciting way, its difficult in the boring, tedious, maddening way. Its not fun and its not actually difficult. It only increases the difficulty by making you repeat what youve already done. Its a waste of time.
Banjo Kazooie is a timeless masterpiece, the people at Rare really deserve a round of applause. They came up with a new & advanced idea, like seriously. Who can ever think of a Bear with a Bird sidekick stuffed in his backpack. Plus, for a game released during the N64 Era, the graphics are pretty solid. 10/10 in my opinion.
definitely agree
Agreed
Honestly, I love the challenge that comes with collecting all of the notes in one run. It makes you think carefully about how you want to approach a level, and which parts do do first. I know it's a pain if you die, especially in Rusty Bucket Bay, but it makes you need a strategy, and I like that.
I usually cheat for Rusty Bucket Bay anyway, so I mean...
I first played this game when I was maybe six or seven. My brother had video games, and would occassionally let me play them. I remember loving this game the most. But I saw the six eggs and ice key collected on the pause screen, and asked him what they all did. He told me he never found out. Years later, I felt like my childhood had come full circle when I finally learned the truth about it.
I replay this game fairly often and I just loathe Rusty Bucket Bay every time. 🙈
Funny you should say that you don’t like Click Clock Wood, it’s always been one of my favourite areas in the game, especially because of the soundtrack changing with the seasons. Exploring the changes in the four sub levels from season to season was also great and I always enjoyed buzzing around the area as the bee.
It blew my child mind back in the day, I still think it's one of the best designed levels of any game. Very iconic
@@Nick-pr9uv agreed!
@@Nick-pr9uv agreed!
Right? so weird that he doesn't like most things that make the game awesome
I agree completely that click clock wood was my favourite set of levels ☺️
I'm on the opposite end, I loved Click Clock Wood! It reminded me of being in the hundred acre wood in Winnie the pooh lol so cheerful and happy. And I always loved seeing the squirrel family! The variations in the music track for each season was a great touch too.
I just found this, and how is this channel not bigger? This is great, man. Keep up the good work, cause you've got talent
frlz same!!
My bet would be that it's because this is the 50th banjo review on youtube. Not that I don't like it, it's just not original, it doesn't have it's niche, the market is over saturated with these kind of channels. Just my guess.
Like at some point, how many times can you watch a 15 or 30 minutes video of someone giving their opinion about a game you like without starting to not actually care about their opinion anymore, weather it's positive or not.
Banjo Kazooie, to me, is an adventure game that first and foremost. It uses platforming, collectables, puzzles and enemies to make it into a game, but none of that would matter if the adventure aspect had been neglected.
I like how the talen-trot is a pretty gimmicky move. You only have to use it if you want to go up a steep slope, right? Seems very situational. But no, the added mobility of the move makes it one of the best ones! You can learn so much from this game design-wise.
Good point! It's a great example of how the developers created moves that were actually useful beyond times when they were absolutely necessary.
and play and fun
"Banjo-Kazooie's gameplay isn't extremely complicated" all while showing the Engine part of Rusty Bucket Bay... damn, the lives I lost in that hot motor oil at the bottom...
One of the reasons why, when I collect the notes in Rusty Bucket Bay, I always start there...
I found out that the washing machine transformation in Banjo-Kazooie is not just aesthetic. It makes you immune to all damaging surfaces (Bubblegloop Swamp's water, Gobi's Valley's sand, etc.) but it prevents you from using both the Wading Boots and the Turbo Trainers.
I'm Okay playing the N64 version even with the notes issue, I am used to it. I also don't own any xbox consoles. But this game is really fun.
leave the net and entertainment and packyour things
yeah i think its way more challenging and more rewarding once you get 100%
I find it to be more rewarding when you complete the worlds. I've never had a problem with the notes on N64.
Removing the note score system makes collecting notes ridiculously easy, and it was already relatively easy before so it's kinda boring they removed it
@@jamestdfm agreed
lol Click Click Wood is one of my favorite worlds in the game mainly because of the season gimmick and being in a forest xD
dont forget the bee transformation
@@michatroschka True, but I enjoyed the seasons more.
I loved playing this game as a 13 year old on my N64 with my brothers, the sense of achievement when completing it finally was great. My favourite level was the tree level as it had the 4 variations for the seasons ☺️
My dad got me an N64 and I picked banjo kazooie as my first game. It’s hard to believe I was only 10 in 1998.
19:03 I think the thing you're describing with the music is called dynamic music. I learned that from Metal Gear Rising when the music would shift when you get to the next phase of the boss fight.
First time playing Banjo Kazooie was around 2000 I was about 5, I remember going to blockbuster to rent out a game and I saw Banjo Kazooie thinking the characters looked so cool so I rented it. Never got to own the game or beat it at the time but I would always re-rent it out and since then, I’ve always loved the franchise
I actually didn't get to play Banjo-Kazooie until around 2006 because we never owned it. We owned Tooie and I played the hell out of that, but I never owned Banjo-Kazooie either.
Grateful for recently stumbling upon this video🙏 True story…as a kid, Nintendo Power had me so hyped for this game that I called my local Blockbuster everyday around release day to ask if they had this game in to rent. I did this so much that my mom, seeing how much this game meant to me, went ahead and bought it for me instead. Along with Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox, Goldeneye and Ocarina of Time, these games defined my childhood and are all absolute classics.
I remember being 11 when this came out... It was so dope and the hype was real..
Fantastic video! Banjo Kazooie is hands down one of my favorite series off all time, with Tooie being one of my favorite games of all time. I look forward to the rest of your videos on the series when they come out. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks so much! Tooie is one of my favorite games as well - I can't wait to talk about that one!
I grew up with playing the Nintendo 64 version and it's what I've got along with Banjo-Tooie. I've also gotten Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts on X-Box 360 as well as Yooka-Laylee on Steam.
Kazooie does all the work. Banjo is like her horse, really just there to carry her from place to place. I always wanted to play this as a kid, but never got around to it. I'd give it a shot but the sounds effects make me want to gouge my eardrums out nowadays.
I would call it a symbiotic relationship but I don't want to be pretentious.
I definitely understand how the sound can be a hurdle. Personally I grew up with it so it doesn't bother me conceptually, but some character voices (Grunty especially) do annoy me now that I'm older. It's unique for sure, but not always pleasant.
Referring to your last statement, it's ironic considering your username and profile pic.
I’ve been re-visiting my childhood with the N64 lately and after burning myself out on Mario and Zelda, I kinda had forgotten about Banjo-Kazooie. This video brought back a flood of memories. I got this game in the summer of 98 or 99, bought it at Toys R Us and beat the whole thing (with a strategy guide). I had forgotten what a masterpiece this game was. This was an incredible video, you really did the story of this game and it’s developers justice. Fantastic work!
Jinjos not just for puzzle pieces, if you collect them all, they help you during the Gruntilda fight :)
Great video dude! I’m thinking of making my own video on banjo kazooie and why it’s such an important game to me and the gaming industry at large, and seeing these retrospective review videos really help give me ideas as to what to talk about.
Great Review! I just found this channel and subbed. I never played this, looks fun. This goes on my list to play. I might even start Nintendo 64 collecting.
Just found this review and loved it! This game is one of my favorites from my childhood, and probably my favorite Rare title. I'll be watching your review of Banjo-Tooie, which I'm interested to watch because as much as I loved this game I didn't enjoy its sequel! Anyways, thanks for creating this and keep up the good work!
Hey, nice videos man, keep up the good work!
Simply put, one of my favourite games of all time. I don't throw this term around liberally, but this game is an absolute masterpiece.
I agree it’s perfect imo.
Hear the opening notes to the theme song
Instant rush of dopamine to the brain
Also, I think it would be interesting to have Rare revisit the Dream concept.
You are going to end up a bigger channel for sure. I was watching this assuming you were a top tier million sub channel. Wow man keep it up! Make sure to post your videos on other social media. I think this one alone would probably be extremely popular! I am subscribed an looking forward to your future content. I think I will make my own video about Banjo Kazooie now!
I watched this video the day it came out and he didn't even have 500 subs, yet his content is top tier, he's definitely gonna gain followers fast!
Dude, after watching a couple of your videos, I decided to hit that SUBSCRIBE button, but before doing so, I glanced at the subscriber count, and I gotta say, I'm completely flabbergasted! This channel doesn't get the credit it deserves!
Absolutely love the videos would have no idea what to do otherwise on my weekends!!!
I love Banjo Kazooie this video was amazing! It honestly is very professional and you deserve WAY more subscribers!
Thank you very much! :)
I'm making a Banjo Kazooie Rom Hack called Banjo Threeie and it's almost complete hopefully you'll like to play it when it releases 😁
Never realised but Kazooie does pretty much everything 🤣, she is a great character. If they did a remake of Diddy Kong Racing she would deserve her own spot as a playable character, she could replace Drumstick.
No doubt one of my most INTENSELY MEMORABLE N64 games I had the most fun playing, when I wasn’t going outta my mind trying to collect puzzle pieces😂 Mad Monster Mansion and Bubble Gloop Swamp simply the coolest levels 🎉
this video is amazing. Really well done
truly dont undertstand how you're at 17k subs still. up you go, my boy. fantastic conent
Cool Video! Interested to see your next vid...
Favourite rare game, either Diddy Kong racing or Donkey Kong country
Both excellent choices!
16:08 freaking genius writing right there lmao
Idea: A new Banjo-Kazooie game, but starring a now-grown Tooty and whatever flying-companion she has, like a large honeybee. Meanwhile, Banjo and Kazooie have been captured by Grunty and her two sisters who plan on using their magic to hag-ifying the whole world.
This is probably the best channel I have discovered this year.
"a witch switch, a switch, which, that will switch which witch switches with which"
Great soundtrack and I love the voice clips
I don’t understand how you have so many subs but so little views and much less comments. Your videos are excellent. You speak clearly and it helps improve my English.
Awesome content 👍
I have one small correction to make. When it comes to Grunty’s Furnace Fun answers aren’t different every time, the answers you would get from Brentilda’s locations are. Other then that this was a fantastic watch and I highly enjoyed watching someone document and discuss it so throughly.
I agree with most of this except the note score system on the Xbox 360 port. I understand why they did it, to make the game more beginner friendly. Although I wish they made it optional, because the extra challenge can be fun for multiple play-throughs.
"rusty bucket bay is notorius among players because of how dangerous it can be"
Looks at this in 'my favorite worlds are Rusty Bucket Bay and Click Clock Wood'--
When I first played this game, it was RIGHT after Diddy Kong Racing was beat and i liked the story and screenshots from Nintendo Power magazine so I got Banjo Kazooie
One inaccuracy in 29:11 - Washer Banjo DOES have a single ability. Because he is a transformation, he's immune to environmental hazards, like cold water, quicksand, and swamp water. However, he no longer has the ability to use footwear, like the speedy shoes or wading boots. He MAY have a different hitbox, there was a note on the spires in Bubblegloop swamp that I was never able to flip-flap at as a kid, but it's possible because of the visual difference that I was just standing wrong, I don't know why programmatically his hitbox should be different.
Rare doesn’t have many rare gems , because they’re all Rare Gems
Cheatos codes come in handy when you fight Gruntilda, well worth getting.👍🏼
This game is was my favorite growing up so many hours put into this game. Love this franchise to death I can only dream on day we get a proper sequel.
And now I know why Sea of Thieves has a Banjo-Kazooie figurehead available for the ships. I NEVER knew Rare developed SoT. I am an idiot.
Excellent analysis. Watching in depth game analysis videos is my jam on TH-cam and idk how i havent seen this channel before. I subbed after watching this can never have too many game analysis channels. Good work! Looking forward to going through your backlog of videos! Personally Banjo Kazooie is excellent to me and is the only good game in the series. Banjo Tooie frankly being too big and the levels not being aesthetically pleasing for the most part. Based on the title of you Banjo Tooie video it looks like you disagree but i look forward to watching your thoughts
Reddit brought me here.
Man, your videos are amazing!
You deserve lots of subscribers.
Thanks so much!
It’s a good thing that the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox were able to do that just a generation later since LEGO Star Wars II was able to have characters from LEGO Star Wars I if you had both games saved on your memory card.
In my childhood I played this game a lot and I think my experience was unique and I think even tragic.
after beating the game and getting 100% was the beginning of my nightmare with this game... I WAS OBSESSED with getting those secret items and the ice key but... I NEVER COULD.
My obsession was such that I passed the game in various ways in order to achieve it..... not die, kill all the monsters, get everything in order..... NOTHING WORKED.....
I was 8 years old and it occurred to me to TRANSLATE the entire game from English to Spanish...... and that's what I did.... IT DID NOT WORK...
At that time I only had a Nintendo 64 but I didn't have a computer... not so much that but the internet was not something that I had access to... and it was years later that I looked for the answer on the internet and discovered that It was IMPOSSIBLE to get.....hahahaha I almost got crazy that day... but I was glad.
Imagine a child who doesn't know English translating this game completely to be able to understand what they say xD... my English improved a lot because of this game... rather, I literally learned English because of this game.
i don't know whether to laugh or scared of a flying washing machine
Yay! Totaly completed this game back in the day! Never played the sequel.
I met you in @pugweenee chat and Honestly I'm horrible at following through on shout outs but, I'm VERY glad TH-cam knows what's up and threw you into my suggested, I've watched a couple of your videos by accident (didn't connect the dots until I looked for the subscribe button) keep up the GREAT work! I'll be watching most if not all of your videos now lmao
On the "Stop 'n' Swap" thing, one thing that always puzzles me is: when they found-out that Nintendo would reduce the time data can be held in RAM after you power-off, why did they not just rejig the feature to require a Mem Pak (Controller Pak) instead? Then BT could read the save BK made to it?
Tombi 2 (also know as Tomba 2) does this on PlayStation: if you have a save from the original game, and have completed certain missions in it, it will then unlock up to four extra missions in the sequel.
Or even just rejig S'n'W to give you a password instead you could then enter in Tooie?
My top 10 Banjo Kazooie/Tooie worlds
1. Cloud Cuckoo Land
2. Witchyworld
3. Jolly Roger Lagoon
4. Mad Monster Mansion
5. Hellfire Peaks
6. Treasure Trove Cove
7. Freezy Peak
8. Bubblegoop Swamp
9. Click Clock Wood
10. Terydachtyland
I actually had stop n swap work for me when it was a kid I didnt know there was a problem with it until I got older.
I literally did not Xbox versions fixed the "note resetting" feature. That was the main flaw I had against Kazooie of why I like Tooie. I wonder if I like it more if I replayed it on Rare Replay
Banjo Kazooie will always have a special place in my heart
I always wondered why Rare didn't try something like Sonic & Knuckles' "lock-on technology" for Stop N Swop...
My favourite game from my childhood. Still holds up today l. Put a fresh coat of paint and it would be game of the year in 2021
Forgot so much about this game, now I realize Kazooie was the Original Angry Bird!! They just dropped the bear... Really hated how Jr. It felt but how frickin hard it got!! Rare did that like it was testing your personal level of evolution.
When I explained this to my friend my exact words were, you walk around and solve platform puzzles to collect shit, and you use that shit to get more shit to activate the shit to get more shit, I love it
The original note score system makes dying an actual threat, and is therefore, superior.
The player is likely to pay more attention and get more engaged with all of their notes on the line.
Honestly it was so cool to find out that Kirk returned to Do a Nintendo game in Mario + Rabbids
I LOoved Click clock wood. Everyone has their own taste. I also like vertical levels tho.
One of the most creative and fun games i've ever played
Note collection mechanic makes it more exciting and challenging
Im glad to hear someone agree about Grunty’s Lair. I really don’t enjoy it that much. In a lot of ways I think Banjo improved upon Mario 64, but the lair has NOTHING on Peach’s castle.
I feel like Stop 'N' Swap would've worked out better had say, Rare told Nintendo about the Stop 'N' Swap feature, or pulled a Sonic & Knuckles and had Banjo-Tooie have a cartridge slot to connect to Banjo-Kazooie to have the items transferred over... But then again, Stop 'N' Swap was under-utilized even in the games that ended up using them.
from what I understand the reason notes and Jinjos werent saved in the N64 version was because of memory limitations
Ok so why it was implemented in Banjo Tooie? It wasn't memory limitations memory, it was a design choice.
Honestly I thought Rare could have gotten through the stop n swap and it’s risky executions if they made an accessory that just connects to the controller port that had a game pak slot. I mean they made a game boy - N64 link
I've always saw the Jinjos as being trapped in place by Grunty's magic, which is why they cry out for help shen you're near. Why did Grunty do this? Jinjonator.
I hate Freezeezy Peaks for those SNOWMEN. They're everywhere, make exploring a pain, require precise aiming in midair to kill, and respawn every time you leave the level. Eesh. Once the snowmen die, it's a pretty good level.
HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE CLICK CLOCK WOOD?
Anyway, clearly one of the greatest games of all time. In my opinion, the best. 👌
Incredible channel.
Yeah it’s dumb how the crocodile and washing machine are the only 2 transformations in the game that can attack….glad they fixed that in Tooie.
Not the case when the video was posted, but there is now a romhack of BK that enables note saving (the caveat is you only get one save file instead of three). Widescreen and 60 FPS can also be enabled and I believe XBLA textures can be applied too. The main reason I stick to the 64 versions is because of Tooie. I kind of hate how they handled Stop'n'Swop items and in particular the unlockables you got in Tooie from the hidden N64 cartridges !
Is it me or was the 64 era just fun, like everyone was just so freaking focused on making fun and enjoyable games back then or something I don't I just feel like games aren't so fun anymore.
Around 6:03, well... in Banjo-Tooie Kazooie can actually split up from Banjo with a move learned in Witchyworld.
Needs to be on switch omggggg
Microsoft purchased rare though so its sadly most likely not gonna happen
Yooka-Laylee is there though - it’s a close as we’re gonna get ( but!!! ) it is made by the same people 😎
I fully understand Grunty's lair as an uninteresting hub world. It'd be pretty dull without her rhyming. Happy we get snippets the area theme near the world entrances like Tooie
man you're awesome :D
I've been playing since 98 and never knew there was a life on banjos house
Never played this before, tempted to play it for the first time on twitch. Is it worth it??
Just bought the japanese version on ebay, going in blind. Hope it's gonna be great!
How did you like it?
@@Outliers4Life amazing game really, maybe top 5 I've ever played
@@gospodin338 I think so too. I like Tooie more but the rom I'm playing keeps crashing so I might play Kazooie again
Easily one if the greatest games ever made
Rare: so we found a way to store information on the N64 and transfer it to a future game
Camelot: What you don't use 260 character passwords for this?
i get the joke, love banjo and golden sun