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Game Review: Banjo Kazooie

by Tim Seltzer, seltzer@seltzerbooks.com
System: N64
Score: 9/10
 
Lets look into the old school gaming for a bit, and see one of the classics. The graphics may be cartoonish, and the rating may be ‘E’ for everyone, but don't judge this game on appearance alone. Consider the makers of this to be a more modern Mel Brooks, it will leave you staring in disbelief and chuckling.
The plot is rather basic, but what comedy has a complicated plot in the first place? Toilet humor .. at one point literal toilet humor, runs rampant. Multiple worlds, each at a steadily increasing range of difficulty, are scattered throughout. It is artfully done, and any who haven't had the privilege of playing this should consider themselves cheated out of an enjoying ten-hour epic.
A selfish witch as a villain, a bear and bird as the heroes, and one character that even is a world of his own .. not to forget a character named ‘Cheato’, who gives you codes to increase your character's abilities. The fact that this game's third installment is coming soon fills me with both hope and trepidation. Will it be as good as the original? Will it match the second, Banjo Tooie? Will it be its own creature, and impossible to truly describe? Only the release can tell.

This is a classic, and should be held in the same light as Super Mario Bro., or Final Fantasy as a great game.

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