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Banjo-Kazooie 02-21-14 10:41 AM
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Banjo-Kazooie Review, by Gary the Gamer
Ah, Banjo-Kazooie, one of many amazing titles developed and released by Rare(ware) on Nintendo consoles before they slipped into the Dark Ages. The aforementioned company, Rare,are well known for their timeless and great video games, such as the Donkey Kong series, Star Fox, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark, and Goldeneye 007. All of these games impressed the public-and Banjo-Kazooie wan't any different. Released in the summer of '98, this game was immediately met with positive reception from gamers and critics alike-and with good reason. The game was successful enough to spawn a great sequel-Banjo Tooie-but we'll talk about that another time. I shall highlight the reasons for its success below-so, please, sit back, relax and enjoy the review.
Firstly, the Graphics.
The graphics in this game were-and still are today-constantly praised for their outstanding and appealing appearance. And so they should-they are eye catching right from the start, as the game opens with a colorful and cheerful cutscene, in which we see some of our main characters-the titular characters Banjo and Kazooie, Tootie and Mumbo-play an array of musical instruments. All of these mentioned characters have clear and clean models, and are nicely presented. Most of the enemies in this game share the same trait. The worlds are all highly detailed, and this really does add to the atmosphere in the levels. You are almost always surrounded with an array of colors-in contrast to Super Mario 64, where the walls just seemed to be shaded and not actually colored in. The animations in this game are all great, and there are only a couple of setbacks I can think of. The first setback would probably be some of the enemies. A prime example would be Bawl the Turnip, an enemy encountered in first area of the game. He just looks like he has no texture(which is ironic, considering he is an garlic bulb) and another example would be the skeleton enemy in Mad Monster Mansion. I think he looks un... Read the rest of this Review
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