I've always had a soft spot for Banjo-Kazooie, but I had more familiarity with its future ports. The original still has a great sense of style, good music, quirky humor, and so on, but it's a little rough to play thanks to a somewhat awkward control scheme and camera. Despite its place in history as a seminal collect-a-thon platformer, the game was at times more stressful than enjoyable, as many activities per level are reset on death, which just isn't very entertaining with how long stages become, how high the requirements are the beat the game, and how linear the stage progression is.