Safe to say I am fully gameboy-pilled now. I'm just playing middling gameboy games all the time. I'm fascinated by this era, when we had like, well this is the gameboy version of a big time console game. Now that the Switch is here, there's a lot less of that. Phone games had some of it but now they're kind of their own thing trying to bait whales with microtransactions.
Now, Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel are pretty much defined by being 3D platformers, but I'd have to say Rare was well positioned for this project for a few reasons. First, they had experience in making fake 3D sprites with Donkey Kong Country. Second, they're British so they made a ton of isometric platformers with controls designed for maniacs. Third, they were bought by Microsoft and could therefore unleash their full wrath on the North American audience by not using an isometric view for this one. You thought you didn't like three quarters perspective? See how you like it when you can't tell how tall anything is assholes!
Also, this is an interquel which attempts to expand on the Banjo-Kazooie lore, possibly the most ridiculous sentence possible. It doesn't actually do a good job of that because the time travel plot was invented later in development and doesn't exist beyond the opening story scene. But still, this video game has a plot and that plot is that the villain turns herself into a ghost to possess a robot body that can also time travel to try and prevent Banjo and Kazooie from ever meeting therefore altering the timeline and ensuring she can turn into Posh Spice in the first game.
The game's perfectly fine! It's all a little off model and scaled down but this allows for a level called Bad Magic Bayou that doesn't add any new incredibly racist charicature characters (Mumbo Jumbo is sadly still present). It's short and it's easy but I wish more of Rare's output had this level of restraint. If you made me play either this or Yooka-Laylee again.... this is shorter and I could try and get a maximum five jiggy ranking in it.
Now, Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel are pretty much defined by being 3D platformers, but I'd have to say Rare was well positioned for this project for a few reasons. First, they had experience in making fake 3D sprites with Donkey Kong Country. Second, they're British so they made a ton of isometric platformers with controls designed for maniacs. Third, they were bought by Microsoft and could therefore unleash their full wrath on the North American audience by not using an isometric view for this one. You thought you didn't like three quarters perspective? See how you like it when you can't tell how tall anything is assholes!
Also, this is an interquel which attempts to expand on the Banjo-Kazooie lore, possibly the most ridiculous sentence possible. It doesn't actually do a good job of that because the time travel plot was invented later in development and doesn't exist beyond the opening story scene. But still, this video game has a plot and that plot is that the villain turns herself into a ghost to possess a robot body that can also time travel to try and prevent Banjo and Kazooie from ever meeting therefore altering the timeline and ensuring she can turn into Posh Spice in the first game.
The game's perfectly fine! It's all a little off model and scaled down but this allows for a level called Bad Magic Bayou that doesn't add any new incredibly racist charicature characters (Mumbo Jumbo is sadly still present). It's short and it's easy but I wish more of Rare's output had this level of restraint. If you made me play either this or Yooka-Laylee again.... this is shorter and I could try and get a maximum five jiggy ranking in it.