PRESS E TO EXAMINE THE CLUE
Max: "I needed to stop dawdling. People were dying, and I was just standing here."
Giovanna : "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAX NOO! THEY'RE SHOOTING AT ME MAX!!!"
Max: "Giovanna had a lot of courage. And she was smart. Very competent woman in a lot of respects. But right now, she needed me to shoot these guys before she ran out from behind cover in a hysterical panic."
Evil Brazilian military cop: "Stupid American! You don't even know our language! How could you hope to understand this?"
Max Payne: "Maybe I was a dumb, violent gringo subsisting on whisky and my own self-pity, but I still needed to do what needed to be done. Brazil was diseased to its core, the roads and rivers were a circulatory system filled with sewage and cocaine. I was a white blood cell sent to tear out the infection, one U.F.E and gangbanger at a time. But still... I had sympathy. These people had been raised to hate middle-income assholes with delusions of grandeur (GRANDEUR) like me, but that wasn't gonna stop me from saving the decent folks who just happened to live in this cesspool.... everything slowed down. That AC unit looks loose. I can shoot the air conditioning unit to make it fall."
COLLECTED! GOLDEN SMG PARTS: 2/3!
Max: "I had let these scumbags go the first time. But now, they were about to have their way with a gorgeous female woman. Not on my watch."
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "YOWCH! Shoot 100 guys in the dick"

Edit: To actually explain my thoughts on MP3 in a non-goofy way, the shoot dodge is very fun and it leans into the ugliness of Max as a character and makes gunplay feel genuinely morbid and grisly in a way I liked. great cutscene direction as well and in theory I like Max's arc here, but those elements come along with some very Xbox 360 racism/annoying third person shooter design from that era that feels as if it's rubbing up against the tone. should've been called White Man's Hurtin'.
Would really recommend reading this review by replicantgestalt for a way more detailed and informed take on how it handles Brazil as a setting: https://backloggd.com/u/replicantgestalt/review/1541848/

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.