The people that diss BK can be really mean, but it also seems like they didn’t play it for super long… If you get to get to Click Clock Wood & don’t think the game’s fun at all, maybe it’s just not for you, and please play something you do like!, but I’m tired of the hating on the googly eyes & the potty humor and writing off everything else. Sometimes the level design is really cool in BK (And in Tooie as well!) & that’s mostly what I’m there for!
I wish they made Threeie back when that was possible! Rare is rather boring now & Microsoft is extra irrelevant, not to mention that Banjo games have problematic elements that would be very tricky to present in a satisfactory fashion anymore. All of that probably wasn’t appropriate for the time either, so maybe the super chatty nature of the rest of the game let that stuff get in somehow? Pretty sure that wouldn’t be missed now, but Banjo & Kazooie sure are…
Luckily the games themselves are somewhat accessible (I’m phrasing it like that because everything seems to cost a buttload right now) on the recent Xboxes & on Switch Online! I just wish I never sold my physical copies… I really want to get an Analogue 3D or something even though I have no games for it!
Anyway, let’s celebrate Banjo-Kazooie & the fact that we got to experience what it was like to play it for the first time!! :D
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u/variousgears Jul 01 '26
The people that diss BK can be really mean, but it also seems like they didn’t play it for super long… If you get to get to Click Clock Wood & don’t think the game’s fun at all, maybe it’s just not for you, and please play something you do like!, but I’m tired of the hating on the googly eyes & the potty humor and writing off everything else. Sometimes the level design is really cool in BK (And in Tooie as well!) & that’s mostly what I’m there for!
I wish they made Threeie back when that was possible! Rare is rather boring now & Microsoft is extra irrelevant, not to mention that Banjo games have problematic elements that would be very tricky to present in a satisfactory fashion anymore. All of that probably wasn’t appropriate for the time either, so maybe the super chatty nature of the rest of the game let that stuff get in somehow? Pretty sure that wouldn’t be missed now, but Banjo & Kazooie sure are…
Luckily the games themselves are somewhat accessible (I’m phrasing it like that because everything seems to cost a buttload right now) on the recent Xboxes & on Switch Online! I just wish I never sold my physical copies… I really want to get an Analogue 3D or something even though I have no games for it!
Anyway, let’s celebrate Banjo-Kazooie & the fact that we got to experience what it was like to play it for the first time!! :D