3:05 I'm not too optimistic but I'm eagerly awaiting the reviews of Yooka Replaylee. My biggest beacon of hope is what the ceo of Playtonic said about revisiting the original game: He cringed, he felt embarrased and he even cried about many aspects of the game. Obviously, the creator is its own harshest critic. So maybe they reworked the oversized worlds and the sterile tasks to a significant degree.

1:10 I totally agree that Banjo Kazooie was an (accidental) master piece. Tho it was probably much less of an accident as most people might think I would say. Rare was at its prime, they took a whole additional year for polishing this game which they literally called "the Mario 64 killer". It was also the dream project of one of the stamper brothers. So yeah, no wonder it turned out the way it did.

i guess the beta male couldn't handle all the people reminding him he was a freak because he cant detach his glass thin masculinity from what he's doing for long enough to play a video game 😢hope you grow some balls soon, ur a bit behind the curve </3

Just a minor point: Westone is actually pronounced "West Stone". It's a portmanteau of Ryuichi Nishizawa's and Michishito Ishizuka's names: "Nishi" being "west" and "ishi" being "stone".

Nice

The Dinosaur and Pig mini games are the worst. I actually liked the tomato-throwing one. They made this game so ridiculously difficult.

when once I just flicked the controller when I was choosing a game, then suddenly it went to that single player selection 1:05 I came up with that myself because I couldn't beat the boss. I never had to watch this video for this

This game is not for the weak. Love this game and soundtrack

01 vs 01 02 vs 02 03 vs 03 04 vs 04 Past Present Future

Universe Mode Past Present Future

I was willing to listen and give the benefit of the doubt up until you said you didnt like the second game. Im not saying you had to like it. And im somebody who hated the first game for gameplay reasons, and loved the second one even tho it was a different style of game. I think it boils down to you just not liking the series as a whole. You dont like the art, music, character designs, levels or gameplay. And thats ok. It just feels weird to give a whole video to a series that you already know you genuinely dislike this much, just to say that you wont like the remake either.

Damn this is a solid game. The capcom Disney afternoon games were so well done.

Man these games punished you for being a Simpson's fan

Hey man, just discovered the channel, great stuff, gotta sub outta me and I can't wait to watch more. Thanks for the content brotha! This game was the bane of my 7 year old existence, the friggin north pole levels were directly the cause of my anger as an adult.

I remember renting this game back in the day and hating it. Great video and you are spot on. I remember my brother and sister watching the movie nonstop, man i got sick of it.

Great list! Mario 3 is my favorite but because I have a story with my dad that makes it special to me. I grew up in Queens , NY. My dad worked in Manhatten and one Saturday he woke me up and said he had a surprise for me, he was taking me into the city. So we went and I had no idea where exactly we were going but he wound up taking me to a Nintendo convention. No idea which one it was but they had unreleased NES games to play that were coming out in the future. The premiere game they were showing off was Mario 3! I remember playing it and getting the leaf to fly for the first time, I was blown away. Funny I don't remember any other game from that convention. On the way home I asked my dad if we could stop at Toys r us to buy it. He told me no because it wasn't out yet. I was probably 6 or 7 so I didn't understand. So I just thought about the game all the time until it finally came out. Love the game to this day and I have that original copy my parents bought for me.

Somehow I own this game (no idea where I got the cart) and I have never played it nor do I care to, lol.

Just beat this yesterday, the last level was a bit off a pain but overall not a crazy difficult game. I thought it was fun.

I don't think Banjo-Kazooie being the best N64 game was a coincidence. Gregg Mayles designed the worlds in Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie. The Banjo Team had to come in to help finish DK64 which was originally consisted a different team at Rare. Because of that, I think it heavily effected the development of Banjo-Tooie to the point Cauldron Keep had to be downscaled to make the holiday 2000 release date. The reason the worlds in Yooka-Laylee don't work nearly as well is Gregg Mayles wasn't in the picture for this game. Gavin Price was given the role of designing the worlds and in a recent Q&A, he expresses how the worlds could of been designed a lot better. The original game was rushed and was made by a much smaller team that was very rusty at making games, Playtonic has grown exponentially since. I find it really interesting how in the Yooka-Replaylee trailer they didn't show any of the main worlds, and the steam page says they are fixing and adding new Pagie Challenges which gives me some confidence that the game has been changed more then people may think.

You know, I’m already seeing negative reactions over how “unnecessary” Yooka-Replaylee seems to be. As someone who had just recently played the game for a 2nd time, I actually liked it. But in the state of the original, it felt WAY TOO rough. Which was rather bizarre because the masterminds behind Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 (and the original DK Country series as a whole) made this game, and yet the payoff didn’t really end well. Fast forward to the Switch version, while still rough, it’s still enjoyable… BUT! It needs a makeover. I was internally conflicted with how I wanted to think of this game. I enjoyed it for what it was, but I don’t see myself playing it again. Which is a shame because I wanted to love the game, but where it stands from this point in time and still no significant updates were made, the original Yooka-Laylee is left in an unpolished state… I didn’t even expect the game to be given an overhaul this soon. And there I was just about to give up hope of the game for having any chance at all to redeem itself. While we haven’t gotten any details as to how the game will turn out, but I pray all the flaws in the original are finally addressed. Kartos minecart at the Cashino, the minecart boss fight, the running minigame that if you’re too slow it’s game over, Capital B’s final fight, and the heinous combat… I want those fixed!

Just found this channel this week and binged a bunch of videos. I've never found a youtuber with such similar taste in games as me, especially about liking Mega Man X1-3 and not really the rest of the X series or the OG Mega Man games. This channel rocks! Thank you for making such cool content. Robotrek is one of my favorite games of all time, would you consider doing a review of it? Id also love to see a review of Illusion of Gaia, unless you have and i just havent found it yet in your videos. Either way, great channel man and i really hope you keep going with it!

Love seeing this man

I was really put off by your recent Yooka Laylee video but i enjoyed the tone of this one much more and I agree with a lot of your thoughts here.

Wow. These are peetty big words coming from yet another KZbinr sitting in front if a wall of games being overly critical. Let me ask you this man - what have you created besides opinionated videos watched by a handful of people? Yooka-Laylee obviously had its flaws there us no denying that. But i dont think you are doing yourself any favors by writing the game off as a "rotten piece of trash". Its clear they did work very hard making the first game even if they failed to execute in in the way you would have liked to see. I normally dont comment very much but the overwhelming negativity you exude here really reminds me of the huge influx of terrible KZbin critics that have one foot in the garbage can. Why sont you go try and make a game and see how well you do with it? See the incredible amount of effort and work that it takes to even make a decent demo let alone an entire game. It might put things into perspective for you so you dont come off as such an arrogant, petulant neckbeard.

I liked Impossible Lair, but haven't bothered with the first one despite owning it. I'll probably pass on the remake

I was so disappointed when I played this. Just felt clunky, sparse and soulless. Putting lipstick on the pig wont save this game. Most people who played the original wont even bother taking a look at this cynical "remaster"

Thanks for the video

I thought Yooka-Laylee was fine. I wouldn't say it was trash (I'd give it a 6/10), but Banjo Kazooie is way better. I wish they made more Banjo games

Great video bro. I knew about some of these but one I didn’t know was how to change direction in air when you are flying. That’s a top teir shill level move. Plus the crescent moons were a nice tough. That cheese bridge one is tough without yoshi. I didn’t know about the valley of bowser 2 extra 1up. Great video Bro.

Hott tip for yall to, in case u had not heard, there is awsome yooka laylee game caled yoka laylee and the impossible lair, it is a 2d platformare game iand is aweosme, not to be writen off, check it out

I bought yooka laylee for the switch also, and I did the same as you. I couldn’t get through it. Let’s normalize calling out these companies when they try and do these cash grabs with games from our childhood.

Accidental masterpieces are the best kind of masterpieces.

Never played any of these games and only played Banjo for like 20 minutes so I have no point of reference.

This was a really cool video! Quite honestly, I wasn't aware of any of these secrets! I will say that I don't mind those bonus levels. I read about how to always get the 1up in Nintendo Power back in the day, so now I always play through them and see if I can snag all of them. I love the fact that thanks to you, I'm still learning cool things about this game even 33 years after it's release!

Coming from a guy who finished Beethoven....jeez. When you say a game sucks, its not a light statement.

Yooka wants to re-play you, RonMan. It wants to draw you back in with new features only to let you down again. PlayTonic be playing with people's hearts out here! 💔 PlayToxic! 🤢 But seriously, hopefully it will be better, though I never played it the first time around, so I can't assess the situation accurately. But I did love Impossible Lair, so I think there's potential.

I pinch myself at my ear.

I'm usually in disproval of remasters/ports and such that seems to be very prevalent nowadays. However, I'm excited for this game since I've always thought that if you're going to re-do a game, do so with a flawed game that had potential

Another remake that nobody was asking for

Rocking that Jays hat! Go leafs!

Great video

I thought I knew everything about this game but had no idea about the secret areas in Morton and Ludwig's castles, or the locations of all the hidden 1-up mushrooms. I'm still learning stuff about the greatest video game ever made almost 35 years later...thanks dude!

01:39 You do not need the cape cross the lava. A well-timed spin jump with Super Mario also works, bouncing on the lava, which is timed to help you cross. Anyway, cool video, I enjoyed it 🍄

Dang, I thought I knew a lot about this game. I guess there's always more to learn. Great video!

Im rewatching this for the first time since it was released and man those are some awesome gifts! That sealed Mario 3 toy is sick! I don’t even have that 😂

"Common secrets that you most likely know"...I didn't know about most of them LOL. The big red dot areas most likely mean they have two different exits. Bowser is a back door kind of guy... Most of the oddities are most likely from the game being rushed

Donkey Kong Country next?

A new RonMan video!? My night just got better! And I learned some new things about Super Mario World! Good deal, my friend! Only I can't believe Nintendo stole the font and color scheme of your channel logo for their game though! 😉😂

Raw RonMan. Always love these types of videos!

Hell yeah This is my favorite channel