is Banjo Kazooie ACTUALLY good?

i don't trust boomers... i must find out for myself
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music used:
Sewers combined- Nickelodeon All Star Brawl
Snake Man Stage- Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Click Clock Wood - Banjo Kazooie
Freezeezy Peak - Banjo Kazooie
Clanker's Cavern - Banjo Kazooie
Clanker's Cavern (Underwater)- Banjo Kazooie
Gruntilda's Lair (Clanker's Cavern) - Banjo Kazooie
Mad Monster Mansion (Church bell) - Banjo Kazooie
You Will Know Our Names - Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition
Treasure Trove Cove - Banjo Kazooie
Guile Stage - Smash Bros Ult
Gruntilda's Lair (Bubblegloop Swamp) - Banjo Kazooie
Wozza's Cave - Banjo Kazooie
Gruntilda's Lair (underwater)
Tokyo Emergency - Persona 5 Royal
Corn Dog - Persona Q
Blues in Velvet Room - Persona 3
Spiral Mountain
Outro: Beneath the Mask - P5
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thanks for watching my first review vid on this channel yall! this had been a side project of mine for a few months now; very different from what i usually do but it's always fun to branch out when i can. with the nintendo 64 online thing i got access to a bunch of games i've never played before, and so if i can review it i'd definitely be down
let me know what yall think and if ya wanna see more of this!
#banjo #banjokazooie #tcnick3

[@whistlegrasss]

The camera controls are like that because the N64 had the 4 C buttons instead of a second analogue stick. With an N64 controller you would never accidentally open the first person view and it was much less awkward to mash the buttons to look around. Even on the N64 the controls still aren’t amazing (by today’s standards) but they weren’t badly designed and were the best that could be achieved on the newest hardware at the time.

[@ivanalejandroloaizalazcano2635]

This is exactly what I thought when he talk about the bad camera controls. This is a top comment

[@musicfromtheinternet]

the xbox port fixes this entirely, first person view is now mapped to the y button and the camera has smooth analogue movement without having to flick it a bunch of times

[@mysticflow467]

@@ivanalejandroloaizalazcano2635 yeah I was thinking " I don't ever remember going into first person view, let alone accidentally" I remember it during like.. shooting eggs

[@DoubleE5135]

I hope he sees this comment

[@TakuTePuke-qd6df]

@@DoubleE5135 omg same! I was just thinking this lol. Honestly that would piss me off so much if I experienced this as well. Also I think If he had mastered the camera controls then the camera controls would no longer be an issue. I would also say that about his issue with moving underwater and flying but it does suck even when you can get pretty good at it lol.

[@Hanjo8787]

Fun fact: You can hold R to either reset the camera to face the direction Banjo is facing, or while swimming/flying to sharpen the angle/speed at which they turn. As a speedrunner I Never actually swim or fly WITHOUT holding R, but allows for variety and control as well, really helps with the issue of the clunky controls in water and in the air. Also a Common misconception with beak bomb is that Banjo and Kazooie must be facing the direction they fly towards, while in fact they move towards the center of the screen at the time they pressed B. You can actually perform flick shots this way it’s pretty neat. All of this stuff was in the pamphlet that game with the game at the time, so (obvious bias here as a speedrunner but I did play this game for the first time a year ago) I’d argue that these issues are indeed a skill issue, get good @TCNick3 and have a goodnight

[@dylanmahon2394]

This, THIS!!

[@reloadpsi]

Wait that's how beak bomb works? I'm gonna abuse the hell out of that knowledge next time I play. And the game itself even tells you that R centres the camera behind you. It doesn't tell you about sharpening turns with it (that's only in the manual as you pointed out, but in an era where gamers still knew how to read that was acceptable) but it's far from necessary to 100% the game.

[@SquidBoy84]

you can DO THAT while SWIMMING??? ive been playing this game for over 8 YEARS and i didnt know about that

[@Matanumi]

I knew about holding R for sharp turns in air and maybe water.... But this shit works mid beak bomb!? Wtf

[@Smouv]

Not so much a skill issue as an issue with the game not properly explaining this. I know so many people who learned some of this info only many years after first playing it. Heck, it's my all-time favourite game and I've played it dozens of times, yet I also didn't know about holding R for years, and this is the first time I've heard this is how the Beak Bomb works. All in all, absolutely fair to me for docking points off the game for it. The game should've properly taught players stuff that would've made especially the large underwater sections a lot less miserable.

[@KbanjoK]

Glad you had an overall positive experience, this is my favorite game ever. Kind of late for tips, but the R button is your best friend in this game. It centers your camera behind you when it's in an awkward position, and holding R while flying and swimming makes your turning controls way tighter and better.

[@IAmPoptart]

Fav game. Well

[@BananaReidy]

Si

[@reloadpsi]

Bottles tells you at the beginning of the game that R centres the camera on you so...

[@Blueblurz]

OMG SLY PFP

[@radaf4429]

You should play more games

[@MarkiplierMeatMuncher8]

"I love that there's no backtracking!" Then you're gonna love Banjo Tooie! 😀😀😀😀

[@HappilyMarried21021]

Was thinking the same lol. Actually i like banjo tooie more and dont mind the backtracking at all!

[@epic_toon]

That's what I was thinking LOL

[@obnoxiousoboe]

I actually prefer Tooie over the first. Far more interesting story and at least you got to keep everything. The only thing I didn't really like was the Canary Mary race.

[@Green_Stache_Productions]

@@obnoxiousoboe agreed fuck Canary Mary. Her Cloud Cuckoo Land race took me 5 YEARS to beat on Xbox

[@jarerarebear1765]

It's actually feasible to finish Banjo-Tooie without ever backtracking. Completion does require backtracking, but if you just want to get to the final boss without going back to previous levels, it's possible.

[@MewI0I]

Boomer really has just turned into "someone who is older than me"

[@justbenelson]

Yep, I'm an '82 baby and frankly, I find "boomer" is either lazy speech or is blatantly discriminatory to anyone who isn't Gen Z. Heck, might as well call this as*hole "Generation Alpha" to lump him in with all the elementary-age kids. Why not? They're all babies, right?

[@PipeGuy64Bit]

Hearing him refer to millennias as "boomers" made me cringe so much I no longer wanted to give this video the time of day.

[@xehP]

@@justbenelson "discriminatory" mate, it's the internet it's not that deep lmao

[@ryan_raus]

@@PipeGuy64Bit so did you not watch the video?

[@Breadward_MacGluten]

@@justbenelson You're 40 years old and get offended when someone calls you the word boomer? Will you also have an aneurism if I call you a poopiehead or a dork lmfao

[@xxMiraclesMay]

Hearing him say "Banjo AND Kazooie" was driving me insane. lol

[@e_libi]

I was truly furious by the end of the video lmfao

[@PatrickHoffer]

I thought I was the only one. Omg cringe.

[@haoukkax8896]

@@xxMiraclesMay It immediately destroys any and all credibility he has.

[@phillypwner]

OMG he keeps saying it

[@secoTheSonicFan]

@@haoukkax8896 This channel isn't for Boomers

[@SnorMatt]

Seeing the fact that Nick really likes this game and will probably use the soundtrack in future videos makes me really happy to see someone be enlightened to a fantastic video game franchise Now it's my turn to return the favour and complete Ace Attorney

[@plabcentral630]

I watched an episode or series of episodes of the anime that corresponded with the case and then played the level in the game to see how good my memory was.

[@SnorMatt]

@@plabcentral630 Nice, I'm choosing to play the game first and then see the anime. Does the anime only show events from the first game or the trilogy? (as that's how I'm playing the first game)

[@roboturtle1429]

@@SnorMatt the anime adaptation shows the whole trilogy

[@SnorMatt]

@@roboturtle1429 Very Nice

[@solidzack]

@@plabcentral630 that would kinda spoil you the entire game. You should probably do it the other way around so you can actually "play" the game

[@danielstockley5631]

Yeah it's definitely not just nostalgia. It was a masterpiece in its time and despite its age the gameplay holds up and doesn't feel awful. Underwater controls are notoriously bad in gaming in general and in BK they provided a decent challenge to a kid, especially swimming through that damn key to get Clanker some fresh air. And trying to swim through those bubbles so you can stay down there longer. But a recent re-playthrough saw me breeze through things. This is on N64 with the old school controller too. I'm impressed that it still plays so well.

[@srvdisciple3033]

I play it on switch and yeah it holds up pretty well , except for the jiggy you have to get behind the propeller on rusty bucket bay 🥲🤬😂

[@agentclank8183]

4:14 He's going to hate Banjo Tooie!

[@Dave-rd6sp]

I honestly think this irrational hate toward backtracking is a major reason why games are so braindead these days.

[@agentclank8183]

@@Dave-rd6spI think as long as the backtracking is clear it’s fine. It doesn’t have to be said, just obvious that you can’t get something until later.

[@Substantial-hf1rm]

​@@Dave-rd6sp People don't like feeling like their time is being wasted and games used to love padding out the playtime with tedious repeats of shit you've already done, except worse because it's lost all novelty. Good Metroidvania's do back tracking well, but most games don't. Trying to turn his opinion to complain about "those darn kids" is pretty wack though, especially when Metroidvania's have never been more popular.

[@Dave-rd6sp]

@@Substantial-hf1rm It only feels like wasted time because people have developed an irrational hate for it. A lot of games have you zig zagging all over a map, Metroidvanias, most Zelda games, games like Stardew Valley, but a growing subset of gamers can't help but constantly complain whenever the area they're in isn't entire new at any given moment, so we end up with these hyper linear games that feel more like an amusement park ride than an actual world.

[@Substantial-hf1rm]

@@Dave-rd6sp No, they feel like wasted time because when done poorly they are genuinely just waiting time. You keep complaining about other people's opinions on backtracking as if backtracking will stop existing, but it's a non issue. The Metroidvania genre has never been more mainstream and well received, and games like the souls series continue to be top sellers. if you don't like liner games then that's fair, but calling people braindead and blaming them for this imaginary killing of exploration is cringe.

[@zekemiller7999]

Banjo AND Kazooie killed me a little bit inside every time, glad to be validated in loving this game though 😎 the camera issues are partially because the camera is designed to be controlled by the c-buttons, not an analog stick, but otherwise agree most of the issues are basically 90s technology (jank camera) and game design (overly punishing on death)

[@Yoshizuyuner]

Most games punish death specially back then

[@solidzack]

Nowadays games don't even use a live system anymore but back then a gameover was exactly what it meant: The game was over. You lost your progress or at the very least were sent back to the main menu and had to scale up all the way back to your last location.

[@bilbo671]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who was thinking this. I’m glad the review was positive, but the 8 year old me who played this when it came out was screaming every time I heard that😂.

[@BetrayedTangerine]

I get why Nintendo used the N64 version for NSO, but the Xbox version actually fixes most of the problems you had! It improves the graphics and gives you a better camera. Plus the game saves your Notes when you die, so death is far less punishing. Regardless I'm glad you enjoyed the game! BK is probably my most replayed game and it's nice to know the game has still aged very well all things considered.

[@eggsngaming]

Came here to say exactly this. The game saving your notes when you die is a literal game changer and I can't go back to the original version.

[@z4nizzle]

This. The Xbox Rare Replay version is the definitive version of the game

[@thetonberryslair]

I don't know, not losing your notes and Jinjos when you die kind of takes all of the challenge out of it. There's hardly any consequences to dying other than I have to run back to where I was

[@supercamborg4218]

The reason is because it’s an emulation service and the Xbox version isn’t emulating the original, it was remade with new code for the 360. They can’t emulate 360 games on the switch and it’s cheaper for them to throw on a N64 rom as an incentive to pay for an overpriced subscription service than spend time and resources to do a real switch port that customers will only have to purchase one time. Edit: for some reason I misread the comment as “I don’t get why”, my mistake.

[@axisvillain7222]

You guys are dying in this game? lol git gud ;)

[@lovesgibson]

“Boomer’s nostalgia glasses”… bro is like 5 years younger than the “boomers” he’s talking about

[@olive8604]

As someone who is literally five years older than him and grew up playing this game, it does feel really weird being called a boomer by someone I could have attended the same elementary school as, lol. I guess those five years really do make a difference though, because my brother is five years younger than me as well as it’s funny how significantly that has shifted our pop-cultural landmarks.

[@randomenvelope]

Yeh i understand nostalgia glasses but why boomers

[@lovesgibson]

@@randomenvelope some of these dummies call anyone older than them a “boomer” even though boomer refers specifically to baby boomers.

[@nonanimeprofilepic]

he's from 4chan

[@Taktaagic]

I actually really enjoyed this type of video. It’d be cool to see you do more of this in the future

[@bigkebizino8970]

Oh hello, how are u?

[@Numbingbird]

i agree

[@Mat-zf9bf]

Nick had too much fun with Banjo. I suggest he suffer with The Last Of Us Part 2. Or God of War Ragnarok on Give Me God Of War difficulty.

[@vt8414]

Also in water - x is the dash, a gives you a medium option between just the stick and x. I used x to navigate long distances, then a to get the collectibles.

[@HouseHawk62]

31 year me who played and loved this game (and the sequel) as a child seeing and hearing 24 year old Nick play this game for the first time and genuinely like it makes me smile tremendously.

[@DMRdance]

He called us "boomers" several times, though. That I do not enjoy (I'm 34, played this when I was 10)

[@vt8414]

Hahaha hearing boomer as a 27 year old who played n64 I was like huh

[@banjo-threeie2293]

"I love the fact that BK has no backtracking" Banjo-Tooie: 👀

[@metzTVT]

Bro, if Nick gets mad when a game forces you to make backtracking and if he said that banjo kazooie is based because of not doing it, I cant imagine what he's gonna say about Banjo Tooie 💀

[@Blazingflare2000]

Not to mention the larger number of actually obtuse puzzles and navigation that will frustrate him.

[@thechodeofhammurabi]

@metzTVT I absolutely agree with nick on that aspect. I don't want to do shit I already did just for 5 minutes of content.

[@elhombrethicc106]

Banjo kazooie is THE Game of time

[@colingolden9064]

X doubt

[@chocolatelover19]

I was dying seriously I am lucky to by alive

[@voltron77]

No…

[@amberwolf6334]

Yes I agree give this man a copy medal

[@mrshinygiratina5360]

A:Yes B:No X:Doubt Y:You live on the highway Me:SPAMMING X SO HARD ITS LIKE SMASHING THE SUB BUTTON

[@jraymark7739]

Man, Grant Kirkhope is a Legend, some of his works where in Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Yooka-Laylee (Spiritual Succesor), Mario + Rabbids and Spiral Mountain Remix in Smash

[@exactlyonesasquatch2572]

That's so interesting that you don't like backtracking in video games after unlocking new abilities. I LOOOOVE that. I love being able to revisit old areas with entirely new abilities and looking at the map I used to look at in a totally new way because I have a bunch of new tools at my disposal and it completely changes a bunch of early rooms etc. Unlocking new areas you couldn't reach before, letting you reach new pathways, find secret Chests etc. Idk i love that stuff. Makes the world feel very dense and full. Not sparse. Interesting to me to see another perspective

[@TCNick3]

to each their own :)

[@caelum9471]

Realizing I have to leave the world, my notes don't save, which means I have to recollect all the notes because some were locked behind a move I needed to learn in a different world is so frustrating. I have no problem replaying Banjo over and over, but whenever I play a game, I intend on 100%ing that specific area before I do anything else. I'm very happy I decided to randomly stumble upon the Banjo speedrunning community because theres a glitch where you can start the game with all the moves learned(but this also requires playing the game at least one time the normal way) so I don't actually have to backtrack.

[@digitalunity]

You'd love Banjo Tooie

[@digitalunity]

@@caelum9471 you don't need to back track for notes at any point, just like... One jiggy, two if you're bad at Mr. Vile's game

[@caelum9471]

@@digitalunity In Gobi's Valley there is a target above a small pyramid that you have to use the flying beak attack on to enter and it contains notes and a jiggly from the dancing poop snake, and that attack you only learn in Freezeezy Peak so you still have to backtrack for it. I suppose you could do Freezeezy Peak first as I don't believe there's any notes locked behind a specific move you wouldn't know already, but unless you've already played the game, no one would really know to do that.

[@TastySalamanders]

On the backtracking thing: The way the level openings and puzzles are structured in Grunty's Lair means around the middle of the game there is some freedom in which order you can do the levels; in particular: Freezeezy Peak and Gobi's Valley. While the puzzle for Freezeezy Peak is earlier, you past by the opening to Gobi's Valley first. And after passing by Gobi's Valley if you explore a bit before going to Freezeezy Peak you can find the puzzle for Gobi's Valley. Why is that particularly important? Because while the game is sort of structured so you can go to either first - each level has a move you require for the other level - You need Beak Bomb from Freezeezy Peak in Gobi's Valley and you need the Running Shoe's from Gobi's Valley in Freezeezy Peak. So not only do you have freedom to do them in either order - but you are also forced to backtrack to them regardless of which order you pick.

[@HashBandicoot356]

Playing a game like this at like 8 in 1995 or 1996 or whatever was actually mind blowing. It was a massive step from 16 bit. Super Mario 64 blew my little asswipe mind.

[@IanRulzU]

While this may not change your opinion, when swimming and flying you can hold R to sharpen your turns. You definitely have to get a feel for it first though. As for save states i don't recall the xbox version having them, so i will have to look that up. Other than that it was a fun video to watch, its always nice to see more reviews on one of my favorite games.

[@jeremyabbott4537]

the Xbox version saved jinjo and note progress, so if you died they remained collected.

[@IanRulzU]

@@jeremyabbott4537 ah yeah but that was them fixing something that they had an issue with programming on the n64. Dont really consider that save stating though as nick described it

[@almisami]

''Doesn't lack backtracking'' NOBODY TELL HIM ABOUT BANJO TOOIE!!!

[@Mighteyes]

hoo boy you wouldn't like Banjo-Tooie! The thing you mentioned about backtracking with new moves is taken to a whole new level in that game. Tons of things you walk up to, discover you can't do anything about and then leave only to come back a couple of levels later when you have the right move to do it. And I love it for that. It's something I genuinely enjoy in games, when you have seen something before and when you get access to a new move or item or whatever, it's like the jigsaw piece falls into place and you're like "Heeey, this is the solution to that old thing way back there!" Love that stuff, but just a heads up, you'll absolutely hate Banjo-Tooie, I can tell

[@thecaptain5650]

This is great, would love to see more reviews like it!

[@sand-attack]

The camera issues are real on modern controllers with joysticks. It's much easier to operate the camera on the N64 controller's C buttons - no accidentally going into first person view, and rapidly tapping C-Left or C-Right is much quicker than repeatedly tilting the joystick. Edit: but for the love of god please hold down R when flying/swimming, you're playing the game on hard mode by not doing that.

[@anlev11]

People nowadays are so hasty... I mean, it's not just you, there is A LOT of people i see that hates backtracking in games. Nobody have patience to just take the time to enjoy playing the game. I think because of social media and so many options, stimuli and things to do people just don't like to redo challenges they failed, backtrack to areas already visited and spend hours on the same objective or looking for one jiggie. It's a dopamine problem that affects our society. Banjo Kazooie is a game from 1998, it was made for the people from that time and it's a great game if we have the patience of someone of 1998. Also, great video! I'm happy to see you liked BK 😄

[@frostbite5607]

I’m just a teenager, so I don’t really have a childhood nostalgia bias, and the banjo-kazooie installments are without a doubt my favorite game series (ignoring nuts and bolts).

[@theselfproclaimedretrogame9383]

4:51 Castleroids hahaha Genius! I laughed so hard!!

[@brainfreeze91]

Seeing kids discover the games of my past and loving them fills me with joy. It hurts being called a boomer though

[@19predator87]

Im 17 and i'll started playing it great game. I think old games are in generell much better. Gta 3, Gta San Andreas, Max Payne, Mario 64 so many Oldschool Games are better than all the games of today

[@ashleygamer64]

I don't think boomers would even play this game, seeing as they were born between the mid 1940s-60s 😄 Still, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's an absolute classic! Perfect to play around Christmastime, mainly thanks to Freezeezy Peak!

[@denimchicken104]

Lol. Dude shits on guys in their 30’s like that won’t be him in just 6 years.

[@1ThousandRoads]

​@@denimchicken104 Yeah, I'm 36 and was within the prime target age range for Banjo Kazooie when it came out, but TIL me and everyone else who grew up with N64 are now boomers.

[@TheAnticarnist]

@@1ThousandRoads Millennials just get called boomers as an insult I think haha.

[@Ghost-ul8eu]

Yeah it was gen x and millennial that were into videogames most boomers think videogames are a waste of time and would rather watch TV instead.

[@shiro4226]

13:11 You must consider the game at 1998. This game was released on N64, there the camera was controlled by the C Buttons, 4 yellow directional buttons, so it entered first-person mode if you pressed UP. The Switch controller doesn't have that set of buttons, instead it used the second analogic stick, which the N64 controller didn't have. Otherwise, you are talking about the adaptation to the Switch N64 Emulator. At the time, camera control was new stuff and I don't remember a game that delt well with it. Even in Ocarina of Time the camera was kinda hard to control and in Mario 64 the camera was the final boss.

[@Matanumi]

Yet the free cam in majora mask 3D was a dream extra

[@jerm70]

@@Matanumi Well that's the benefit of porting games instead of emulating them as a product.

[@samkachu1568]

I have played banjo - kazooie this year for the first time and i think its a really good platformer that has some flaws that all old games share but I think when you like 3d platformers you should try it. In my opinion it’s 8,5-10 when you rate it like 3d platformer that released now but at the time it came out it would definitely be 10-10.

[@FluffyMustache]

I mean, besides Mario Odyssey, can you really think of a better 3D collect-athon platformer?

[@digitalunity]

Personal opinion, bit of a hot take, Banjo Kazooie > Mario 64

[@FluffyMustache]

@@digitalunity I 100% agree. It is pretty much better in every way possible besides the movement.

[@Micolash_is_behind_you]

Complaining about accidental hitting first person mode is a mistake, there was no second analogue stick on the N64 controller, people complain about this with talking to Navi in Ocarina of Time as well, you don't accidentally hit that button when it is a separate button.

[@dlwill80]

Banjo and Kazooie is one of those games I have more reasons to appreciate as an adult than I ever did as a child.

[@anlev11]

Yeah, i think the same

[@GoofyPoptart]

Same with Bad Fur Day as well

[@dlwill80]

@@GoofyPoptart I love Conker

[@----x-----]

giving a young lad nostalgia for an era he didnt even experience is a big feat which shows how well BK captures the feel of the 90s

[@SeanRyanBaran]

There are no boomers who have any feelings towards this game 🤣

[@Choctopus]

Oh damn the shirt rep

[@PhilosophicallyAmerican]

In which Nick explains the inferiority of soft '00s kids compared to determined, resilient '90s kids.

[@nonanimeprofilepic]

@@matthewbartlett3442 you cared enough to comment

[@julioornano8427]

@@nonanimeprofilepicyes to approve of said message!😂😂 do you not approve that you cared to comment?😂

[@satellizard346]

N64 was before my time, so I didn't have any nostalgia for the system or its games. And I've pretty much heard Banjo Kazooie is a classic since before I was born. So when it came to Switch online about a year ago, I gave it a shot. And honestly despite its age, I loved it. It was such a charming, fun experience and even though it's been less than a year since I first played it, I'd easily call it one of my favorite games. I think the fact that someone can play it blind as an adult and enjoy it is really a testament to how well it holds up. Glad to hear another newcomer's impressions.

[@N.i.E.M.O]

This was my favorite game as a kid. And it's cool to see that you don't need to be a kid in 1998 in order to enjoy it. That being said, I can't believe I'm now so old that there are legal adults today who weren't even born when Banjo-Kazooie came out.

[@Ivysword-tx7py]

Please do more videos like this sprinkled in with your smash bros ones! I had a lot of fun revisiting this game with an outsider perspective!

[@Mattbuddy0947]

Banjo and Kazooie is just a awesome Rareware game and i can agree the music is so memorable and yeah the notes after you die to collect truely pain and the cutter was perfect

[@ArataShizunai]

Banjo and Kazooie is One of The Most Legendary Games Humanity Has Witnessed!

[@DylanYoshi]

The camera controls make more sense on an N64 controller where you're using buttons instead of a stick. Though really, more than anything else the R button should be used for camera, as being able to center it behind you is a lot more valuable for lining up jumps than anything else. If you hate Metroidvanias don't bother playing Tooie, because it is a Metroidvania. The entire game is built around backtracking to earlier areas with new moves that you learn, even going as far as having paths between worlds open up instead of only being able to access them from the hub. Which I love, but if you're not into that you will not enjoy it as much as Kazooie. Though, Tooie DOES fix the control problems you mentioned- Flying and swimming are both made a lot easier (though in the case of swimming you have to unlock better swimming). Tooie also makes death far far less punishing, there's no more extra lives and you don't lose anything for dying, you just respawn at the beginning of the area. It makes a lot of improvements like that, but it also changes the fundamental design to be more about backtracking, and if you are vehemently opposed to that sort of design you will not like it. Overall I'm glad to see you enjoyed the game, I think the Banjo-Kazooie games hold up far better than most early 3D games did and still love them to this day. It did bug me every time you referred to the game as "Banjo & Kazooie" instead of "Banjo-Kazooie" though, this ain't Sonic & Knuckles lol.

[@DarioKalen_Kagenui]

Great video.🌟 Very interesting and we'll explained. The part about the level designs and music reminded me of Donkey Kong Country, no wonder Rare made both (and Retro Studios kept up the quality with Country Returns and Tropical Freeze).

[@bramnemeth565]

Decided to do a 100% run of the game a couple months ago. It was... an experience, to say the least.

[@digitalunity]

What was the worst part, and why was it Rusty Bucket Bay?

[@bramnemeth565]

@@digitalunity Rusty Bucket Bay is a synonym for the 9th Layer of Hell, and the fact that your Note count resets -if- WHEN you die.

[@realtalk4994]

"Just boomers looking at the game through nostalgia glasses" LMAO learn what a boomer is, they weren't playing Banjo Kazooie.

[@lavestahuntail8495]

5:32 so THIS is the Nick we see whenever he plays Mario Party

[@moz3169]

love the intro, it pulls u in a lot. i’ve watched u for more than a year now and ur videos get better and better

[@Xeronoia]

The answer is that banjo-kazooie's quality is inversely proportional to how far into the game you are - at the start its absolutely charming and fantastidc and by the end it really falls apart into a tedious slog.

[@darklion2704]

thats right no one likes sora's big ass shoes

[@romer21]

The camera thing is a limitation of the N64 controller, not a flaw of the game. They did what they could do, There wasnt even a joystick for camera, there were C-buttons

[@Redhollow]

Sad that he probably wouldn't like Tooie if backtracking is an issue, but I happen to love that game because of that (not to mention, the backtracking is completely optional in that game unlike what haters want you to think). Movement is vastly improved in Tooie as well. Very curious to hear his takes on it either way.

[@Matanumi]

Yeah but some jeggies are just tedious as f***. They even go Ans joke about some in the game "where kazzoie says, "we did ALL OF THIS for ONE jiggy? Can't you give us something else?" "Lol no. You get the one. Take it and get outta here" "Alright I thought I'd ask shit" The devs knew in that moment and kazzoie 4th call out that bullshit

[@Matanumi]

Tooie was good for world's interconnectivity on isle o hags But BAD for backtracking shit

[@benjacobsen9251]

It's worth mentioning that when this came out, it had nearly the best camera controls you could find among it's peers. And as others have pointed out, the R button let's you pivot quickly when swimming or flying and resets your camera when walking. And yes the engine room is a bitch, it's literally the hardest thing in the game besides maybe the grunty fight.

[@BallBelliedBoar]

Lmao we’re millennials not boomers.

[@1FMAlchemist]

Haha according to younger gens, we might as well be 😂😂😭😭

[@Firguy_the_Foot_Fetishist]

Zoomers came up with their own consensus that anybody older than them is a boomer because they grew up with ineffectual parents who didn't care to teach them how the world works and were basically allowed to mess around on their phones because the belligerent and disruptive students dominated the teachers' attention. That's why they're so ignorant and stupid.

[@MrCodyWarner]

Couldn’t agree more about the save states. I play all the games from my childhood on emulators now for this exact reason. I’m 30 years old and just flat out don’t have the time to play these games without save states anymore.

[@lenarmangum8630]

I think the graphics in Banjo-Kazooie hold up pretty well they’re charming, colorful, cartoony and lively plus for N64 standards they look very good. It holds up more than other games from the time, especially for games that try to go for “realism,” plus there’s no N64 fog that plagued numerous other games and developers. It still holds up I think.

[@Goofy_Games64]

Fun Fact, Wen You Died On The X Box Version, The Notes Would Not Reset

[@1samper122]

Hearing Antdude's voice at the begginning fucked me up a little I won't lie.

[@crab230]

I'm interested if you'll ever try Banjo Tooie. It's developed a bit of a polarized reception these days due to the backtracking (which you said you despise in the video so you might hate it LOL), but IMO it's even better than Kazooie. Some of the funniest video game writing ever too.

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

Agree on that, i am pretty sure, Nick will be infuriated by the pseudo-open-world of Tooie.^^

[@Blazingflare2000]

Nick would probably like the subtle quality of life improvements the game made across the board and the more creative and fleshed out characters/worlds, but he would hate the expected backtracking and dislike a number of the genuinely obtuse puzzles

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

This man isn't even a reviewer and yet he's found his own unique way to format a review

[@Xenowolf8]

That title sounds like something a zoomer would come up with.

[@frosted_glaceon5513]

Don't feel bad about save states! As a kid I always enjoyed using plenty of cheats this game has to offer. My favorite that always comes in handy is the one for infinite air. Clanker's Cavern is a breeze and Rusty Bucket Bay is a lot smoother. Do what makes the experience more fun!

[@aquarios7851]

First comment on the handsome man video

[@curtisparsons1177]

Why do people hate the swimming controls in this game, they are not that back, they actually feel pretty smooth.

[@KewlNerd20X6]

You used save states, huh? Yeah, that's okay. It just means you're bad.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

The main thing with this game is that it's just pure, condensed FUN. No obscene amounts of unnecessary dialogue to shove a boring story down your throat that nobody cares about, no running back and forth across a giant map that only exists so the publisher can boast about its size, no 100 hours grinding the same challenges over and over again to get to 100% completion because "longer is better", no frills, no filler, it's just FUN. And it absolutely blows my mind how few games of this kind exist, especially nowadays. Heck, Rare themselves didn't even keep to this principle with the platformers they made afterwards.

[@Olivia0708]

Not many boomers were playing Banjo Kazooie, kid

[@MoonshineH]

He doesn’t mean literally people born right after WWII. “Boomer” is much more commonly used as a pejorative for someone nostalgically attached to things from their past or someone who has trouble understanding technology.

[@cameroneads815]

Time stamps: 1:05 world class 5:20 upper class 10:35 gets a pass 12:20 pure ASS

[@aurora_x86]

How did I only now get that they all rhyme.

[@cameroneads815]

Me too, and I wrote them

[@EpicPaul64]

As one who had two games in his childhood, Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie, it's very refreshing to see the younger crowd having some different opinions that have not only re-shaped my perspective, but I also find myself agreeing with them more and more as I come back to it. I used to adore the camera, but now, those narrow bridge sections really catch me off-guard. And the lack of being able to save the Notes is objectively a pain. And revisiting Rusty Bucket Bay with save states made me wonder how I ever managed on the original hardware... Still, I'm glad you came to see Banjo-Kazooie as a masterpiece! No game is perfect, but compared to 99% of the other N64 games, it really feels leaps and bounds ahead of its time!

[@ValorDucky]

4:15 Banjo Tooie has entered the chat.

[@El_Mince]

4:52 Metroidvania, actually, but close enough

[@shawverno.1130]

Comparison time! Three main comparisons here. Mario odyssey, Pokemon Legends of Arceus, and Pokepark: Pikachus Adventure. All of these games have a similar format to banjo, where the main portion of gameplay is spent collecting things in and exploring mini-world esc levels. I have a good amount of problems with these games, but for the most part I think that core gameplay element is pretty strong throughout all the titles. Banjo to me fits right in with them, and if someone enjoys any of the games I just mentioned I would definitely give it a go! (Pokepark might seem like a weird addition but I 100%ed it recently, and as a simple exploration and collection game it’s a ton of fun. It’s got a lot of silly charm, which banjo excels at as well)

[@logandearborn1478]

Another fun lil fact about swimming is that you can press the regular swim button to cancel the momentum from Kazooie's swimming :)

[@Papermarioenjoyersince2001]

Well, I was born far later after the game was first out in 1998, but I was really keen on those arcade games. When I first saw this game's all bosses video, I was amazed as a 10 year old. Then, I played it. I played it on most of my free time, especially on the pandemic. I also started to play Banjo Tooie after Kazooie, and you might be against it but I liked Tooie even more. Today, I can easily say that Banjo is my childhood even though I am not a contemporary of the game, and I am glad that I had the chance to experience this game as a kid, just like you. It is amazing, and I still feel the nostalgia when I hear the soundtrack of the game. + Clanker's Cavern is an exception to all the things I said, I like the boss and Clanker itself, and that is it. That level and GLOOP was purified and intensified pain for me.

[@NiGHTSnoob]

The camera issue is exclusively a modern controller thing. On the N64 controller the camera controls aren't like buttons, they ARE buttons. The N64 has 6 face buttons instead of 4 and a stick. So you won't accidentally hit up on the stick because the first person mode is an entirely separate button.

[@youreyesarebleeding1368]

The reason the Camera is like that with the analogue stick is because on the n64 controller, there is no second analogue stick for the Camera; instead, there are four "C buttons," hence why it acts like buttons. For those who are playing on an emulator, you can make the "diagonals" more narrow if you're using an analogue stick for C buttons, which makes it difficult to accidentally press one.

[@DuskyPredator]

On camera control, it was one the earliest main stream 3D games, which actually makes it pretty impressive. There literally was no set examples to do that sort of thing.

[@StevDeS]

Toxic Commentary Nick The Third, you’ve opened my eyes on this. I wanna play it now and see how fair of a rating I can really give it.

[@DragonmasterSK]

This game is a Jewel. I remember my mom getting it for me because they didn't have Mario 64. I was sad but she gave me that loving look and I knew how she had saved money to buy it for me that I just melted and I said. Ok this is the one I want. And I'm so glad I did. I had so much fun and we used to play it together sometimes. I will forever cherish this game

[@isidoreaerys8745]

1:24 Honestly gibberish would be an improvement for Pokémon games. Literally Rare out here in 1998 outdoing 2023 game freak.

[@seretith3513]

The Cam is a result off the C-buttons in stead off Stick on N64. Was fine there.

[@StarkMaximum]

I only have two points, and they're connected. One, as someone who grew up with this game on N64 and then eventually beat it on 360 (which does not include save states), I really could not care less if someone uses save states to beat Banjo-Kazooie. It's a fucking single player game. Have fun. I made my own fun playing Banjo, make your own fun playing it too. The best part of retro gaming in a modern age is there are so many ways to _customize_ the way you play a game. We are no longer restricted to exactly what the developers gave us with no room to breath. Gaming can be ours now, a very personal experience, where we fiddle with knobs and change things using emulation tools and mods to transform games into expressions of ourselves. It's wonderful. Two, regarding the camera. Were you playing on an N64, you would not have a right analog stick to control the camera. You would have _four individual buttons_ that control the camera. Ahh, suddenly the failings of the past make more sense! The reason why it wasn't a problem to accidentally go first person in the N64 version is because _it was a different button that you wouldn't hit on accident!_ The reason why the camera cannot swivel like in modern games is because _it was an individual button press!_ Why is this connected to my previous point? Simple: For all the retro boasting that is "back in my day, we didn't HAVE save states! We didn't have rewinds! We had three lives and three continues, and that's if we were LUCKY! And we LIKED it!", _the original version of Banjo-Kazooie has a distinct advantage YOU DO NOT HAVE._ In this one VERY SPECIFIC CASE, playing Banjo-Kazooie on a modern console makes it _worse._ You using save states to reset a bad camera swivel that ruined your plan _is just making up for the advantage you're being denied._ Modern problems LITERALLY require modern solutions! Also, i am SHOCKED you never brought up the game's greatest sin, and I assume it still existed because I would imagine the Switch Online version is just the N64 version emulated; you lose your notes every time you die! Sure, maybe this wasn't a huge problem if you weren't 100%ing the game, but you need like, 800 something notes to beat the game? You need most of them! I think you need to 80% the game _at least_ just to roll credits! And dying deep into a long level with 89 notes while you're desperately scrounging to find the last few? Oh, it's the worst feeling in the world, dude. Nothing compares. It's like stubbing your toe on a table that's made of knives. You just sit there with your head in your hands wondering if you'll ever recover. And you won't! Glad you liked the game tho, it's a certified hood classic.

[@jaychamp15]

I speak as someone who played this game when I was young and it’s still my favorite video game of all time. I definitely agreed with you about the camera being trash and also the swimming/flying mechanics. So much frustration I’ve had with them as a kid especially Clanker’s Cavern & fighting Gruntilda in the air was a massive pain. 🤬🤬🤬

[@KhakiCube]

People always say the controls are an issue, but honestly I've gotten so used to them and games of that time that I don't really notice it. The limited camera options is like not having a jump button or attack button in other games, you just use what's there instead.

[@ryanjonsson2468]

Its Its funny you can poop out the blue eggs onto the shark killing it and then you'll never see the shark again in the pirate level

[@partypantz7546]

Not Nick roasting sora in the first 3 minutes 💀

[@drjankenstein]

well, this video makes me feel incredibly old, but also incredibly happy to see that it isn't just nostalgia glasses with it. Conker's Bad Fur Day hasn't aged quite as well cause the humor is *super* 90s, but the gameplay is even better imo.

[@rumbleroller2154]

(10:05) Hey, BK defiantly had a steep learning curve.. :P

[@lkjkhfggd]

Went back and played Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, and DK64 recently, and I enjoyed playing all 3. Main advantage of each: BK: Very simple gameplay with small missions and small rewards throughout. It's also very fun to speedrun and watch others speedrun. BT: Much more complex tasks and challenges you have to do to get the rewards. I actually am a fan of the backtracking elements. There's a good feeling that comes from observing that there's something in the world that you can't do yet, writing it down for later, learning the move later on, then coming back now being able to do the thing. DK64: Worlds are more complex and the game asks you to hold a lot more information in your brain. You really need to take in the layout of each world and what you've seen in each area. Since you need to go through areas multiple times with different kongs, you get rewarded a lot for remembering where certain kong specific items were that you had seen and only reexploring those areas. Main criticisms with each: BK: Just felt a little mindless and easy. The game rarely gives you any challenging puzzles to solve. You just explore each world and the jiggies are usually just lying out in the open for you to grab, or there's some very basic task to do, be it defeating an enemy (beat up the giant crab, beat up all the mutated crabs, beat up all the gold frogs, beat up the reptile things eating the christmas lights, etc), or do some easy speed challenge (spell out BK in the sandcastle, spell out BK in the Mad Monster Mansion shack, do simon says with turtles inside the giant turtle, etc). The most complex you get is in Rusty Bucket Bay where you need to slow down the fans in the engine room, then traverse the engine room, then quickly leave and grab the jiggy outside the ship. BT has these all over the place. BT: Far too cutscene heavy. There's so many times in the game where gameplay stops so you can watch an excessively long cutscene. So many things get a cutscene where you could have just heard a little trumpet fanfare and the developers could have just counted on the players to figure out what the switch they pressed actually did. The clearest comparison is how long you have to wait for Jiggywiggy to open up new worlds in this game compared to BK. It's significantly longer. DK64: There is a lot of filler tasks that are just repeats of the same thing. Angry Aztec there's a temple you gotta enter 5 times and each time is the same task. Every bonus barrel minigame pops up 3 times or so. Creepy Castle has an area where each kong has to walk a long distance from the tag barrel and follow their path that eventually leads to a golden banana. Lots of things like this come up. It's all because of the 5 kongs, each get 5 golden bananas and 100 colored bananas per world system. I think the game would have had much more leeway if they instead hid like 15 golden bananas in each world and each one could be collected with 2 or more kongs via using different kong specific abilities.

[@liambraithewaite6415]

The fact you were calling it banjo AND Kazooie already had me skeptical

[@RevanSecura]

good video. there's two things you overlooked. first off this game has codes that grant quality of life improvements like infinite air for underwater, infinite ammo for eggs and red & gold feathers and even codes that help towards Banjo-Tooie. and second is the infamous Stop N' Swop feature and how it works is you need to get all of the jiggies in the game and defeat Gruntilda, then in the end credits Mumbo shows three of the items that you collect. there's a nifty item called the ice key and if you play Banjo- Tooie with it collected in this game the end result is seeing what Kazooie looks like as a dragon. the place to find the ice key is freezeezy peak in the walrus's cave.

[@supersmily5811]

My biggest problem with Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie was that you need basically ALL the main collectibles to beat the game. Like, (Hoover) Dam do you want my blood type and social as well? The whole POINT of a collectathon is to allow players to selectively skip some mcguffins they don't find, forget to backtrack for, or don't have the skill to collect. But not these games. Do it all or fail.

[@explosivenecklace8516]

The XBLA Remaster saves what notes you've collected if you die Edit: XBLA also changes the camera to improve it significantly, and the up first person thing is just the NSO version having bad button mapping, that doesn't happen on N64 or XBOX

[@Snackolotl]

I like that you say '2/3 methods have rewinds." The third method is a remaster that takes away the punishment for dying because it was only a hardware limitation at the time.

[@devonm042690]

The camera panning works like a button because the N64 had a set of four arrow buttons instead of a right stick.

[@Faust294]

fun fact: the xbox version of the game saves all the notes and other important collectables when you die, so you don't have to collect everything again. and it also fixes the camera controls, updating it to be like the modern camera controls

[@Gustavo-po9bd]

Something that you gotta love in those games is that they never force you to repeat the same level over and over again, games that do this are just bad

[@obroproductions1808]

I played Banjo and Kazooie on the Switch for the first time ever for my stream and I agree. The save state function was really crucial to my enjoyment of the game. I don't know how people did it back in 1998.

[@oscarl.3563]

This game is amazing. Having no patience for resetting stages and requiring save states etc. is just us getting old.