The History of Banjo Kazooie - PART 1 - (retrospective)

[@LGR]

Very interesting insights into the development of this! Will be giving your other videos a look, I eat this kinda subject matter up. Especially when it's done in a way that's easily watchable, good stuff.

[@TheGameDirect]

Thanks! =)

[@TheGameDirect]

***** Yea, I've played the _first_ Klonoa for the PS1. I'll keep it in mind!

[@Chruxl4]

Such excellent timing on this retrospective review. Since everyone has gotten the nextgen consoles, I finally got a 360. Solely for my favorite franchise. I'm actually playing Banjo-Kazooie right now on Arcade and I'm excited about the functionality of StopNSwap (finally). I'm glad you mentioned all the history and easter eggs involving Project Dream! And for anyone reading this who hated Nuts and Bolts, I actually really like the atmosphere. Granted the gameplay is buggy, but I think the feel is very true to the roots (The first appearance of Banjo was a racing game, after all, and Banjo Pilot was a thing.) In short, I am ecstatic about finally getting a 360 for my first love and I really appreciate your appreciation :3

[@ChristopherSalinas]

Rare was so untouchable back then. It's a shame it couldn't last. But great video! Can't wait for part 2!

[@Lwiis64]

It is so sad that this great series is dead today. Thank you, Microsucks!

[@Lwiis64]

classic and adventure era sonic The fact that the guys form Playtonic Games left Rare and want to do a spiritual successor to Banjo shows they wanted to keep doing these games. The higher-ups at Microsoft thought differently. So I don't see how Banjo being dead is Playtonic's fault.

[@LuisCruz-yi2iy]

Sure I wasn’t born in the 90s but I played banjo kazooie and it’s fun

[@christopherbf1197]

At least he's in Smash Bros.

[@michaelforgothispassword]

@@christopherbf1197 amen

[@super8bitable]

What was that about Microsoft sucking?

[@GeekCritique]

I'm working on my own Smash retrospective right now, but I'm glad I came across this while searching for a snippet of BK footage. I'll be back!

[@KhakiCube]

Probably my favorite game of all-time... at least for the N64.

[@rlopezblue13]

Noh, I thot Ocarina Of Tyme wus yur favouryte gime of ALL TIME!!!!!!11!!1

[@KhakiCube]

Rafael Lopez Honestly, I don't like OoT that much. I grew up on the later years of the N64 and I have fonder memories of Majora's Mask. (And when it comes to Zelda, I prefer Link to the Past)

[@VetroPlay]

This game bring back so many memories

[@qisotwprofessionalsentvid6675]

@@KhakiCube this saddens OOT

[@YoungGrifff]

One of the things I think that gives Banjo Tooie it's strength is that it's a sequel that fully expects you to have played the prior game. It gives you everything from that game with no tutorial on the original game's basics, then uses that basis to expand on everything. Interesting series. I feel that it delves a bit too hard into informative at times, and the side comments tend to be rather elongated at times; it almost seems you're laughing at your own comments at times. In something like this, I think there should be a bit more of an opinion piece, as well as providing the historical information in th concise format as you did. Will check out some of the other vids.

[@desender]

oh rare... how i miss you :(

[@khfan4life365]

I wanna cry because how much I miss these games. My brother and I never knew of Stop n Swop because we didn't have internet access to find out. Oh, the good old days.

[@joeslickback]

Yes she has a video on Banjo-Kazooie, I'm so happy, I'm so happy I could cry BEAR tears. lol

[@GeorgeGarrity]

Jirad: ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[@dhay03]

Miss this series a ton. Banjo-Tooie is one my all time favorites. Never had I seen a game that linked to it's prequel so well even without stop n swoop. And all of the linking worlds with the train and clever puzzle designs was just brilliant. We will never see 3D platforming like that again. That why I cherish the N64 3D platformers :)

[@averagetroll3024]

Well researched, good video quality, and nice commentary. Very well done.

[@ttewelow1]

Banjo-Tooie is my absolute favorite game of all time. No questions asked

[@AtrumDelorox]

I feel as if I've seen all videos that feature the back story on Banjoy-Kazooie. Yet you seem to have taught me a few things I didn't know before. That's amazing. Quick Note: I misspelled Banjo, but the typo fits very well, so I'll keep it.

[@KonniBel]

I am loving your videos! Watched them all recently and what I love so much is that all games you covered are games that I loved and meant a lot to me, can't wait for part 2 ^^'.

[@BiGBuKVids]

This brings back a ton of memories... Please we need a history of poket monsters!! (Pokemon)

[@TheTeamPlayers]

Amazingly awesome. I'm so glad I found this channel :)

[@UltraPixelP]

Can't wait for next episode!

[@rachelspoon9750]

I love this game, cool video!

[@stegsaurus]

Very interesting! I'll check out some of your others!

[@NintendanGX]

Not only have we got A Hat in Time and Project Ukulele bringing back the magic of 3D collectathon platformers, but there's also Clive 'N' Wretch currently on Kickstarter! Go and back it so it reaches its goal! We need more platformers like this!

[@chizok2173]

I’m here from the e3, Anyone?

[@ЖельоТрендафилов]

Me

[@qisotwprofessionalsentvid6675]

me banjo is in smash thank you nintendo and rare

[@SergioPL]

Great review/history!! Congrats!

[@Arceuszilla]

Wow! You really did an outstanding job covering all ground, about to watch part 2. Right from Dream up to Stop N Swop, fantastic!

[@VetroPlay]

This is awesome... Reminds me of "All your history belongs to us"

[@JoeLewis14]

I just came across this video looking for something about this game. Great job! BK is arguably my favorite games of all time. Of ALL game soundtracks I have ever played before in my life, BK was hands down the best music. The wonderful transitions of the sound of the songs as you moved to separate areas of the game blew my mind.

[@ivonnatrolue6747]

I was surprised with how thorough you were and you even talked about things I've never heard. Great video.

[@ShadwSonic]

One theory about Stop N Swap was that the six Eggs would unlock six already discovered bonuses, which were: Jinjo in Multiplayer, Dragon Kazooie, the Breegull Bash move, the Devil Bottles mode, the Homing Eggs cheat, and the Jukebox. The Ice Key would've be used to access the place where this "exchange" was to take place. That seems to be the most likely theory anyone has come up with, and means that we missed absolutely nothing back in the day (well, except for Devil Bottles, but you already knew that from the video).

[@TheGameDirect]

Yea, that's probably what it would have been. Rare was so creative....if only they had let us swap the cartridges even though we had one second. Would've been an awesome easter egg.

[@TheGameDirect]

***** Yea, eventually.

[@MarxForever]

***** The one thing that always Bugged me so much about Stop 'N' Swap was; Why did we have to "hot" swap the cartridges at all? Why didn't they just utilize the N64's Controller Pak (Memory Card) to swap data between the two titles? This was a pretty common practice back then.

[@ShadwSonic]

MarxForever That's a good point, and one I've never heard before! I'd assume that back in those days, either the N64 Memory card had not been developed yet, or maybe it was only capable of sending data to the game that it was received from.

[@CraigSnedeker]

This brings back so many memories!

[@TheCryZero]

A channel that contains videos of the history of Banjo Kazooie, Kingdom Hearts, Zelda AND SMASH BROS??? THank you for that. Subscribed

[@DJBadran]

I really like you and your videos :) I think you do a great job giving us the details on the history of the games. You say what us viewers want to hear, so far I watched all of crash bandicoot and now this, keep up the good work!

[@noahhenderson3164]

Also, THANK YOU for making that intro. It made my day that you thought my comment was worth the listen!:)

[@TheGameDirect]

You're welcome =P

[@Raheem_Prodigy]

Can't wait for part 2! Love getting to know about a game that was my favorite when I was a wee boy. Keep up the great work Game Direct!

[@GoldenNorway1]

Banjo Kazooie is one of the best games ever made, no doubt. - But so is Banjo Tooie. How the worlds are connected in Tooie is just awesome, and you truly don't see anything like it even to this date. Also, a great retrospective.

[@SergioPL]

Awesome video! Congratulations!😉

[@mistermystery1999]

Awesome, as always :)

[@katt-the-pig]

The quote about making Banjo-Tooie too much bigger is something I agree with. I get lost in Banjo-Tooie as early as the second world. I still enjoy it, but I prefer the first game.

[@Steffu]

***** Banjo-Tooie's amazing, no doubt my all time favourite sequel ever

[@katt-the-pig]

Steffu Oh, I've beaten it 100% before, more than once. There's just a lot of time wasted trying to figure out those last few collectables I missed.

[@Steffu]

it's cool :) Guess it takes a lot of playing to get used to, I know it did for me

[@doubledamn2599]

The difference between the original and the sequel reminds of the huge contrast between the first and second Jak&Daxter games.

[@aaron.biketrials]

So many childhood memories!

[@Redbullz23]

Ahhh, the days of content without dlc. Love it

[@NYCJoeBlack]

Red Bullll - Yeah, it’s called a completed game. Lol! I miss that indeed.

[@noahhenderson3164]

Yeah another great game from TheGameDirect. Keep up the great work, and I can't wait until the next part comes out.:)

[@frylockkilla]

Yes! One of my favorite games ever! Awesome!

[@dkyelak]

I lost count of how many times I played BK getting 100% completion. It was that good.

[@QrizSeven]

for someone like me who has not played any of the Banjo games, after watching this I feel like I missed out on a really good franchise. Thanks for doing this amazing retrospective you had me want to go back and play all my oldies once again. I wish you the best of luck and great success. Once again, thank you.

[@FettManTAG]

And here I thought I knew just about everything about this franchise. All the best informative videos go one step further to give you a complete history. And you blow the best videos out of the water. ARR! *Pirate Grunt*

[@skyibis]

Is it just me or did anyone else love the N64 graphics with Banjo, Donkey Kong 64. and Mario 64? i just liked the old graphics and all rough look compared to today.

[@pirate_cove_man]

If you ask me, they could've just used the Memory Pak for Stop n' Swop. They could have you save the Stop n' Swop item data onto the Memory Pak, and load that data from the Memory Pak onto Banjo-Tooie.

[@TheJustin4848]

This game was my childhood.

[@hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii86]

Finaly somebody that I know that likes banjo kazooie you are realy cool knowing games like these

[@supersmashmaster43]

Really love your channel and vids! It's great learning all the history of all these great franchises. Keep up the great work! :)

[@kendrat199]

I love your videos! Just thinking of Banjo Kazooie gave me nolstagia pains. :] I doubt any game could mirror the reaction to using Mumbo Jumbo for the first time. Anyways, thanks again!

[@sethhubbard3929]

the kings are back

[@MegaMikeStrike]

New infos and clips came to light, which show that the picture in banjos' house, isn't from fungi forest, but from dream project. See the new released video "Rare Revealed: A Rare Look at Dream". Nice presentation! I learned things that no other beta video has mentioned :)

[@Bazonkaz]

I guess I'm late to the party but great documentary!

[@RatchetHeartsZ1]

Never been a fan of the Banjo Kazooie games, but this was pretty cool. I think it'd be cool to see retrospectives on any of these game series: Ratchet & Clank Kingdom Hearts Resident Evil Devil May Cry Metal Gear Telltale Video Games (as in Back to the Future, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us) The Lego games

[@wolfie23288]

She needs to do ratchet and clank:)

[@Kytseo]

Not all of the Nintendo references were taken out. From what I remember, the third save file still shows Banjo playing a Game Boy.

[@MorningMage]

Thank you so much for such a high quality video :)

[@tomapple64]

the funny thing with microsoft removing all of the nintendo references in banajo kazooie is that banjo's gameboy on the file 3 select is still there and the sound effects coming out of the gameboy are still the sound effects from Donkey Kong Land

[@eric19875]

As always, a great review Patricia.

[@TheGameDirect]

Thanks.

[@simongurrusquieta5721]

I thought Rare was picking characters from the Diddy Kong Racing roster to make platforming games at the time

[@XTHHedgehog]

did u guys know that xbox 360 now has a bundle of this and banjo tooie that u can download and play

[@jwilson544]

Are you going to do any gameplay videos on the ones you've done reviews on?

[@justsomemincedgarlic]

Not gonna lie, i just got my xbox series x and the first game i played was the original banjo. Still my most played and favorite game of all time right after Zelda botw.

[@FritsaAndFuritsa]

Just goes to show how disrespectful and competitive game companies are. Microsoft clearly knows by now that their Nuts and Bolts game was a massive failure due to it not being true to the original line if games and yet, instead of them acting civilised and perhaps ether hiring the old Rareware team to join Rare (Grant Kirkhope said he'd gladly make another game) or even giving the franchise back to Nintendo as they are clearly not getting anywhere with it, thus rendering the franchise useless to them OR perhaps even teaming up with Nintendo for just this once and making an epic Banjo Threeie, Microsoft decides to be greedy scumbags, clinging onto the now dead carcass of Banjo Kazooie, essentially telling the world "If we can't make this game popular, then no one else can have it". This is why I hate Microsoft as a Gaming Company.

[@shinespritethief]

love this vid... subscribe! but i bought the n64 version like a week ago, i got it for 10$ i never owned it before so i'm really happy to finally play it!

[@kendrat199]

Banjo Kazooie is one of the best games for the system. You'll enjoy it!

[@JDGamez15]

Hey TheGameDirect girl whose name I dont know, lol, i am enjoying these videos, theyre pretty cool. I just wondered if you knew about one thing in the Xbox Live Arcade version of Banjo-Tooie a very minor thing, (at least that happened to me anyways) that when you listen to the aquatic themes while underwater, the sound will come out mono instead of stereo (if youre wearing any headphones). I wear headphones all the time while playing games and i heard the aquatic themes were mono sounding in my headphones whenever I was underwater in the game, probably due to when making the XBLA port, the game increased its run pace therefore messing up the pace of the aquatic theme quite a bit. At least youre able to listen to it in stereo sound when listening to the jukebox in Jolly Roger's Lagoon. :P

[@TheGameDirect]

Interesting. Didn't notice that.

[@JDGamez15]

I just tested it out again, although it is technically playing in both ears, (if youre wearing headphones like i do), the music does play fine in one ear (in my case the left ear) and it's screwed up in the right ear. You'll need to make the camera pan down below the water surface to get the full effect of this i think as it did for me, and the music will play like that when you exit the water and until you enter a different area.

[@AKhellbindeR]

Damn i have watched the intro to this game soo many times.

[@fxstfreddymusic]

Killer instinct retrospective!

[@Haneysgaming]

Pretty interested video on going over the history of banjo and kazooie. Pretty great stuff keep it up! :)

[@thetraveler9]

I completely forgot about this game till my coworker brought it up at work a few days ago. I remember there being mad hype for this game when it came out. From what I remember the game was larger than life

[@TheDeantrix]

These videos were awesome! Thanks for uploading! I'm going to play BK now.

[@monkeymanzoo1]

I love your history lessons. They keep me more engaged than any of my previous teachers. P.S. you are beautiful

[@fd3]

What an amazing analysis and summary of the games! 😃 Your voice is also very calm and even and paced! It makes it much better 😊 I personally loved Tooie SO MUCH and even a lot better than its original!

[@BUDDYKONG717]

epic I must say. you enjoy all the games I did as a kid and of course still love to this day and you do an amazing job with your videos I would say I love you if it was so weird aw screw I love you haha cant wait for part two

[@Nakia11798]

I think they should remake Banjo games with all of the things they left out, and better graphics, but no big changes like damn cars!

[@ShinyMisty]

Man...I can see it now. "Nuts and Bolts, the worst game of all time" *sigh* It wasn't that bad. It was actually really fun in my own opinion. And it also had my favorite B&K character in it. Yep, that's right! L.O.G.!

[@feburary3728]

Who els is here because banjo in smash?

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

1:33 Awesome Banjo Sprite XD 10:33 Thats not dark XD 12:23 thats exactly who I picture Microsoft as, Master Cheif XC

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

Awww, no mention of Brentilda Winkybunion, Gruntilda's nicer sister from Banjo Kazooie? Finding her in different areas of Spiral Mountain was one of my favorite parts of that game! Especially when she gave you personal information about Gruntilda to use later in Grunty's Furnace Fun. To this day, I still remember the playing the game with my younger brother and his friend watching, just roaming around inside Spiral Mountain and coming across Brentilda and her telling us that Grunty used to do a striptease in her younger days. And I remember it because my brother asked aloud, "What's a striptease?" and his friend replies, "You know, like 'wah'!" and made the motion of a woman ripping her top open. I laughed so hard at that, my face turned red and tears were streaming down my face! I was about ten at the time so of course stuff like that cracked me up. Great video by the way! I'm so looking forward to Part 2!

[@SupeOcarinaBros]

Please do the history of Jak and Daxter :D

[@anthonyescalante2379]

I LOVE YOUR VIDS!!!!!!!!!

[@creeperfriendlyhugs]

thats it...subscribing.

[@gmm7650]

Ok people, you all think it's fungi forest on the picture in Banjos house right? WRONG! It's actually Kazoo (the version of dream when Edison was a bear) not fungi forest, if it was fungi forest it would have a zoomed out camera, large landscape, and baddies...

[@Fatone1927]

I was wondering if you would do one. On the ty the tazmina tiger series.

[@hailiandorado4952]

Your Microsoft insult earned my like.

[@Cade_The_Squirrel]

Banjo Kazooie is nothing like Mario 64! ITS BETTER!

[@Bixxy]

better controls, world design, and music -- definately.

[@Cade_The_Squirrel]

***** agreed! :D

[@immanuelweaver4522]

you tell them!!! >:)

[@SuperYtc1]

This video was very... intuitive.

[@rockingpox2274]

I find it funny how only one person has disliked this.

[@superminingbro4037]

This is probably going to spund crazy to alot of people, but this is just my opinion, okay? I actually like Kazooie alot better than Tooie, just the music, the gameplay, Banjo Tooie just doesn't feel as happy, colorful, and exciting as Banjo Kazooie. Then again, I've never even played all of Banjo Tooie, so I don't know what the whole game is like... I'll have to play it someday, but what I've seen of it right now, I just don't like as much as the first game. Again this is just my opinion, and I can have this opinion if I want. Don't think I'm crazy, I'm sorry, but for now, I like Banjo Kazooie better than Banjo Tooie.

[@obilisk1]

stop and swap items are accessible if you have even the BK nuts and bolts demo

[@simp1ycrazy]

Game knowledge + cute = win

[@michaelforgothispassword]

Nice Video

[@Dominic_el_tercero]

to clarifie a thing banjo tooie was renamed before the first one came out since the name was mentioned at the end of banjo kazooie

[@jccorrales9401]

Best game on nintendo 64.

[@MarxForever]

I'm just gonna say, Nuts N Bolts is not in anyway a good fallow up to Banjo Tooie. And maybe this is the part of me that absolutely loved Legos as a kid, and obviously a part of myself still does. But, I can't bring myself to hate it. It has it's flaws sure, a ton of'em. But there's a real novelty and charm there, and I can see a glimmer of that old Rare magic. Like Imagine if Viva Pinata had been developed as Banjo Farming? People would have hated what Rare had done to Banjo and Kazooie, and rightly so. But would it had been any less fun? That said, Nuts and Bolts really should have been made into a stand alone, brand new Franchise. An then Rare should have gone ahead and made a true Banjo "Threeie". I can say at least that much with a 100% certainty.

[@TheGameDirect]

I agree. Nuts & Bolts should have been a new IP.

[@MarxForever]

***** While I got your attention, just wanna say. Great show, really. Love your coverage. You totally deserve to be more popular, and I'm sure you be eventually. But selfishly, I must admit, I'm kind of glad you're not there yet, because it keeps the comment section small, thought out, and civil.

[@TheGameDirect]

MarxForever Thank you.

[@Sirrantsalot]

This is funny I just finished watching a let's Play of Banjo Tooie.

[@davonbenson4361]

At 12:19, that means that the protagonist of Project Dream is hiding somewhere else.

[@rafaelandradesantos7883]

I’m here after smash announcement 😁

[@FranklyOwned]

This is just a spontaneous question, but did you by chance get the idea o your channel icon from persona 3 and persona 4?

[@TheGameDirect]

No, from kingdom hearts.

[@aliastheabnormal]

Yes, because hedgehog's, squirrels, mushrooms, and frogs that walk on two legs are something you always see in the streets.