Banjo is back! And he and his feathery Kazooie return is a immersive and solid sequel!
Story - Banjo and Kazooie has been out of action for 8 years now and put on a bit of weight since their last adventure. And the evil witch Gruntilda makes a escape from the rubble of which she was trapped within. When the duo go to investigate the noise from the rubble they meet gruntilda. As Banjo and Gruntilda are about to fight, LOG (The Lord Of Games) intervenes in their efforts. LOG returns Banjo, Kazooie and Gruntilda into their proper shape and transports the 3 to a new land: Showdown Town! LOG then instructs Banjo and Kazooie to collect as many jiggies as they can and they will have the right to own their home land: Spiral Mountain!
GAMEPLAY - If you are purchasing Banjo Kazooie Nuts And Bolts believing it will stay true and follow the same path as the originals you should defintely Continue reading this and mabye look up the game on the internet. You will still run around collecting jiggies, but the main attraction of the game is to build veichles with things you find around all the different locations and these veichles you build will help you win missions. There are an endless amount of veichles to create to help you along the way. You will run around as banjo and destroy things and battle monsters but doesn't have the same adventure feeling unlike the others. Along the way there are many minigames to challenge you and many little things along the way. There are lot of cameos from RARE's other games such as VIVA PINATA and CONKER'S BAD FUR DAY. When you complete missions you will acquire more jiggies and this leads you closer to spiral mountain. This time Kazooie has no powers but LOG has given the Bird a magical creation wrench to fix,build and collect things for your veichles and beat things with.
GRAPHICS - The graphics has certainly changed and the game is much more colourful than the previous. The games is in a way sort of blocky which is a little weird and may upset some gamers. The details on many things are still wonderful expecially on the characters who look great! The game could be a little more polished in terms of the locations but other than that the games graphics really suit the style that the game roles out.
HUMOUR - The humour is designed to appeal to a younger audience and is actually fairly funny for an older audience, but is definetly designed to suit the younger generation and the older genarations who played the game will no doubt get a laugh!
LOCATIONS - They are many locations to explore in the Banjo Kazooie universe and all of them are well built and vibrant in colour! Detail is a little poor but the colours will make people happy!
CONCLUSION - Banjo-Kazooie Nuts And Bolts Will deliver a fun,colourful experience from a lovely universe full of wonderful and humourous characters. older gamers and young alike will find fun and unique ways to play a revamped game for newer gamers. The game delivers a good 24 hours worth of building, jumping and climbing. The game have many great looking locations and there are many things to do within. The game does look a bit oldschool and lacks detail in someplaces but the beautiful colours makes you look past the graphical hitches!
Rating - 9/10
Grade - A-
Pros -
Colourful locations
Wonderful humour
Endless use of imagination
Wide variety of locations to explore
Loveable characters
Cons -
Some locations lacking detail
Love or Hate style graphics