Topic: Banjo-Kazooie is back & now on XBox 360

[Caliban]

SDTV fix is work in progress at the moment for a later patch release of course.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Inexcusable.

[NWR_insanolord]

Inexcusable.

People like to talk about Nintendo's low quality standards but they would never let something like this get through.

[KDR_11k]

I noticed MS's standards seem to be much lower than Nintendo's, unreadable text and bad translations are standard for 360 games.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Nintendo excluded the Red Ring of Death and included the Blue Line of Righteousness by design.

[EasyCure]

instaquote!

[vudu]

Can't you just quote him saying something like

Nintendo excluded the Red Ring of Death and included the Blue Line of Righteousness by design. ~ NinGurl69

Do we really need to see that damn purple box in every single one of your posts from now on?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

"purple box"

GameCube's memory lives on.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Well boys and girls another review came up and it's not pretty. Game Life with a 5/10

WIRED Interesting and well-executed concept, pretty, funny

TIRED The heart of the game is only barely fun, sometimes

The issue is that none of the games you play with these vehicles are that much fun. Racing laps around the levels versus other goofy contraptions is either frustrating or boring or both. Picking up passengers around the levels and bringing them to the exit, pushing soccer balls into a net, plugging up water pipes with giant nutshells... Rare has thought of a whole bunch of different things to do with the concept, but nothing ever pays off.

But the most fun that I had was playing "Klungo Saves The Universe," a silly parody of retro arcade games that you can find in Showdown Town. It's a surprisingly challenging, if short, platform game, and I laughed harder and concentrated more while playing it than I did with the other 99% of Nuts & Bolts.

This is, I admit, backhanded praise. Because finding a little bit of solid amusement and engagement in something that is mostly mediocre reminds you of how much fun you're not having otherwise. Banjo is what you get when you put a lavish coat of polish on nothing: A beautiful, funny game with a clever concept that is utterly lacking in fundamentals.

[Bill Aurion]

Sounds like the game I expected it to be: a pile of nothing generated from some random desire to make the game different... =(

[GoldenPhoenix]

Well at least the game is priced pretty low so I never had my expectations too high and I still get to play the AMAZING Banjo-Kazooie 1.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Well at least the game is priced pretty low so I never had my expectations too high and I still get to play the AMAZING Banjo-Kazooie 1.

Or you can just skip this game and pay 1,200 MS points (15 dollars) for the XBLA game. I still think that's over priced considering that Mario 64 is 10 dollars on VC.

[NWR_insanolord]

The low price and the fact that there are 8 other reviews on GameRankings that average out to 82% have convinced me to stick with my preorder and give the game a chance.

[KDR_11k]

On XBLA 15€ seems to be the default price for games. WiiWare tends to go more for 10€...

[Caliban]

I just read Kotaku's review. He thinks the physics were "awkward" in some respects.
Surprisingly, and its something that I noticed from playing the demo, and that Erik Brudvig from IGN wrote, is that despite the game's cartoon look the physics tend to the realistic rather than the arcade type. If you play this game you will have to be smart, or at least have the common sense to know that the vehicle you just built might look cool, but it won't be effective.

[GoldenPhoenix]

OMG I just got done playing Banjo-Kazooie one on Xbox Live and WOW what a great port of a great game. The framerate is smooth and the visuals actually hold up especially without the infamous N64 blur, the polygons actually look sharp. Also it has been quite awhile since I played B-K but I recall that if you died you lost all the notes you collected in a level, in this it SAVES your progress on note collecting even if you die so you don't need to recollect them. Anyway for fans of the first game this is an amazing deal whether it is full price or free with B-K.

[Nick DiMola]

Yeah, the way the original worked with notes is it kept your total of notes collected, so if you got 99, it would say that, but you couldn't just come back in and collect the last one, you literally had to recollect all of them to get 100. Essentially it mimicked the 100 coin challenge in Super Mario 64.

That's great to hear though, can't wait to get my code from Amazon.

[vudu]

Also it has been quite awhile since I played B-K but I recall that if you died you lost all the notes you collected in a level, in this it SAVES your progress on note collecting even if you die so you don't need to recollect them.

Xbox is for babies who can't game.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Word.

[Bill Aurion]

Also it has been quite awhile since I played B-K but I recall that if you died you lost all the notes you collected in a level, in this it SAVES your progress on note collecting even if you die so you don't need to recollect them.

Xbox is for babies who can't game.

So much for hardcore gamers, am I right?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Word.

[NWR_insanolord]

Is it just me or does Banjo Kazooie (the N64 one) have the worst camera in any game ever?

[Bill Aurion]

Are you playing the original or did Rare somehow screw up the remake's camera?

Because the original's works perfectly fine for me... =\

[NWR_insanolord]

I never played the original, this is just from my time with the XBLA version. The game must be really good, though, because despite the annoying camera I'm really enjoying it.

[Caliban]

Yeah the camera seems to be the only negative about the original Banjo-Kazooie. It's the rotating around camera mechanic that was left to be as if you were using the c-buttons on the N64 controller. I'm still having a lot of fun playing it.