2025/5/23: Nintendo 64: Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie

[VideoGameCritic]

Got a pair of new N64 review for your enjoyment. Banjo Kazooie is 22-year re-review, but same grade. Banjo Tooie, the sequel, is a brand new review. I think these are two of the better titles for the system.

What do you think?

[BlasteroidAli]

Rare make the best games. Two interesting titles.

[Miles Prower]

Good reviews. I always liked Banjo-Kazooie but never gave the sequel a try. Maybe I should try to track down a copy. Just one minor note in the Banjo Kazooie review. "Actually Kazooie cops an attitude with just about everyone, and HIS perpetual irritability is hilarious." Kazooie is actually a girl. I think she'd give you an earful if she heard you referred to her as a boy lol.

[jon]

Rare’s impact on the N64 in retrospect is interesting. The main games I’m focusing on playing are Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. Without that company, the system’s library really gets a lot more difficult. Those and Banjo Kazooie are by far the most important games on the N64 not developed by Nintendo. As for Banjo Kazooie, I’m not as big a fan as I was but I think it has the best Christmas level of all time.

[DaHeckIzDat]

I swear Banjo Kazooie is cursed. I really like it, but every time I tell myself I'm going to sit down and eat it, I inky get as far as the pirate level before something else comes along and steals my attention.

[Anchoa79]

Donkey Kong 64, Banjo (x2), Conker,... Rare was very cool.

[txsizzler]

Now the Critic just needs to review Bajo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts for the Xbox 360!

[VideoGameCritic]

Now the Critic just needs to review Bajo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts for the Xbox 360!

Thanks for the reminder! Almost done that review...

[DaHeckIzDat]

Now the Critic just needs to review Bajo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts for the Xbox 360!

Thanks for the reminder! Almost done that review...

[Retro STrife]

Banjo Kazooie is one of those games I've been meaning to play for 25 years and just can't get around to it. I popped it in once and that's it. But these reviews are great, and I'm glad to know that the first Banjo game is the best - at least that saves me from waiting another 25 years to play Tooie.

Another plus-- you've really covered the N64 library well, and Banjo Tooie was arguably the best N64 game that you hadn't reviewed yet. However, now that you've given Tooie a B-, I stand by my long-held belief that Pokemon Snap is the game you'll like the most of the remaining N64 games to review. Disregard Pokemon being in the name and just try it already...