Banjo-Kazooie

The Good
I guess you could say that Banjo-Kazooie is a game for only younger players. But I disagree with that since I am 17 and I still play it (thought some might consider 17 young.) The game is just extremely addictive because you can go through the game and beat it without getting everything. Or you can do what I do and go back and try and complete the game 100%. And if you tried to bet the game 100% the n you would realise that Banjo-Kazooie is a bit to hard for all the younger players.

The graphics for Banjo-Kazooie are pretty much what you would expect from a Rareware game. They are the same kind of half-cartoonish graphics that are in other Rareware games such as Donkey Kong. I don’t think that there was any jumping or bugs in the game (though there rarely is on a console game.)

The sound for Banjo-Kazooie was probably the reason that some people thought that it was a game only for young children. The music for each level was well selected and it helped create the atmosphere, which was hoped for in that level.

The game play for Banjo-Kazooie was very good. Going through the game the first time was fun and then you could go back and try and complete the game 100% and if you did that you got quite few hours of game play out of the game. The idea of having to find moves was good so that the moves didn’t get old and all through the game you were finding out new moves.

The Bad
The game got boring quite quickly with some people because all that you had to do was find things. You had to find all the Jinjos to get a puzzle piece and you had to find all the puzzle pieces to beat the level, and to get new moves you just had to find the right amount of musical notes. So it got quite tiresome after playing for a while and just doing the same things over and over again but with a different backdrop.

The cartoony graphics is all I have to complain about with the game. Maybe if they had not made the graphics so child like then it would have appealed to a more broad range of players.

Again with the sound they made it a bit childish and when then characters spoke they didn’t even bother putting speech in. Instead they just had the character make one sound over and over again while the writing appeared on the screen (you will know what I a talking about if you have played the game.)

The only thing that is wrong with the game play in Banjo-Kazooie is that some of the moves are annoying to do and it gets tiring after doing them over and over again

The Bottom Line
Banjo-Kazooie is an entertaining game for the whole family (even if that sounds a bit corny.) Its a great game and you should be able to see that because I had to think of pitiful things to say that was bad about it. So in short its a great game for all age groups.