Banjo the Bear
| Banjo-Kazooie | |
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| Genres | Platforming, action-adventure |
| Developers | Rare |
| Publishers |
Nintendo (1998–2000) THQ (2003–2005) Microsoft Studios (2008–present) |
| Platforms | Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Mobile phones, Xbox 360 |
| Platform of origin | Nintendo 64 |
| First release |
Banjo-Kazooie 29 June 1998 |
| Latest release |
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts 11 November 2008 |
Banjo-Kazooie is a series of video games created by Rare. The games feature a honey bear named Banjo and his friend, a large red bird – of the fictional Breegull species – named Kazooie, who are both controlled by the player. Throughout the various games they are tasked with thwarting the various evil schemes of a witch named Gruntilda. The first game Banjo-Kazooie was originally released on the Nintendo 64 in 1998. Entries in the series have also appeared on later platforms.
Banjo-Kazooie was released in 1998 for the Nintendo 64 and re-released in 2008 for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. In Spiral Mountain, Banjo's sister, Tooty, has been kidnapped by the witch known as Gruntilda who wants Tooty's beauty and is willing to turn her into a hag for it. It is up to Banjo and Kazooie to save her. The goal is to progress through the witch's lair and the various worlds within it, collect items including jiggys which are golden jigsaw pieces which are needed to unlock new worlds and music notes that open up certain doors to help Banjo and Kazooie along their quest, and defeat Gruntilda.
Banjo-Tooie was released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64 and re-released in 2009 for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. Two years after Banjo and Kazooie defeat Gruntilda, Gruntilda is freed from her grave and revived by her two sisters using a drilling machine and their magic spell. Using a machine named B.O.B., she proceeds to wreak havoc on the Isle O' Hags, sucking the life force out of the land and its inhabitants to gain power to restore her body to its former state. After she kills Bottles, Banjo and Kazooie go to stop her. Tooie is famous for being significantly harder than its predecessor; jigsaw pieces are almost never in visible places or easily accessed, and abilities, powers, and items obtained from some worlds need to be used in others to complete tasks. Many new features were added to the game, such as bosses in each dungeon. Backtracking was also a feature, where the player needed to travel to previous dungeons as a result of abilities learned from Jam-Jars in the latter worlds.
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