| JGarret said: Hawkeye, I´m considering getting Banjo this week, and it seems most reviews say it is indeed a platformer, just different from what we were used to...how´s this game, really?...vehicle handling, size of levels, the platforming is done with you driving/piloting, right? |
Vechile handline is much better than all those previews made it show. I watched a video where they constantly crashed in Banjo Land. Either they sucked at the game or they made a crappy vechile. I have crashed 2 times in the levels. Showdown town I have crashed numerous times, but I was trying to wedge my vechile in so I could use it as a platform so I could hop onto the roofs.
My favorite part of Super Mario Sunshine was running and platforming on the roffs of isle delphino. Showdown town is huge, and once you get on the roofs, you can collect notes/mumbo crates and explore. Its really fun.
Beat the first level nutty acres using all vechiles. Then beat grunty in the first challenge with the coconut. Just see her path, restart, cut her off, jump off the vechile, and use you wrench to grap the coconut. I won in 5 seconds and got a T.T trphy doing that.
After this explore showdown town via vechile until yuo find the gym (its surrounded by ice) talk to the guy their, he is the bear form Freezeezy peak from banjo 1. Max out you running IMIdatly. your speed increase dramatically. Its at least 2x, may be 2.5x. You are 25% faster than the starter vechile I am sure. Now run around showdown town and explore find notes/crates ect. I did this for 4 hours and only exploreed about 1/3-1/2 of the town
Once I got my speed up I found it more fun to explore Banjo land and nutty acres on foot. You can do some challenges on foot, though you always start in a vechile. For example, you have to protect clanker in banjo land from grunty minions. Instead of weaving my way along claker, I jumpd out of my vechile and hunted them down on foot, killing them with my wrench. More fun imo.
You can do a wrench spin in the air as a kind of double jump. You do 1-3 spins, depending on how long you hold B. You can also whack things with your wrcnh, and lift objects. You can pretty much demolsih anything in the course. There is a GIANT
igloo in banjo land, and I dismantled it. You can increase your wrench attack at the gym, and also increase your power to carry things.
Banjo when maxed out runs fast in this game, probably 50% faster than mario in Super Mario Shunshine and about 85% faster than mario in super mario galaxy. The levels are big and sprawling and fun to explore.
Its so fun once you figure out how to make a flying vechile with multiple engines going fast to zoom around the course and take in all the scenery, like the forst are in nutty acres, then bail out and fall for 10 seconds. It looks cool, and one time I knocked over the whoel forest with my vvechile due to collaterol damage. Again, its fun to explore on foot once your speed is maxed.
You see Sprial mountain at the begining of the game, and once you beat the game you can go back and explore sprial mountain. It's gorgoues, and they made it larger so its fun to explore.
I highly recomend Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts. Haven't finished it yet, but so far I think I will probably give it 9.3-9.8/10 once I am done.
