Banjo-Tooie Analysis
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2023
- The follow up to the original banger! How does it stack up? Let's find out!
The next game we're covering is Banjo-Tooie! Let's go collect some jiggies!!
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What is your favorite world from the game?
Halfire peaks
@@hermanwesterveld9963 That is my favorite too!!!
Favorite world is Witchy World 👍🏻
@@onlygoodgamesofficial heck yeah!!! Great level!
Halfire peaks and Cucko land is hilarious 😂
Canary mary was in the death cage for a reason...
A very good one
The nostalgia this game evokes in me is unbelievably powerful
Well I’m so glad for that me too haha
me too :D
Me too🥹
Jolly Rogers Lagoon blew my mind - it started as a little pirate-town and i would never have expected this gigantic world underwater
I didn’t see it coming either!!
I genuinely love the epic size of the levels, the interconnectivity of the worlds & even the backtracking. It's a whimsically dark game. The level designs themselves really hit the right notes for me, they scratch an itch that I rarely feel in other games.
Yes they do scratch an itch! People describe it as a 3d MetroidVania and I love it.
You're the only person I've seen mention the improved roll animation. That's one of the things I noticed that I felt not many people did... Also the backpack having its own physics, the replaced standing-b press attack, and the Mumbo redesign. Fantastic video. Very satisfying for the Banjo nerd!
Thank you for watching! I try to be thorough! Especially when I’m passionate about a game!
Finally someone who actually appreciates all the worlds, interconnectivity, and everything else ambitious about this game. Geez, it's an absolute gem and felt INCREDIBLE to play as a kid.
I am with you!! I love this game
I just got this game for my birthday! I cant wait to relive this masterpiece!
NICE!!
Great work, was entertained from start to finish 🙌🏻 masterpiece of videos you've given us
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that!! :)
Wow, despite playing these games since I was a literal toddler, I never consciously noticed the difference in rolling mechanics between kazooie and tooie! 20+ years and I'm still learning things about these games
Right? So many things to dissect
I completed 100% of this game last month, and boy, has it become one of my favorite games.
It's very frustrating to have so few quality videos talking about this game. Your video is one of them
I love this game! I make a lot of videos about Banjo Tooie! This was my first one :)
Liked the video. Some random notes: 1) You can grab jiggies with clock work eggs. This means you can bypass a few puzzles / platforming sections. 2) you can fight lord wufakfak as a submarine (imo the sub controls better and has infinite ammo).
Grunty industry is probably my favorite level because I really felt like I was breaking into the place. I have a feeling its a matter of taste - I have a thing for navigation puzzles and some of my favorite games are Majora's Mask, Dark Souls, etc....
I’m hearing more and more about people liking Grunty industries! Thats pretty cool!
All of your videos are so well narrated and it’s refreshing to re-experience these games and worlds with your seriously well thought out commentary. 💯
Thanks so much! I certainly work really hard at them and try to bring value! Just spreading the love of the games I love! Thanks for watching!
After 3 separate lunch breaks i finally finished this video. Probably my favorite youtube video honestly lol great work!!
That means the world to me!! Thank you so much for taking the time to not only watch but tell me that :)
Born in '83 by the time Banjo Tooie came along I had moved on to the PlayStation because that was for the cool kids 😂 so I actually totally missed this game. I really need to give this game a shot
You really should!
Born in 86 and I did the same. Played it for the first time about 2 years ago. Give it a shot. It’s now one of my favorite games.
@@brettb5089 Heck yeah
For all of those interested, RingRush just uploaded a 100% Tool-Assisted Speedrun (TAS) of this game. Super interesting watch!
We've been waiting for a banjo threeie for 24 years (since 2000).
Yeah :(
I agree with them bringing back the moves from the first game. It’s pretty rare that adventure games start you out with this many abilities
Yeah it’s awesome that it was expanding upon so much!
That's one of the things that this game did made other games seem incredibly lacking, it was a full continuation and the duo didn't receive a brain injury like samus always seems to
@@jankington216 yes 100%
Aside from the godly music, what I really liked as a kid(and still like now as an adult) is the sheer attention to detail, the way the worlds are all connected and who can forget the humor.
You mentioned Banjo's shadow, a core memory I have is when I was playing at my grandparents, my late grandfather thought it was funny that this "video game" had shadows and was impressed by Banjo having one. As far as I know he had never played a video game before or after.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to notice! I was so blown away by that as a kid and that was when I first started paying attention to graphics in games!
Definitely one of my favorite games growing up! I had good times flying around Terrydactyland as dragon Kazooie, dropping grenade eggs on all the dino enemies just to pass the time lol. My favorite level had to be Witchyworld, for the theme music and the layout
Heck yeah! Dragon Kazooie was so dope!
This was the first game back in 2005 I’ve ever played and I’ve never even tho I enjoy it I wanted to go back and finish it 15 yrs later but my cousin sold my 64 and games while I was in college so now after 18 yrs I bought a new N64 and B-T and now I can finally finish this masterpiece of a game
Dude yes! Go back and finish! Such a classic game!
This is the first time I’ve ever enjoyed a channel’s intro song lmao thank you for that
Haha thank you!!! Gotta love farts 💨 👃I genuinely appreciate the support and hope you’ll check out my latest videos 😀
Brilliant video and I really appreciate you for making this :)
My pleasure! One of my favorite games of all time!
when I was a kid,I avoided bottle's body at all times,I never went back XD I was that uncomfortable
LMAO I tried to do CPR by beak busting him. It didn’t work…
Fun Fact!
If you think WitchyWorld plays a lot like Banjo Kazooie, that's because it was originally meant for Banjo Kazooie! The stage was removed either due to restraints or pacing, but it would be added to Banjo Tooie as the introduction to the Split Up Pads.
This explains why Witchy World is a more reserved stage that's smaller in size compared to the rest. Banjo Kazooie stages were medium sized with plenty of content that encouraged exploration, while Banjo Tooie promoted wider-sized worlds with interconnectivity to encourage exploring instead.
I don't think Jingaling's pet disintegrated, I think he's just hiding in the cushion.
I mean he is a pile of burnt crumbs with eyes lol
@@jiggylookback I could have sworn it was a shadow with eyes sticking out, like a cartoony hiding effect.
@@SpongicX pretty positive it’s ashes with eyes but I mean anything is possible take a peek at it again
I thought the same thing.
10/10 indeed! Banjo-Tooie is absolutely amazing! 😍👍
I love your analysis videos, keep up the great work!!
Thanks for watching :) I’ve got another one in the works now! Covering some dope 16 bit games this time!
Looking forward to it! 🤩 Into the video we gooooooo
Part of me wishes that there was a hack of Banjo-Tooie, where all the cut content (like a more fully-fleshed out Cauldron Keep as Cauldron Castle-complete with a Teleportation Room for Fast-Travel was realized, fixed framerate issues, and maybe a minimap were handy). I’d call it “Banjo-Kazooie-Tooie”!
This is what perplexes me: Sonic & Knuckles came out 6 years prior to Banjo-Tooie. So, with the revision in the N64 hardware, why didn’t they make Banjo-Tooie a lock-on cartridge where you can access the Stop N’ Swop from Banjo-Kazooie, and Donkey-Kong 64?
Any other N64 game would tske you to a similar type “No Way” screen; but if you have Goldeneye plugged in, you’d play the ZX Spectrum games with their proper sfx added in.
Banjo-Tooie means a lot to me; I played this A LOT when I was a kid; I sunk in so many hours into this game, and without it, and it’s backtracking, it wouldn’t have helped warm me up to the Metroid series, and its exploratory gameplay!
Agreed! I adored exploring all the time in Tooie and would spend endless hours doing that as a kid. I love the idea of a Sega tower of power style thing, that’d be sick!
aint no way this man's theme song is nothing but farts.
I still have the fart version but I have grown since then and it’s now blaring electric guitars.
Same tune tho!
Sometimes the fart one makes a reappearance if I feel like it. Lol
Great video! Always good to see some Banjo love in the 2020s!
Just a few things I wanted to add after watching the entire thing:
Terry is a man. :( He is a single father! Zombie Jingaling even has a line stating that Terry's wife recently left him and all he has now are the kids.
I don't know if you did it on purpose to show us how annoying those drones in Grunty Industries are, but you could just destroy the camera with eggs and they'd stop spawning for a while. Could have made the scene with the toilet conversation more convenient.
And lastly it's random which skullhouse Mingy Jongo resides in. But you can always tell them apart after entering, because Mumbo doesn't sleep and has a Minjo at the entrance while Mingy has a Jinjo and sleeps.
P.S. Grunty Industries is currently (and since 2000) my most favourite 3d platformer level of all time!
Thanks for watching. That’s so funny you say that
I was confused because I thought he was a man…but eggs and babies really confused me. Thanks for clearing that up.
Not sure as this was a while ago, but I did know about the cameras so idk why I didn’t. I very well could have had that intention.
But wait Mingy spawns randomly each playthrough? I guess it’s a 50/50 shot but I felt like my last two play through he was in the blue one.
That’s a cool tidbit!
To answer your question about why frame dips and lower framerates in general dont matter as much on old games, simple
Low res. The transition between frames is less jarring because of the blur
I’m sure that helps! I actually read somewhere that Rare in particular would calculate where the frame dips were happening and speed up the game. Sounds bizarre but that’s why cut scenes had to be reworked in the Xbox re releases because the audio and everything would get out of sync because the framerate was better in that version.
Wild stuff!
@@jiggylookback now thats attention to detail lmao. We dont get that kinda stuff now. Retro games are so much better than modern
On that I wholeheartedly agree! It was a different time! I’m digging the trend of indie studios giving us homages to these older games! It’s great :)
Min 44 a very important thing you missed about the transformation, is that enemies run away from you. In fact you can smash that slotting machine enemy like it's nothing.
Kunga's abilities the first time you fight him is based on which save you were on. I tried it a few times back in the day.
I thought it was randomized? Because speed runners prefer a specific series and if they get all 3 they are in good shape. At the very least they want to start with a certain one but I can’t remember.
One of my favorite games ever! I love JFG, B-K, CBFD and DK64 but this game encapsulates everything wonderful about the Rare, N64 era and the sense of adventure, creativity and colorful but atmospheric oddness that they brought so tangibly.
And yes, I agree with you that it probably is the best looking game on the N64.
Heck yeah
I like the name Isle o Hags. Not just how funny it is to say, but the idea that Grunty and evil witches in general probably rule this land, but man that dopey bear and his sassy bird wi- err buddy messing up their plans.
Awesome video. Not sure if it’s been asked. But will you do a :Analyzing Nuts n Bolts?
At some point! It is on my list! I do have more Banjo content coming soon though!
In my top 5 favorite games of all time. My favorite level is Hailfire Peaks, but Grunties Industries is incredible and highly underrated. I don't know why people are so adverse to complexity and difficulty in level design.
Did a whole world tierlist of Kazooie and Tooie. I love Hailfire Peaks, but Grunty eeeehhhh
@@jiggylookback wow I just watched that segment of the video. It's kinda funny that the reasons you don't like the level, make the top tier for me. I absolutely love the complexity of navigation and trying to keep a mental map of what goes where. You have to keep track of the battery locations, how to get into different sections with different forms, the rabbit locations, and this is extremely fun to me. There's also so much variety and I love the music/theme. It feels like an oppressive mechanical labyrinth that really forces you into thinking about the entire layout. It's like if a metroidvania game was a singular level. Also not to mention the incredible boss. Then again, I'm the type of person that has the 3ds Ocarina of Time Water Temple as their second favorite dungeon in that game, so maybe I'm the only person who loves navigational challenges.
We did community tierlist results and most people didn't like it. There were a few that loved it tho! @@aidansilli4257
Not sure if he says in the video yet, but a subtle difference I appreciate as an adult is that the kind of meh claw swipe is now a ground version of the Rat a tat Rap. If you’ve played the original, you probably got used to jumping just to have a more reliable melee attack, so Tooie feels like it’s throwing you a bone
I think I did? Hard to say cause I’ve made several Tooie videos. But yeah I agree!
Love your intro!
Haha thanks. I’ve retired that fart intro but I have a new one that kicks butt.
1:26:53 Shoutouts to some Canadian legends.
I found a vape pen with Mumbo on the box the day after I watch all your Banjo videos pretty wild
That is pretty wild!
great vid
I swear those god damn slot machine enemies in witchyworld have aimbot
Seriously!!! They hit almost no matter what! I agree
Cauldron Keep would of been bigger but due to time restrants it was cut short.
Yeah shame. It could have been more and brought us up to that 100 jiggy mark
Subscribed because of this video.
Ohhhh man welcome to the community!!! Got a lot more in store to watch!! I highly recommend Overthinking It Banjos Backpack episode!
@@jiggylookback Can't wait! I'll watch it after the Abo and cera playlist.
@@benjibrogames2795 oooohhhh man big update coming soon for that one 😏
I started playing through tooie again for fun and the level unlock vibration on Xbox is so crazy my controller fell off my desk
DUDE I love that XD in a way you could say Master Jiggywiggy Rocked your world. 😂
B. K., Bonky Kong
I’d love to see that mod lol
Great vid
Thanks for watching and taking the time to say that! I really appreciate it!
Only now CZcams recommended me this video. This game was a big title that I got alongside Majoras Mask and it may be an unpopular opinion but I loved the complex interconnective design of the games world. I'd usually play BK and BT to scratch different itches. Tooie was just that big exploration focussed game while BK was straight forward. Seeing some people calling it an outright bad game is just not right if you ask me.
Canary Mary's second mini game in can just bugger off tho.
Amazing video! :D
Thanks so much! Hope you’ll check out my other videos! Huge on banjo on my channel! I got tons of content and more coming! I’ve really growing since this too :)
And yes Canary Mary can move right along.
Already on it @@jiggylookback!
The video about Conker's bad fur day is absolutely the next on the list.
@@Dragynn999 heck yeah!
I like the digital font that you use for this video. Where did you get it from?
I use many different fonts tbh now I’m more uniform. The font in this video I believe it called Retro Gaming. I got it off dafont online it is a free public domain font!
@@jiggylookback The one I'm actually talking about was the one with the Mumbo speech and also where your character talk in the B-K language.
@@Nonjolayep that is the font Retro Gaming. I simply capitalized the first letter and then lowercased everything else.
Min 15, you didn't talk about an ogre living in their house haha
That’s a fair point 😂😂😂
Switch Online please Nintendo hurry up
They really need to do this.
1 hr of cutscenes till u can play..
Whhaaaa I dig the setup haha I don’t see a problem at least at the beginning.
Dialogue does become too much throughout tho.
I'm playing Chrono Trigger again on the Steam Deck this weekend. God it's good, definitely recommend. Dragon Quest XI next weekend.
Heck yeah! It's on my list
I always thought the pet was hiding under the cushions. he's disintegrated.?
He is disintegrated. Poor little guy :(
Would it KILL Microsoft to put this game on Steam and/or Switch Online?
I'm sure it will come to NSO at some point
You should do analyzing Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 complete editions!
Just finished Toy Story 2! I’ll be revamping my analyzing series so that I only put out one video! This will give me an opportunity to do more I think. I have more coming soon!! Some popular and some more…obscure…
do have to say something about blobbela, I always believed the dots all over her are warts, not freckles, but it's a n64 game, so I can't really tell 😂
Oh man. I really wonder now lol they probably are warts!
What is up the the game audio?
At the beginning I had some sort of echo going. This was a bit ago before I got my setup tuned in. It was fixed later in the video.
I always wondered if this game was made for the GameCube instead of the N64 that it could have been amazing. I feel the limitations of the console and being too similar visually to banjo Kazooie stopped it shining on its own.
It definitely could have been more on GameCube. At the very least it would have had a performance boost.
I always loved the idea of having the trilogy on 64 tho. Darn
Amazing video. not nearly enough views.
Thank you so much! This was one of my early ones too!
@@jiggylookback I noticed. It got my attention. I'll be picking through your channel! Hopefully it gets picked back up by CZcams algorithm.
Thanks so much! Hope you enjoy the rest of my content!!
Bottles and Jamjars are brothers, not cousins.
I needed to check the comments to see if anybody had already said that, but found nothing. Did that for the other things you got incorrect and saw somebody had already informed you about those.
It has been corrected actually but yes. I did in fact know this but sometimes when writing it just happens that way and I make mistakes then I record and don’t realize what I did.
I’m not perfect. Not sure what else was really a mistake, but trust me I’m sure they’ve been pointed out 10,854 times lol
Ugh, Canary Mary.. a black mark on what is otherwise an /incredible/ game I still think fondly of to this day. Good grief. I was always afraid of getting carpal tunnel as a result of it, too.
Long time ago, and even more recently on those rare occasions I get into some nostalgic mood, sometimes I'll have a save game that I'll leave on 89 Jiggies and 1 Cheato Page left, just because I wasn't in the mood to deal with Mary, until I finally psych myself up and mentally prepare for it. Yes, it's this bad.
That said, there is a trick that does make it vastly easier. You may still not win 100% of the time, but this trick will increase the odds to 33% or even 50%. And at 50%, you'd have overall odds of winning at least once over 3 attempts, 87.5% of the time. 4 attempts? 93.75% chance you'll win at least once. The best part? You don't have to be superhuman. Are you ready? Here it is..
Understand a rubberband mechanic is used. You see this with Mario Kart 64, but you can almost swear it's worse with Mary. So here's what you do...
Repeatedly press A... /slowly/, maybe just enough to keep up with Mary, not pass. You'll have to go through the course once, to deliberately lose. That's when you'll find out at which point, you're about 85%, 90%, or 95% of the way through. When you figure this out, *that* is when you start mashing the A button like crazy, fast as you can! The rubberband mechanic takes time to react, and is not instant. The trick is to cross the finish line during this reaction window. And that... that is how you win!
If you start mashing like crazy from the get-go, the rubberband mechanic will kick in, and Mary will travel at an insane rate of speed. Not only would it require superhuman ability to theoretically mash the button as fast as possible, I'm not even sure if the spring in the button can bounce back fast enough, even if you could do this.
I'm sitting here at almost the one hour mark and he's still talking about Jolly Roger's Lagoon. How does this man manage to properly cover all 4 areas when he's got a half hour to talk about all of them. Video seems poorly paced, still gonna watch to the end tho. I wanna hear what he has to say about Grunty's Industries and Cloud CooCoo Land
A few things in defense of myself.
One: This is an older video I was still figuring things out. My pacing now is a lot better. My videos are also way more condensed.
Two: It’s a stitching of different videos together it wasn’t made as one big piece.
Three: Thanks for watching anyways :P
Back when developers actually cared about creating good games.....unlike these days in 2024. Take me back to old days!!!
I WANNA GO BACK
Um you do realize Donkey Kong 64 can be played in widescreen too right?
Yes?
@jiggylookback I already saw your video on that so I thought you should know
@@riftshredder5438 Did I say something in this one to say otherwise? I don't remember, but thanks anyways :)
Isn't this just a go-trough rather than a retrospective? Cause from my understanding a retrospective covers what the game did right and/or wrong next to other games from the game's era and tries to link those aspects to modern games nowadays
Ummm I mean I’m looking at everything. Retrospective means looking back at something.
I have plenty of other videos that cover that specific format tho.
@@jiggylookback The video is still well made tho! Just been watching few Banjo retrospectives lately and next to your video the other creators did more what I was mentioning in my original comment, but I still think a lot of work went into creating yours so I still appreciate it :)
@@rescuteax thanks so much!
I see what you’re saying. My video is somewhere between a let’s play and a true retrospective. Which is kind of what I was going for to be different. I wanted to look at everything as I played. In fact this video was a bunch of parts and I stitched it together into one big thing. It’s also super old XD you should watch my Defending Banjo Tooie video and I think you’ll enjoy that even more!
Tooie > kazooie idc
NOPE! It's a good game, but the best N64 game of all time is Bomberman 64 The Second Attack
I can’t confirm! I played and owned the first one but never played second attack. It’s that good huh?
@jiggylookback In my opinion, it is. It's like the first game but more narrative focused and the level designs are more dungeon-esque, almost like a Zelda game.
@@sameash3153 very cool! I’ll def check it out at some point
Cap
Nah
@@jiggylookback yea big open worlds of walking around. Backtracking so many times for one jiggy aint good game design. Making kazooie and banjos movesets separate makes it more complicated and defeated the purpose of what makes the game unique to begin with just for the sake of lets do more because we can.Banjo and tooie feels like ideas thrown at the wall just to try and showcase the hardware instead of being a good designed game first.Also mario 64 being overrated and dk64 being good give me a break.
@@foundoasis7342 wait did I say Mario 64 is over rated? I don’t remember that.
I made videos not long ago defending Tooie and DK64 addressing all the negative sentiment. At the very least I’d say go check out that DK one. Lots of love out there for that game I discovered! It IS good. Flawed I can admit, but still good.
I really hope banjo tooie comes to Nintendo switch online it was my favorite 64 game 🥲
Me too!!!