is Banjo Kazooie ACTUALLY good?

Glad you had an overall positive experience, this is my favorite game ever. Kind of late for tips, but the R button is your best friend in this game. It centers your camera behind you when it's in an awkward position, and holding R while flying and swimming makes your turning controls way tighter and better.

Fun fact: You can hold R to either reset the camera to face the direction Banjo is facing, or while swimming/flying to sharpen the angle/speed at which they turn. As a speedrunner I Never actually swim or fly WITHOUT holding R, but allows for variety and control as well, really helps with the issue of the clunky controls in water and in the air. Also a Common misconception with beak bomb is that Banjo and Kazooie must be facing the direction they fly towards, while in fact they move towards the center of the screen at the time they pressed B. You can actually perform flick shots this way it’s pretty neat. All of this stuff was in the pamphlet that game with the game at the time, so (obvious bias here as a speedrunner but I did play this game for the first time a year ago) I’d argue that these issues are indeed a skill issue, get good @TCNick3 and have a goodnight

The camera controls are like that because the N64 had the 4 C buttons instead of a second analogue stick. With an N64 controller you would never accidentally open the first person view and it was much less awkward to mash the buttons to look around. Even on the N64 the controls still aren’t amazing (by today’s standards) but they weren’t badly designed and were the best that could be achieved on the newest hardware at the time.

"I love that there's no backtracking!" Then you're gonna love Banjo Tooie! 😀😀😀😀

Boomer really has just turned into "someone who is older than me"

Seeing the fact that Nick really likes this game and will probably use the soundtrack in future videos makes me really happy to see someone be enlightened to a fantastic video game franchise Now it's my turn to return the favour and complete Ace Attorney

Yeah it's definitely not just nostalgia. It was a masterpiece in its time and despite its age the gameplay holds up and doesn't feel awful. Underwater controls are notoriously bad in gaming in general and in BK they provided a decent challenge to a kid, especially swimming through that damn key to get Clanker some fresh air. And trying to swim through those bubbles so you can stay down there longer. But a recent re-playthrough saw me breeze through things. This is on N64 with the old school controller too. I'm impressed that it still plays so well.

I get why Nintendo used the N64 version for NSO, but the Xbox version actually fixes most of the problems you had! It improves the graphics and gives you a better camera. Plus the game saves your Notes when you die, so death is far less punishing. Regardless I'm glad you enjoyed the game! BK is probably my most replayed game and it's nice to know the game has still aged very well all things considered.

I actually really enjoyed this type of video. It’d be cool to see you do more of this in the future

Banjo AND Kazooie killed me a little bit inside every time, glad to be validated in loving this game though 😎 the camera issues are partially because the camera is designed to be controlled by the c-buttons, not an analog stick, but otherwise agree most of the issues are basically 90s technology (jank camera) and game design (overly punishing on death)

31 year me who played and loved this game (and the sequel) as a child seeing and hearing 24 year old Nick play this game for the first time and genuinely like it makes me smile tremendously.

4:14 He's going to hate Banjo Tooie!

This is great, would love to see more reviews like it!

That's so interesting that you don't like backtracking in video games after unlocking new abilities. I LOOOOVE that. I love being able to revisit old areas with entirely new abilities and looking at the map I used to look at in a totally new way because I have a bunch of new tools at my disposal and it completely changes a bunch of early rooms etc. Unlocking new areas you couldn't reach before, letting you reach new pathways, find secret Chests etc. Idk i love that stuff. Makes the world feel very dense and full. Not sparse. Interesting to me to see another perspective

Bro, if Nick gets mad when a game forces you to make backtracking and if he said that banjo kazooie is based because of not doing it, I cant imagine what he's gonna say about Banjo Tooie 💀

While this may not change your opinion, when swimming and flying you can hold R to sharpen your turns. You definitely have to get a feel for it first though. As for save states i don't recall the xbox version having them, so i will have to look that up. Other than that it was a fun video to watch, its always nice to see more reviews on one of my favorite games.

Banjo and Kazooie is one of those games I have more reasons to appreciate as an adult than I ever did as a child.

In which Nick explains the inferiority of soft '00s kids compared to determined, resilient '90s kids.

“Boomer’s nostalgia glasses”… bro is like 5 years younger than the “boomers” he’s talking about

hoo boy you wouldn't like Banjo-Tooie! The thing you mentioned about backtracking with new moves is taken to a whole new level in that game. Tons of things you walk up to, discover you can't do anything about and then leave only to come back a couple of levels later when you have the right move to do it. And I love it for that. It's something I genuinely enjoy in games, when you have seen something before and when you get access to a new move or item or whatever, it's like the jigsaw piece falls into place and you're like "Heeey, this is the solution to that old thing way back there!" Love that stuff, but just a heads up, you'll absolutely hate Banjo-Tooie, I can tell