Banjo Kazooie (N64)
It’s an interesting thing. Banjo Kazooie is better than Doom 3. In fact, it’s better the most current generation games. I’ve spent far too long on it today, but it’s just such a great game with a brilliant mechanic that it can’t be helped. Also, I’ve never completed it and – as Debbie picked up a mint copy of Banjo Tooie for 3 quid in a charity shop, I’m going to do em both back to back 🙂
The thing is, there’s a huge amount of stuff to do in BK – you’ve got to collect jigsaw pieces to open areas, collect notes to open others, collect eggs to shoot collect honeycombs to increase health and collect skulls to get VOODOO MAGIC BABY. Then there’s that magnificent feature on the start button which shows you how much of each area you’ve completed, and the insane drive to GET EVERYTHING. Fab.
I had a go of Lego Star Wars as well. Superficially, it’s quite short but the amount of unlockables and different types of challenge should give it quite a high degree of replayability. Will I still be playing it ten years after release, like Banjo Kazooie? I doubt it. It’s fun just now though.
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Grendel from the album “B’sides Themselves” by Marillion
