History VideoGame / BanjoKazooie

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In Click Clock Wood, Eyrie the eagle is seemingly abandoned by his parents and relies on Banjo and Kazooie to feed him. If you refuse to do so until autumn, in winter he will be... gone. Of course, the other option is not much less cruel, as you need to feed him 15 live caterpillars who ''talk''.

* SequelHook: Mumbo pops out of a tree and shows pictures of the infamous Stop 'n' Swop items, saying that you would find out what they were for in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' Then there's Gobi talking about going home to the "lava world", a world that doesn't appear in the game but does end up appearing in the sequel.

''Banjo-Kazooie'' started development as a completely different game - an RPG for the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem called ''Dream'', which would have used the pre-rendered 3D graphical style of ''Banjo-Kazooie''[='s=] predecessor, the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' trilogy. After years in DevelopmentHell and a hearty dose of inspiration from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', ''Banjo-Kazooie'' debuted on the N64 on June 29, 1998. It was a critical and commercial success that cemented Rare's place as a vital supporter of the console in its losing race against the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. Despite their close relationship however, Microsoft purchased Rare in September 2002, divorcing the Bear and Bird from Nintendo's home consoles.

''Banjo-Kazooie'' saw an UpdatedRerelease for the Xbox 360’s UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade, developed by Rare and 4JStudios. This version is largely the same as the original gameplay-wise, but [[AntiFrustrationFeatures uses the additional processing power of the 360 to save which Notes and Jinjos you’ve collected in a stage so you don’t have to chase them all down again after dying or exiting the level]]. It also runs in HD in a 16:9 aspect ratio, uses high res UI elements, uses updated camera controls, and restores functionality to the previously abandoned Stop ‘n’ Swop system. This version of the game has since been released physically as part of ''[[CompilationReRelease Rare Replay]]'', which can be played on both UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Series X|AndS}}.

In a WebVideo/NintendoDirect on September 24, 2021, Nintendo announced that ''Banjo-Kazooie'' would be coming to UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch as part of the Nintendo 64 Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. This release is a straight port of the original N64 release, and the first time this version has been brought to modern consoles. It was added to the library on January 20, 2022.

A seminal {{Platform|Game}}er series, created by Creator/{{Rare}} for the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}, the ''Banjo-Kazooie'' series (sometimes simply referred to as the ''Banjo'' series) tells the tale of the lazy honey bear Banjo, his best friend Kazooie (who is an avian known as a "[[CallARabbitASmeerp breegull]]"), the nasty witch [[BigBad Gruntilda Winkybunion]] who likes messing with their lives, and [[CollectAThonPlatformer lots and lots]] of [[PlotCoupon shiny golden puzzle pieces called Jiggies]]. Traversing many strange and improbable worlds, the dauntless duo go about SavingTheWorld from the evil witch's latest scheme, with the help of [[{{Mentors}} moleish mentors]], [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter cute bird-anteater... things called Jinjos]], and a very liberal helping of BritishHumour.

* '''''Banjo-Kazooie''''' (1998, UsefulNotes/Nintendo64)

* '''''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieGruntysRevenge''''' (2003, UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance)

* '''''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts''''' (2008, UsefulNotes/Xbox360)

* '''''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing With Banjo-Kazooie]]''''' (2010, UsefulNotes/Xbox360)

* '''''#IDARB''''' (2016, UsefulNotes/XboxOne)

* '''''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''''' (2018, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch)

* VariableMix: Every overworld and level. ''Ever''. But for starters, every level with an appreciable amount of water has an underwater version in the form of a muted harp.

* MissingSecret: Without the use of cheats, certain locations in the game become this: while Treasure Trove Cove's "Sharkfood Island" at least has an empty honeycomb beside it, you will probably end up being puzzled what's inside the closed door in Gobi's Valley and the crossed out wine barrel in Mad Monster Mansion. The worst? The Ice Key in Freezeezy Peak is ''visible'' and clearly a collectible, but you have no way of getting it.

** '''Secondary''': Extra honeycomb pieces, Mumbo tokens, jinjos, glowbos, Cheato pages, Banjo statues
** '''Tertiary''': Music notes, eggs, and feathers.

* ContinuingIsPainful: You had to collect all 100 notes in each world in order to complete the game, since you need at least 810 of 900 notes to finish the game and 882 out of 900 to double your ammo capacity before the final boss fight. Aggravating this is that the game had a strange score system for them where, if you left or died in a level without collecting them all and returned, you would have to collect them all over again plus the ones you missed in order to add to your note score (i.e. if you collect 50, then leave and come back, you have to collect 51 before your overall score will start increasing)[[note]]This is because technical limitations of the N64 prevented the game from saving that many collectibles without the aid of the Expansion Pak; notably, this is why the sequel bunched them together in clumps of 5-20. The more advanced Xbox 360, which was more than able to overcome this problem, was able to do away with the "note score" and just save the notes you collected[[/note]]. This becomes extremely frustrating in Rusty Bucket Bay, where a few notes are placed in the boiler room, where it is very easy to die, forcing you to collect all of the level's notes all over again. Jinjos also have to be collected in one go to get the Jiggy from them (which is a big headache in Rusty Bucket Bay (again), where one Jinjo is located in a far-off corner of the oxygen-draining polluted water). The Xbox Live Arcade and Rare Replay ports mitigated this by allowing you to keep the notes permanently on collecting them.

* CopyProtection: When certain Game Shark or PAR cheats are used (which inadvertently do something like violating protected memory or the checksum), the bridge to Grunty's Lair in Spiral Mountain will have a large hole in it, making it impossible to cross without a levitation cheat. There are no still effects otherwise.

* ArtShift: ''Nuts & Bolts'' has a far blockier style than the previous games, to the point where Banjo looks blockier on the Xbox 360 than he did on the Nintendo 64.

* AcrophobicBird: Kazooie can't fly until you specifically gain the ability from Bottles, and even then, it's only in specific places. In ''Tooie'', she has to gain the ability to glide and doesn't get it until fairly late. She's a reasonably fast runner, though.

* BubblegloopSwamp: This game features the {{Trope Namer|s}}; its entrance lobby can be seen in the lower left corner of this page's image. It's a green, moist marshland filled with extensive moats of water populated by piranhas, making them dangerous to navigate without wearing Wading Boots or mounting water lilies. Red frogs (called Fibblits) and yellow dragonflies (called Buzzbombs) serve as the main mooks, with a group of strong yellow Fibblits serving as a WolfpackBoss. It also includes several breakable huts built upon tall poles, a friendly giant turtle who needs your help and has a playable location inside his body (where a group of singing turtles are practicing for a rehearsal), a large egg that has to be broken from different angles, and a wooden maze flooded with piranha water where the Wading Boots are a must for navigation. At the end of that maze, Mumbo can be found; his magic in this level transforms Banjo and Kazooie into a small crocodile, who is not only immune to the piranha bites in the water but can also enter a much larger crocodile elsewhere to challenge a fellow specimen in a difficult minigame.

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* '''''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Kazooie]]''''' (1998, UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}})

* '''''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts''''' (2008, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}})

** In the file select, Banjo can be seen playing a UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and the sound effects are taken from ''Donkey Kong Land''.

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** Only 94 of 100 Jiggies and 810 out of 900 notes are required to reach the FinalBoss. Rewards exist if you collect further notes (with 882 needed for the last one), such as free refills on your feathers and eggs before the final fight. There's also a double-health upgrade in exchange for four more Jiggies, bringing the total number necessary to unlock everything to 98. The last two Jiggies don't do anything, but getting all 100 allows you to see a bonus ending that reveals the locations of the Stop 'n' Swop items.

** Collecting all of 116 of the Mumbo Tokens is not only optional -- only 75 are needed -- but nearly impossible due to glitches in Mad Monster Mansion and Click Clock Wood. For some reason, two of them in Mad Monster Mansion share the same flag number, so without a workaround one will disappear when you collect the other. There is a different issue in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=yLziDUlgOGo Click Clock Wood]] that has a similar effect; two of the Tokens are in close enough proximity to each other, one will vanish when you collect the other, because of overlapping proximity regions.

* SequelHook: Mumbos pop out of a tree and shows pictures of the infamous Stop 'n' Swop items, saying that you would find out what they were for in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' Then there's Gobi talking about going home to the "lava world", a world that doesn't appear in the game but does end up appearing in the sequel.

** In Gobi's Valley, there's a glitch that allows you to Beak Barge your way through the side of the Sphinx, allowing you to access the inside of it without shooting eggs into its nose. Also, the switch Jiggy for that level can be reached without pressing the switch by using the Shock Jump pad nearby and leaping onto the coffin with the Jiggy on it, and then rolling into part of it--Banjo will clip through just enough to grab the Jiggy inside.

* SequentialBoss: The final boss fight with Gruntilda has at least 5 phases to them shortly after you beat her quiz. The battle first has Banjo/Kazooie dodging her broom and eventually summoning Jinjos to destroy her broom and then send her off her castle.
* ShiftingSandLand: Gobi's Valley has all the desert level clichés you can think of. [[SandIsWater Sandfalls]], [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian pyramids]], [[RiddlingSphinx a sphinx]], [[{{Mummy}} mummies]], [[AllDesertsHaveCacti out-of-place cacti]]...

* ThreateningShark: Snacker the shark is rather antagonistic and will attack Banjo if he goes into deep water. Subverted by the massive cyborg Clanker, who is a GentleGiant.

** A Jiggy in Mad Monster Mansion requires Banjo and Kazooie to flush themselves down a toilet and into the mansion's cess pit, something that even [[EvenEvilHasStandards grosses out Gruntilda herself]].
** The music for the [[WombLevel Clanker's insides]] having fart and burp noises sprinkled throughout.
** Some of the facts Brentilda gives about her sister, such as Grunty having a 'loogie bush' near her bed, brown stained undies, among others.
** Nabnuts, the squirrel Banjo and Kazooie meet in Click Clock Wood, is reduced to a burping and gassy mess during the Summer portion of the level.

* SequelHook: ''Kazooie'' has Mumbo pop out of a tree and show pictures of the infamous Stop 'n' Swop items, saying that you would find out what they were for in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' Then there's Gobi talking about going home to the "lava world", a world that doesn't appear in the game but does end up appearing in the sequel.

** Subverted in Click Clock Wood; it's possible to use the eggs to break open the boulder blocking Gnawty's home, but he'll still act like the boulder is there, and his home won't load up if you swim into it.

* ShiftingSandLand: Gobi's Valley has all the desert level clichés you can think of. [[SandIsWater Sandfalls]], [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian pyramids]], [[RiddlingSphinx sphinxes]], [[{{Mummy}} mummies]], [[AllDesertsHaveCacti out-of-place cacti]]...

* SequelHook:
* ''Kazooie'' has Mumbo pop out of a tree and show pictures of the infamous Stop 'n' Swop items, saying that you would find out what they were for in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' Then there's Gobi talking about going home to the "lava world", a world that doesn't appear in the game but does end up appearing in the sequel.

* SequelHook: ''Kazooie'' has Mumbo pop out of a tree and show pictures of the infamous Stop 'n' Swop items, saying that you would find out what they were for in ''Banjo-Tooie.''