Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts

[Aboobie]

It's about time I revived this thread.

I picked the game up on Friday based solely on my daughter enjoying running round the demo. After playing it myself I felt disenchanted and cancelled the pre-order I had. Despite the fact I thought it looked good I wasn't taken by the reliance on vehicles and didn't think it really 'worked'.

Now I've played it and I'm calling it one of my games of the year.

The pacing and imagination are exemplary, the games oozes fun and the graphics are probably the best I've ever seen. The scale and palette of the first world (not the same as the demo) is staggering, truly staggering and flying around in a plane, or speeding around on a hovercraft or a motorbike is a joy in itself.

The way the game's been engineered is sublime, there's always something to do, everything is easy to get to every challenge is unique. There's also a ton of deft touches and not a single sign of a sloppy design shortcut.

All in all I'm really digging it and as it seems to have been so overlooked I'd just suggest those that were on the fence to give it a 2nd look. I've also just seen that Giant Bomb have given it 5 stars. It also earned 8/10 in my latest games(tm).