#25 - Banjo-Kazooie

Alright guys, we've hit the halfway point of this countdown! Awesome! Let's celebrate with the best collect em up game to ever be released... well, okay, second best, and that, my friends, is Banjo-Kazooie. It takes Super Mario 64 and expands on its ideas to make an even better experience for the player. Some would opt for Banjo-Tooie because it has bosses, bigger levels and upgrades, but nothing in Banjo-Kazooie is as bad as Grunty Industries and I didn't really dig the levels quite as much as I did Kazooie's - I think there's such a thing as being too big. Some would say Donkey Kong 64, but... I don't know, I like platformers that are platformers, not platformers where you spend half the time playing shitty mini games. So Banjo-Kazooie it is.

Really, why not? Banjo-Kazooie's levels are big, but there's some a lot of care put into their designs, meaning that you'll always at least have a decent enough idea of what to do next. There's a lot of cohesiveness to the levels that made them work well for an enjoyable stay in them. There were a lot of collectibles, but not too many so that while there was plenty to do, it never felt overwhelming. Not to mention that the dialogue had a good amount of humor injected into them - I was always looking forward to learning the next move or finding more characters, and lest we forget Gruntilda, the rhyming witch whose goal is to look tall, thin and hot instead of fat and ugly? Man, I just couldn't get enough of that shit.

Summary - A fun and enjoyable, not to mention funny continuation of what Super Mario 64 started.
Rating - 9/10

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