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Banjo-Tooie is the sequel to the game Banjo-Kazooie, both released for the Nintendo 64 console. The characters are the same as in the original; Banjo and Kazooie fight the witch Gruntilda along with her sisters. The game was released in 2000 by Rare.The original Banjo-Kazooie contained several areas which could be seen but not reached, containing secret and myserious items. During Kazooie's ending, the game explained that these areas were only to be reached by completing certain tasks in the forthcoming sequel Banjo-Tooie and linking that game up with the original in some unspecified way to unlock them. After Banjo-Tooie was released however, Rare made no further mention of this link-up capability and no way to link the games was ever found; the general consensus among fans is that the feature was quietly dropped because of impraticality and was thus not implemented in the sequel. Supporting that conclusion is the fact that some of the most famous unreachable items in Kazooie reappear in Tooie in places where they can be reached through normal gameplay, appearing in special "Banjo-Kazooie Cartridges." By including these in-game "cartridges" it can technically still be argued that these secret items are in fact "coming from" the original Banjo-Kazooie game, although in quite an anti-climactic nature. The unreachable areas from Banjo-Kazooie do not appear in any form at all.
There are still a few situations in Banjo-Tooie which seem to curiously lack a purpose (such as the drunken Captain Blackeye who mopes the same few lines of dialogue over and over). Also, dedicated fans have been able to hack Banjo-Tooie with a GameShark to trigger the message "Stop 'n' Swop" (sic) to appear. It is possible that the intended link feature may have originally involved removing the Banjo-Tooie cartridge and plugging in the Banjo-Kazooie cartridge while the Nintendo 64 unit was still turned on. It is possible that a functioning link feature may still actually exist in the games, but has simply never been discovered. The amount of inconclusive fan hacking makes this seem quite unlikely, however.
1 Story
Warning: Plot Details Follow
The game takes place 2 years after Gruntilda the Witch was defeated by Banjo and Kazooie. Over this time, she has been buried under a rock with her assistant, Klungo, trying to save her. On a stormy night Gruntilda's sisters appear and remove the rock. Gruntilda is now a skeleton and wants a new body. She then kills Bottles the Mole and heads off with her sisters to get her a new body using B.O.B. (Big Ol' Blaster), a machine that sucks the life out of people.
Banjo and Kazooie now travel on the Isle o' Hags to track down Gruntilda to avenge Bottles' death and destroy Grunty once and for all.
2 Characters
- Banjo- A loving, yet somewhat confused bear. The hero of this tale.
- Kazooie- A loud-mouth bird. Banjo's sidekick.
- Mumbo Jumbo- A shaman that helps the duo by changing the landscape of courses with Mumbo Magic.
- Gruntilda- A witch that vows revenge on B&K.
- Srgt. Jam-Jars- Bottles' brother. Teaches B&K new moves.
- Humba Wumba- An indian lady and Mumbo Jumbo's rival. Transforms B&K into other forms.
3 Courses
- Spiral Mountain
- Isle o' Hags
- Mayhem Temple
- Glitter Gultch Mine
- Witchyworld
- Jolly Roger's Lagoon
- Terrydactland
- Grunty Industries
- Hailfire Peaks
- Cloud Cukooland
- Cauldron Keep
4 External links
Nintendo 64 games 2000 computer and video games
