Unremarkable and odd places in Banjo Kazooie

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  @any_austin · 3 years ago · pinned

  I gotta say something about the brief scene at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdaXSmSt2CA&amp;t=284">4:44</a> really hits me. <br><br>what other games need an unremarkable and odd video?

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  @ImpsDelight · 3 years ago

  I love this series so much. There&apos;s really nothing like it on YouTube.

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  @WilfredCthulu · 3 years ago

  Oh fuck yes. There&apos;s something about the aesthetic of Banjo Kazooie that makes finding niche little areas and secrets in it so exciting and special. I can&apos;t express the joy and wonder when I first found cheato, or got to the endgame area and opened everything up, or when I first saw a stop n swop area. It&apos;s so magical and rewarding. The most odd place of all is that space behind grunty&apos;s door.

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  @negativesanchez · 3 years ago

  The light house at the top of treasure trove cove will always stick with me really hard. It&apos;s one of the few places I can recall that they actually just cut the jaunty music and just let you vibe. it&apos;s so relaxing and tucked away from everything. I wanted to live there as a kid lol.

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  @HitakaPhoenix · 3 years ago

  The creepiest thing about the last room is that the torches are still burning underwater.

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  @andrewfuller2857 · 3 years ago

  just spent 8 hours in county jail over a mistake the police made. I am more than delighted to see this video in my notifications. I&apos;m gonna play this on repeat and try to sleep thank you!

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  @WeFlyNoLie · 3 years ago

  The part about mysticism lost in video games today really hits home. Unfortunately every single thing about a game is known today down to the smallest detail and gone are the days of schoolyard rumors about Mew being under the truck outside the S.S. Anne and &quot;How to unlock Sonic and Tails&quot; in Melee according to EGM. Really do miss it. Bonus points for showing Cheat Code Central, what a blast from the past.

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  @legokingcandy · 3 years ago (edited)

  the whole banjo kazooie art style always reminded me of those air-brushed indoor playgrounds with those little tree standees, and slides that look like logs. the blurry filtering of the n64 really makes the whole game look airbrushed and artificial almost. there was this local company where I lived that went bankrupt at the start of covid, and they had this indoor amusement park with rides and bounce houses. they also had a tot section with that whole fake outdoors design with like Vikings, pirates, forest animals, etc., and everything was airbrushed. They also had these creepy animals and it reminded me of how Banjo Kazooie looks and feels, also DKC 3 because they have a similar-ish design.

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  @Pirateyware · 3 years ago

  Two of my favorite spaces are the interior of Nipper&apos;s shell in Treasure Trove Cove, and the top of the tower in Grunty&apos;s Lair. &nbsp;Both of these areas have bits of visible sky (through the cracks in the ceiling in Nipper&apos;s shell, out the windows in the tower room), but they are FAKE SKY. &nbsp;Instead of having actual skyboxes, these areas just have a little bit of sky on a flat surface JUST outside each visual opening. &nbsp;Makes them feel extra weird once you&apos;re aware of it.<br><br>Fun fact! &nbsp;Several rooms in Grunty&apos;s Lair technically don&apos;t have ceilings. &nbsp;The walls fade to black as they approach the top, and what you&apos;re seeing above them is simply the black background. &nbsp;I guess they did this to save on polygons. &nbsp;An odd side effect of this is that if you hack flying into these areas, you can fly out of bounds very easily.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdaXSmSt2CA&amp;t=315">5:15</a> Also, that&apos;s a mausoleum! &nbsp;You go inside and there are coffins lining the walls, plus a big one in the center of the room containing the switch you use to raise the water. &nbsp;That Mad Monster Mansion entrance area gives me a weird feeling mostly because it doesn&apos;t feel connected to the rest of Grunty&apos;s Lair. &nbsp;You turn around and look at where you came in and it&apos;s just a little entrance building thing, like you warped to a far off graveyard somewhere, or entered a pocket dimension inside the lair. &nbsp;Which I guess the worlds all kind of are.

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  @gavinwightman4038 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;d love to see unremarkable places in Banjo Tooie, like the canyon to the right of the jinjo village entrance, the ferry line above Witchyworld (skybox+treeline with music cutout), the cove where tiptup laid her egg, the inside of atlantis buildings with the pirates enemies, etc. Great series!

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  @HahnKirby · 3 years ago

  I have a theory. What if these levels were actually Gruntilda&apos;s and her sisters&apos; play areas from when they were kids? But now that Grunty is a heartless old hag she has converted all of them into prisons, torture rooms, and other dastardly things.

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  @6O8gamer07 · 3 years ago

  I always felt the area inside nippers shell in treasure trove cove was an odd place. Being big in a little space again. Definitely think that should be included.

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