ROR: Banjo Tooie (N64 Vs. 360) | Ambition Unbounded 

3 videos ago you bought a pc to play glover, now you bought a xbox one x to play banjo tooie wow that's dedication to the craft

Timestamp for Mobile User 00:00:40 - Introduction 00:04:32 - Story 00:13:52 - Graphics 00:20:16 - Music 00:21:37 - Basic Moves 00:24:58 - Stop and Swop 00:27:30 FPS Section 00:29:08 - Moves 00:38:31 - Mumbo Jumbo 00:40:38 - Breaking News Update 00:41:58 - Humba Wumba 00:43:09 - Bosses 00:44:42 - Spoilers 00:46:05 - Level Design 00:51:39 - Fast Travel 00:53:10 - Backtracking 00:54:14 - Jiggy Pacing 00:57:05 - A Collectathon/Metroidvania Hybrid 01:00:54 - 100% Vs. Minimalism 01:02:01 - Final Thoughts on the 360 Version 01:04:31 - Playing Tooie Twice Back to Back 01:08:09 - Final Thoughts 01:10:27 - Remake or Rebreak? 01:12:51 - Outro 01:15:08 - Credits

ROR: Star Fox 64 (N64) vs. Star Fox 64 3D (3DS)

I got alot of enjoyment with friends as a kid with Banjo Tooie's multiplayer. It is definitely not throw away lol

Banjo-Tooie was not just a story of saving the world from Gruntila, it was also one of revenge the moment she killed Bottles.

*see video length* aw shit, here we go again see you in an hour

It says a lot about the length and pacing of these games when Tooie's levels take way longer to complete than Kazooie's levels despite Tooie's having warp pads and Kazooie's not.

Xross Platform on Rayman 2. Every single version. N64, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2 , DS, 3DS, Gameboy and PC.

I feel like not being able to split/swap anywhere was probably a platform limitation: having to remember where the other character is, render them when you walk by... not to mention that the pads are very carefully placed where enemies and other stage elements will never interact with the idle character.

Dragon Kazooie has another benefit you know... unlimited Fire Eggs. Granted, they remain mostly situational compared to normal ones, but they do a bit more damage by default.

58:44 Sadly, the first Shantae game doesn’t have that feature so it’s incredibly easy to get lost despite being a Metroidvania game. Thank goodness the later games incorporate one to ease the pain.

This game turns into a full-time job by the time you reach Grunty Industries, which is really funny because who else but Grunty would have you run around memorizing the note locations

Oh, as for the last Canary Mary race, for some reason, at Rare, they didn't realize how horrible the rubberbanding AI was. So you had to actually purposely go slow for most of the race, only to overtake her at the very end. I only found out about this when I replayed Tooie recently. I never knew WHY that race was so ridiculously hard as a kid.

I prefer Tooie. I'm not trying to argue with anyone, this is just my opinion. I prefer Tooie's larger and interconnected worlds. That made the world feel more organic and natural. I liked that your notes didn't reset in Tooie. I liked the more varied gameplay and more differing level themes. Kazooie was pretty Nintendo standard with level theme. Tooie has some of that too, but they're more varied and have more specific, or more fleshed out, versions of a theme. I also feel that Kazooie's item placement detracted from the games. It felt less like an adventure and more like the devs were guiding you through a level. Like they were holding your hand, not letting you truly explore and discover things on your own. I also really like Tooie's darker themes.

I think it's unfair to blame 4J Studios for not "fixing" design problems with the original game. Presumably this was an outsourced remaster. It's probable that they didn't have the budget for a carte blanche approach. The project scope was probably defined by the publisher.

I think the destruction left by the drill machine was more a subtle reminder of the damage Grunty had done, but I understand it's not as in your face as it used to be. Considering the game is alot bigger I imagine that would mean spending more time on Grunty's lines. As a trade off we got more hilarious npcs.

Being able to split off whenever would have shattered the game's puzzles. You could just fly somewhere, split up, and then do whatever you wanted the individual member to do. Rather than wondering "how do I get solo Banjo there". You might argue it's not good design, but as Tooie is right now it wouldn't work. And it's not fair to knock the remake for not changing that when it would've completely changed the way the game plays. Anyways, fair review overall, even if I disagree (Grunty's Industries is my favorite stage by far. Love how it's basically a Zelda dungeon, lol)

I didn't find Canary Mary so bad once I realized how her rubber banding worked - hovering behind her doesn't take much mashing at all, then boosting out at the end isn't bad either; I'm not saying it's well designed, but finding that out made beating her so much more comfortable and consistent And about Klungo, be uses his 3 potions in a different order depending on which save file you're playing Also funny enough, in one of my really old concepts for a Banjo-Threeie, I had Kazooie wield his wand (similar to the wrench in Nuts & Bolts, but I made this idea first uwu) after he gets kidnapped; you would collect Mumbo Tokens and spend them to activate Mumbo Pads as in Tooie, but you wouldn't need to switch characters for it

ROR: Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom VS Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated

Buddy, Canary Mary is vicious. The actual trick is NOT to button mash.

You get tracks like "Hailfire peaks and terrydactyland, which fail to impress" Me: *hides because these are my 2 favorite tracks of the game*

At 25:43 it’s mentioned that Dragon Kazooie’s Fire Breath is too short ranged and later it’s mentioned that the Homing Eggs are the only worthwhile unlockable. However, Dragon Kazooie actually grants you infinite Fire Eggs - a lot of people don’t tend to notice that and I don’t believe Humba Wumba tells you (I could be wrong). At 42:59 it’s mentioned that the Bee can boost in Tooie, but this was also possible in Kazooie. Again, Mumbo never mentions this to you. Also fun fact: You can cheese THREE of the boss fights in Tooie: • To the left of the entrances to Targitzan’s Slightly Sacred Chamber & Really Sacred Chamber, there’s a nest of Gold Eggs, granting you infinite Eggs for 60 seconds • Old King Coal takes more substantially more damage from Ice Eggs than any of the other Eggs • You can fight Lord Woo Fak Fak as the submarine, giving you infinite ammunition Absolutely loved both of these videos though! Many, many valid points here that a lot of people don’t tend to acknowledge hahaha

What I like the most is that I don't agree with many things that you said. But I like your content so much that I can't just not watch this incredible logic work with so much quality. Congrats!

Tooie is like those old point and click adventure games where you need to get through a locked door, so you look for a key, only to find out hours later that you were supposed to go out to the farm and steal a rooster and use it to wake up the janitor's pet lizard so that it will eat the flies in the room so you can get through the passage without the flies blocking you. Then you go through the passage and find a barrel with a green liquid in it, which you have to collect in your goblet (you got the goblet, didn't you?) and then go all the way back to the entrance and give it to the knight. After he drinks the green liquid, he'll open the door for your with his key. Duh, how else would you open a door?

Tooie has a lot of problems, but I love the insane ambitions that it has. Like you mentioned, most of its attempts at pushing the series forward fall a bit short, but the interconnected world adds so much to the atmosphere of the game in a way that makes me enjoy it even more than Kazooie. For first time players though, I do recommend playing alongside a guide to cut out time trying to figure out how to get Jiggies that require later moves. It made my first playthrough way more fun than it would have been otherwise (even though a game shouldn’t require a guide to be fun)

I think your nitpicks are usually fine criticisms, but you tend to bring your criticisms back up many times across a review, which can feel grating on people that are less/not bothered by the issue in question. I know it's happened to me before.

A personal nitpick: I actually preferred "Re-Meh" over "Reprise." Yeah, it's not a real word, but it has more emotion/emphasis. Otherwise, I loved both this and the B-K retrospective. I agree that B-K was the better game, for the very reasons you mentioned: less confusing level designs, better framerate in the N64 version, etc. Also, I think it's all but guaranteed the mobile version of Grunty's Revenge will be a "Rebreak", given that it was released when flip phones were still a thing (the first iPhone wasn't even out yet).

When you love a game, you take the bad with the good. The important is the good has to outweight the bad.

I agree with many things said. But I will support Banjo Tooie's complexity to death.

Anybody saw the Banjo tooie ad were Banjo jumped out of a plane?

Still waiting for the Re-Meh term because it goes further into a re-release that does a "Meh" job of fixing or adding anything. Plus, I love that term.

Watched a lot of your videos, disagree with you the most here, still this is what earned the sub lol. Very well thought out. I love Banjo-Tooie. For me, I'm a big fan of open world RPG's with lots of backtracking and returning to locations so the collectathon-metroidvania mashup that Tooie is scratches just about every one of my itches. But I can see now more than ever how it strays so far away from what a majority of collectathon games are like. Even DK64 limits the backtracking to the first few levels where you dont have certain kongs yet. Great analysis, even if I totally disagree and will clutch tooie tightly to my chest to the grave!!

I have to confess, that my favorite tune from the Banjo Kazooie series is actually *Hailfire Peaks (Lava Side)* from this game. -Here's hoping it gets into Smash Bros!-

40:49 I found out why the LRB Cutscene Skip is not on the Xbox Versions. 4J Studios forgot to Map the N64's L Button on the Xbox Controller. Meaning that they didn't knew about the feature. HOWEVER, i can clearly remember once playing the Xbox Version of BK, and managed to Skip the 1st Bottles Cutscene. I haven't been able to replicate it, but it still leaves me baffled that 4J Studios didn't even though about Cutscenes/Text Skips.

The Xbox 360 & Xbox One versions has some audio bugs that I notice but the most noticeable one has to be witchyworld: space zone.

I noticed one major problem in your annoyance with Banjo-Tooie. You keep seeing it as "just a collect-a-thon". But have you ever thought it was trying to be more than just a collect-a-thon? You're trying to review it as just one thing and it has to achieve what a collect-a-thon should, when it's more than just that and achieves alot of other things you have yet to mention. That's why when you make comparisons to Zelda, they dont come off as positive because that's not what you want out of Banjo Tooie. But that's what makes Banjo Tooie amazing. It feels like a real lived in world. Or at least a world that isnt an excuse to fill time. A more appropriate comparison would be Mario 64. In which you do have to backtrack sometimes after obtaining special caps. You think of "back and forth" because you only thinking in terms of linear. And banjo-tooie is everything but linear.You can explore and progress as much as you want. And I personally LOVE backtracking if it means I get to see old worlds and enjoy them all over. I personally HATE doing everything in a single world on the first or second go and never go back to it again. Sure Yooka-Laylee did it almost better. But also sacrificed immersion and lived in worlds. They have the themes but each area doesnt feel lived in or remarkably special from the last. You complained about Mumbo and Humba Wumba for being two separate mechanics rather than being two separate characters with their own story. I like Wumba and I like mumbo. I dont like seeing both too much and they break up the monotony. I completely disagree with separation of Banjo/kazooie undermining the point. The point of having that opening where you can bring your fast food to the dinosaur world is tied to a quest. One of the dinosaurs wants to try new foods and you have to bring it to them. Banjo may not be carrying the eggs for valid reasons. And I find it so nitpicky to even point it out without putting any real effort on explaining how it works. I will completely agree that the bird race in the sky world is practically impossible and always annoyed me. Overall I understand your annoyance. And I get it's your opinion. but dont you think for a second that maybe just maybe you're blowing it out of proportion?

Game is Ambitious. I both love that and hate it. I prefer tooie over kazooie but I do see why some prefer kazooie. As fun as tooie is for me some worlds are way to ambitious for their own good.

I agree with all the complaints, but Banjo-Tooie is still my favorite game ever made.

Unpopular opinion, but I actually like this game more than the original. The original is kind of short if you know what you’re doing, and this game was noticeably longer.

I actually REALLY liked Grunty Industries. The floor system makes it easier to me to keep track of what is where since I have explicit categories to sort things in. Especially once you have the warp pads unlocked navigating that stage is really easy

Alright, high key tho... did y’all just call the Hailfire Peaks theme unmemorable? That was the first song that stuck in my head when I first discovered this game along with Glitter Gulch and Grunty Industries. Hailfire’s theme is phenomenal, with that being said I can respect your opinion and really like this review.

Small correction: Klungo will use a random potion each conflict, meaning that you can face the three possibilities in a different order. Also, a minor critique. I definitely understand the approach of focusing on the negatives of well regarded titles, but I think you've fallen too deep into accentuating the negative. If I had no outside knowledge of the games covered in your videos I'd probably think they were abysmal since you barely highlight the positives of games, even the ones you ultimately say are good or enjoyable. I still love your videos and find myself agreeing with a lot of what is said, there's just little counterbalance.

Whenever I see a new Exo video, my day is immediately improved, thank you so much for your dedication and effort!

I love this review. It's interesting listening to a more critical take of one of my favourite games. And the best part is that all your criticisms are valid and I'm just nostalgia blind.

Your uploads are becoming much more frequent. I’m not complaining, though.

Dragon Kazooie also gets infinite fire eggs, which makes them way more useful as a general ammo type. Not a huge upgrade but I always liked Dragon Kazooie.

Yeah, even years after the paradigm shift in philosophy, I'm still in the minority that Banjo Tooie is the superior game due to the content and actions, though my bias is more skewed towards to the fact that Tooie was where I started with the duo rather than the first game and the issue of "the sequel *has* to be better by default, right?" logic back in the heyday. Nostalgia aside, I feel the reasoning as to why the shift occurred was that Tooie was too ambitious a game and after the bloated collect-a-thon that was Donkey Kong 64, where you were literally collecting things just to collect other things, Banjo-Kazooie appears more like a happier medium of the collection-based gaming where it's level based and not world based and you aren't forced to do route planning and optimization. In Tooie, you can't do or go to certain areas until after you unlock advanced abilities from Jamjars or visiting other regions of the Isle of Hags, while in Kazooie, you could practically 100% a level with the exception of Freezeezy Peak or Gobi's Desert on your first visit. But, what made Tooie so... impressive for me was just how much it helped build the world of the series and its quirks. People like to use Kazooie as an example of storytelling by mentioning "the Gruntilda effect", but in reality, you don't garner much in dialogue from Banjo & Kazooie aside from some cutscenes. Throughout Tooie, however, they interact more often, and you get to see their personalities, especially Kazooie's, where her snark and contempt made her the more endearing one to me. You also get to see the world evolve and change as time goes on through your actions, while in Kazooie, things reset due to its level-based structure. Characters you help out early on can be encountered later or be totally unexpected based upon your actions, with one of my favorite worlds being Witchyworld, which is a pivotal area in the game for both the game's mechanics, but also where you run into several old characters, such as Gobi (who despises the bear and breegull) as well as Ms. Boggy and her children (which includes my personal favorite moment in the game, though many people may look at it as child abuse, where after you take a now morbidly obese Groggy back to her, she smashes him twice with her purse and sends him home crying). It's all relative, of course. From a mechanics standpoint, Kazooie is clearly what dedicated gamers want, but from a story perspective, and something casual gamers and people no longer as dedicated into the hobby might look into, Tooie is the game due to the time you would invest into.

Heh! Just like in B-K, your most hated level is my personal favorite. I love Grunty Industries; I find its sprawling size and complicated design and puzzles to be a real hoot! :D

Tooie was considered better by consensus upom release But it's ineresting to see how the comsensus has changes 20 yeard later

After seeing this review, I’ll say this: I’ll be emotionally prepared when I play this game as part of _Rare Replay_ .

Back & Forth and Back & Forth and Back & Forth and Back & Forth and Back & Forth That made me chuckle.

This Game Is A Shining Example Of Bigger Not Always Being Better, Which Is Sad Considering How Consistent Banjo Kazooie Was Despite It's Shortcomings.

Aw Yes! I'm ready for the 1 hour tear down.

Am I the only one who really enjoys he saying "back and forth" multiple times? 52:38 Oh, okay

I like to think the designers weren’t lazy but that they really, really enjoy fetch quest. They made the game they wanted to play.

All I can say is that this was well worth the wait. By far my favourite of any of your videos.

You're the only youtuber that can keep me fully engaged for 75 minutes. Usually I get bored, or listen to it in the background. I told myself I'd watch the first few minutes and then finish it tomorrow. Nope, now I'm at the conclusion. You're doing a great job

As much as I love Banjo-Kazooie, In my opinion, Banjo-Tooie is even better

Unpopular opinion: I like Tooie more than Kazooie.

Banjo-Tooie shows what the N64 was capable of at its absolute best.

My man, you are the reason I discovered my favorite Mario game of all time - SMA4:SMB3 eReader-edition. Just wanted to say thank you and so glad to see a new ROR.

You deserve way more subscribers. Great in depth video.

>”Without a game over, we don’t get to see Gruntilda and her sisters, which is a problem for the Gruntilda effect.” >”Lives have been removed, which is good as they don’t belong in a collectathon” What

Very nice video again EPG, cheers from Finland!

15:03 The game uses several level of detail models to try and keep the framerate stable, you'll notice that when the camera cuts to Banjo, for a split second you see his lower-poly model (for instance he doesn't have his necklace)

The Multiiplayer is throw away? I had hours of fun with some friends who loved the crap out of it, I'll take Tooie over Kazooie any time, I love how the worlds are interconnected, the only thing I hated with all my heart was Canary Mary's missions.

My only real complaint about Tooie is the Canary Mary challenges in Cloud Cuckooland being physically impossible for me (I’m terrible at button mashing). Most of the stuff you mentioned didn’t really bother me. I’m very forgiving and easy to please.

Thank you for being so detailed on the framerate comparison! That's exactly what I was looking for!

having played both games many times as a kid, and in the process of replaying them at the moment... I honestly still prefer tooie, it feels livelier and better thought out.

"Forgettable tracks like Hailfire peaks-" Get out.

Rareware had separate internal teams at the time, and so Banjo-Tooie not having the aiming controls of a game that had an overlapping development cycle with it, is expected. Donkey Kong 64 was released on November 22, 1999. Banjo-Tooie was released November 20, 2000. Banjo-Tooie's game-play was already encoded by 1999, because work began on it, even before Banjo-Kazooie was released.

Thank you for making these reviews Exo. I love your work and more people need to know who these characters are and give them the respect they deserve.

Funny thing is, and I know people are going to hate me for saying this, but as much of a divisive game DK64 is in terms of being a collect-a-thon, it does a better job driving the story and reminding the player the stakes at hand with pre-world cutscenes of K.Rool and his Blast-O-Matic than Tooie does, if not better than Kazooie.

Great review! Even though I loved Banjo-Tooie as a kid for its world building, NPCs and (back then) mind-blowing interconnectivity, I agree that it's a chore for a new player. You showcased very well what the developers should consider when making a sequel to this game. There's definitely elements they should take from BT, but a stronger focus on BKs structure would make it way more consistently fun and replayable in the long run.

Actually you can boost as the Bee in the first Banjo Kazooie, it's the same button you use in Banjo Tooie. Also you forgot to mention the other cheats in Tooie. Infinite Eggs, Invincibility, Banjo and enemies running faster, etc.

I love banjo tooie. I believe it's Rare's magnum opus, which is saying slot when considering that they also made DKC2, Perfect Dark, Conker, Killer Instinct 2, and the OG Banjo Kazooie

I disagree with a lot, but the big thing is: not everyone likes speed running. I prefer to take my time and explore, even if I get nothing out of it. Just because it’s not good for speed running doesn’t make it bad.

This is the one video that people aren't all agreeing with Exo.

I know it's obvious, but I gotta commend this dude for probably being one of the top 1-3 reviewers on this whole platform. He's 100% no-bullshit, as in he doesn't waste time with gags or memes and painstakingly scans every last detail. Every minute is crammed with quality.

This video provides a very fair take on Banjo-Tooie, in my opinion. While I disagree with a lot of the points here, my disagreement simply stems from my level of expertise at the game.

40:44 I'm not apologizing. My comment was not meant to just point out what a bunch of other people were saying, but to emphasize that I very much had the same problem with Mad Monster Mansion and went to crazy lengths just to access an area that had an entrance that was hard to see for no good reason, especially on a CRT display.

26:03 That was mad far less depressing by that fantastic editing!

I’m watching this half-asleep slowly fading into dreams and back to reality. This is a really relaxing video to watch. Thank you for the hard work! :)

Huh, this remaster is now older than the original game was at the time the remaster came out. Time flies scary fast.

You know something that makes me wonder? In the old days when we were kids games like dk 64 and banjo tooie that were a slight pain in the ass to complete some objectives, did we like them that much better because they wasted our time? Because i remember both dk 64 and Banjo Tooie very fondly from when I was child. Though that stupid barrel where you force the snappers into a hole in the castle level can go die in a hole. I loved these games and finding things to come back to and explore with a different character later. But nowadays i find it kinda tedious because i am a working adult with limited time. Is it a different mindset sort of deal with these games?

Dragon kazooie doesn’t use up any fire eggs so you could basically only use fire eggs once you get dragon kazooie

Woah. This came out earlier than I expected! Nice!

Thank you for the deep, critical and objective analysis of the games you review. I love seeing a 50 minute review in my news feed that other reviewers would dedicate only 15 Minutes on. You're thorough and it's appreciated.

They could've retooled one of the eggs to unlock Bottles Revenge, a 2 Player mode that has a second player able to control enemies... it's mostly functional and doesn't cause any breaks; so it makes no sense why it wasn't included in the first place.

While I really appreciate the time and effort you took to make this video, I've never disagreed with an opinion on a game as much as in this case. It feels like you expect any 'collectathon' to be plain and easy, being playable without much thought. But this is just not what Banjo-Tooie wants to be. It's a complex puzzle - comparable to a Zelda dungeon like you said yourself. It forces you to create a mental map of the levels, know all the different characters/moves at your disposal and combine them in interesting ways. Having a jiggy accessable via an entrance from a different world for example, feels immensely rewarding once you figure it out. The level-design is also more clever than you give it credit for. There's lots of places where the developers made sure non of the different characters could get stuck, even giving you multiple ways to reach the same destination with different characters or placing additional platforms so other characters could get somewhere they don't even necessarily need to be. This is also the reason why you cannot split anywhere, as it would make using those additional routes unnecessary and simply break the intended level-design and navigation puzzles, which make a big part of the game. I agree with other points though, like the lack of a map system, the aiming controls or some less than optimal bossfights. I'd even include the timer-based first-person sections as really annoying and am surprised you rated them so positevly. In my opinion though, all in all this feels like a list of negatives that only result from a misinterpretation of what the game wants to be in the first place. It's fine if you dislike this kind of complex, interwoven, puzzle-style gameplay. But don't try to judge the game on what YOU want it to be. It feels like criticizing Mario Kart for not having a deep story and a crafting system.

I'm really glad you're uploading more often man! I love long videos, and it's awesome you put in the time to make them for us. I'd love for you to get to talk to the devs of this game and ask them why they made certain decisions they did 😂

I really wish they had made stop 'n' swop unlock Bottles' Revenge. It seems like the perfect thing to add for both a port and a thank you for having both games, and it was more or less finished on the n64, minus some debugging. I can understand why they didn't, but man does that seems like a missed opportunity

31:15 Because they make you think about how to tackle parts of the levels with just one of them. It is annoying how you can't rejoin automatically when exiting a level or entering the train though. It's the same with the shoes being power ups on a timer. *watches more* Ya know, maybe this should've just been Zooie Tooie: Without Mumbo The level structure used here works in Zelda because they have map systems and because they don't make you go back and forth over and over like the dodgem example you brought up.

Personally, I much prefer Tooie over Kazooie - not because I think one is necessarily a better game over the other - but because Tooie feels much more rewarding than Kazooie in terms of challenge and investment. That being said, I'd be much more willing to play Kazooie on a casual basis because of said investment cost (Kazooie is just a much more compact/concise game, which makes it more streamlined), but I find no issue with having Tooie being a bigger game that requires more time put into it. I'll concede that ultimately it boils down to personal preference, and that obviously Tooie isn't perfect by any means (a map system would have certainly helped many areas in the game), but I tend to observe Tooie more from a lore/series perspective than just an individual experience: it took the world of Kazooie, made it fleshed out, and gave it a lot more substance. Having the worlds feel real and interwoven with one another alone gives this game much more value to me. One thing I would have liked would have been more involvement from Grunty and her sisters throughout the middle of the game, but I think that was partially what role Klungo played. I also feel like backtracking gets used as a negative aspect of gaming way too much these days. There are moments where it can be frustrating to have to travel back and forth to accomplish an objective, but Tooie's challenges are all about solving multi-step puzzles using the tools you're given: and it excels at that, in my opinion. For certain missions, I completely understand the complaint that having to revisit areas several times gets tedious - but having to revisit areas because you didn't solve the puzzle in the correct order isn't a valid criticism to me. All and all, I appreciate your criticisms of Tooie, but I feel as though you focused way too much on the negative aspects and may have missed a lot of the intent of the design choices the game utilized. The one thing I think legitimately everyone can agree on though, is fuck Canary Mary.

Thank you SO MUCH for updating the vid to mention you enjoyed the game more on your Xbox playthrough because of having prior knowledge. Quite a few games are like this and I've never seen it to be an issue of sorts (though of course it does help if the game is well paced). I wouldn't be calling Super Metroid or Shantae and the Pirate's Curse two of the (debatably) best games ever made if I only ever played through them once ;)

I wonder if Banjo Tooie would’ve ran better with expansion pack support.

Some suggestions for future videos: Xross-Platform: Spider-Man (2000) (PS1, N64, DC, PC) ROR: EarthBound Beginnings (NES) and EarthBound (SNES) vs Mother 1+2 (GBA) Xross-Platform: Sonic Heroes (PS2, GCN, XBOX, PC) [Although I'm pretty sure you're working on that already] ROR: Star Fox 64 (N64 vs 3DS) Xross-Platform: Rayman 2 (too many consoles to name) ROR: Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii vs 3DS)

I also want to make one thing clear. Collect-a-thon is NOT the same as speed runner. Your frustration is the speed runner in you. Not the collect a thon elitist.

I bought "Banjo-Tooie" in 2012, being a fan of "Banjo-Kazooie" for N64 (I had that game in 1999). But I played just until "Grunty's Industry". I kid you not: that level alone made me so tired of collectathon that I felt I had a burnout. I never played the game again and just returned to the sub-genre with "A Hat in Time".

Great video keep up the great content