BANJAR AND KABLOOIE

You should draw more stuff like this.

More fan art? Or more derp faces?

More of this style.

Little from column A, little from column B.

Only played banjo tooie, but damn it was a good game... loved it. Loved how they all talked, too, all in text with random sound effects and junk. :3

Kazooie in the lower right looks like:
"So that's this 'walking around' business... feels weird."

I'd fave this comment if I could.

LOL

Actually, it's more like "So this is what it's like not lugging Banjo around...-sniff- I miss that."

Dunno why she'd miss it, bears must weight like...in the triple digits. Or maybe Banjo wasn't as heavy. But I agree, she does look a lil confused/sad.

Cute.

loved Banjo Kazooie.
Thought Banjo Tooie was ok
but that last game was crap. However, I will always love this duo. no matter how hard the internets tries to ruin it!

Hahaha, those are pretty awesome, Banjo-Kazooie/Banjo-Tooie was a rad game.
Kazooie was such a wisecracker. :P

Oh how she hated laying eggs the natural way.... she loved shooting them out of her mouth though...

Top left is almost like "woody woodpecker" in many ways.

Gruntilda always spoke in rhyme XD

'Til she came around a second time.

DRAGOON KAZOOIE

You made me breeeeee out loud, you jerk.

That 'DYUH-HUH' derpface is the best

so majestic

/poops out egg

BONJA KUZOEY

Ahaha! I love these characters in your style!

Still need to play those games.

And Bad Fur Day.

Banjo-Kazooie was pretty much the last traditional 3D platformer I ever played as a kid. I don't really know how well it stacks up against games like Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank. What really makes the game special to me though was the music. It's incredibly varied. For instance: Gruntilda's Lair, the main "hub" area, has a quietly sinister yet somehow charming theme consisting of bass, horns, xylophones and chimes. But go near any of the level portals and it smoothly transitions into a different flavor; same theme but with different instruments and a different feel.

The levels themselves are the same way. They each have at LEAST two different themes, a normal song and a vibraphone version for when you're underwater. Treasure Trove Cove starts out with steel drums but changes to what sounds like an accordion when you near Captain Blubber's wrecked ship. Go inside the sandcastle or Snipper's shell and you'll be treated to a slower version of the theme. And then there's Click Clock Wood which, looking at the list of .miniusf files I've got here, total 29 variations on a theme, not including Gruntilda's song from the hub.

And they're so full of LIFE. Ambient sound effects. Birds chirping, bees buzzing, ocean surf, blowing winds ... a friend mentioned that I should check out the soundtrack to Nuts and Bolts, considering that they give a live orchestral treatment to a lot of the original songs. They're NICE, but they almost feel lifeless in comparison with JUST instruments.

Anyway. I think I geeked out there.

And the only Rareware platformer I played on the Nintendo 64 was Donkey Kong 64 (which is very good and highly recommended! I think pretty much everyone got it though, due to the memory upgrade included...).

I didn't! I had to run out and buy one after coming home with Perfect Dark and discovering I couldn't do anything other than multiplayer.

If you hadn't played Donkey Kong 64 before, you should! It's basically Banjo Kazooie/Bad Fur day with Donkey kong as far I can understand. :o

I have to agree with this statement - gameplay and music were the strongest suits of the Banjo-Kazooie (N64) series