History Fridge / BanjoKazooie

* Why do some cheats trigger [[NoFairCheating Grunty's Code Vengeance]] but not others? The "illegal" cheats (i.e, ones that aren't given to Banjo by Bottles or Cheato) that trigger this condition actively ''rhyme''. Considering rhyming is Grunty's VerbalTic, it only makes sense that inputting those particular codes would allow her to work her magic and erase your file!

* Why is [[spoiler: Minjy Jingo]], an [[spoiler: evil robot version of Mumbo Jumbo]], the boss of [=CooCoo=] Clockland despite [[spoiler: being a sinister robot]] instead of being something goofy? Because that world in particular is weird and full of unexpected surprises (be it good or bad). A goofy, silly boss being in this world is something you would '''expect''', but since the world loves breaking all conventional logic and thought, a [[spoiler: [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]] [[AIIsACrapshoot murderous robot]] [[EvilTwin based off one of your friends]] and [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} a certain T-Unit]]]] would catch you off guard, yet still be a fitting boss for the world.

* Let's face it: a lot of people don't like ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie: Nuts & Bolts.'' It took an old childhood platform hero, [[BagOfSpilling deliberately removed all of his and her skills]] (even though there were hilarious [[JustifiedTrope justifications]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] for it all), and stuck him in a driver's seat for the whole game. Even knowing all these, the return of one of my favorite old platform heroes [[{{Pun}} drove]] me to get the game...but I ran into frustrations all over the place, and eventually gave up on the game, having gotten about a third of the way into it but feeling like I wasn't making any progress the entire time. A year later, I started watching Rooreelooo's fantastic LetsPlay videos of the Banjo series, including ''Nuts & Bolts.'' I saw him and his goon audience invent dozens of hilarious and creative machines to overcome the Jiggy challenges -- and not just overcome them, but [[GameBreaker pass them with flying colors]]. Around the same time, Stephen Totilo wrote a Kotaku article that called ''Nuts & Bolts'' [[http://kotaku.com/5442635/the-bravest-game-mistakenly-neglected "the bravest game" in recent years]], which finally convinced me to play the game again. And then it hit me. What Rooreelooo and the goons showed me, and what Mr. Totilo realized, was that ''Nuts & Bolts'' is ''exactly as much fun as you want it to be.'' Sure, you can just use the recommended vehicles for all the challenges or build something that is the bare minimum required to get the Jiggy, but why do that when you can build HumongousMecha to stomp all over the competition, or break off the vacuum and carry it over to the nuts it's supposed to scoop up instead of the other way around, or race in an airplane instead of on wheels like everyone else, or build some horrific perpetual motion device that ''utterly destroys'' the ski jump? You will only get out of ''Nuts & Bolts'' what you put into it. The game basically hands you the building blocks and the objective, and tells you "Figure out how to complete this objective on your own" -- it truly encourages out-of-the-box thinking and creativity, something a lot of games today lack. Is it a good ''Banjo'' game? Debatable, though I believe its total devotion to NoFourthWall qualifies it as such. Is it a great game in general? ''Only if you build it that way.'' And while you're doing so, why not make it brilliant? @/WildKnight

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* Omny: Why does Weldar have terrible vision? Because he's a welding torch who has a constant front-row-seat view of his own blinding flame.

** On a related note, I recently got why Nuts and Bolts was all about cars. People kept telling Rare to make a Banjo-Kazooie games that [[LiteralGenie returns to their roots]]. Rare complied by going back to Banjo's roots... DiddyKongRacing, which was all about cars.

* Why is [[spoiler: Minjy Jingo]], a [[spoiler: Evil robot version of Mumbo Jumbo]], the boss of [=CooCoo=] Clockland despite [[spoiler: being a sinister robot]] instead of being something goofy? Because that world in particular is weird and full of unexpected surprises (be it good or bad). A goofy, silly boss being in this world is something you would '''expect''', but since the world loves breaking all conventional logic and thought, a [[spoiler: [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]] [[AIIsACrapshoot murderous robot]] [[EvilTwin based off one of your friends]] and [[Franchise/Terminator a certain T-Unit]]]] would catch you off guard, yet still be a fitting boss for the world.

* Why is [[spoiler: Minjy Jingo]], a [[spoiler: Evil robot version of Mumbo Jumbo]], the boss of [=CooCoo=] Clockland despite [[spoiler: being a sinister robot]] instead of being something goofy? Because that world in particular is weird and full of unexpected surprises (be it good or bad). A goofy, silly boss being in this world is something you would '''expect''', but since the world loves breaking all conventional logic and thought, a [[spoiler: [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]] [[AIIsCrapShoot murderous robot]] based off one of your friends]] would catch you off guard, yet still be a fitting boss for the world.

** Or jumped the gate like in FreeWilly.

* Let's face it: a lot of people don't like ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}: Nuts & Bolts.'' It took an old childhood platform hero, [[BagOfSpilling deliberately removed all of his and her skills]] (even though there were hilarious [[JustifiedTrope justifications]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] for it all), and stuck him in a driver's seat for the whole game. Even knowing all these, the return of one of my favorite old platform heroes [[{{Pun}} drove]] me to get the game...but I ran into frustrations all over the place, and eventually gave up on the game, having gotten about a third of the way into it but feeling like I wasn't making any progress the entire time. A year later, I started watching Rooreelooo's fantastic LetsPlay videos of the Banjo series, including ''Nuts & Bolts.'' I saw him and his goon audience invent dozens of hilarious and creative machines to overcome the Jiggy challenges -- and not just overcome them, but [[GameBreaker pass them with flying colors]]. Around the same time, Stephen Totilo wrote a Kotaku article that called ''Nuts & Bolts'' [[http://kotaku.com/5442635/the-bravest-game-mistakenly-neglected "the bravest game" in recent years]], which finally convinced me to play the game again. And then it hit me. What Rooreelooo and the goons showed me, and what Mr. Totilo realized, was that ''Nuts & Bolts'' is ''exactly as much fun as you want it to be.'' Sure, you can just use the recommended vehicles for all the challenges or build something that is the bare minimum required to get the Jiggy, but why do that when you can build HumongousMecha to stomp all over the competition, or break off the vacuum and carry it over to the nuts it's supposed to scoop up instead of the other way around, or race in an airplane instead of on wheels like everyone else, or build some horrific perpetual motion device that ''utterly destroys'' the ski jump? You will only get out of ''Nuts & Bolts'' what you put into it. The game basically hands you the building blocks and the objective, and tells you "Figure out how to complete this objective on your own" -- it truly encourages out-of-the-box thinking and creativity, something a lot of games today lack. Is it a good ''Banjo'' game? Debatable, though I believe its total devotion to NoFourthWall qualifies it as such. Is it a great game in general? ''Only if you build it that way.'' And while you're doing so, why not make it brilliant? @/WildKnight

* In ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'', Gruntilda speaks entirely in rhymes, however, in ''Tooie'', she stops doing so at her sisters' request. However, in Nuts & Bolts, she goes right back to it. Why is that? [[spoiler: She crushed her sisters at the end of ''Tooie'', so they aren't around to stop her anymore.]]

** I dont think thats really true... even a huge octopus can fit through a hole size of a quarter...So I think he could have left if he really wanted to.

* I dont think thats really true... even a huge octopus can fit through a hole size of a quarter...So I think he could have left if he really wanted to.

* The giant octopi beneath Jolly Roger Bay must have swum into those caves at a younger age, because they wouldn't fit through the passages now... And that's why they're not going to leave now; they'll 'can't'. They'll just flail their tentacles at anything swimming by, because that's the only chance they've got of eating something. Or perhaps they're flailing out of fury and panic.

* Snorkel the Dolphin, in Rusty Bucket Bay. After freeing him, he disappears, despite the nonexistance of an exit in the water is nonextant. Where could he have gone? There's only one possibility... He went inside Snacker's cage...

* This just came to mind while I was playing Banjo-Tooie in its original form: When you enter Jinjo Village, you'll notice that the HAG-1 bulldozed over the Grey Jinjo Family House. Then I looked at the Strategy Guide by Nintendo Power and looked at the icons representing the Minjos, which are grey in color. Then it struck me that the Minjos in this game are the 10 or so Grey Jinjos that were killed, then presumably reanimated and robotized by Gruntilda.

* Snorkel the Dolphin, in Rusty Bucket Bay. After freeing him, he dissappears, despite the nonexistance of an exit in the water is nonextant. Where could he have gone? There's only one possibility... He went inside Snacker's cage...