Comments on: Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Xbox 360)

By: RYAN

RYAN — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:11:33 +0000

PLUS ITS ALWAYS FUN WHEN YOU GET THAT !!!!STOP!!!!, I FEEL LIKE MAKING SOMTHING SO INCREDIBLY STUPID, (YET FUN) AND I KNOW THAT ALL I NEED TO DO IS TURN ON MY XBOX (AND ALSO MAKE SURE B.K.N&B IS IN THERE)

By: RYAN

RYAN — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:08:02 +0000

I THINK THIS GAME IS A STEP TOWARDS MAKING THE PERFECT GAME BECAUSE YOU DONT NEED TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO MAKE A RIDE BUT IT STILL CHALLENGES YOU TO THINK OUT-SIDE THE BOX AND GET CREATIVE I HAVE HAD THIS GAME FOR 1 MOUNTH IN 2 DAYS AND I HAVE AROUND 500 SECSESFUL AND HELFUL VEICHALS AT MY DESPOSILE AND I LOVE TRADING DISINGS WITH MY FRIENDS

By: Yoshiko

Yoshiko — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:01:20 +0000

Doesn’t seem to me that banjo is Hi-Res and Hi-Poly friendly lol.

By: Chris weeks

Chris weeks — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:49:40 +0000

I bought this about 2 weeks ago from Zavvi for £20. I can’t say I really enjoyed it. I feel they could have made a really exciting platformer and they instead made a racing game. It’s a shame because the xbox had loads of great games out this Christmas.

By: rizz

rizz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:02:34 +0000

But most importantly of all, does it have jinjo’s?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:42:24 +0000

You see I was intrested in this till I found out it wasn’t really a platformer.

I really wish the industry made more platformers, I miss them so much. For the time being we’ve just got family friendly RPG’s as the next best thing.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:24:51 +0000

This is my first Banjo game. At first I didn’t think I’d enjoy the building aspect but it’s surprisingly entertaining. It was very funny when I built a big box car to carry things but forgot to join the sides together so it fell apart before I tried to move. The level of creative freedom is just right and there’s real satisfaction when you build something that perfectly carries out the task at hand, particularly as some missions are quite hard and can be tackled in many different ways.

Great soundtrack, the controls feel right and the visual style is at times memorable. I’ve put a lot of time into this but as there’s so much to do I’ve only got half the jiggies. The demo will have put a lot of people off as it didn’t show the intro and the level of detail is overwhelming at the start, but it’s worth sticking with as it’s a rewarding experience.

There is a lot of small niggles.. lack of story, overused wall of jiggies animation between screens, numerous slow menus, a few too many challenges, the stop start nature and the framerate is quite bad at times.

Issues aside, it’s one of my favourite 360 games so far and an 8 is justified thanks to the vehicle physics being such a success. At times the emergent gameplay has matched the fun I had with Mario Galaxy. Had Rare managed to give Nuts & Bolts the same overall polish and included a more involving story this could have been remembered as a classic.