Game:

Banjo-Kazooie (1998)

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Let's Play

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With all of the worlds done, Banjo and Kazooie are ready to take on Gruntilda, not in a fight, but in a quiz game. This area is called Grunty's Furnace Fun, and Banjo has to take part in a quiz which are based around his adventures, the characters he has meet, but it does come at a cost.

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To enter Grunty's Furnace Fun, it requires 765 Notes to open the Note Door, and it leads to a warp pad that takes Banjo and Kazooie to a fiery cavern, which has a quiz game hosted by Gruntilda, and the prizes are Tooty, a washing machine, and a Gruntilda doll.
The spaces on the board each have a question, and if you get an answer wrong, you do lose a Honeycomb, and there are many different types of spaces. There is the Banjo-Kazooie space which gives you questions about various points in the game, the Eyeball space shows a picture from one of the worlds in the game, the Note space plays a character's voice or a song from the game.
The Stopwatch has Banjo take part in a challenge, some of them are harder than the original, and the following challenges are the Boss Boom Box fight, the Zubba battle, the memory match at Gobi's Valley, the Mr. Vile minigame, the Sandcastle in Treasure Trove Cove where you have to spell out "EIOOZAKOJNAB", which is "BANJOKAZOOIE" backwards, and the Tiptup Choir minigame. The Grunty space provides Banjo with a personal question, and those are random for each playthrough, and you get the answers from talking to Brentilda, the Death space gives you any question, and if you get an answer wrong, you lose a life. There is the Joker card, where you can use that to skip a space, this can be good for skipping the Death spaces. Some of the answers do reference other characters from games made by Rare, like Conker the Squirrel, who appeared along with Banjo in Diddy Kong Racing, another possible answer is Cranky Kong from the Donkey Kong series, good to see Rare is referencing other games they have done.
Once you make it to the end, Gruntilda will make her getaway, and we rescue Tooty, and then the credits will roll, which displays the various characters in Banjo-Kazooie, and I do like how the staff credits display the name of the character in the middle of the staff names.
After the credits end, Banjo returns back home where he and his friend celebrate their victory, until Tooty reminds him about Gruntilda's escape, so Banjo runs back to Gruntilda's Lair, and don't forget to activate the Yellow Warp Cauldron which is located near the start of the area.

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