Comments on: The Horrors of Banjo-Kazooie

By: Dragoncorn

Dragoncorn — Tue, 13 May 2014 03:50:17 +0000

Yep, all I have are good dreams about it, not nightmares. Dat music doh!

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:05:05 +0000

Oh yeah Gruntilda’s Lair. The giant gruntilda effigy and spider rooms were especially chilling rooms…though maybe not the most chilling.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:00:48 +0000

You are fortunate indeed! No Banjo-Nightmare for you eh? :D

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Tue, 13 May 2014 00:59:39 +0000

I don’t remember that Mumbo portrait, the image must have been too much to deal with and got subconsciously suppressed. :)

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 May 2014 15:43:56 +0000

I played Banjo-Kazooie when I was 8, and both Clanker and Mad Monster Mansion freaked me out!! It is amazing how, on the latter, Rare was able to create a truly creepy environment on a generally colorful game.

The same thing could be said about Gruntilda’s Lair. That thing was so big and cavernous.

By: ansarkhan053

ansarkhan053 — Mon, 12 May 2014 05:56:35 +0000

Reblogged this on The Reader Voice.

By: Dragoncorn

Dragoncorn — Sun, 11 May 2014 17:25:59 +0000

I am glad I played this when I got older ;)

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Sun, 11 May 2014 15:31:03 +0000

For the longest time, I thought those pots were saying, “Voooooodkaaaaa!” “Thank you” makes a lot more sense.

And the most terrifying part of this game is the inside of the Rusty Bucket, you know, the huge room with the bottomless pit (how in the Isle o’ Hags can there be a bottomless pit on a boat?) and all the moving parts ready to push you off or make you lose your footing so that you fall…into the inexplicable bottomless pit. Though, swimming down to the bottom of Clanker’s chain to set him free was pretty stressful, too. I drowned so many times down there.

And you know what seriously freaks me out is this one portrait in Mad Monster Mansion, in the dining room, that looks like a picture of Mumbo. That seriously always creeped me out because he looks really freakish in it, and I always wondered, does it look creepy because the graphics simply aren’t good, and the image is a little distorted, or is there an evil doppelganger of Mumbo out there somewhere…. (Well, I suppose there was in “Banjo-Tooie”…) Freaks me out to this day.