Long time, no post! I apologize - I've been bogged down in work lately, so instead of having time for new games I've simply been replaying Fallout 3 and seeing just how badly I can muck up the storyline (turns out you can kill Three Dog after the GNR quest, and then some boring DJ takes his place. Fun stuff!). However, it's now Dead Week on campus!
In the spirit of things, Dead Week and all, I meant to pick up Left4Dead. However, funds did not permit and so instead I downloaded Banjo-Kazooie from the XBLA to get some nice nostalgia time in.
Now I'm loving this silly little romp through my younger years of gaming. Turns out I remember where all the extra honeycombs are hidden, I can still find all 100 notes on each world, and I even beat Clanker's Cavern without resorting to the GIVETHEBEARLOTSOFAIR cheat for the first time ever!
However, I have noticed an odd pattern: Banjo-Kazooie has something of an oral fixation. Mouths and biting are EVERYWHERE. Seriously! You walk through the mouth of a big Gruntilda statue to get into the lair, Mumbo's hut has a skeleton mouth as a door, that poor masochistic turtle in the swamp has a mouth-door as well ... wtf?
On top of that, there is a big fixation on enemies attacking you by biting or eating your character, starting off with that frickin' stalker shark in Treasure Trove Cove. Not to mention how many puzzles are solved by Banjo and Kazooie force-feeding eggs machine-gun style to the cute little NPCs ... the more I play, the more mouth-symbolism crops up, and I'm not sure what that means.
Perhaps the Rare dev team was feeling particularly hungry that day.
Edit: Oh, and one more thing? The little flowerpots in the graveyard in Mad Monster Mansion that groan "thaaahnk you" when you lay eggs in them? I just reached them; totally sounds like "fuuuuuck you."
Friday, December 12, 2008
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