Banjo Kazooie Diary Three: Bubblegum Swamp

Bubblegloop Swamp.

 

Sounds appetizing don’t it? New range from Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum could be released any day now.

I did not like this level. Not one bit.

This level was beyond cruel and unforgiving for two reasons.

1. The swamp aspect that covered nearly the entirety of the level caused damage. This isn’t something new in gaming; lava and ice water usually have the same kind of properties and levels. I find the swamp hurting you was always a bit of a stretch. They did it in Jak and Daxter; The Precursor Legacy and I didn’t enjoy it there either. Some of the jumps were just made so you would fall in.

Banjo-Kazooie vs. Banjo-Tooie

Let’s take a look at the late nineties of Nintendo. The Nintendo 64 had just been released and 3D gaming was a very rare thing if not unthinkable thing. I was very young at the time the Nintendo 64 first came into being and had only known the NES to exist. Two dimensional gaming was all my little 5 year old head could comprehend at the time. I remember going into a Gamestop video game store for my 5^th birthday and receiving a Nintendo 64 as a gift. The rest of the afternoon was spent with my parents trying to figure out how to connect the thing to the TV. We knew we got it right when the title screen for Super Mario 64 appeared and all we could see was Mario’s giant head.

“It’s a me, Mario!”