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Nostalgia Factor: "Banjo-Kazooie"
This game plays an interesting role in my childhood. It wasn't my favorite game, and I didn't even own it. However, it formed a spot in my memory that will never go away. That's because it scared me so much. I first rented this game from Blockbuster (when those still existed) when I was around five or six years old. It was fun, even if I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing half the time. I just kind of ran in circles around Gruntilda's Lair and Mumbo's Mountain. I decided that I had had enough for one sitting and hit the "Save & Quit" option on the pause menu. That's when it happened. A cutscene started playing. I had never seen a cutscene that played when you quit the game before. Intrigued, I continued to watch as Gruntilda entered her beauty machine with Tooty, Banjo's sister that you spend the game trying to save. One thrown switch and a few lightning bolts later, Grunty and Tooty come out of the machine. Grunty comes out looking beautiful (or at least as beautiful as a witch can), and Tooty comes out looking like a monster. It may not sound that bad, but my young mind was scared to death of monster Tooty. It was almost as if the game was reprimanding me for wanting to stop for a while by showing me losing my sister to Grunty. I immediately shut off the game and vowed to never play it again. The game had scarred me for life. I tried to play it once more after that, but I was too scared of seeing that cutscene again to enjoy it. I attempted to play the sequel when it came out, but it felt wrong after not having thoroughly played the first game. More than ten years later, I finally went back to "Banjo-Kazooie" and found a great game with good writing, catchy music, and fun gameplay. I got so into it that I even collected every Jiggy and bought both of the sequels. I'm glad I went back and gave it another try, but that image of monster Tooty really did scare me half to death.
Pictures from my first art stream!
A while back, I streamed myself drawing on Twitch, and had a grand old time! I’ll be uploading drawings here as I do streams, so check back occasionally!
First, Banjo-Kazooie! This was pretty fun, and outside of my usual range! I need to do some more fanart in the future.
My prompts were “cute anime girl” and “loch ness monster” so I combined them in the only way I could think of given the time restraints. I regret nothing.
Having never drawn any Fairy Tail characters, I think it turned out OK. Pretty basic stuff, I suppose.
If you want to watch, the archive is right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLkYgGM40YI
And for future art streams, check out my Twitch channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/disc2entertainment/
Smash Intros: Banji & Kazooie VS Duck Hunt
Inspired by “If Smash Bros Had Intros Like Mortal Kombat” by Mister BlackJack
Kazooie:”So YOU’RE the mangy mutt that’s been ripping our style!”
Duck Hunt Dog:”*laughs*
Kazooie:”Now you’re askin’ for it! Get’em Banjo!”
Banjo:”Ummm...okay?”
*looks at agumon over there* Okay, if he’s Krunch then Ness as Timber.
All the classic Rareware characters are here.