Now that I've had a handful of play sessions with the game - including a solid five hours straight last night, here's a few thoughts ...
As a fan of Banjo-Kazooie since 1998 - and as someone who felt pretty cheated out of a proper, mainline third home console installment of the game - I feel like this is almost everything Banjo-Threeie should and would have been. It's the closest we're ever going to get to it - only now, it's a lot easier to cop given we have Replaylee.
The original left a bit of a sour taste - we wait nearly 20 years for something, and it missed the mark on so many levels. The worlds barren with so much free space, tedious expansion of worlds and backtracking (this isn't always a bad thing, but Laylee made it so) and moves that felt like a chore.
It all feels fantastic now and kudos to them for more or less remaking the game. To me, it's an instant classic and it's kept me hooked for hours on end.
My only criticisms are: I would've preferred at least one or two new worlds in addition to the existing five, and some of the Pagies feel pretty cheap and easy to get, similar to what we might see in Odyssey.
This is looking like it'll end up one the most underrated games of the generation, as many refuse to pay it any attention after the mediocre reception of the original. But the few who do are discovering a masterful platformer.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
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