Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

by THQ Software

Product Features

• The witch Gruntilda is going back in time, to stop the heroic bird and bear team from ever meeting. With the assistance of inventor underling Klungo, she'll try to stop your adventures from ever happening!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C88HW
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 10, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,806 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Gruntilda is back and it’s up to Banjo and Kazooie to stop her master plan!

Take control of Banjo and follow him back through the pages of history, encountering puzzles, battles, and faces old and new in an all-new adventure marking Banjo- Kazooie’s handheld debut!

Product Description

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge takes you into the lost months between the first Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, for a wild new adventure!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great new addition to the Banjo series, October 27, 2003

By 

plasmaball3000 (Charlottesville, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge (Video Game)

As the third game in the Banjo series, this game has everything you would expect. You still collect Jiggies, Jinjos, and the other items fans of the series have come to know and love. This game had six worlds and a vast home world, giving lots of land to explore.

Grunty's Revenge does come up a little short in the play time though; it is nowhere near that of Banjo Kazooie or Tooie. That's not to say you won't have a great time playing it though. It's an excellent adventure the first time through and has great replay value.

The sound is just what you would expect from a Banjo game, catchy, but it won't get on your nerves having it play in the background constantly.

The graphics are acceptable for the GBA, but it can get difficult to see how high ledges are. You will find yourself trying to jump to impossible places at many points in the game.

The controls are easy to master; I couldn't find any problems in learning the new moves.

Put simply, the game play is wonderful. It comes together with the plot to bring a truly fun game.

I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoyed either of the other Banjo games. It's a great action/adventure game for the GBA.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent addition to the BK franchise!, November 12, 2003

By 

Timothy Capehart "Review-a-holic" (Dayton, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge (Video Game)

I was really sad when I read a review of this game in a certain magazine (whose initials shall remain G I). It got a really poor score. I loved the first N64 game and really liked the second. I'd just gotten a GBA SP and was thinking this would be the perfect game to try out that back-lit screen on. Well, I went ahead and ordered it from Amazon...and boy was I glad I didn't listen to that dorky reviewer!

She (the magazine reviewer) criticized the graphics, which are excellent. It's a perfect port...they may in fact be clearer than the N64 graphics...though the other customer reviewer here on Amazon is correct, it is difficult to tell how high some platforms are. She also criticized the "collision" saying that the enemies scored a hit on Banjo when they shouldn't have. Well, when you are playing a game like this, that's one of the things you have to get used to and anticipate. A lazy gamer complains about the collision.

The sound is exact. The music is there in all its twangy goodness. The moves are there. All the running around looking for stuff is there (Jinjos, Jiggies, notes, etc). The GBA SP is a little awkward in my big hands, but if you have one of those domajobbers that make it like a console controller, that would make it all the sweeter.

The ONLY thing that keeps me from giving this game five stars (which I kind of think it deserves) is it's shortness. I would have liked a few more worlds/levels to explore. But, hey, they leave you wanting more. That's a good thing.

What is here is excellent...so Four and three quarters stars really. I'm going to play it again, right after I finish it!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, December 31, 2004

By 

Bill Gallion "Will" (Sewalls Point, FL USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge (Video Game)

when i first got this game, i didn't know what to expect. A Banjo-Kazooie game for GBA? Surely it couldn't be that much fun. I had long been awaiting another sequal to the game. And i found out there had already been 2 made. This, and one that hasn't been released yet, called "Banjo Pilot", a racing game. This game was more fun than I had ever expected it to be. I had very impressive graphics for a hand-held console. And the plot itself was very impressive. Overall, the game was very enjoyable.