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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I’ve always believed that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts deserves way more love than it got. I can understand it may have been just a the wrong time (and not what fans were hoping for with a BK revival at the time) but the core vehicle building gameplay and physics are so much fun to play around with.

    I’ve beaten the game a few times over now, and each time I try to challenge myself to make wilder vehicles than before. Or sometimes avoid making a vehicle entirely and attempting to make some sort of contraption machine. The music is some incredible work from Grant Kirkhope and Robin Beanland, bringing in a more modern but still very Banjo sound to the game.

    I think now with the game being nearly 15 years behind us now, if you have GamePass please do yourself a favor and give it a try with an open mind! It may not be for everyone, but the building mechanics were pretty ahead of their time for 2008! You may just find a new favorite game :)











  • Halo: Combat Evolved To this day, it was one of the most mind-blowing experiences I’ve had with a game on first play-through. The world, the characters, the MUSIC. It was such an exciting and immersive experience.

    I still stand by the opinion that “The Silent Cartographer” is a perfect Halo level. It hits so perfectly with a balance of freedom within a contained environment. It showed the player that while there was a linear way to play the level, you could essentially complete it through quicker methods if you knew where to go and what to do. It even gives you different dialogue if you skip to other parts first.

    It was also the level that was included with the PC Demo that I played hundreds of times. I loved that demo, replaying Silent Cartographer and playing match after match online in Blood Gulch. I think it might be time for me to play through the whole game again…