WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?!
So, as if I didn't have enough reasons to hate BK: Nuts and Bolts, they had to throw in a level called "Banjoland" that's made up of pieces from all the previous games' worlds. Which would be great, if it wasn't in this weird, museum-like setting where everything is fucked to hell.
First of all, major pieces of the last games are broken down and hammered or stapled to either the cold, unfeeling, rust covered metal walls or dunked into this deep underwater lake portion of the level. This creates a really disturbing sort of Smash Factory kind of feel (which, of course, is only exacerbated by the fact that you're doing a bunch of racing challenges through it).
There are other offenses, too. To quote someone on TV Tropes (which is how I found out about this): "the snowman from Freezeezy Peak has melted into an unrecognizable blob and the hat converted into a snow machine, the Jolly Rodger from Treasure Trove Cove stripped from it's beached position and deposited casually in a pool, the giant tree from Click Clock Wood dissected and bolted to a wall."
They took Jinjos of every color and entombed them in an airtight display case. MADNESS!
But then, there's the worst offense of all: "Clanker the robot shark/whale thing has been torn apart, with his teeth set in the wall, his tail thrown haphazardly out into the floor of the desert area and his head hooked up to the central heating." CLANKER! MY POOR BABY! To make matters worse, there's a challenge where tiny robots approach his immobile head (he's unable to defend himself) to STEAL HIS EYES.
And here I thought I couldn't have any more Freudian horror associated with my lovable mechanical shark...they had to throw in castration and a weird take on "I have no teeth, tail, or body and I cannot scream" sort of thing.
God, Rare. WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!
First of all, major pieces of the last games are broken down and hammered or stapled to either the cold, unfeeling, rust covered metal walls or dunked into this deep underwater lake portion of the level. This creates a really disturbing sort of Smash Factory kind of feel (which, of course, is only exacerbated by the fact that you're doing a bunch of racing challenges through it).
There are other offenses, too. To quote someone on TV Tropes (which is how I found out about this): "the snowman from Freezeezy Peak has melted into an unrecognizable blob and the hat converted into a snow machine, the Jolly Rodger from Treasure Trove Cove stripped from it's beached position and deposited casually in a pool, the giant tree from Click Clock Wood dissected and bolted to a wall."
They took Jinjos of every color and entombed them in an airtight display case. MADNESS!
But then, there's the worst offense of all: "Clanker the robot shark/whale thing has been torn apart, with his teeth set in the wall, his tail thrown haphazardly out into the floor of the desert area and his head hooked up to the central heating." CLANKER! MY POOR BABY! To make matters worse, there's a challenge where tiny robots approach his immobile head (he's unable to defend himself) to STEAL HIS EYES.
And here I thought I couldn't have any more Freudian horror associated with my lovable mechanical shark...they had to throw in castration and a weird take on "I have no teeth, tail, or body and I cannot scream" sort of thing.
God, Rare. WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!