Thursday's Classic: Banjo-Kazooie

Where is that Jinjo?

MAN DO I FEEL OLD. This Nintendo 64 classic was released in June 1998. That's almost 15 years ago. I still recall getting this classic on my 10th birthday and slapping it into my N64. God, did I spend hours playing this and not doing any homework. You ran around as a bear with a bird in your backpack doing open world stuff like collecting notes and solving environmental puzzles. You could also collect Jinjo's located throughout the Banjo-Kazooie universe. As far as I can tell, they don't really do anything special for you but that's okay. Some of us are perfectionist and must collect them all. Anyway, this game was a great alternative for Mario 64. It was open world, puzzle doing, enemy stopping, and crazy. The best way to describe this ridiculous game is by telling you to look into a kaleidoscope and make sense of it all after going to the bar for a few hours. Anyway, you can pick up this fantastic game on Xbox live if you don't already own it.

P.S. This is one of the few games that I will say the younger generation of gamers have missed out on.

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Tuesday's Classic Selection

How many of you are itching to play an old school videogame but can't decide what you want to play? Because of the massive library of videogames out there, it becomes almost impossible to choose what you want to play. Well look no further. I am going to dedicate Tuesday and Thursday posts to classic games you need to play.

Why must there always be a blonde in JRPG's?

 Golden Sun for the Gameboy Advance is a must play classic for you RPG fanatics. This game and its 2003 sequel, The Lost Age, did very well back in the early 2000's. Even critics praised this game. I would argue that this is one of Camelot's masterpieces.

Golden Sun is set in the world of Weyard. This world is covered in continents and water that spill into nothing at the ends of the world. The main character is a guy named Isaac that goes to stop some people from bringing Alchemy back into the world. Yes, that was an incredibly abridged version but I don't want to spoil the entire story for everyone. Especially if you have not had the chance to play the game.

What makes this series unique from any other rpg is the Dijinn.They are creatures that can boost stats and do some serious damage during battle. You can say they are the same as a summon from the Final Fantasy series but also act as a set of magical armor. It's awesome and really beneficial for your party since you can mix-and-match these creatures like clothes.

If you can still find a copy of this game at your local store, pick it up. If you can't, that stinks but there are other means I won't mention to let you play this game. GO PLAY IT NOW!