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Banjo-Kazooie

Banjo-Kazooie is a platform video game developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console. It was first released on June 29th, 1998 in North America and then on July 17th 1998 in Europe, and later re-released as an Xbox Live Arcade game for the Xbox 360 on December 3rd, 2008.

Banjo-Kazooie is set in the Spiral Mountain and follows the story of Banjo, a male brown honey bear, and Kazooie, a red female bird who is always kept in Banjo's backpack. Banjo Kazooie is a single-player platform game in which the player controls the protagonists Banjo and Kazooie. The game is split into nine open levels where the player must gather musical notes and jigsaw pieces, or "Jiggies", to progress. Players transit from one level to another through Gruntilda's lair, which acts as the game's central overworld.

Banjo-Kazooie was a critical and commercial success, selling more than 1.8 million copies in the United States and more than 405,000 in Japan. The game has an score of 92 out of 100 at Metacritic, which is considered "universal acclaim". GamePro described Banjo-Kazooie as a "more complex, more fluid, and more attractive game than its predecessor Super Mario 64".

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