gotta get this out of the way straight away, this is definitely better than the original, no doubt. it still has some issues, but if anything its just stuff that caught me off guard, as some of the choices here are very different from how the original game did things.

first of all, the game looks much, MUCH better. feel like this was par for the course once playtonic got their footing a bit more, with both the original and the impossible lair under their belts. graphics are very nice, and in general the game looks far less cheap if anything.

probably my favourite improvement here compared to the original is the level design. night and day improvement to be honest. levels are much more fun to run around in, and everything feels like it fits in its space well. a lot of places felt familiar still, but where improvement was needed has arrived this time around. new rooms for added space, more natural traversal, and so on. really enjoyed the game for this aspect.

the games pacing is different compared to the original, feeling less like banjo and more close to DK64 this time around. 5 worlds that took me about 4 hours each, since I wanted to find everything before moving on. this is mainly due to the mass of things to collect and places to explore, that it ends up taking a good while to cross everything off.

new orchestral soundtrack is very nice sounding. I loved the soundtrack for this game anyway, with world 1, world 3 and hivory towers melodies becoming some of my favourites among absolute bangers grant has produced over the years. the dude is incapable of missing.

at first the major change in pacing seemed to kind of weird me out, but it eventually grew on me, and more or less became a bit of a grey area for me where I thought it was just fine honestly.

the new costume choices were very fun and a good drive to collect everything. I wasn't going to stop until I unlocked the punk rocker costume when I saw it, and felt very satisfied when I got it haha.

having all the power ups from the starts felt weird to me at first too, but I came around to the idea, as all of them together straight away makes traversal more fun.

overall a very good remake. im glad it happened and wish playtonic the best in whatever they do next.

i think its the better verision of the game sure i do hate that they removed and replaced 2 moves from the original but the lighting and other things makes this a very good remake 9.5/10

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