

It has great exploration potential, isn’t too hard, and has a great sense of humour. Overall Whomp’s Fortress is a great hack of Banjo Kazooie. I didn’t manage to get past the pit in that last screenshot, and I already went through the level several times by that point. You can’t break the bricks, only the question blocks, and some of the enemies have been replaced. It’s a recreation of level 1-2 from Super Mario Bros! Well, a very faithful recreation of it at least. I found his shoes, hat and gloves but I’m not sure if his overalls are hidden somewhere I didn’t notice.Īt the base of the top tower, you’ll see a pipe that takes you down to another section of the level.

Throughout the level you can find parts of Mario’s outfit. They’re a bit of a pain since you’ll hear them throwing snowballs at you all the time, but usually there’s something in the way… Until it isn’t and you get hit. There’s two Sir Slushes on this stage, one in the floating platforms and one in the hidden alcove. If your timing isn’t perfect, you’ll never get that note. Piranha plants are replaced with Snarebears, making it a bit of a pain to get their contents since you have to use a golden feather each time. There’s one later that you can destroy with eggs, but I think that these can only be killed with a golden feather.

The Whomps at the beginning of the stage are replaced with Boom boxes, but I never figured out how to get past them without getting hit. I’m gonna to Gruntilda’s Lair after this! Kazooie
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Kazooie, we’d better grab as much as we can, it’s worth more than its weight in Jiggies right now! Banjo The honeycombs have been replaced with toilet paper, and when you collect one, Banjo and Kazooie have this little conversation: The game was made to help bored people in quarantine from COVID-19, so there’s a few references to that. The enemies are different and the jiggies re in different places from where the stars were, enemies are different and the platforming challenges are different. The hack recreates the level quite faithfully, with a few amends to make it compatible with the BK system. There isn’t really a proper “level 2” in SM64 since you can go through all levels in any order (provided you have the stars for them) but Thwomp’s Fortress has the lowest star requirement after Bob-omb Battlefield. It’s always a bit weird to label these hacks, is it a Mario 64 hack or a Banjo Kazooie hack? I guess it’s technically a level mod in Banjo Kazooie.
