Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge
Gruntilda is back, and only Banjo and Kazooie can stop her master plan! Travel through time encountering puzzles, battles, and meeting friends old and new in this all-new Banjo-Kazooie adventure!
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge is an adventure developed by Rare, released 12 September 2003 on Game Boy Advance and Legacy Mobile Device.
What Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge is
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge is an adventure game developed by Rare and released in 2003. It was published by THQ. It is available on Game Boy Advance and Legacy Mobile Device. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Two months have passed since Gruntilda fell from her tower, putting the events of the game before those of Banjo-Tooie in the timeline, and she is still trapped beneath the boulder. After trying to push the boulder off of herself, her loyal henchman Klungo decides that a different plan of action is required, so he builds a Gruntilda-shaped robot, the Mecha-Grunty, into which Gruntilda's spirit transfers. While her real body would still be stuck underground, she could now initiate a scheme of revenge against Banjo and Kazooie at will. Kidnapping Kazooie, she goes back in time (supposedly 20 years, although the actual amount of time is unknown) with the plan to prevent the bear and bird duo…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Banjo & Kazooie series
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge is the fourth of 11 entries we hold in the Banjo & Kazooie series. It arrived 3 years after Banjo-Tooie. The next entry was Banjo-Pilot in 2005. Its critic score of 66 is 5 points above the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts at 87.
How it was received
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge launched on 12 September 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Age of Mythology: The Titans. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Age of Mythology: The Titans.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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