Banjo-Kazooie versus Vagrant Story (2000)

Banjo-Kazooie

Vagrant Story (2000)

Description
The bear and bird's first ever outing available in full. Loads of rollicking fun to be had here and with the legendary Stop N Swop feature reinstated. You’ll never look the same again at a jigsaw.
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Vagrant Story (ベイグラントストーリー, Beiguranto Sutōrī) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation video game console. The game was released in 2000, and has been re-released through the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita consoles. Vagrant Story was primarily ...
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Play Time
11 hours
40 hours or less
Interesting Facts
  • Controlling the player characters, the bear Banjo and the bird Kazooie, the player attempts to save Banjo’s kidnapped sister Tooty from the witch Gruntilda.
  • The game features nine three-dimensional worlds where the player must gather musical notes and jigsaw puzzle pieces, called Jiggies, to progress.
  • Banjo-Kazooie is very open and allows the player to collect Jiggies and musical notes in a nonlinear order.
  • Banjo and Kazooie can perform many abilities, such as jumping, climbing, ground-pounding, swimming, flying, and rolling into enemies.
  • The game has a total of 14 special moves.
  • There are two types of collectible shoes that provide temporary abilities: Turbo Trainer and Wellington boots.
  • Mumbo Jumbo can use magical powers to transform them into several creatures.
  • Banjo-Kazooie is occasionally included in “best games” lists by video game publications.
  • The game takes place in the fictional kingdom of Valendia and the ruined city of Leá Monde.
  • Vagrant Story is unique as a console action-adventure role-playing game in that it features no shops and no player interaction with other characters; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving and strategy.
  • The story centers on Ashley Riot, an elite agent known as a Riskbreaker, who must travel to Leá Monde to investigate the link between a cult leader and a senior Valendian Parliament member, Duke Bardorba.
  • Weapons fall into one of three main damage types: blunt, piercing, and edged.
  • The plot of Vagrant Story, titled “The Phantom Pain”, is presented as the prelude to the “story of the wanderer”.
  • Vagrant Story is regarded as a mixture of genres, as it contains elements of role-playing in its battles and platform games when in the field map.
  • Vagrant Story was conceived during a time when most games had made the transition into three-dimensional graphics.
Mod Support
Yes
Yes
Cheats Support
Yes
Yes
Microtransactions
No
No
Contains Game/Battle Pass
No
No
Third/First Person
Third person
First person and Third person
Cross-Play
No
No
Split-Screen
No
No
Family/Child Friendly
Yes
No
Virtual Reality Support
Yes
No
Number of Maps
9
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↳ Banjo-Kazooie ↳ Vagrant Story (2000)