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One of my favourite games as a child, and one I can still revisit fondly every now and then. The offbeat cartoon style of this game gives it a lasting charm - its humour, characters and music.

There's a nice readable simplicity to the simple colours and level design. Each level is perfectly sized, just large enough for each concept to feel fully fleshed out without becoming overstretched. I never felt overwhelmed with collecting because there was enough variety and fun in the platforming to make it feel worth it. Each level has distinct character and soundtrack, with my favourites being Treasure Trove Cove and Freezeezy Peak.

Banjo and Kazooie have a nice moveset that amusingly compliments their design as a duo. The sprinting and flying I remember being a little awkward to control, but that was common at the time. The camera has similar issues. The game is far from unplayable though, and worth a look, especially on Rare Replay or something like that.

It successfully recreates Resident Evil 2 as a modern day over-the-shoulder survival horror experience. It's not a completely faithful recreation. It changes some stuff here and there, and not entirely for the benefit of the game in terms of replayability, but it's scary, it's stressful, it's fun, and it handles the most important design aspects of the original extremely well.

I think my biggest complaint is how it handles its soundtrack. It's largely absent, unless you turn on the original game's soundtrack, which I did. While the original game's soundtrack has aged pretty damn well, I wouldn't say that it always 100% fits the atmosphere.

The Wii U is hands down the ultimate machine for video game lovers. It channels in it's hardware a love for arcades, in its features a love for community and in its software a love for design. Nintendo Land serves, even in retrospect of every other game that came out in the console, as the shinning beacon of possibilities this magic machine held. Playing Nintendo Land is exploring a buffet of the most hands on, unique, arcade-like experiences any videogame hardware can offer in the confort of your own home. While Nintendo's 'innovation for innovation's sake' proved unsatisfactory to the unwashed masses it stands tall in the pantheon of game design dogmas with this console and this game. Perhaps for the last time.