Well besides the 4th canary mary race, I cant say I agree at all with this as I'm on cloud cuckooland rn and it's a still a ton of fun 100%ing it...and it's a replay as well

i think personally the scope of banjo tooie made completing it feel more like a checklist which is in line with how i feel about games like dk64 as well, definitely just a me thing lol

i can see that with dk64 for sure at least, I actually do find that game tedious