Banjo Kazooie 3d Model

[Elisabet Schwartzkopf]

Banjois a rare anthropomorphic brown honey[1] bear who is one of the two main characters of the series. He is always seen wearing yellow shorts with a belt, a shark tooth necklace, and a bright blue backpack.[2] The backpack usually contains his good friend Kazooie, though she was absent from it in Banjo's first appearance in a game, Diddy Kong Racing. Kazooie "adopted" Banjo some time ago,[3] and the trouble that she attracts usually ends up coming for Banjo as well. Banjo also has a younger sister named Tooty. Banjo is also mainly responsible to what happens to Tooty. All three live at the base of Spiral Mountain on the Isle o' Hags. He can also play his namesake instrument (a banjo).

Kazooie is a rare Red Crested Breegull. She is one of the two title characters in the series. At the beginning of the first game, she resides in Banjo's backpack, in his home in Spiral Mountain. Throughout the game, she remains inside his backpack, except in the second game, Banjo-Tooie, where she can split with Banjo and go adventuring on her own, and also in Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge for the Game Boy Advance, at the start of which she is kidnapped, leaving Banjo to complete the game's first level unaided.

Unlike Banjo, who is calm and mild-mannered, Kazooie is much more impulsive. She tends to argue frequently with Bottles the Shortsighted Mole and other side characters, and gives sarcastic commentary about the events of the game. Indeed, it tends to be Kazooie's sharp tongue that gets the duo into a lot of fights and overall sticky situations, much to Banjo's dismay.

Kazooie's attacks consist mainly of a wide variety of eggs she can launch at enemies, though she can also use her strong beak to attack on occasion. One of the more useful abilities she's granted in Banjo-Tooie is the ability to transform into a dragon, granting her increased strength in her attacks, as well as fire breath to replace her peck attack and an unlimited supply of Fire Eggs. She can also play her Kazoo. In Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts N Bolts, however, she is stripped of her abilities and given a wrench that can pick up objects, move obstacles, activate switches, and whack enemies.

Bottles the shortsighted mole is one of the main characters in the series. He is a stereotypical geek, with large, thick, cokebottle framed glasses (hence his name), and awkward height and weight. He has appeared in every Banjo-Kazooie game so far, except for Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge, where he was only mentioned by Banjo and Mumbo.

Bottles' main role in Banjo-Kazooie is to assist the player with new moves, and appeared in nearly every level of the game. He and Kazooie constantly fired insults at each other throughout the game, often making fun of his short, geeky appearance. In Banjo-Tooie, after casting a spell meant to destroy Banjo and Kazooie, the undead Gruntilda kills Bottles instead, resulting in Banjo, Kazooie and Mumbo Jumbo taking revenge for his death. The game also reveals additional details regarding his family, and indicates that he has a wife, Mrs. Bottles, two kids, Speccy and Goggles, and a brother, Jamjars, who takes over the role Bottles held in the prequel. At the end of the game, he is revived.

A secret game mode, called Bottles' Revenge, and only accessible with a GameShark, allows hidden playability of the ghostly Bottles. In this mode, two-players are playing. One controls Banjo, the other controls a ghostly, devilish Bottles, and can possess nearby enemies by pressing, and have complete control over them. However, when the duo enter a boss battle, Devil Bottles feels that he's "not needed" and leaves. Rareware could not make Devil Bottles control bosses, due to the fact that Old King Coal was the only boss that could be controlled.

Bottles was not included on the Gameboy Advance game Grunty's Revenge as due to the game's plot of time travel he could not theoretically guide the player through and so instead an ancestor "Bozzeye" takes his place. He does however appear as a playable character in Banjo Pilot a plane-driving game also released on the GBA.

It is said that his family has left him due to trauma of being killed and brought back to life, and that he had been seen drowning away his troubles at Jolly's. In Nuts & Bolts, Bottles has become a tourist information officer and now wears his jacket buttoned up, with a name-tag and some badges on it, as well as a yellow tie. A screenshot also shows his eyes for the first time without his glasses on (not counting screenshots of Banjo Kazooie where his head is facing left).

Mumbo Jumbo is a shaman in the N64 games Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, as well as the Game Boy Advance games Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge and Banjo-Pilot. Mumbo's origin is not altogether clear. In the time-traveling storyline of Grunty's Revenge, it is revealed that Mumbo was still a shaman in training in the 1970s, which indicates that he was trained under the same witch doctor as Gruntilda, the antagonist of the series. Another rendition of Mumbo's story (written in the Banjo-Kazooie instruction manual)[4] is that he was Gruntilda's teacher in magic, and once her training was complete, she disavowed her teacher and cursed him with a changed appearance. What is clear is that Gruntilda disfigured Mumbo's face, turning it into a skull. The instruction manual for Banjo-Kazooie states that his face shall remain that way until the day Gruntilda is overthrown. However, this has not been addressed in any of the games. However, Rare has stated that they want to keep him with his skull as revealed in an issue of Scribes.

In Banjo-Kazooie, he offered his assistance to the duo with useful transformations in exchange for his missing Mumbo Tokens. He turns Banjo and Kazooie into a termite, crocodile, walrus, pumpkin, and eventually into a bumblebee. In rare occasions, Mumbo would turn Banjo into a washing machine and then would turn you into the appropriate creature. He, rarely, also tries to turn Banjo into a T. rex but fails. He then turns Banjo into the appropriate creature. He lives in his many skull-shaped huts scattered around the lands visited within the games.

In Banjo-Tooie, his skull looks different than in Banjo-Kazooie with a more round shape to it. His eyes are also a lot larger, giving him a better appearance than his former self. He was featured as a playable character who could use his "mighty shaman zap-stick" to levitate objects, oxygenate bodies of water, and other such magical procedures, and, no less important, use it as his only attack to zap enemies into oblivion.

In Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Mumbo now runs an independent garage in Showdown Town called "Mumbo's Motors" after demands for experimental transformation magic have become few and far between, and now wears blue overalls rather than his dried grass "pants". He also seems to have invented the "magic wrench" that Kazooie uses in the game.

Drill Sergeant Jamjars is the brother of the short-sighted mole, Bottles. In the game Banjo-Tooie, he takes over Bottles' role from the first game (seeing as Bottles was killed by Grunty in the beginning of the game) and teaches the player the moves and skills required to reach Gruntilda in Cauldron Keep, calling the moves Bottles had taught Banjo in the last game 'novice moves'. Jamjars is a stereotypical drill sergeant complete with trooper sunglasses, green fatigues and army boots. He speaks loudly and clearly, and likes to call people "punks". He tends to speak in army chants when teaching moves. He is as different from Bottles as cheese to chalk, as the booklet says. He also gets into many witty quarrels with Kazooie. His silos create a network of shortcuts throughout the Isle O' Hags. Though he apparently does not physically appear in Nuts & Bolts, he does make a cameo in the introductory cinema, revealing him as a DJ on "Spiral Mountain FM", where he comments about how lazy Banjo and Kazooie have become.

One of the differences of the two games is that Jamjars introduces the items when Banjo and Kazooie pick them up, where as before the item talks, introducing itself. Confusingly, he does this even before Banjo and Kazooie meet him in Mayahem Temple.

Humba Wumba is a female Native American who seems to have a rivalry with fellow shaman Mumbo Jumbo. It could be because the two are competing as powerful shamans. Humba took over Mumbo's role from the first game, granting the player transformations.

Wumba's only reference to Mumbo Jumbo are threats when the player (controlling Mumbo) enters her wigwam (tipi). She also makes a reference of him when Banjo and Kazooie first meet her and she claims to be the most powerful user of magic on the island and Banjo and Kazooie ask about Mumbo and she denies, saying that Mumbo is an amateur. Mumbo makes references of his own when the player completes the game. Mumbo at one point tells her to shut up or he threatens to summon the golden giant (a magic trick he can perform in the game). Also, in Glitter Gulch Mine, Mumbo is unable to use the Warp Pads to teleport into her wigwam, as he is not welcome there.

It is possible that the two met sometime during their training as Mumbo claimed in Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge that he was still a shaman-in-training. It could be that he has a higher "rank" in shaman magic than Wumba, since Wumba can only change Banjo and Kazooie into animals and objects, and she requires a Glowbo to do so. Mumbo only needs the power of Glowbos to do other tasks that considerably uses a lot more magic than his simple transformations, although most of Humba's transformations (aside from the baby T-rex) can actually attack (the van and the adult T. rex are invincible and will kill any enemy it touches) - an ability that many Mumbo's transformations didn't have (the crocodile being the only transformation that can attack). The sizes of Wumba's transformations energy bars also vary from transformation to transformation (detonator and baby T. rex having one less section than Banjo and Kazooie, the snowball only having five sections, no matter how many sections Banjo and Kazooie have, and the washing machine has one more section than Banjo and Kazooie, making it the most durable transformation which can be killed), whereas the energy bar remains unchanged when Mumbo transforms Banjo. Also, Mumbo would occasionally transform the bear and bird into a washing machine completely by accident (this was confirmed by Rare to be a tester for the game after Banjo-Kazooie), much to his own annoyance; this form, unlike Wumba's, seems to be useless to the extent that he must perform the transformation again to get it right.

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