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Platform
Game Boy Advance
Genres
Action · Platformer
Player Perspective
Third person · Top-down
Developer Companies
Rare
Publishers
THQ
Release date
12 September 2003
Languages
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English

Summary

Banjo‑Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge brings the classic collecting‑craze to the Game Boy Advance in a slick 2D overhead view, using the same pre‑rendered graphics style fans love from the N64 titles. You start out as Banjo alone, roaming a handful of worlds, solving puzzles, battling enemies with a backpack attack, and gathering golden musical notes that let you buy extra moves from the mole Bozzeye. Once you free Kazooie, she rides in your pack and unlocks a second set of abilities, including brief flight, dramatically expanding the exploration options. Scattered across every level are over 750 items—Jiggies, honeycombs, Jinjos, totems and coins—plus hidden transformations from Mumbo Jumbo that let you become a mouse, octopus, candle or even a tank for specialised challenges. The game also pads the adventure with standalone mini‑games such as fishing, target shooting and racing, and caps each world with an arena‑style showdown against Grunty or her minions.

Storyline

Two months after Gruntilda’s defeat, her boulder‑crushing prison still holds her body beneath Spiral Mountain. Her henchman Klungo fails to move the rock, so he constructs a Gruntilda‑shaped robot. Gruntilda’s spirit transfers into the Mecha‑Grunty, giving her a way to act again.

Using the mechanical body, Mecha‑Grunty kidnaps Kazooie and jumps twenty years into the past, hoping to stop the bear and bird from ever meeting and erase her loss. Mumbo Jumbo casts a spell that sends Banjo back to the earlier Spiral Mountain, where he meets Bozzeye, a relative of Bottles, who has received Mumbo’s note.

With Bozzeye’s help and a younger Mumbo, Banjo rescues Kazooie and faces Mecha‑Grunty and Klungo several times before reaching the still‑under‑construction Gruntilda’s Castle. They dismantle the robot, sending Gruntilda’s spirit back to her real body underground. Depending on how many Jiggys the player gathers, the game ends either with duplicate Banjo copies caused by a miscast spell, or with a proper return home and a celebration on Spiral Mountain.

Edited by Maya Carter

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Alternative Titles

  • Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Curse Old
  • Grunty's Curse Old
  • Grunty's Revenge Short