"One of the Best GBA Games!"

Banjo Pilot, the second Banjo game on the Game Boy Advance, is one of the best games made on the Game Boy Advance, in every way! It's also probably the best looking!

Story: 6/10.

There is no REAL story. Basically, some of the characters from the B-K series race each other for trophies and you try to get Cheato's pages back. Ok, so that's it. And I pieced it together, but racing games don't really have any stories, now do they? That's why I only took one point off.

Gameplay: 10/10.

You can choose from seven characters, but you start with four. You unlock different courses, there are sixteen in all. There are four different races: GP, Quickrace, Time Trial, and Jiggy Challenge. All of them are great. You start out with a weak pop-gun but you can get many powerups, most of them weapons and and speed-improving. You can get Cheato Pages from winning races, and you use them to unlock things in the game. In Jiggy Challenge, you collect Jiggies while flying and racing Bottles. It's tough at first. In GP, you race an entire Prix, four courses, and in Quickrace, you race only one. In Time Trial, you try to beat the best times for the courses. Oh yeah, and if you get hit enough, you'll get shot down, and you will Very fun, all in all.

Graphics: 10/10.

Definitely the best looking game on the GBA. It manages to look great and be in 3-D at the same time on the GBA, which is hard to do. All in all, you probably won't see better visuals on today's market, some of the places even look 64 Bit sometimes. The frame rate, during all of this, is silky smooth.

Sound: 10/10

The sound in this game is great, the music is wonderful. The song at the beginning of Banjo-Kazooie is reproduced wonderfully, and the character's "Guh-huh!" voices are the same as from the N64 games, great. The other sound effects are good, but not memorable.

NOTE: There's also multiplayer, but I haven't played it yet.

Ok, that wraps it up! To wrap it up even more, I'll just say that Banjo Pilot is one of the best GBA games yet!

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 01/21/05