It is done.
BT 100% and Grunty smashed.
The ending
features another quiz. But its a much less frustrating one. Focusing solely on trivia from the events of the game rather then bringing up random things about Grunty. Had no issues with it till I got cocky (you get points taken away for a wrong answer) The fight is pretty good. I think I prefer the first one though. That really seemed to ask you to use most of your skills again. This much less. But it also featured FPS controls heavily and they just don't gel with me. I dunno if its the emulation controls or age but its completely unnatural for me. It's not a modern twin stick shooter for sure. I manage to unlock the health recovery cheat in the game and I would never have managed it without it. Rather brilliantly the quiz carries on in the boss fight. Grunty stops to ask you questions and depending on if your correct or not she attacks slow or fast. Like BK this is post credits so in a way its a bonus end. You've already saved the day.I don't think I could ever claim its better then BK. Certainly not on the whole. It does build on and even improve in some areas. I've found the camera far easier to use. Some of this is due to level design asking much less of you in a platforming sense. I really have grown to love the bigger more complex worlds, it builds on naturally from BK in this regard but because of the character switching the complexity can become really tiresome. If this ever received a Wind Waker like update I'd urge this to be fiddled with. For example
you should be able to cancel your transformations whenever you like and Mumbo could warp back to his skull. Both these would just streamline the whole experience so much more. Adding in the
Cheato Pages is really good. Adding a nice incentive to explore the world as you can get a reward. The inclusion of proper boss fights is a plus for me. With all of them being good apart from........... that one.
I do think there are a few too many mini games, but I've found them to be brief enough that they were fun distractions. A bit more variety would have helped to.
A special mention to the visuals. Whilst nothing special now some of the lighting was really quite impressive and used in interesting ways. I guess I'd forgotten what the N64 was capable of, when running at 5fps.
The music was fantastic (expected) but the level of attention taken to link all the worlds together really caught my eye. I'm really glad I've played it again, for me BK is one of the best games ever. But BT is just a very good game. One that will make you have to take a few extra steps it shouldn't do.