Lord of Games

Lord of Games

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Game(s)	Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
World(s)	Showdown Town Spiral Mountain

“I come to settle your differences, cliched crone. You will play a challenge of my choice. To the winner goes Spiral Mountain. To the loser... an eternity of toil in my video game factory!”

—L.O.G., Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

The Lord of Games, often abbreviated to L.O.G., is a major character in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. He is sick and tired of the ongoing rivalry of Banjo, Kazooie, and Gruntilda and decides to put an end to it in a final showdown. He hopes his showdown will reveal who's truly worthy of owning Spiral Mountain. The winner gets the deed to Spiral Mountain, and the loser is subject to an eternity to work at his video game factory. He also goes through the trouble of creating every world in which they compete.

Physical Characteristics

L.O.G is a tall, thin, imposing figure. He is dressed in modestly simplistic mauve robes and finery. His golden head is in the shape of a television. The screen that makes up his "face" is green, and stylized to look like a game of Pong, the first video game ever created, with his two eyes being the paddles and his long nose being made up of the ball and screen-divider. Climbing all around L.O.G.'s body are small white mechanical mice.

As L.O.G. has created every video game, he seems all-powerful when in one. Some abilities he's shown include teleportation, He can "pause" the game at will (he is unaffected by said pause), and also the ability to transform video game characters as he pleases. At one point he also threatens to reduce Banjo and Kazooie to basic pixels.

He has created several game worlds just for the battle between Banjo, Kazooie and Grunty.

History

L.O.G. claims to have had a hand in creating every video game ever made and, being in the position he is in, is occasionally a bit prone to bragging, but generally is a very fair person. He also mentions in passing that he has a wife, a "Lady of Games" who was the first to create games that had "kittens, ponies and ninjas being blown up with rocket launchers".

It is also implied that he was involved in the creation of the earlier games in the Banjo-Kazooie series, being aware of many classic details in the series, including the likes of Tooty and Mumbo's Mountain, which both appeared in Banjo-Kazooie. He references these characters and locations in his quiz in the final challenge. An exhibit in Banjoland also directly states that L.O.G. worked hard to get Banjo-Tooie out in a timely manner.

Games

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

L.O.G. first makes his appearance at Spiral Mountain, where he appears just in time to stop a fight between Banjo-Kazooie and Gruntilda occurring by (literally) pausing it (the word 'Pause' appears on screen and Banjo, Kazooie, and Gruntilda are frozen in time as L.O.G materializes). Rather than have then let their fight ensue, he sends them on a quest to collect things around the mountain. After deciding a pointless challenge he concocted was, well, pointless, he sends the three to Showdown Town, where the game (really) begins.

Once there, he explains that he can offer them the deed to Spiral Mountain, but they must both tollow to his rules: if Banjo and Kazooie can collect enough Jiggies to return to Spiral Mountain, they win, and Grunty wins if she can prevent them from doing so. In order to give both sides a fighting chance, he gives Grunty a mechanical replica of her original body and restores Banjo and Kazooie's physical fitness. While he makes it known that he is attempting to be impartial in the challenge, he does admit later on that he doesn't want Grunty to win.

L.O.G. can be visited at any time in front of his factory.

He makes his final appearance at Spiral Mountain, where he awards 6 Jiggies for the completion of his "Six Of The Best" task. Afterwards, once Grunty is defeated, he stops the heroes from finishing her off by, again, "pausing" the game. He instantly teleports Grunty to his video game factory and hands Banjo and Kazooie the deeds to Spiral Mountain, ending their quest.

Quotes

• "They're all in the pipeline. You know. Killer Instinct 3. Battletoads and Jet Force Gemini games. Even Ghoulies 2! Oh you'll never believe that. I've ruined my own humorous jape."
• "No no no, it's all too painful to watch, gamers today don't want all this, they just want to shoot things! What a pity, it looks like we're going to have to appeal to this new demographic."
• "We've been in several games!" "Ah, but not nearly as many as that Italian gentleman." -Kazooie and L.O.G.
• You should be grateful, I could've sent you to Hoedown Town. It's awful. The music, the dancing! -L.O.G saying about the beta world Weird West
• "What's that? You want to know why you've never met or heard of me before? Well, I'm very good at disguising myself. Pet my piglet!"

Trivia

• L.O.G breaks the 4th wall in the introduction scene when he transforms Banjo and Gruntilda into a pumpkin and a Pinata, then saying "I wish they could stay like this, but I suppose you people would actually like to take part in this game."

Gallery

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