
Gruntilda Winkybunion (Hag 1) Strategy Guide

  by Joseph Sonavil
  (Violator3d@aol.com)

Introduction :  This strategy guide is for the final battle with Gruntilda
in Banjo-Tooie for the Nintendo 64.  This is my first strategy guide.

This strategy guide is copyrighted by Joseph Sonavil.

The sites that can use this strategy guide are :

www.gamefaqs.com


Updates :

12/16/2000 - Version 1.0 -- First version of the strategy guide.


Hag 1 :

I suggest using regular eggs for the times when she pops out of the drill
machine.  You must also have clockwork eggs to blow up the batteries.  It is
also HIGHLY recommended to have as many health pieces as possible (the most
you can get is 10) and you should try to get your air bubbles maxed out.
You do this by breaking one of the boulders in spiral mountain and bringing
the goldfish back into the water.  To do this, simply walk up to the fish
and you will pick it up.  Then walk into the water and the goldfish will
make your air bubbles increase.

Now, onto the final battle ...

Jiggies required to enter the final stage : 10.

Entrance : At the top of the castle in Cauldrons Keep.  You have to go
through the castle and out the hole where the huge B.O.B. is.  Then simply
climb up the winding path and enter the door.  There, you will meet Gruntilda
 and her drill machine with the "Hag 1" license plate.

After the long intro, the battle will begin.  Two lasers will appear from the
front of the drill.  The vehicle will spin around.  Simply jump over the
lasers when they get near you.  After a little bit Gruntilda Winkybunion
appears out of the machine and asks you a trivia question.  If you get it
wrong, she attacks with a fast attack.  If you guess correctly, she attacks
with a slow attack. (Note: There is not much difference between the speed of
the attack so it doesnt really matter if you get it wrong or right. The
strategy is also the same for both attacks.)

   Gruntilda starts out with 100 hit points.  After the first trivia question
is answered (either right or wrong), she will begin shooting out green spells.
You will be in first-person mode (like in the Mayhem Temple in Targetizans
temple).  Switch to regular eggs and aim up at the witch.  Dodge the spells by
strafing left and right and continue firing at her.  When she loses 10 hits,
stop firing.  You cannot hurt her anymore after 10 hits.  She drops a
honeycomb.  It does not disappear during the entire fight, so only pick it up
when you need it.  (NOTE: if you do not take off 10 hit points, she will
continue with the 2 laser attack.  If at any part of the battle you do not
take off 10 hit points, Grunty will simply repeat the main attack of the
section and then you will get another chance to take off the 10 hit points.
[you wont be able to take off more than 10 hit points, except at the end of
the battle.]  You will of course have to answer another trivia question each
time before you get the opportunity to hit Grunty.  You cannot harm Grunty at
any other time.  Only when she comes out of the hatch can you harm her.
Remember, it does not matter if you get the question right or wrong since both
attacks are basically exactly the same (even though she says otherwise.)
   Gruntilda will then turn on all four lasers (two in the front and two in
the back).  The back two are harder to jump over because they are close
together.  A simple strategy is to simple jump up in place whenever a laser
gets close to you.  (The machine moves around in a circle during this attack
and the first attack).  This is the same as the first attack except there are
now four lasers instead of two.
  After awhile Grunty comes out again and asks you another trivia question.
Then, she does the same thing as before; she shoots out more green spells.
Whenever she does this type of attack, USE Regular Eggs.  The other eggs take
off more damage but you can take off 10 hits easier with regular eggs because
they shoot much faster than the other eggs.  Never use the clockwork eggs on
this type of attack because they rarely reach Grunty and you need to save them
for later on in the battle.  When you get her down to 80 hits, she will drop
a nother honeycomb.  Now, she gets a mortar cannon out of the back of the
drill machine.  Keep running and stay near the edge of the arena.  Jump
whenever you hear the mortar being fired and press B to have Kazooie flap her
wings while you are in the air.  This keeps you in the air a little longer.
The mortars explode and a piece flies in each of the cardinal directions
(North, East, South, and West).  Try to land in the Northwest or Northeast
direction after you jump, this way, youll dodge the debris.
  After a little bit, Grunty asks you another trivia question.  If you are
low on regulareggs (or any other eggs), pick some up.  There are egg nests at
the edges of the arena.  (NOTE: You cannot fall off the edge of the castle
top.  There must be some magic keeping you from going over the edge.)  After
you hit Grunty 10 more times with the regular egg, she will be at 70 hit
points.  She will drop another honeycomb and start firing 2 mortar cannons !
Do the same thing as before and you should do fine.  She will ask you another
trivia question and you must take off another 10 hits.  She will then drop
another honeycomb and then she will turn on the drill.
  Two lasers (in the front only) will go on and the drill will turn on.  Run
around in the opposite direction of the vehicle and jump over the lasers when
they get near you.  Every once in awhile the vehicle will stop turning and the
drill will try to hit you.  RUN AWAY FROM IT and DO NOT JUMP UP NEAR IT.  If
you do jump up near the drill part of the machine, you will get hit.  The
vehicle will begin turning around again after the drill tries to ram you and
it will spin in the opposite direction so be ready to jump up as soon as the
drill stops moving towards you.
  Gruntilda will ask you another trivia question and then shoot more green
spells out at you.  Strafe left and right to dodge the spells and also fire
at Grunty (you must aim up at her with UP C).  After you get her down to 60
hits, she will drop another honeycomb.
  Now switch to Clockwork eggs and get right next to the tailpipe of the
Hag 1 (the drill machine).  Fire a clockwork egg once the smoke stops coming
out of the tailpipe and make the clockwork bird jump into the tailpipe.  Now,
you are inside the drill machine.  Move to the right side of the screen and
jump over the two big wires and get near the right battery.  Press B to
detonate when you are right next to it.  You will destroy the battery (watch
out for the two huge minions walking back and forth between the two wires).
Now there is only one battery left powering the vehicle.
   Four lasers will now turn on (two in the front and two in the back).  The
drill will again try to ram you.  This is the hardest part of the fight.
You will probably get hit a lot during this part of the fight.  After a
little while, Grunty will ask you another question.  Hit her another 10
times with regular eggs and a honeycomb will fall out of the machine.  Now
HURRY to the back of the machine and shoot another clockwork egg into the
tailpipe and blow up the second battery; it is on the left side after the two
wires.  If you miss, you will have to dodge the four lasers and the drill
again (but you wont have to hit her 10 times again) and then you will have
another chance at hitting her.  The same is true for the first battery.
  Now, the drills lasers will go out and the vehicle will stop dead.  Grunty
says shell
 fight to the death.  Hit her another 10 times to get her down to 30 hits left
and she will drop another honeycomb and a minion will come out and try to hit
you.  Dodge him and continue firing at her.  (NOTE: The minion will regenerate
after awhile and sometimes two of them will come after you.  Take them out
first and then start hitting Grunty).  When you get her down to 15 hits, she
will release purple gas into the air.  Your air bubbles will start to go away.
After they all go away, you will start losing health VERY QUICKLY !  Keep
hitting her and dodge the minions.  When you get her down to 1 hit left, she
will tell you that her name is GRUNTILDA WINKYBUNION.  She will start shooting
out a pinkish-purple spell at you.  It is very fast and she shoots them out
very quickly.  The only way to hit her the last time is to hit her when the
spell is STILL IN HER HANDS !  If you hit her at any other time, it wont do
her any   damage.  She will then drop the spell into the drill and the entire
drill will blow up.

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU BEAT BANJO-TOOIE !  Now seat back and relax and enjoy the
ending and a game of kick around with Gruntilda Winkybunions head !

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Later on, I will try to add the answers to the trivia question part of this
fight.

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Till then, peace.


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If you have any useful strategies for this boss, send them to my e-mail address
at :
Violator3d@aol.com.
Be sure to have "Grunty W." as the subject.  Only e-mail me useful strategies
for this boss, NOTHING else !  I do not want to be getting any chain mail or
anything else, JUST tips on beating Gruntilda and nothing else.

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Copyright 2000 by Joseph Sonavil.



