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 www.gameadvice.com www.neoseeker.com www.gamewinners.com I am on vacation now so there will be only a couple of updates until the beginning of Janurary 2001. Sorry. The strategy for the Hag 1 boss is now complete. All future updates will be just for the Trivia Questions (for Hag 1). If you have any good tips for beating Hag 1, please e-mail me them. I will put them in my FAQ if they are good. To e-mail me your tips for Hag 1 simply follow the e-mail instructions in the e-mail section of this FAQ. Contents : 1.)Updates 2.)Hag 1 Strategy 3.)Trivia Question (for Hag 1) 4.)E-mail Instructions 5.)Credits Updates : 12/30/2000 - Version 1.4 -- Minor Update. Added a couple of Trivia Questions sent in by people and I fixed typos in the Hag 1 Strategy and I added in a tip sent in for dealing with the minions in the final battle. 12/22/2000 - Version 1.3 -- Minor update. Added a couple more Trivia Questions and modified the strategy for Hag 1. Now the strategy for the Hag 1 is totally complete. All that is left is to add all the Trivia Questions for Hag 1. Please e-mail me any trivia questions for the HAG 1 Battle, and only for the Hag 1 battle (NOT the Tower of Tradegy Quiz !). Also added another web site that has this FAQ on it. 12/21/2000 - Version 1.2 -- Minor update. Added a couple more Trivia Questions and added a couple of other sites that have my permission to use this FAQ. 12/21/2000 - Version 1.1 -- Added a table of contents, fixed spelling, and added the Trivia Questions section for the final battle. Also added the rest of the name of the Hag 1, seen during the boss intro. 12/16/2000 - Version 1.0 -- First version of the strategy guide. Hag 1 Strategy : Hag 1 (Monstrous Mechanical Mud-Muncher) : 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 doesn’t really matter if you get it wrong or right. The strategy is also the same for both attacks.) [See Trivia Question Section for answers to these questions.] 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 Targetizan’s 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 won’t 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 another 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 A while in the air 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, you’ll dodge the debris. After a little bit, Grunty asks you another trivia question. If you are low on regular eggs (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 eggs, 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, sometimes, 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 won’t 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 drill’s lasers will go out and the vehicle will stop dead. Grunty says she’ll fight to the death. During the rest of the fight keep strafing left and right and shooting at the same time. She shoots out the green spells very fast. The only way to dodge them is to continuously strafe left and right. 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). [A tip from ImBenjamin for dealing with the Minions part of the final battle : "Instead of destroying the minions, I find just strafing around Hag 1 in only one direction useful." ] 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 drop another honeycomb. (This is the last time during the final battle that Gruntuilda will drop a honeyomb.) 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 won’t 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 Winkybunion’s head ! ---------- Trivia Questions (For Hag 1) : [Note: If you have any answers to any questions for the final battle that are not listed here, please e-mail me them. You will get credit for them. DO NOT e-mail me questions and answers about the Tower of Tragedy Quiz because they are completely different questions. Follow the e-mail instructions in the E-mail section to send in your questions AND answers for the final battle trivia questions. Now, without further ado, here are the questions and answers for the final battle trivia questions ... Q:Who was winning at the end of the card game ? A:Bottles Q:Which boss before me (Gruntilda) had the most power ? A:Old King Coal Q:How many Jinjos were rescued in the game ? A:45 *(Thanks to John-David McKeel)* Q:What is the license plate of my vehicle ? A:Hag 1 Q:What is the first thing I said during this battle ? A:Finally Q:What is my name spelled backwards ? A:ADLITNURG Q:How many legs did all the animals you transformed into have total ? A:14 Q:What is the phrase that introduced me ? A:Monstrous Mechanical Mud-Muncher Q:What is the official sport at Mayhem Temple ? A:Kickball Q:What was the name of the first game that I starred in ? A:Banjo-Kazooie Q:What are the arch-enemies of the Jinjos ? A:Minjos Q:How many floors were there in my factory ? A:Five Q:What different colored gem piles were found in Glitter Gulch Mine ? A:Purple, Blue, and Green [I am not sure what order the colors appear in this question but purple, blue, and green are the correct colors for this question.] Q:Who sold burgers in Witchyworld ? A:Big Al Q:What was the message on the empty bottle in the trash can ? A:Jolly's Juice Q:What ESRB rating does Banjo-Tooie have ? A:E-Everyone Q:What logo was on Mrs. Bottles' coffee mug ? A:Banjo-Tooie Q:What are the magical creatures of the land? A:Glowbos *(Thanks to ImBenjamin)* Q:Which of these is true? A:There are 3 yellow jinjos *(Thanks to ImBenjamin)* [I do not know the exact wording of some of these questions but these answers are all correct. If you know the EXACT wording of these questions please e-mail them to me and I will give you credit.] [Remember, the questions asked by Gruntilda Winkybunion are random so you will get different questions every time you play against her.] ---------- Gruntilda said that she will get her revenge (again) in Banjo-Threeie. Till then, peace. ---------- E-mail Instructions : 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. Credits : If anyone contributes anything to this FAQ, I will give you credit in this section. People who contributed to this FAQ : Joseph Sonavil - Author of this FAQ ImBenjamin - Trivia Questions and tip for minion section of final battle John-David McKeel - Trivia Question correction ---------- Copyright 2000 by Joseph Sonavil.