/vr/ - Retro Games

I feel like OP's brain just doesn't make the connection that Jiggies like pic rel aren't just "sitting there". Like he doesn't understand that this Jiggy is an expression of the road you took to acquire it, and THAT was the "mission".

You get this Jiggy by first having to spot a difficult-to-notice secret path off to the side, then navigating several jumps that are pretty hard for this early in the game. Then AFTER you get the Jiggy you have the choice to re-navigate the difficult path to the left or to jump into the sea to the right, which is faster but makes you take your chances with the shark. All this is part of the "mission" for this Jiggy.

Or you can notice this Jiggy from up above, then drop and flutter down onto it. In which case it's an expression of you being extra observant, and you get to skip the winding path up to it. Or players who have played Banjo before and know exactly where the Jiggy is can drop onto it this way which helps replayability.

You can also discover it by flying, which seems to defeat the point but really this is just an intended alternate method of discovery and is yet again an expression of some skill you have. It's not just sitting there in a vacuum, the level design is built so that reaching the Jiggy and all the things sourrounding it is the very thing that makes the Jiggy worthwhile.