Expanding more on Mumbo Jumbo (As I'm sure he deserves a lot of attention)
There is something that makes playing as Mumbo Jumbo great to play as and that's his magical shaman stick. This is virtually his tool for transforming into creatures or making objects or just whacking enemies with it. This is the clear difference and only difference with playing as Mumbo Jumbo as an oppose to Humba Wumba.
Humba Wumba relies on magical potions and fires spells from herself instead of a shaman stick. However she does not utilize the full potential of the shaman stick and therefore has limited up close and personal attacks on Magalings and other various enemies.
Each character will have a Magic Meter which can be upgraded by finding Glowbos. These Glowbos are ancient creatures that reside in Spiral World, although they are lost from their original creator the Ultimate Glowbo. They are scattered throughout each various level/dimension of Spiral World and contain magical essences. They are the heart of all magic in Spiral World.
However years ago the Ultimate Glowbo made a deal with a young man named Arthax who lived in Spiral World. Arthax's mother passed away and he pleaded with the Ultimate Glowbo to perform a powerful ritual that could spare his mother's life. He reluctantly agreed and along with his fellow Glowbo friends he performed the ritual that created an unfortunate magical rift throughout Spiral World. Arthax's mother was spared, but the Ultimate Glowbo and all of his followers were scattered throughout a distorted Spiral World, almost never to be seen or heard of again.
Arthax felt ashamed as to what had happened and he spent most of his life searching for the Glowbos. He finally found success by entering into various sub-worlds and seeking out and finding some of the Glowbos and trying to return them to their home in Spiral World, Glowbo Gorge.
It was there in which he found a magical shrine that granted him a special power and ever since then he has drawn essence from the presence of the Glowbos to perform magical spells and rituals to help try to fix the broken planes of Spiral World.
From here Gruntilda, born from evilness and greed, heard of this magical man. Her useless lack of good looks and charm made her seek vengeance against those who once tormented her at school and other areas of her life. She was sick and tired of being bullied and she would stop at nothing to gain revenge and get her good looks once and for all.
When she eventually found Arthax she tried to charm him and get into his life to learn various ways of the magic he knew. She was finally taught much of what she needed to know and imprisoned Arthax over a duel in which she won. She constantly sought information from him and he gave it to her in hope of his freedom, but he was not so lucky. Thereafter she vouched her life to evil and from whatever madness was spawned from Arthax doing as a young child gave Gruntilda her powers and abilities.
She took refuge in the broken dimensions of Spiral World, an alternate state of the original peaceful land. Here evil versions of Glowbos named Magalings were formed. She uses their magical essence to perform her evil doings. After becoming the much feared evil witch she reigned supremely and took control over many lands. She created her lair in the midst of the evil incarnations of Spiral World, hiding their entrances to these dimensions behind a destroyed jigsaw puzzle. And the only thing to be able to grant anyone further access to these worlds are near impossible tasks she created of retrieving all of the puzzle pieces. She split the puzzles up into millions of pieces and flew around on her brookstick, tossing the pieces in different places all over Spiral World.
This she thought would hide the evil chaos she was secretly creating from the rest of Spiral World and would gain her self access to each individual world/level at her own magical will because she possessed something far greater than the puzzle pieces to grant her access. She possessed the magical power from the magalings which would grant her almost anything she wished.
Eventually however Arthax managed to get word out which spread to Spiral Mountain. Bottles the mole warned Banjo that Gruntilda the witch was planning to take control over all of spiral mountain and the rest of Spiral World in order to teach those who once mocked her a lesson. Banjo, loving his home, refused to stand for the injustice and went out on an adventure that changed Spiral World forever. Along the way he found a friend for life in Kazooie, and the two went on to try to find and free Arthax in order to defeat Gruntilda.
