Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts

[Schimid]

It's one thing to introduce an inventive vehicle creation system that immerses the player and forces them to think within the boundaries of your world, ask them to adapt to challenges you set by giving them the tools, then lean back upon your directors chair and observe how they mortar the bricks.

It's entirely another to take an established franchise and tack said creation system onto it. Sure, cultivating an entirely new IP is much more difficult and expensive than just relying on a known brand, but if you're going to introduce an entirely new mechanic then for fucks sake don't make it the central focus of the game. Banjo-Kazooie was good enough at differentiating itself from other platform games through the music, level design and art style, it just feels to me like the guys at Rare have some kind of inferiority complex and thought "man, Ratchet and Clank are so much better than us, we need a new direction."

From what I've been reading, they just took away all of Kazooie's abilities and gave them to the cars. So now instead of being an annoyingly sarcastic twat that shot eggs, super jump or fly, now she's just an annoying sarcastic twat with no powers, and the futility of her existence just makes her even more annoying. She was never really funny, she was just there because she made Banjo do cool shit. Now she's just popping out of the backpack to make an off-color remark that Boggy Bear will handily ignore and she'll retreat in your backpack to resume her steady diet of not doing a Goddamn thing.

I guess platform games just don't sell like they used to. Besides that, the 360 is hardly the market for a cartoon platformer.

[HappyHamster]

Im reading all of that and agreeing... But I dont think the vehicle stuff will make the game -that- bad either.

The thing is, this is what happens to series now... We all know a series that we held close and died a bit inside as we watched its body be stuffed with rotting rats and then set on fire, it happens. Yes, it probably wasnt the smartest of ideas to make this vehicle thing the main aspect of the game but it still looks decent... Besides, what could they do in terms of platforming, that they havent already done?
At least they're trying to go in a different direction instead of spoon feeding you the same overplayed nonesense so many other games do.