Rare Teases New Banjo-Kazooie with Website
By Jonathan on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 9:53 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Games, Microsoft
Rare has just recently put up a new website for their upcoming installment in the long-dormant Banjo-Kazooie franchise. All you have to do is go to the site with a golden puzzle piece, download the Silverlight plug-in, and you’ll get to see…a spinning golden puzzle piece! Yes, it’s just as exciting as it sounds. Luckily, a mysterious website usually means we’ll actually be given something interesting within a few weeks. Who knows? Maybe we’ll see two puzzle pieces spinning at the same time. Oh, the excitement is unbearable.
I think whoever wrote this article’s completely failed to appreciate that the Banjo-Kazooie games were great adventure platformers. It’s sign enough that they’re working on it for the next generation of consoles – and so long as they don’t screw it up like so many dormant franchises which have had the dust and pretty much everything else blown off for today’s ‘mainstream’ gamers, I think it’s a good sign of things to come.
But we already knew the game was in development. We’ve known that for a long time, so this lone puzzle piece doesn’t tell us anything.