New videos and trailers, man this game is being plastered everywhere. I think I know why though. This is perhaps Rare's last chance at "redemption" and honestly They are going to need it.

I guess I should preface this with the fact that I have never touched a Banjo game ever. Never once. Not cause of hate but just cause, never tried it. So when I watched the HD trailer, I had zero expectations. The first thing I noticed is the beauty. The massive world was so pretty, it was nice. Then I thought, what do you do in the game?

Seriously, what is going on? As far as I can tell, you run around a big open world (one of five) and pick up pieces to add to your vehicle (which represents 80% of the game) and adapt it to drive/fly around the map. It looks pretty but the gameplay doesn't have me sold one bit. Seems deep and shallow at the same time, if that makes any sense. And then when I saw the latest video and some of the things they said on the game made me chuckle.


HD Version found here

Did he just say they got tired of making Banjo games? They made an HD Banjo game and didn't like it because it was "tedious." So they made a game with this idea instead. But if you thought that was bad, I think I laughed pretty hard when they said "we don't want to waste the franchise" at the end there. Waste the franchise? It could be just me but it sounds like they made a Banjo game but didn't like it and made this other vehicle game instead. But given their recent track record, they knew it wouldn't sell so they threw in their old Banjo characters and changed a few small things to make it meld. Well they aren't "wasting" the franchise, they are using it.

It's probably just me. I mean every platformer sooner or later turns into a free-roaming racer. To be fair, both version involve collecting...but that is all I am giving it.