Friday, July 11, 2008

Hyuck! I'm Banjo!

IGN has a preview of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts as demonstrated by Ken Lobb (who you may remember as a big Nintendo of America guy from the SNES to N64 days).

Platformers are one of my favorite genres, and the original Banjo-Kazooie was one of my favorites, so I was really pumped after seeing the two videos. When Nuts and Bolts was first unveiled, I was pretty skeptical of the whole vehicle thing ("You got Kingdom Hearts in my Banjo!" etc.). Hopefully, Nuts and Bolts can stack up to the few modern platformers worth playing like Super Mario and the Ratchet series. It's sadly a dying bread (or at least one that's in hibernation), so I really want it to turn out well.

Also of note, Too Human will have a demo on Xbox Live next Tuesday. I'm still wondering where the hell my Tales of Vesperia demo is though.

E3 is also next week, so hopefully there's something worth getting excited about. Maybe Nintendo will unveil one new game! Oooooh! Or maybe the Wii will now come in black and pink! But in all seriousness, I hope they unveil some first party DS games worth playing. It should also go without saying that they should do so for the Wii as well, but I should know by now that Nintendo isn't really interested in doing that. Also, I want an update on Final Fantasy XIII -- and I don't mean just a slightly altered video of the one we've been seeing these past few years!

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