More Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts impressions ... "Slippery Controls"

Gothic Girl | July 18, 2008 | Previews | XBOX 360 E3 2008

Yesterday Joystiq's Justin McElroy wrote his opinion on the Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts demo ... he was disappointed.

It seems like McElroy wasn't the only one. Kotaku's Michael McWhertor also got his hands on the demo and he had trouble controlling the vehicle aspect of the game, saying that it felt "slippery". With the vehicles being such a big part of BK:NaB, let's hope Rare fix this up by the time of it's release.

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Finally getting my hands on the game, however, is where the shine started to wear off. While Banjo controls well, and Kazooie's magic wrench is easy to come to grips with, vehicle control was amazingly challenging. Watching the vets at Rare play, the game looked more fun than a box full of puppies. Actually trying to complete the game's challenges, whether it was with a pre-built beginner vehicle or an expert level one, was just short of maddening.

My rides wound up in the drink far more than I had expected after overturning and losing control. This sort of thing can probably be prevented when one comes to grip with the Xbox 360 control scheme and gets a better handle on the intricacies of the tractor beam-like magic wrench, but for the first 20 minutes or so, I was cursing the game's physics.

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Jaw Knee | July 19, 2008

If Rare wants to hit another homerun with this series, they need to take a lot more time on it and be more careful than what they did with Grabbed by the Ghoulies and Perfect Dark Zero. I dunno how well the Conker port did, but I thought I remember less than awesome reviews. This is a great series and it'd suck to see it get flushed.
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  Kazooieman | July 19, 2008
  
  Well you can't have more time than 7 years, Rare was developing Banjo-Threeie (originally) for 7 years and then they changed everything to it.
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Zero and X | July 19, 2008

Ever since Rare left Nintendo, they have done nothing but suck balls.
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  slumpy monkey | July 20, 2008
  
  viva piñata was awesome IMO.
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Murray3 | July 19, 2008

Just adding vehicles ruined the series, Banjo was a platformer adventure which is what made it awesome, but vehicles, they're gonna Shadow The Hedgehog the series, I bet this game will be worse than the GBA Banjo.