This month's issue of EDGE has an interview with Playtonic, a new studio whose first game will be a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie. While they are planning on releasing it on Steam Early Access and then consoles, they have an interest in bringing it to Wii U.
“There’s a history of working with Nintendo so we’d naturally love to see our game on a Nintendo platform. If people tell us to make Wii U our target console platform then we’ve got the flexibility to do that.”
They have funding, but they would like to team up with another publisher if the two sides were willing to work together on the project.
Without having read the article, how does their game get to be the spiritual successor to Banjo given they have neither the name nor any association with the earlier games?
I believe their studio is made up of former Rare employees from the company's glory days, including composer Grant Kirkhope. This is likely connected to that MingyJongo Twitter account from 2012, which was recently active again, but now seems to have been deleted.
@NintyMan - Just out of curiousity, when you post a bare link...do you purposely wrap it in url tags? Because when I click other bare links, it automatically goes to new tag, but with yours, it tends to stay in the same tag. That's not really a problem, but just so you know...the links get wrapped automatically.
So yeah, this is the exact same Twitter account I follow that had been trying to get this to happen for a while. So this is like, actually the old Rare team.
Without having read the article, how does their game get to be the spiritual successor to Banjo given they have neither the name nor any association with the earlier games?
Their website says they're entirely made out of Rare veterans who worked on the original games.
Without having read the article, how does their game get to be the spiritual successor to Banjo given they have neither the name nor any association with the earlier games?
It's made up of former Banjo devs, and they even have the original Banjo composer working for them. You don't need the name to be a spiritual successor, that's why it's called a spiritual successor. It's pretty much a legal way of making a sequel to a game franchise you don't own anymore
Without having read the article, how does their game get to be the spiritual successor to Banjo given they have neither the name nor any association with the earlier games?
If they had the name, then it wouldn't be a spiritual successor to Banjo, it would be... the successor to Banjo.
Who is Playtonic? I cannot remember any games developed by them.
It's going to be the studio's first game according to the first post...
Oh, right! I read ''There’s a history of working with Nintendo..'', and I assumed they already developed some games before.
Now I'm genuinely excited. I remember Grant Kirkhope saying a couple of years ago that he was in for a ''Banjo Threeie'' if they somehow managed to assemble the old team. I guess that's sort of happening.
This project already seems to have more potential and sturdier legs compared to other "Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successors" that never managed to amount to anything.
Without having read the article, how does their game get to be the spiritual successor to Banjo given they have neither the name nor any association with the earlier games?
Spiritual successor means that they use similar gameplay for a different IP. In other words, the game is going to be to Banjo what Mighty No. 9 is to Mega Man.
I will keep an eye on this. Been waiting for the old Rare team to get back together for a while now.
“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Also, yes, I'm very much on board for this. Also gives me hope for a Dinosaur Planet-like game someday in the far future. (Hopefully one that makes good use of a decade's worth of hindsight)
Without having read the article, how does their game get to be the spiritual successor to Banjo given they have neither the name nor any association with the earlier games?
Spiritual successor means that they use similar gameplay for a different IP. In other words, the game is going to be to Banjo what Mighty No. 9 is to Mega Man.
That's not what it means. It's what that other chap said - ex-rare team members.
Good, this needs to happen. Collectathons don't deserve to be as dead as they are now.
I'd say 3D platformers in general don't deserve to be as dead as they are now. Mario and Sonic have been the only 3D platformers I can think of in nearly a decade.
I'll admit you can't blame Bolt_Strike for making that mistake considering how often the phrase "Spiritual Successor" gets misused by journalists and thrown around as marketing jargon by people who have never actually worked on the games they claim to be making a spiritual successor of...
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