Mini-Scribes – January 25th 2011

by Lerako on Jan 25th, 2011

Q: Hi Rare,
Kameo is an excellent unique platformer for the 360 with a lot of variety. Will you guys please make a sequel for it?
Sonicphoto

A: Let’s start as we mean to go on. Kameo design alumnus Chris says: “Platformer?! Cough, splutter! We’re clearly a sprawling action-adventure across a lush fantasy environment. It says so on the box and everything. No sequel to announce right now, I’m afraid – not even a Kinect version where you can slap Ortho around a bit – but never say never!”

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Q: 1. Is Battletoads or KI get a new game in series?

1. Is new Battletoads be hard as hell like original for the NES? I like this game for its legendary difficulty. When i was young i was thinking that 3rt stage was impossible to beat but then i realize that this game becomes progressively harder each stage and have 12 stages. When i finally beat that game ahhh… feels good man.
   Eda Torpeda

A: Now that’s a name.
1) Could happen. Isn’t happening right now, but could happen.
2) Wait, you’re saying it’s happening? How come I haven’t heard about this? I hope it’s not as hard as the original, because people seem remarkably reluctant to let that one go even though all we did was ruin their childhoods and probably break a couple of hundred thousand controllers.

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Q: So apparently, judging from Super Mario Galaxy 2, NSMBW, DKCR and Kirby’s Epic Yarn, the platformer is less dead than you thought. As a company whose specialty was platformers, why aren’t you making a platformer? Back in the day a year or two after SMG you’d have your own 2D 3D platformer that was loads of fun, now you’d rather make motion control minigames. Do you guys still think the platformer is dead?
TheMasterDS

A: I don’t remember us making any blanket statements about the platformer being dead, just explaining after the launch of Nuts & Bolts that the team wanted to move things along in the world of Banjo to keep it fresh. It’s true, there are plenty of good platformers on the scene today in the space year 2011, but for various inscrutable business reasons that’s not where we are right now. In the future? Maybe. But then again, physically walking from one side of Grunty Industries to the other? Is that what you want? IS IT?

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