Banjo-Pilot

Banjo Pilot is a racing game for the Game Boy Advance, which was first published on 12 January 2005. The game by British studio Rare and THQ Developed marketed. It is the last game of the Banjo-Kazooie series, released for a Nintendo console. It is seen as the unofficial successor of Diddy Kong Racing.

Gameplay

In Banjo - Pilot, there are eight playable characters from the Banjo -Kazooie series, including Banjo, Kazooie, Mumbo Jumbo, Jinjo, Humba Wumba, Gruntilda, Klungo and more. The game is a classic fun- racer like Mario Kart and has no backstory. However, the characters do not go, like Mario Kart usual, in a go -kart, but in an airplane. Since the distances are relatively "flat", the flying height but can be changed only slightly. The game also includes a number of different items. There are 16 race tracks that are similar to one another, sometimes significantly and are inspired by all types of Banjo -Kazooie. There are several modes such as Grand Prix, Quick Race, Time flies and Puzzlo exam. In the latter 6 puzzle pieces must be collected during a race, which must be completed at the first place. It can also be unlocked extras. It is also possible to connect via a cable link up to four Game Boys together and thus to play with up to four other people.

Development

Originally the game under the name Diddy Kong Pilot is expected to appear was in 2001 in development. It would only characters from the Donkey Kong series to be included in the game. Rare was working next to Diddy Kong Pilot at the same time also to the Game Boy Advance games Sabre Wulf and Banjo -Kazooie: Grunty 's Revenge and a home console counterpart to Diddy Kong Pilot, Donkey Kong Racing, which would for the GameCube to appear. As Rare but was bought in late 2002 by Microsoft to henceforth exclusively to develop for Microsoft's own Xbox console, the development on the former projects were initially recruited. In January 2005, the game finally appeared after long shifts under the title Banjo - Pilot. The game was completely revised and all the characters of the Donkey Kong series, whose rights were at Nintendo have been removed and replaced with characters from Banjo -Kazooie. In the meantime, the game should appear in full 3D graphics, however, was taken from this graphic style during development again refrained and converted to a "flat " Mode -7 graphics. Banjo - Pilot is the last Banjo-Kazooie title for a Nintendo console. Was distributed the game from THQ, who had brought back in 2004 some Game Boy games by Rare, which were in development before the acquisition by Microsoft, on the market. Banjo - Pilot did not appear in Japan.