Banjo pilot
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| Studio | Rare | ||
| Publisher | THQ | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 January 12, 2005 February 1, 2005 February 18, 2005  |
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| platform | Game Boy Advance | ||
| genre | Racing game | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| medium | 128- megabit - Module | ||
| language | German , English , French | ||
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Banjo Pilot is a racing game for the Game Boy Advance that was first released on January 12, 2005. The game was developed by the British studio Rare and marketed by THQ . It is the last game in the Banjo Kazooie series to be released for a Nintendo console. It is traded as the unofficial successor to Diddy Kong Racing .
Gameplay
Banjo-Pilot has 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 background story. However, the characters do not drive in a go-kart , as is usual with Mario Kart , but in an airplane. However, since the routes are relatively "flat", the altitude can only be changed slightly. The game also contains a number of different items. There are a total of 16 racetracks, some of which are very similar to each other and all of them are based on places from Banjo-Kazooie. There are several modes such as Grand Prix, Quick Race, Time Flies and Puzzle Examination. In the latter, 6 puzzle pieces must be collected during a race, which must be completed to the one in first place. Extras can also be activated. It is also possible to connect up to four game boys with one another via a link cable and thus play with up to four other people.
development
The game was originally supposed to appear under the name Diddy Kong Pilot and was already in development in 2001. Only characters from the Donkey Kong series should have been included in the game. Rare was working alongside Diddy Kong Pilot at the same time on the Game Boy Advance games Saber Wulf and Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Rache and on a home console counterpart to Diddy Kong Pilot, Donkey Kong Racing, which should have been released for the GameCube . However, when Rare was bought by Microsoft at the end of 2002 in order to develop Xbox exclusively for Microsoft's own console , development on the projects at that time was initially discontinued. In January 2005 the game finally appeared after long postponements under the title Banjo Pilot. The game had been completely redesigned and all characters from the Donkey Kong series, the rights of which were owned by Nintendo, were removed and replaced with characters from Banjo-Kazooie. In the meantime, the game should have appeared in full 3D graphics, but this graphic style was abandoned during development and switched to "flat" Mode 7 graphics. Banjo Pilot is the final Banjo Kazooie title for a Nintendo console. The game was distributed by THQ , which had already launched some Game Boy games from Rare in 2004 that were in development before Microsoft was bought out. Banjo pilot did not appear in Japan.
Individual evidence
- ^ Club Nintendo , August 2001, page 11
- ↑ IGN , April 21, 2004 Banjo Pilot - First screens in more than two years, and boy has the game improved ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
