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04-24-2014, 02:00 AM
http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/articles/1/6/7/2/2/1/4/139829630453.jpg/EG11/resize/300x-1/format/jpg/1672214.jpgIn September 2012 a rag-tag crew of former Banjo-Kazooie developers calling themselves MingyJongo announced that they were working on a spiritual successor (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-26-ex-rare-staff-rally-up-twitter-support-for-banjo-tooie-spiritual-successor) to the bear & bird-based N64 platformer series. Unfortunately, that project is no longer in development.
Series composer Grant Kirkhope - who also scored GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - addressed the cancelled project in a Reddit AMA (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/23h2s1/i_am_grant_kirkhope_composer_of_banjo_and_dk_64/cgwxvwl).
"The other guys actually had a secret meeting in a pub near Rare and we even got as far as having a character drawn up and a demo level type thing but it all fell to bits," he stated. "Everyone's got other jobs etc."
Read more… (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-24-banjo-kazooies-spiritual-successor-is-no-longer-happening)
Series composer Grant Kirkhope - who also scored GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - addressed the cancelled project in a Reddit AMA (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/23h2s1/i_am_grant_kirkhope_composer_of_banjo_and_dk_64/cgwxvwl).
"The other guys actually had a secret meeting in a pub near Rare and we even got as far as having a character drawn up and a demo level type thing but it all fell to bits," he stated. "Everyone's got other jobs etc."
Read more… (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-24-banjo-kazooies-spiritual-successor-is-no-longer-happening)