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12-22-2015, 03:50 PM
http://forum.digitpress.com//images.eurogamer.net/2013/articles/1/8/0/2/0/3/0/rare-reveals-canned-banjo-kazooie-precursor-dream-145081666553.png/EG11/resize/300x-1/format/jpg/1802030.jpgBanjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country developer Rare is currently working on the Xbox One and PC pirate adventure Sea of Thieves, but it almost made a completely different pirate adventure nearly two decades ago with a game called Dream: Land of Giants.
Revealed in a new official video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72kj20YNA0), Rare designer Gregg Mayles, artist Ed Bryan, and engineer Paul Machacek take us back through the production of Dream, a title that would later be radically altered into Banjo-Kazooie.
Originally slated to be a fairy-tale inspired RPG for the SNES, Dream was going to adapt the Donkey Kong Country technology to an isometric action-adventure. The game would star Edson, a boy with a sword, and his pet dog Dinger. The baddies were going to be anthropomorphised lizard sky pirates with floating ships.
Read more… (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-12-22-rare-reveals-canned-banjo-kazooie-precursor-dream)
Revealed in a new official video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72kj20YNA0), Rare designer Gregg Mayles, artist Ed Bryan, and engineer Paul Machacek take us back through the production of Dream, a title that would later be radically altered into Banjo-Kazooie.
Originally slated to be a fairy-tale inspired RPG for the SNES, Dream was going to adapt the Donkey Kong Country technology to an isometric action-adventure. The game would star Edson, a boy with a sword, and his pet dog Dinger. The baddies were going to be anthropomorphised lizard sky pirates with floating ships.
Read more… (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-12-22-rare-reveals-canned-banjo-kazooie-precursor-dream)