{"id":114043,"date":"2020-06-12T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/its_been_one_year_since_banjo-kazooie_was_revealed_for_smash_bros_ultimate"},"modified":"2020-06-12T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:30:00","slug":"its-been-one-year-since-banjo-kazooie-was-revealed-for-smash-bros-ultimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/its-been-one-year-since-banjo-kazooie-was-revealed-for-smash-bros-ultimate\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been One Year Since Banjo-Kazooie Was Revealed For Smash Bros. Ultimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c480e6c57fbbf\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c480e6c57fbbf\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Banjo Kazooie\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c480e6c57fbbf\/banjo-kazooie.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c480e6c57fbbf\/banjo-kazooie.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Banjo Kazooie\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We don&#8217;t normally celebrate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> fighter anniversaries, but we&#8217;ll make an exception for the former Nintendo 64 mascot <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/banjo_kazooie\">Banjo-Kazooie<\/a><\/strong>, as Rare has issued a timely reminder via its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, this time last year we couldn&#8217;t believe it when the bear and bird were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/banjo-kazooie_confirmed_for_super_smash_bros_ultimate_this_fall\">announced<\/a> for the ultimate entry in the Smash series. At the time, Masahiro Sakurai even told fans to go and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/random_sakurai_tells_nintendo_fans_to_check_out_the_original_banjo-kazooie_on_xbox_one\">check out<\/a> the original Banjo-Kazooie game on Xbox One.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tbt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tbt<\/a> to exactly one year ago when it was revealed that Banjo &amp; Kazooie would be joining Super <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmashBrosUltimate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SmashBrosUltimate<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been available for a while, of course, so let us know if you&#8217;re a fan of their brawling style. We&#8217;d love to see your screenshots or replays of the duo too! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itIuobRF5e\">https:\/\/t.co\/itIuobRF5e<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Rare Ltd. (@RareLtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RareLtd\/status\/1271162069816090627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Surprisingly, Microsoft had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/phil_spencer_says_microsoft_had_no_problem_with_banjo-kazooie_appearing_in_smash_bros_ultimate\">no problem<\/a> with the character appearing in Smash Bros &#8211; with the Head of Xbox Phil Spencer explaining how the company already maintained &#8220;great relationships&#8221; with Nintendo&#8217;s third-party team.<\/p>\n<p>Banjo Kazooie&#8217;s composer Grant Kirkhope described it as one of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/banjo-kazooies_smash_bros_reveal_was_one_of_the_biggest_moments_in_grant_kirkhopes_career\">biggest<\/a>&#8221; moments of his career when his music was featured in the character&#8217;s reveal trailer. He also composed the music for the Spiral Mountain stage.<\/p>\n<p>Are you still playing as Banjo-Kazooie in Smash Bros. Ultimate one year on? Is this your favourite DLC character? <em>Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t normally celebrate Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter anniversaries, but we&#8217;ll make an exception for the former Nintendo 64 mascot Banjo-Kazooie, as Rare has issued a timely reminder via its official Twitter account. Yep, this time last year we couldn&#8217;t believe it when the bear and bird were announced for the ultimate entry in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}