{"id":121972,"date":"2020-12-12T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/random_banjo-kazooie_creator_reacts_to_duos_bittersweet_cameo_in_the_latest_smash_trailer"},"modified":"2020-12-12T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T02:05:00","slug":"random-banjo-kazooie-creator-reacts-to-duos-bittersweet-cameo-in-the-latest-smash-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/12\/random-banjo-kazooie-creator-reacts-to-duos-bittersweet-cameo-in-the-latest-smash-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Banjo-Kazooie Creator Reacts To Duo&#8217;s Bittersweet Cameo In The Latest Smash Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c4a7b506b9f23\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c4a7b506b9f23\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c4a7b506b9f23\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> has got to the point where most players can&#8217;t believe what they&#8217;re seeing on the battlefield. It has gone from the addition of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mastersystem\/sonic_the_hedgehog\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/pac_man\">Pac-Man<\/a><\/strong> to Steve and Alex from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a><\/strong>, and now the latest reveal is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/final_fantasy_vii\">Final Fantasy VII<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s antagonist Sephiroth.<\/p>\n<p>In amongst this is Rare&#8217;s famous duo, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/banjo-kazooie\">Banjo-Kazooie<\/a><\/strong>. In fact, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/sephiroth_from_final_fantasy_vii_joins_super_smash_bros_ultimate_this_month\">Sephiroth&#8217;s reveal trailer at this year&#8217;s Game Awards<\/a>, the bear and bird even featured in a scene alongside Inkling and Sonic. So how does it feel for the father of Banjo and Kazooie, Steve Mayles? A fan asked him this question on Twitter not long after the new fighter reveal. To sum it up, it&#8217;s bittersweet:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s a wonderful thing, tinged with a little sadness at what could have been I guess. But there is still hope!<\/span>\u2014 Steve Mayles (@WinkySteve) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WinkySteve\/status\/1337433348474626050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Some <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caelkins_art\/status\/1337400374756593665\">other tweets<\/a> noted how Nintendo has essentially done more with Banjo-Kazooie than Microsoft has in recent years:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing them animated with modern visuals is so cool, the character design for them is so appealing to just look at it\u2019s a shame Microsoft doesn\u2019t even use them for promotional material as some kind of mascot at least&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Banjo&#8217;s last proper outing on Xbox was <strong>Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts &amp; Bolts<\/strong> during the 360 generation in 2008, and back then, not everyone was a fan of the game&#8217;s vehicle construction mechanics, which were arguably ahead of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Steve mentions how there&#8217;s &#8220;still hope&#8221; for Banjo-Kazooie in the future. What are your own thoughts about this? Do you think this character deserves some more love from Microsoft? Should Rare revive this iconic mascot? <em>Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has got to the point where most players can&#8217;t believe what they&#8217;re seeing on the battlefield. It has gone from the addition of Sonic the Hedgehog and Pac-Man to Steve and Alex from Minecraft, and now the latest reveal is Final Fantasy VII&#8216;s antagonist Sephiroth. In amongst this is Rare&#8217;s famous [&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-121972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121972","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=121972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}