Introducing Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbo’s Wand!!
June 28th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan
Today, for our celebration of the ten year anniversary of the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, Rare-Elite introduces to you an exclusive and original video from the creative mind of Mario ‘Lupaie’ Paiano (the designer of Rare-Elite), Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbo’s Wand!!
Earlier this year after our relaunch, Tyrant and myself were discussing a variety of options as to what we could do in celebration of this special event. We wanted something big…something special…and something unlike anything else that is out there. It was at this time that Lupaie offered to create a special video of the Banjo games told from the perspective of a special character: Mumbo’s Wand.
The video began development in late March and took over 120 hours to complete. Lupaie designed the video completely from the ground up while his friend Smouvy handled most of the audio. A few others contributed some recorded footage and text (acknowledged in the video’s credits) of the Banjo games and even Rare’s George Kelion provided the sound samples of the exact dialogue of Mumbo that can be heard in the games.
So ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the world wide reveal and Rare-Elite exclusive video, Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbo’s Wand!!
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June 28th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
That’s some great stuff. Great work on the character models, Lupaie, and props to you, Hylian, for providing the game footage. Because of this video, there are few things that I can think of that would make this anniversary any better.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Umm, why is this under the Conker news tab? O.o
But, anyways.
THIS WAS AMAZING!
June 28th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Awsome video! Everything was top notched, from the character models to the music and dialog. Keep up the great work and thanks for the awsome video. BTW Happy 10th anniversary Banjo and Kazooie!
June 28th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Great video lupaie u did a great job and thanxs for adding our name onto the cast list :)
June 29th, 2008 at 1:34 am
I have to say it again, it’s just f**king awesome.
Sorry, just don’t have other words for it. You did a really nice job there! Beautiful animations!
June 29th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Awesome work. It makes me want to go and find a copy of the GBA versions again.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am
What a fantastic video! I have to play all of those Banjo games (except Banjo-Pilot) today to bring back great memories.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Yeah, props guys.
Those were some damn good times.