Xbox Isn't Making a New Banjo-Kazooie, But PlayStation Fans Can Now Play The Impressive-Looking Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania Via Dreams

Xbox mightiness not beryllium making a caller Banjo-Kazooie, but there's a marque caller crippled featuring everyone's favourite vertebrate and carnivore disposable present via Dreams connected PS4 and PS5.

Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania is an impressive-looking platformer made for Sony's crippled instauration level that looks bully capable to person been made by Rare itself.

A trailer released via societal media this week shows the benignant of classical Banjo-Kazooie gameplay fans love, and person agelong called retired for much of. In a level that looks consecutive retired of the series' history, Banjo the carnivore jumps, glides, rolls and gets changeable retired of a cannon arsenic helium explores and hunts down collectibles.

Perhaps astir awesome is the scope of transformations connected offer, with Banjo turned into a hulking stone golem, cutlass-wielding pirate, and more.

Originally launched connected the N64 successful the precocious '90s, Banjo-Kazooie yet arrived for Xbox 360 successful 2008 pursuing Microsoft's acquisition of developer Rare. But contempt earning a legion of fans, the franchise has not seen an all-new introduction successful 17 years, since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts released for Xbox 360, besides backmost successful 2008.

Despite repeated calls from fans for a caller Banjo-Kazooie to beryllium made, Xbox has made nary proposition that a caller rubric is successful improvement — and Rare present seems singularly focused connected making caller contented for Sea of Theives.

"You've seen from our past that we haven't touched each franchise that radical would emotion america to interaction — Banjo fans, I perceive you," Microsoft's gaming brag Phil Spencer said backmost successful 2023. "But it is existent that, erstwhile we find the close team, and the close opportunity, I emotion going backmost to revisit stories and characters that we've seen previously."

Outside of being playable successful Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Banjo and Kazooie present consciousness mostly forgotten. Still, fans of the duo person inactive had the spiritual successor Yooka-Laylee to enjoy. Developed by assorted members of the archetypal Banjo-Kazooie team, the crippled precocious got a polished-up re-release successful the signifier of Yooka-Laylee: Replayee, which arrived successful October of this year.

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