Banjo Kazooie 3 shots

I agree Shadow Wave, I'm really not liking Banjo's new look at all. The old style was much more appealing.

Banjo here looks like he's struggling to find a unique art style and as a result loosing a lot of the original charm.

I do look forward to playing it though. Hopefully vehicles and the like don't wreck the platforming joy the originals had.

I think the environment art is a perfect fit but the design of Banjo is ****. He looks like a no-neck square-headed idiot. I thought the old model was much, much better and I would have much preferred they stick with that. It would have fit in fine.

I also don't like the vehicle design. There is a line between "wacky" and "stupid". It seems to me they tried to do the whole overboard ridiculous design thing, which works well with cartoony design, but here it just looks waaay too overboard to the point of pointless.

I'll hold my judgement on the game until I play, and I hope its great since I loved Banjo-Kazooie. But as it stands I'm not a fan of what Rare have done to the art of Banjo. Reminds me of when they released the first shots of Perfect Dark Zero, showing they butchered Joanna Dark.

And while Viva Pinata might have been good it doesn't change the fact that the four or five titles before it were average at best. Perfect Dark Zero was a huge let down, Conkers Bad Fur Day Uncut was a crummy remake, Grabbed By The Goulies was in no way memorable, and Kameo was the best of the lot and even then lacked a lot of classic Rare quality.

Not to mention StarFox Adventures is easily hateable due to annoying characters and ripped-off and simplified Zelda gameplay.

Yeah, it’s just a matter of taste. The way my taste goes is;

Of course not, but the ingame model was based off that design and despite being significantly lower in poly count, texture resolution, and shader effects it still was the same Banjo.

New Banjo does not look like old Banjo with better graphics. It looks like new Banjo with new art style, also with better graphics.

What you're looking at in that picture is how he would have looked, or at least close to, had they kept the old art style, which in my opinion is far more suited to Banjo and Kazooie's personality.