QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST BANJO?

Submitted without a trace of irony, the latest viral video for the recently released Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (and by proxy its just-released Xbox Live Arcade remake counterpart).

Apart from the honestly amusing Jinjo postcard, in keeping with Rare tradition, the video does contain hints of cute industry in-jokes (Kazooie apparently off taking part in a Women in Games conference), which carry through in the game itself, as with Humba’s continual references to her all-girl clan the ‘Hag Trolls,’ a play on Ubisoft’s Frag Dolls. The game always reserves its sharpest barbs for itself, though, from its very opening act, which sets you on a trademark ‘collect-a-thon’ before reeling you back in and starting the game proper.

An Eiffel of Banjo [YouTube]