Editing Banjo X

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'''''Banjo X''''' (sometimes stylized as '''''Banjo-X''''') is a cancelled remake of ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' that [[Rare, Ltd.|Rare]] developed for the [[wikipedia:Xbox|Xbox]] sometime in the mid-2000s. The game was eventually scrapped and redeveloped into ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]''. Not much is known about the game aside from what was shown from a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2sCzlT5Uc Rare Revealed] video and some Twitter posts from [[Steve Mayles]] and [[Ed Bryan]]. ''Banjo X'' presumably did not go far into development before switching to vehicle-based gameplay, and ultimately ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts''.

The main idea behind ''Banjo X'' was for it to be advertised as a remake with minimal changes, in a similar vein to ''Conker: Live & Reloaded''. However, the game would change drastically as the player progressed. The characters would be self-aware of being in a remake and would change their behavior accordingly. In the Rare Revealed video, [[Gregg Mayles]] cited [[Conga]] as an example of this.

[[Humba Wumba]] would have appeared somewhere in the game, even though her debut was in ''[[Banjo-Tooie]]''.<ref name=ebtweet1>[https://twitter.com/mingellasfella/status/1001163031492136963 Ed Bryan on Twitter: "Did a Jinjo, Humba, the little baddie from Spiral Mountain, Bully as I remember." / Twitter] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20221109183004/https://twitter.com/ItsMingyJongo/status/1001163031492136963 archive.org])</ref> She and a couple of other characters were modeled by Ed Bryan, including [[Mumbo Jumbo]], [[Tiptup]], a [[Jinjo]], and a [[Bigbutt|"Bully"]].<ref name=ebtweet1/> The Mumbo animation, circa 2004, was used to test if the lipsyncing would match up to the characters' mumbling.<ref>[https://twitter.com/mingellasfella/status/630777927374893057 Ed Bryan on Twitter: "Mumbo, circa 2004 thinks it's great the #rarereplay got to number 1 https://vine.co/v/edz6LaaBMEi" / Twitter] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220429022607/https://twitter.com/ItsMingyJongo/status/630777927374893057 archive.org])</ref>

The art style for ''Banjo X'' strongly resembled the block-shaped art style in ''Nuts & Bolts''. Ed Bryan even mentioned that they attempted a smoother, higher-polygon approach at first, but they decided to scrap it because they felt that it did not retain the charm from the original games.

==Models==
Various unused models from this cancelled game were shared on Twitter by developers.
<gallery>
Banjo-X Tiptup.jpg|[[Tiptup]]
Bigbutt Bully Banjo X.mp4|[[Bigbutt]]
Conga Banjo X.webm|[[Conga]]
Conga Banjo X 2.webm|Conga
Conga Banjo X 3.webm|Conga
Mumbo Banjo X video.webm|[[Mumbo Jumbo]]
Ticker Termite Banjo X.webm|[[Ticker]]
</gallery>

==References==
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{{Banjo-Kazooie series}}
[[Category:Games]]
[[Category:Canceled games]]
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