On the release of the Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts demo last week, there was a tiny furore over the fact that text readability on Standard Definition (SD) televisions was difficult at best. What was worse was the apparently official statement from Rare regarding the issue of text readability:

“Unfortunately, this is an issue that doesn’t look like it will get changed. I don’t want to bore you with the technical side of things (I really don’t understand it all myself), but the long and the short of it is that the text you see in the demo will be the same as that which you find in the retail version of the game.”

A bit of a disappointment. This week, however, Rare have changed their tune and are now working on a fix which will become available soon:

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Microsoft has taken the wraps off Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. The game is being developed by Rare and will arrive exclusively on the Xbox 360 this November.

To bring you up to speed the Banjo-Kazooie games are a series of 3D platform games created by Rare. The games star a Honey Bear named Banjo and a Breegull named Kazooie who battle the evil witch Gruntilda. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts is Banjo and Kazooie’s first console adventure since Banjo-Tooie was released for the N64 in 2000.

The third installment in the Banjo-Kazooie series will feature high definition graphics, user-created content and online game play. The game sees the Lord of the Games arranging a showdown between Banjo and Gruntilda to decide who owns Spiral Mountain. Banjo and Kazooie must win the battle to save their homeland from being developed into tower blocks and malls.

Players must earn and collect vehicle parts, including engines, wheels, springs and egg guns, throughout the game then combine the parts in any order to build vehicles for Banjo to pilot over land, water and air. Explore worlds and solve puzzles to uncover more advanced and diverse vehicle parts. Although the Lord of Game’s challenges have only one goal, how players get there will be determined by which vehicles and tactics they choose.

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