Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts &#38; Bolts

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The result was: not scheduled by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:11, 11 September 2023 (UTC)



Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is a 2008 platform game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 (pictured). The game follows Banjo and Kazooie's competition with Gruntilda for ownership of their home. It was developed by the same team behind the Nintendo 64 Banjo games and used vehicular gameplay to take advantage of the Havok physics engine. It was released in November 2008 and received generally positive reviews, but drew criticism for departing from previous Banjo-Kazooie gameplay. Nuts & Bolts was a commercial disappointment; shortly after its release, Microsoft laid off staff at Rare and restructured them as a Kinect and Avatar-focused developer. In the decade following its release, its reputation improved and its focus on construction and player freedom was considered ahead of its time. The game was included in Rare's 30th-anniversary compilation Rare Replay and added to the Xbox One's catalogue of backward-compatible Xbox 360 games.
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 * Promoted: January 6, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: 15th anniversary of the game's release in the EU
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 17:28, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Seems like a good date to do it. JOE BRO 64  18:56, 8 September 2023 (UTC) Oppose just remembered it was run on February 22nd. My understanding is that we can't rerun articles for at least five years if it's been run before. JOE  BRO 64  22:46, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
 * That is correct., I assume that, unusually for you, you missed this. Would you care to withdraw it? Thanks . Gog the Mild (talk) 21:02, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Whoops, sorry for missing this everyone. This can be closed as withdrawn. Z1720 (talk) 21:11, 10 September 2023 (UTC)