Gareth of ParaNerds.com takes some time to really appreciate some of the Console's launch games. This time he looks at Kameo.
Kameo: Elements of Power arrived as an Xbox 360 launch title. It didn't reinvent the wheel, but deserves more respect than you might think.
There was a sequel in the works but got canceled because of the Kinect......
I doubt we'll see a follow up.
Wasn't a fan.
I give it another try every few years, but it always falls flat for me.
I remember following this game when it was a N64/GCN game. By the time it came out I didn't even care anymore. It spanned 4 consoles by the time it finally released. It was ridiculous. lol
Paul writes: "Come with me down memory lane while I cast my mind back to a time when the world was a much shinier, much more hopeful place than the one we see today, with the elemental good times of Kameo: Elements of Power."
I remember when they showed off some of the original footage when this was being developed for the GameCube... before Rare went to Microsoft and then delayed for development and launch on the 360. You had to catch the beasts, looked great. Enjoyed it very much when it launched.
Alex S. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Rare if you’re listening we have so ideas of some other classic titles in your portfolio that would be great to be brought back and none of them are called Banjo-Kazooie."
I think the real issue is that the minds that made those games special are nowhere around. When it’s a series that gets new versions regularly like a COD, Forza, Gears, or Halo you can’t really feel the effects so much of teams changing although I’m sure they do, and all the time. Part of that original vision can live on through some of those team members that remain. In these LONG dormant games they have a far greater chance of ruining the memory of these games and the feel they have us than recapturing it. I think that’s also why Rare hasn’t had a hit since they left Nintendo. Rare should be left to their own vices to make a find a identity and make a new IP. ONLY time I saw a whole new team knock it out the park is the new God of War. Corey killed that.
Interesting list, I never heard of the gameboy game they had talked about. But I would still like new IPs this gen.
I am not being a sexiest here but I think Kameo would have been more popular if the main charter was a guy.
Do you think if Link was a girl he would be what he is now.
Fantastic game. The Badlands (overworld below the castle) sections were very tacked on and unpolished (partially since it was added during the game being ported to 360), but the rest of the game was great. Yea a little on the easy side, but amazing production values, amazing art direction, great music (have the soundtrack in my car), and was probably the last REAL traditional Rare game we've seen.
There was a ton of stuff on the cutting room floor at the end of development, the ending left it wide open for a sequel, the game sold over a million copies, and George Andreas seemed keen on a sequel around the time of launch. Hopefully we get one, and not that ugly uber-realistic sequel that got cancelled a year or two back.