Nuts and Bolts somehow manages to make Banjo-Kazooie relevant again after an 8 year absence.
And I, for one, am grateful.
Nuts & Bolts is an example of extreme self-parody. The game cant seem to get over how lousy it thinks it is. Almost made me want to slap the TV and tell it to snap out of it. Nuts & Bolts firmly believes in "out with the old, in with the new," bringing one of the best vehicle creators in the buisness with it.
The game begins with a pretty rocky start, with the vehicle creator being extremely limited at the start. Building good and fun vehicles is impossible at first, and i often found myself frustrated that i couldn't build a fun and/or good vehicle relatively quickly.
But i ended up with having alot of fun building my ultimate vehicle. One bit marred my fun. I spent as much of my time wishing i had a certain part with a certain function as i did building fun vehicles.
But still, going through the game and watching it beat itself up was an absolute blast. I ended up usually using bought blueprints for the special challenges than making my own custom vehicle. i still havn't finished it yet, but i'm sure it will be just as much a blast to finish as it was to begin.