Project Dream was a game that Rare (formerly known as Rareware) was working on during the time of the SNES. It was suppose to be a huge RPG about a kid, known as Edison, that conflicted with pirates. They could not finish the game on the SNES, since it reached the end of the SNES life, so they transferred it to the 64. They were doing great, but they were trying to make it the best they could. The problem, however, was that the game had a slow framerate, which they had to fix to be similar to Super Mario 64 and Conker. They were trying to make their game as great as those two. Well, when they thought they were done, they decided that a boy wouldn't be as appealing, so they chose one of the secondary characters in the game, which happened to be Banjo. They completely revamped the story and gameplay to what it is known to today: Banjo-Kazooie. There is only one screenshot of this game and an official image of Edison. The music composer, Grant Kirkhope, talks a little about Project Dream on his site and even has a few beta songs for Banjo-Kazooie, along with some Project Dream songs. I'll post them here, using YouTube videos. Some even sound familiar. =) I'll use spoilers, so that it won't waste as much RAM viewing the page. =P I think they should've kept some of these themes. I didn't put one song up due to the YouTube video not being appropriate for MPL.
And the photos:
Here's a couple sources:
http://www.grantkirkhope.com/samplecomposition.html
http://banjokazooie.wikia.com/wiki/Project_Dream
It's sad, really, that they never finished or even tried at the end. I probably would've loved the game, since they were already doing great with the Donkey Kong games. What are your thoughts?
And the photos:
Here's a couple sources:
http://www.grantkirkhope.com/samplecomposition.html
http://banjokazooie.wikia.com/wiki/Project_Dream
It's sad, really, that they never finished or even tried at the end. I probably would've loved the game, since they were already doing great with the Donkey Kong games. What are your thoughts?
