I tried to like Nuts and Bolts, I really did, I stuck with it for hours, but in my personal opinion, there just wasn't a crumb of fun to be found in it.
Even taken on its own merits, spending twenty minutes laboriously building a vehicle only for the subsequent challenge to be unwinnable because of the game's wonky, inconsistent and pedantic physics engine was just frustrating tedium. Even when it worked there was no satisfaction, because even when you built them correctly controlling the vehicles was unsatisfying and annoying.
And taking a series that's always been an exploratory collectathon platformer a la Mario 64 and making it into a gimmicky vehicle builder was in itself a slap in the face.
About the only positive thing I have to say about it is that for a 2008 release it looked great, but graphics only get you so far.
It just made me really sad that a series that had comprised two of my all-time favourite games to that point completely abandoned everything I loved about it.
Ah well, there's always Mario Odyssey I suppose, closest thing we've gotten to a Banjo Threeie that lives up to Kazooie/Tooie.
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