Rare Shows Off Portable Mr. Pants

Posted by simoniker on Saturday August 14, 2004 @12:09AM from the modeling-underwear dept.

Thanks to IGN Pocket for its article revealing more details on Rare's Game Boy Advance puzzle title It's Mr. Pants, a THQ-published game from the now Microsoft-owned UK developer which is "the revival of... a Donkey Kong-branded puzzle game titled DK Coconut Crackers." The title, "a traditional puzzle game in the Tetris sense", includes "crazy, tripped out imagery and music, complete with Mr. Pants singing between levels" - there's more information on 'The History Of Pants' over at fansite Rare-Extreme.

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Not much to say... by dmayle · 2004-08-14 00:20 · Score: 4, Interesting

I'm not so impressed with Rare any more. I'm sure they must have lost whatever talent they have, because they haven't had a good game since the N64 days. Granted, I think Conker's Bad Fur day had one of the best stories I've ever seen in a video game. (Showing that dealing with human follies, and depth of emotion can provide immense depth to what was otherwise a dick and fart joke platformer.) I'd like to know what happened to the studio that came out with the Banjo and Kazooie series, and Goldeneye...