Nintendo got Grant because the music was such an integral part of what made banjo so memorable, and he is such a beloved composer. Grant Kirkhope, Koji Kondo, and Nobuo Uematsu are the only 3 video game composers I can even name off the top of my head.
i couldnt stop watching so many reactions from various people to this trailer! for some reason this specific trailer has such wholesome and wild reactions, lol.
And it's always the same rollercoaster too, the chattering volume going up when the Jiggy bounces in, the screaming hype at the shadow, going quiet during the Duck Hunt joke, and then it's just mass hysteria
Heard Phil Spenser wanted Banjo in Smash along time ago but Nintendo were the hesitant ones...glad they have started to be more open minded. Hopefully they will return the favor and allow Samus or Link in the new Killer Instincts.
The stars could not have been any better aligned for years to make this happen. So many things needed to go right: Davide’s pitch to Nintendo for Mario + Rabbids, Grant accepting Davide’s offer to compose for the game, the E3 showcase for Mario + Rabbids after word about it got leaked early and how well received it was long afterwards and the awards it earned, Microsoft and Nintendo getting along nicely in their talks regarding future prospects, everything involving Cuphead leading up to its success and that discussion between the two giants (which makes this whole thing over a year in the making), Brawl setting the trend of bringing in third-party characters of people who’d worked with Nintendo...any one thing could’ve gone wrong along the way regarding those things, and then we’d be living in a much different Sma5h world because of that. Instead, we have Banjo and Kazooie, two of the few Western-made characters (right there with K. Rool. Maybe Diddy. Not sure about him) and the first Western composer to write an arrangement for a Smash title and not just have their original piece included like with Tee Lopes or David Wise. This really broke grounds and set a new standard in Smash history, and just looking back and considering what was all accomplished as a result, this whole chain of events is nothing short of a miracle. For as much as a miracle worker Sakurai may seem and oftentimes is, this was a group effort, and anyone who showed their support and love for Banjo, Kazooie, and Grant’s works for and beyond the Bear and Bird and made it known helped make this happen, just like with REmake 2 and hopefully like with FF7 Remake.
"any one thing could’ve gone wrong along the way regarding those things, and then we’d be living in a much different Sma5h world because of that". In an alternate timeline, the miracle never happen. Also, I agree! To think that if one little detail changed even slightly, things would be much different today.
Marty Mcfly This is true. However as it dawned on me after listening to the Shesez interview with Steve Mayles (and Grant), Banjo and Kazooie are the first western made characters from a brand new western made franchise (and even before then with the influences of Banjo’s Project Dream design present) unlike K. Rool, Diddy, and Dark Samus (or even Prime) who were made in the West but for already established Japan-made franchises (sorta for DKC. Just that the character of DK was established).
Princess Lovinity First entirely western-made character for an entirely western-made game, yes. Also the fact that he’s the first character in Smash that’s owned by a 1st party developer: Microsoft, since they own Rare and are the ones at the end with all the other companies for copyrights. All other characters thus far are made by Nintendo or by 3rd party companies like Sega, Square-Enix, Konami, etc.
Rexaura888 yeah that's true. As much as I love and understand Smash's Japanese roots and heritage I hope we get more western characters in the game as there are so many great game franchises outside of Japan, that have influential characters that would be perfect for Smash.
Well, I think some japanese composers still are making some remixes for Banjo. And one would have remixed Spiral Mountain instead. Imagine a Yoko Shimomura remix of Banjo Kazooie's music.
Thank you, grant, for composing the music of my childhood. Couldn’t think of a more deserving person to be given the honor of being one of the only western composers to work on smash bros.
I'm probably the only person out there that likes Grant Kirkhope's work on Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark soundtracks more than the other Rare games he did. (Not saying Banjo Kazooie's soundtrack is bad or anything, just that I love his interpretation of the 007 leitmotifs, music, and themes more than Banjo Kazooie, which itself is better in certain way than, for example, some of the music Crash Bandicoot had in the 90s.)
Hope they get interested in hiring him for non Rare music if Ultimate gets a sequel. He has a unique flair him and David Wise. I'd love to see more of their work back on Nintendo's platform.
This is awesome. You are obviously a huge fan of Rare and Banjo like I am! Congratulations on getting this video game composition legend on your video! Well done!
Diddy Kong Racing music was made by David Wise; with that said, we really don't know yet, but Nintendo could have potentially contacted him for a remix already
I mean they probably do have his contact details since I think he also does the voice of Gruntilda in Smash but I think Chris doesn’t want to tone down his performance as Conker so I doubt Nintendo would let Conker in don’t get me wrong I’d be all for Conker in Smash but he’d have to be heavily toned down like Bayonetta was but you never know maybe one year he’ll get in don’t ever give up hope
Amazing interview! I enjoyed it very much :) awesome to see grant and how it’s crazy that he’s one of the first western composers to compose for smash!
God bless everyone involved with banjo & kazooie's inclusion into smash ❤ I was hyped when they added cloud k rool and joker... but I almost fainted when banjo & kazooie were revealed! I really want Ninten from mother but ehh theres always next smash i guess 🤷♂️
Something about grant saying "we're home" is so heart warming
Breathtaking
And the official Smashbros channel titling the video "best friends"!
It really is
@@FranMod you're breathtaking
He honestly rivals Keanu Reaves
You should not be surprised Mr. Kirkhope. Your music style always comes through in every game your music accompanies with. You are a great composer!
Except Yooka Laylee.
8BitGamer4life audience can hear if their heart was in music, that’s why music transcends. That’s probably why.
Arguably one of the best in the business. His style always shines through
I hope he continues to make great music in the future. Where's his patreon? Lol
0:14 We’re home, I cried man
Nintendo got Grant because the music was such an integral part of what made banjo so memorable, and he is such a beloved composer. Grant Kirkhope, Koji Kondo, and Nobuo Uematsu are the only 3 video game composers I can even name off the top of my head.
Yuzo Koshrio and Hirokazu Hip Tanaka.
David Wise is also great for composing DKC games and some other Rare games. 👌🏻
Matoi Sakuraba and Shouji Meguro.
It is great that Grant Kirkhope is involved of making a remix of Spiral Mountain in Smash. 🙂
What the hell you got him here already? ya work fast son.
How? He's my mate! ;) haha
Everybody knows about the legendary games composer Grant Kirkhope! Why is he so surprised? His music is amazing!!
i couldnt stop watching so many reactions from various people to this trailer! for some reason this specific trailer has such wholesome and wild reactions, lol.
And it's always the same rollercoaster too, the chattering volume going up when the Jiggy bounces in, the screaming hype at the shadow, going quiet during the Duck Hunt joke, and then it's just mass hysteria
Yes! It’s that feeling of, they said it couldn’t be done! Well, take a look!
I'm so hyped to play as Banjo in Smash. It seemed impossible for so many years, I'm still kind of in disbelief that Nintendo made it happen...
and judging by your pfp, you probably got really happy about two smash characters tuesday...
@@clickbait3753 yup
Heard Phil Spenser wanted Banjo in Smash along time ago but Nintendo were the hesitant ones...glad they have started to be more open minded.
Hopefully they will return the favor and allow Samus or Link in the new Killer Instincts.
Your pfp suggests you’re happy about hero also
"Banjo, Kazooie, we're home"
You have no idea how much I cried when I heard that
Seliph the Annette lover same
The stars could not have been any better aligned for years to make this happen. So many things needed to go right: Davide’s pitch to Nintendo for Mario + Rabbids, Grant accepting Davide’s offer to compose for the game, the E3 showcase for Mario + Rabbids after word about it got leaked early and how well received it was long afterwards and the awards it earned, Microsoft and Nintendo getting along nicely in their talks regarding future prospects, everything involving Cuphead leading up to its success and that discussion between the two giants (which makes this whole thing over a year in the making), Brawl setting the trend of bringing in third-party characters of people who’d worked with Nintendo...any one thing could’ve gone wrong along the way regarding those things, and then we’d be living in a much different Sma5h world because of that. Instead, we have Banjo and Kazooie, two of the few Western-made characters (right there with K. Rool. Maybe Diddy. Not sure about him) and the first Western composer to write an arrangement for a Smash title and not just have their original piece included like with Tee Lopes or David Wise. This really broke grounds and set a new standard in Smash history, and just looking back and considering what was all accomplished as a result, this whole chain of events is nothing short of a miracle. For as much as a miracle worker Sakurai may seem and oftentimes is, this was a group effort, and anyone who showed their support and love for Banjo, Kazooie, and Grant’s works for and beyond the Bear and Bird and made it known helped make this happen, just like with REmake 2 and hopefully like with FF7 Remake.
"any one thing could’ve gone wrong along the way regarding those things, and then we’d be living in a much different Sma5h world because of that".
In an alternate timeline, the miracle never happen.
Also, I agree! To think that if one little detail changed even slightly, things would be much different today.
Dark Samus is another western character being creating by Retro Studios
Marty Mcfly This is true. However as it dawned on me after listening to the Shesez interview with Steve Mayles (and Grant), Banjo and Kazooie are the first western made characters from a brand new western made franchise (and even before then with the influences of Banjo’s Project Dream design present) unlike K. Rool, Diddy, and Dark Samus (or even Prime) who were made in the West but for already established Japan-made franchises (sorta for DKC. Just that the character of DK was established).
Princess Lovinity First entirely western-made character for an entirely western-made game, yes. Also the fact that he’s the first character in Smash that’s owned by a 1st party developer: Microsoft, since they own Rare and are the ones at the end with all the other companies for copyrights. All other characters thus far are made by Nintendo or by 3rd party companies like Sega, Square-Enix, Konami, etc.
Rexaura888 yeah that's true. As much as I love and understand Smash's Japanese roots and heritage I hope we get more western characters in the game as there are so many great game franchises outside of Japan, that have influential characters that would be perfect for Smash.
What they just did with banjo and kazooie just shows how much they care about the fans! I love it!
Wow, good thing he picked Spiral Mountain. What if he picked Rusty Bucket Bay or some other off-theme tune.
Well, I think some japanese composers still are making some remixes for Banjo. And one would have remixed Spiral Mountain instead. Imagine a Yoko Shimomura remix of Banjo Kazooie's music.
Woulda loved treasure trove cove too. Hope the remix of that is great, or maybe they'll leave it as is!
Hopefully a good amount of music from both Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie are featured, for instance with those well loved tracks from both games.
CuriousUserX90 Treasure Trove Cove, Glitter Gulch Mine, and Mad Monster Mansion are musts
Hoping we get some Weldar and perhaps Mr.Patch as well.
Now just to have microsoft allow a cross platform remake of banjo
Grant Kirkhope is such a heart warming guy, he loves his fans in every way and pleases them do much. I love him ❤❤
Thank you, grant, for composing the music of my childhood. Couldn’t think of a more deserving person to be given the honor of being one of the only western composers to work on smash bros.
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I really love the music he composes
M K Sadly a person disliked it now
That feels wrong
Those 7 don't know good music when it's being played
They disliked because it was mentioned there wasn't any
You can tell how happy he is in the first three seconds of this video
Who grant or me? XD
@@ImpactGameStation Both Actually! Grant saying "were home" always makes me smile and you talking to him was awesome
Y'all he knows they are the rareware crew. K.rool is DKS enemy. If anything he asked as a joking "yo what's goin on here"
I'm probably the only person out there that likes Grant Kirkhope's work on Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark soundtracks more than the other Rare games he did. (Not saying Banjo Kazooie's soundtrack is bad or anything, just that I love his interpretation of the 007 leitmotifs, music, and themes more than Banjo Kazooie, which itself is better in certain way than, for example, some of the music Crash Bandicoot had in the 90s.)
Hope they get interested in hiring him for non Rare music if Ultimate gets a sequel. He has a unique flair him and David Wise. I'd love to see more of their work back on Nintendo's platform.
This is awesome. You are obviously a huge fan of Rare and Banjo like I am! Congratulations on getting this video game composition legend on your video! Well done!
Haha cheers! We're friends, it's his third time on my show ;) :)
This man created one of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time
Regarding K. Rool with the DK Crew I remember hearing a theory that Joker stole the good old King's heart
Yeh I saw it today on Twitter actually lol XD
Where can I get that Banjo Kazooie figurine??
Ebay or amazon. Is were you can purchase it.
elpostmaster Xbox lol
God I hope he did more remixes of Banjo songs too
Me too! Hell maybe we'll get some DK64 music added to the DK stages along side Banjo.
Straw Hat Andrew imagine this tho: Diddy Kong Racing music
crompledong My panties couldn’t handle that
Diddy Kong Racing music was made by David Wise; with that said, we really don't know yet, but Nintendo could have potentially contacted him for a remix already
crompledong pretty sure we will get more if joker is anything to go by.
When banjo was announced i was ballistically happy, fuck i was primordial
no dislikes? That's what I like to see
Ikr?!?!?! 🤭🤣
Lord fartamor 8 now 😔
Wish you asked him if he has heard any plans for another Banjo game!
I had limited time with him on the call. And I could ask him anytime I wanted 😜
RIP to Etika who will not be able to play Banjo-Kazooie, The Hero and future characters.
Welcome Home Friends! Love to see you back!
Using those connections Barry good job!
I want Nintendo to contact Chris Seavor next so we can get Conker next :D
I mean they probably do have his contact details since I think he also does the voice of Gruntilda in Smash but I think Chris doesn’t want to tone down his performance as Conker so I doubt Nintendo would let Conker in don’t get me wrong I’d be all for Conker in Smash but he’d have to be heavily toned down like Bayonetta was but you never know maybe one year he’ll get in don’t ever give up hope
@@jamesgriffin7962 i made a bio for Conker and i found ways to work around it. So we can see
Sharon Loy awesome
Sharon Loy exactly what I was thinking! This year has turned out to be a year of, they say it couldn’t happen, then bam, prove us wrong!
Chris was only the voice of Conker, not the song composer or anything. It's likely they'd just re-voice him if they were to get Conker in Smash
0:23 Same Characters From Who's Cooking Tonight
Amazing interview! I enjoyed it very much :) awesome to see grant and how it’s crazy that he’s one of the first western composers to compose for smash!
Wow, "Banjo, Kazooie, we're home" was so beautiful.
The one dislike is from Gruntilda
The reason why they were in the trailer together is because they all come from Donkey Kong Country which was made by Rare!
What's this got to do with anything said below lol
Because you asked why they were sleeping together in the house.
@@FortniteEmoter981 lol you think I don't know my rareware 🤭 ruclips.net/video/AZtgWuVXBuM/видео.html
@@HardcoreGamer4Ever aight calm down
@@HardcoreGamer4Ever whatever helps you sleep at night
You’re nearly at 7k subs!
Oh wow, you actually were able to talk to him.
Yeh man. Grant's my friend ;) :)
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@@kurry5040 haha
That's free bragging rights right there.
We have Hope! Nintendo and Microsoft are Wise! ☝🏻
God bless everyone involved with banjo & kazooie's inclusion into smash ❤ I was hyped when they added cloud k rool and joker... but I almost fainted when banjo & kazooie were revealed! I really want Ninten from mother but ehh theres always next smash i guess 🤷♂️
chris p. bacon hey man you were in banjo tooie! Remember when you were taking pictures in Atlantis!?
@@tylerrumfelt3353 yes
WE ARE HOME BOIS
Grant Kirkhope looks like Tim Robins
Omg grant..............EVERYONE BLEW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nintendo usually go to the original composer out of respect.
back then i was thinking that Rare would never be able to bring things to Nintendo again.. I'm Very pleased ^^
Sooo heartwarming
Great interview! Did Grant get paid? Such awesome work.
YYYYEEEESSSS THANK YOUUUU MORE RARE
GUH-HUH!
Epic
No future bk games should be approved unless he composes.
Guh-Huh!
Theyre all rare characters thats why they were together...
Factorynjk2 I think he was making more of a joke out of it, because DK and K Rool are just chilling together despite trying to kill one another
Because Donkey Kong Country was made by Rare. Where Diddy and K. Rool first debuted
They had Dk,dd and Kkr because rare made dkc