I doubt that the talent that worked on Nuts and Bolts and Viva Pinata is still there. If you think that anybody there at all touched any of the games you remember fondly from the N64 or SNES you're, uh, completely and utterly wrong.
-- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] im here to you dark soul with my LIGHT -ertyu
I'm guessing you haven't played any Rare games past the N64, else you'd realize we're better off with them not ruining these franchises with s****y new games
What this topic should say is "sell the rights to these franchises to somebody like Retro, WayForward, Next Level Games, etc"
-- SuperNiceDog is a vicious breed and should be banned from further Guru contests.
I distinctly remember that there was an interview, shortly after Nuts & Bolts came out, where one of them said, and I paraphrase: "No, no, we still have plenty of our original talent! Uh... we have... the original voice actors from Banjo-Kazooie, they're still in this!"
If that's what it was like back then, it's probably even worse by now.