Would you pay 680 dollars for playing a game? And 800? To the majority it can seem an absurd question to us, but there are people who are letting themselves drag by these prices. Like Alie Badillo , the woman who a couple of years ago left about $ 1,000 playing Candy Crush. Or also like the players who, according to an EA worker, have been able to spend up to $ 15,000 on the Mass Effect.

Admission, of course, is not immediate. Nobody would go to a store to leave a month’s salary for an entertainment that will last a few weeks or a few months. The issue is that these payments are camouflaged, fractioned. They are the microtransactions, the pay to win or, as they are being popularized by the enormous controversy of the new Star Wars Battlefront , the loot boxes .

When we think of RARE, we always think about its Nintendo stage, much more colorful, creative and fun. With its acquisition by Microsoft, it lost much of its identity until those of Redmond knew to pay him the homage that they deserved with ‘RARE Replay’. And it seems that the English have impregnated that spirit with the future ‘Sea of Thieves’, very promising.

But what about your most beloved saga, ‘Banjo-Kazooie’? No sign of the couple. Hence we were pleased with the KickStarter project of ‘Yooka-Laylee’, with several former members of RARE (Chris Sutherland, Gavin Price or Steve Mayles, among others) as a spiritual successor. Its funding campaign swept through 2015.

And if we take a look at the calendar, we realize that there are less than two months remaining for sale, thanks to the English Team 17. We can face one of the great surprises of 2017. But above all, before a video game that seeks to rescue the spirit of the great classic platforms of the Nintendo 64. And that are always bigger words.