Dream: Land of Giants / Project Dream - SNES and N64 Gameplay [Unreleased Rareware Game]

Gameplay of the cancelled Rare game Dream: Land of Giants (before Banjo-Kazooie).

Wikepedia: During most of its development period, Project Dream was a role-playing video game (RPG) that focused on a boy named Edison and his pets Dinger the dog and Billy the parrot. In its story, a band of pirates who piloted airships searched for "floaty", a substance that allowed their ships to fly. Edison got into trouble with the pirates and set off on a journey with his girlfriend to escape them. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) version of the game employed an isometric perspective and had a fairy tale-like theme. Edison used a wooden sword to fight trolls and Dinger performed actions to assist him, such as going ahead and digging holes to find items. Occasionally, a dinosaur would appear and attempt to crush Edison by stepping on him; falling leaves and the virtual camera system shaking warned the player when it was approaching.

When development transitioned to the Nintendo 64 (N64), Dream became a larger RPG rendered in 3D computer graphics. The pirate theme became more dominant than the fairy tale one. As development progressed on the N64, the game went through radical changes. Edison was replaced twice, first by a rabbit and later by Banjo the bear, who became the main character of Banjo-Kazooie. The final version of the game was a linear platformer in the vein of Rare's Donkey Kong Country games, and bore little resemblance to the earlier versions.

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