The release of Rare’s latest Banjo-Kazooie game, Nuts & Bolts, has managed to surprise many individuals.

Most of that surprise has come from the fact that the game has been received reasonably well, at least by the reviewers, as most of them have had cause to praise the game’s efforts rather than criticize them.

However, while the game was held in reasonably high regard by critics, all of them agreed on a singular problem exhibited by the game: its unusually minuscule text, shrunken down to the point where most players would deem it unreadable unless…

Looking for a legit response for my previous post titled “Am I getting old or is game text getting smaller?” I contacted the PR department for Bungie.

In the original post, I made a physical measurement comparison of the word “Campaign” used in the main menu of each of the three Halo games to verify that there is, indeed, a significant decrease in text size with each new game.

To my humorous surprise, Bungie quickly responded via email with microscopically small text. Here’s the official response…

If my eyes are getting worse, I might have to blame game developers and publishers. No, I’m not sitting too close to the TV while gaming (10 feet away, thank you). Instead, the in-game text is getting smaller and more difficult to read.

Case in point: I physically measured the word “CAMPAIGN” in Halo, Halo 2 and Halo 3 on the same TV being played through the Xbox 360. Yes, I took a measuring tape and pressed it against a TV screen.

The word “CAMPAIGN” appears in the menu of all three games in the franchise and should be indicative of the menu text used throughout each game. In each case it is white on a dark background and written in all caps.

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