Yooka Laylee Reviews
Yooka-Laylee is a nostalgic old-school adventure, but it’s too retro for its own good. Frustrating game mechanics, annoying boss fights and the complete lack of guidance become infuriating as the game progresses.
Yooka-Laylee is just what the industry needed: a firm, colourul, kick up the bum. There's lots to do, even more to see, and even more to collect. An expandable game that really does justice to the genre it's trying to revive. It's been a long time that a game has kept my attention with pure gameplay alone. It's a timeless classic that'll join the ranks of Spyro, Crash and Banjo, and deservedly so. Gimme more. Please.
Originally billed to backers as a successor to the now classic Banjo-Kazooie series, Yooka-Laylee from developer Playtonic Games delivers on that promise in spades and more, becoming in essence Banjo-Kazooie 3 in all but name; with a grand collectathon adventure awaiting you, complete with quirky characters, a rousing score and a British charm that all now iconic Rare games exude. It’s a feat in itself that the developers have managed to craft a title the size of Yooka-Laylee with the small team at hand, but that limitation does rear its head with some wonky mechanics and puzzles that were best left on the cutting room floor. But the true success story of Yooka-Laylee, will be in managing to capture that once thought lost Rare essence, and the real question now is whether there is still a wider market out there today beyond those who grew up with the Nintendo 64 classics wishing to revisit nostalgia. One thing is for certain though, if you’re looking for a fun, colourful adventure to suck up 30 hours of your life then Yooka-Laylee is your man, or bat, or lizard - or, ah whatever.
Yooka Laylee is a treasure despite some faults
Yooka Laylee brings the classic 3D collectathon platformer into the modern age, although not without camera issues. Despite that, it takes what made past 3D platform games great and puts it on a larger scale with substance.
For players who are after the Banjo Kazooie experience this is exactly what you’ll get and you’ll find much to love. It stays true to that formula and has the DNA etched over everything and anything in the game. However, if you’re accustomed to modern platformers, the likes of Jak & Daxter, Ratchet and Clank or just about any Super Mario title, then this might be embedded too far back in history for it to create a lasting impact in the modern world.
Yooka-Laylee has done what everyone, developers and players, had hoped it to do and brought the 3D platformer kicking and screaming into gaming mainstream again, spearheading the revival.
Yooka-Laylee is a fantastic game that delivers on its aspirations as Banjo-Kazooie's spiritual successor.
Yooka-Laylee is the best 3D platformer since the N64.
Yooka-Laylee is a very good game with lots of humour, a fairly standard kids rescue type story, but with the worlds and what can be done in each, there are hours of fun to be had and I would highly recommend giving this a go if your a fan of open world platformers.
Bringing back the 90s in a fresh modern twist yet maintaining its nostalgic roots.
Yooka-Laylee is a title we like; it reminds us of the unique and nostalgic memories of when, still children, we put our hands on titles like Spyro, Croc
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Overall, I feel as though Yooka-Laylee has teased me with the past. So many good individual aspects giving me a glimpse of what I loved of the genre. But there are so many other parts of it that detract from the experience and make me wonder if I put up with such things in the past, without noticing them.
I can’t speak for how Yooka-Laylee compares to what veteran fans would expect, but as some who loved his fair share of older generation of platformers, Yooka-Laylee is the game the genre needs.
I love Yooka-Laylee, unashamedly. I’ve only finished it recently, but already I want to start again and do it all over
If you didn’t back it, at only $39.99 (USD) here’s a game that has hours of enjoyment. Except for that last boss. Eff that guy. . .
Colourful characters, and enough adult humour to keep you wondering how this is a G rated game.
At the end of the day, Playtonic accomplished exactly what they set out to achieve with Yooka-Laylee and proved that 3D platformers can still be relevant in 2017. Yooka-Laylee is a fun, familiar, and nostalgic trip to a genre from the past that still holds up incredibly well in the present. It certainly proves that there is a place in the current landscape for games of this genre. If you miss the mascot platformer of yesteryear, then Yooka-Laylee will almost certainly give you your fill and make you feel warm inside.