Yooka-Laylee

Yooka-Laylee is the triumphant return of the true platform games. Playtonic has managed to mix everything good of this genre and turn it into something fresh and wonderful.

Yooka-Laylee is the perfect tribute to the 90's 3D platforming videogames, a very fun experience for new players and an exciting return of the genre to its roots for the veteran players. Long, fun and very funny, its camera becomes a tougher enemy than Capital B, the game's main villain.

Yooka-Laylee is a love letter to 3D platformer of twenty years ago. It is everything a fan of the best RARE works can expect, the real Banjoo-Kazooie spiritual successor. Despite some camera issues and the not so smooth controls, it deserves your attention.

Yooka Laylee is a great example of what can be achieved with the 3D platform. It is let down only by its lack of motivating narrative progression, and a tendency to get a little monotonous.

This characterful, sprawling throwback might well have been considered a classic two decades ago. But, as its creators have patently discovered, it isn't 1997 anymore. [June 2017, p.86]

Yooka-Laylee feels like an old Rare platformer, including many cool challenges, funny characters and colorful audiovisual design. The design of the levels, though, is a big let down. They are so frustrating that Yooka-Laylee is best played in short sessions.

ooka-Laylee would fit right into the late 90s with its vague puzzles, wakka-wakka voices, and confusing levels. Time has moved on since the N64, and while there are a handful of bright spots, this sadly isn't the catalyst for a 3D platformer revival.

As someone who has played Banjo-Kazooie innumerable times and has lived every minute of it, I get what this game was intended to be. As someone who has played through Yooka-Laylee twice, I can say with confidence it succeeds. The humor is fantastic, the world's are creative, inventive, and challenging, and the amount of heart the developers put in was unreal. Does game is an absolute joy and it is everything the platform collectathon is meant to be. Except the mine carts. Those are miserable. But aside from that, this game is worth loving just as much as Banjo-Kazooie. It is one of the greatest games one played.

Finalizado, tras un parón de varios años por medio. Lo dejé en su momento porque la cámara y los saltos poco precisos me resultaban incómodos. Tras rejugar Banjo-Kazooie me di cuenta que precisamente esas 2 características no han cambiado mucho en Yooka-Laylee. Con ese cambio de enfoque mi experiencia cambió notablemente. Muchos buscaremos en este título un tributo a Banjo Kazooie y sin duda lo es, sus personaje, su humor, sus "voces" y sobretodo su música con tanto Xilófono desprende un aroma a la saga de Rare en Nintendo 64 que a juicio le hace justicia. Las pegas, que las tiene, vienen, a mi juicio,en los escasos niveles, quizas más mundos y menos pagies por mundo encajaría mejor que las ampliaciones. Los jefes finales, con menos carisma del esperado. Y las transformaciones no están a la altura de Banjo. En resumen, es un buen juego, que rinde buen tributo y sienta unas bases solidas para crear una saga 3D, que aunque poco original, ocupa un lugar y tipo de juego que parece olvidado entre los desarrolladores y que la dueña de los derechos de Banjo no le parece interesante explotar. Quién eche de menos plataformas 3D noventeros agradecerán volver a un género olvidado que rozó la perfección hace casi 30 años.

The overall score is based on how much fun I personally had with every component of the game and the overall experience.

Horrible camera movement, controllers and puzzles. A waste of time and money.

I have never had such a bad time playing a game. I originally bought it almost purely for the art style, since it's incredibly appealing, but when I started playing, I slowly lost all form of interest. The game is weighed down by poor controls (with Flying and the camera for example), a camera that glitches out after death, levels that are so frustrating to navigate that I'm surprised that there's no map (Tribalstack Tropics being the one exception to me), and arcade games within it that are too poor, slippery, and unfair to play/control- This game just overall provides a frustrating experience and it's just not fun to play.