'Yooka-Laylee' From The Guys who brought you Banjo Kazooie
Quite an interesting story this one, a team of people who used to work at RARE in their N64 heyday have launched a Kickstarter for a new 3D platformer, 'Yooka-Laylee'.....which is essentially a spiritual sequel to the N64 Banjo Kazooie/Tooie of old.
In only 40 mins it reached it's target...I do hope it's good! It certainly echoes those 3D platformers from back in the day, and you can clearly see the elements of Banjo in there
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival
In only 40 mins it reached it's target...I do hope it's good! It certainly echoes those 3D platformers from back in the day, and you can clearly see the elements of Banjo in there
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival
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Banjo Kazooie is one of my favourite ever games & I am really looking forward to it's release.
Would they ? I mean it's only a million dollars, which is nothing for a AAA game. But a lot for a small company.
Hopefully we will see a return to platforming. Maybe a new Crash Bandicoot too.
Honestly, I wouldn't want to see another Crash Bandicoot game if it wasn't developed by Naughty Dog.
They should be kicking themselves. The interest this game has garnered is evidence for me of what fans want.
He gave it a 2/10.
He backed the game so he must have been looking forward to it to some degree, however, he's said in his review that he finds the game borderline unplayable to the point where he was tempted to call it a day part way through and review the game (incomplete) sans a score, which would have put it in a very unique club of games that he finds so fundamentally awful that he couldn't finish. However he powered through and basically says the level design is atrocious, both Yooka and particularly Laylee are fundamentally unlikeable (as are a not unreasonable number of NPCs), the combat is tediously monotonous, the camera is one of the worst to grace videogames since the late 90s and the platforming is quite finnicky and you often can't see where you're going to be landing with your jumps. He finishes up by saying all these things coming together makes this game a frustrating chore and sums up by saying "Yooka Laylee is in a word - rubbish".
http://www.thejimquisition.com/yooka-laylee-review/
It's worth pointing out though that this is arguably the most divisive game I think I've ever seen, Jim game it a 2, Let's Play Videogames gave it a 3.5 and Videogamer gave it a 4/10, elsewhere it's been getting a decent number of 5s, 6s and 7s (including from IGN) and it's even managed to pull in a few 8s, 9s and 9.5s/10. It is honestly baffling to me how split the critics are on this thing.
I myself have backed it, I received an email today from Playtonic saying that my physical copy has already been shipped and should actually be here any day now, but I also played it at EGX last weekend and - keeping in mind this is my thoughts from a 20 minute demo - I can totally understand why so many critics are ragging on confusing and occasionally bad map design, the map they had on show at EGX was absolutely all over the place and I just felt there wasn't really any cohesion pointing me in a direction, but rather running aimlessly until I happened to stumble across collectibles. And I don't mean that in a "Its your standard collectathon fair", I mean that in a "The map design from what I saw really is bad", so I'm curious to see if the full game can at least change my mind on that front.
In other words, this is one of those games where reviews are meaningless to the reader. Unless you trust a specific source wholeheartedly, you'll never be able to gauge whether you think you'll like the game or not. The only way to find out would be to actually play it.
If I hadn't backed it, after playing it at EGX Rezzed last weekend I think I would have passed on it, very underwhelming demo for me personally, and I'm a huge fan of Banjo, Conker, Mario, Ratchet, Jak, Crash, Spyro, Croc, Gex and the like. But as I've got the full game inbound anyway, I'll keep an open mind and just hope that they picked a poor level to represent the full game.
I don't really know what to think, I'm not hating it by any means but I can't say I enjoy it either. It's essentially taken the Banjo Kazooie formula beat for beat but made it 100x more frustrating. HIt detection is apalling, the camera work is some of the worst I think I've EVER experienced in a video game and even the platforming itself is broken with Yooka falling straight through platforms I otherwise should have landed on.
So yeah... 4/10 so far.