A Serious Man
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I really hope this is good, I love 3D platformers with an emphasis on exploration.
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New Yooka-Laylee PS4 Gameplay
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schwabdizzle
Banned
My most anticipted game for the 1st half of 2017.
Agreed.
Everyone is like : omg a platforming 3D game!
And im like, yeah but are you able to critisice it?
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
I must've missed this level, but it sounds wonderful.
killatopak
Member
the kids will love this. I know I would.
Hydrargyrus
Member
Seems to lack something (probably is a little lifeless in comparison) but It's fantastic how catches the old school vibe from Banjo & Kazooie.
Council Pop
Member
hahaha if only that was a real level
I totally see where you're coming from and appreciate your perspective and optimism. I'll gladly share your optimism. I do understand Playtonic isn't legally bound to reveal plans to those who ask; however, some companies go out of their way to toe the line to literal truths in response to questions out of a sense of fun misdirection or concern for fan backlash, so I was just trying to do the mental gymnastics of how that might be the case.
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Vader1
Unconfirmed Member
Like you said, 3D Mario is a lot different. The emphasis in 64 was never in running around, gathering up all these stars, each one involved a specific mission, usually making high use of Mario's acrobatic movesets. My complaint isn't that Yooka-Laylee is open, more that the world itself doesn't make the best use of the space its created to emphasize actual platforming.
That's a good point about Bob-Omb Battlefield, but for the best example of environmental consistency in an open world platformer I would bring up Jak 1. The very first world has a ton going on, yet it doesn't feel like a floating island populated sparsely with scattered test obstacles. It really feels like you're playing in actual environments, right from the first island. I've never played Banjo but I've heard it has the same kind of attention to environmental detail, making it even more surprising the team has seemingly "dropped the ball" in this regard.
I agree. I guess I should have specified this is totally a personal preference thing, collectathon fans and maybe even fans of "action platformers" like Ratchet will love it. My favorite genre is pure platforming, the more jumping and double-jumping over and on top of obstacles the better. Jak 1 being my favorite 3D platformer because of the platforming combined with believable environment design, but if games have to sacrifice those environments in order to preserve the straightforward platforming experience I'm fine with those as well, like 3D World.
As I said in the above quote though, a big part of the appeal in Banjo from what I can see in gameplay videos was the visuals, how the worlds looked. I really think in order to draw in the full "Banjo audience" Yooka Laylee should improve in this regard.
momshotdad
Member
This looks great. Day 1 for sure.