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Playtonic unveils Yooka-Laylee (Banjo Kazooie successor) [Kickstarter LIVE - Funded]
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Unreal and Unity, Apples and Oranges.
The most interesting thing from that interview, IMO:
Multiple games from Playtonic, the possibilities are endless. I'm holding out for a Diddy Kong Racing successor that brings back the single-player campaign and hub world that modern kart racers have left by the wayside.
Also, I've always found it interesting that they intend to use the cast of Yooka-Laylee in other spin-off games. It made sense in DKR since Banjo and Conker's games were already in development, but the supporting Y-L characters don't really seem to naturally lend themselves to a starring role. Maybe Dr. Puzz in some sort of puzzle-platformer based around wacky gadgets?
I could see lady Leapalot starring in a 2D platformer.
paragonpro
Banned
Thats a relife, tooie was expansive to the point of exhaustion
Agreed 100%. It was simply too massive and bloated, and became a chore to play. Hope Yooka-Laylee is a tighter experience.
New Q&A video from GameXplain. Looking forward to their review, the game sounds great from what they say.
PSFan
Member
I didn't think so at all. I loved Tooie, finding the alternate connections to the levels was great.
TheDinoman
Member
As a fan of it myself, Banjo-Tooie is bit of an acquired taste.
The first game resonates with people far more because it's a very simple, easy to pick up and play kind of game. Tooie on the other hand is a lot more colossal and complicated and naturally it turns off a lot of people who were wanting an experience similar to Kazooie. Even Rare themselves touched upon this in their Making Of Banjo-Tooie video, noting how the game requires much more time and investment from the player.
Personally I love the game, I actually thought it was the better of the two when growing up, but I have come to understand why people don't like it as much as Kazooie or why they even downright hate it, but it's still one of my favorites. I do commend Rare for taking Tooie in a different direction and giving the game it's own sort of identity
, rather than just simply being "Banjo-Kazooie again".
The first game resonates with people far more because it's a very simple, easy to pick up and play kind of game. Tooie on the other hand is a lot more colossal and complicated and naturally it turns off a lot of people who were wanting an experience similar to Kazooie. Even Rare themselves touched upon this in their Making Of Banjo-Tooie video, noting how the game requires much more time and investment from the player.
Personally I love the game, I actually thought it was the better of the two when growing up, but I have come to understand why people don't like it as much as Kazooie or why they even downright hate it, but it's still one of my favorites. I do commend Rare for taking Tooie in a different direction and giving the game it's own sort of identity
that wasn't totally stupid/uncalled for like Nuts & Bolts
Tooie learned from DK64 but it didn't learn enough. It fell for the same "look at all these playable characters!" trap by having Banjo/Kazooie/Banjo & Kazooie/Mumbo/transformations that you had to constantly run to swap pads and whatnot to switch between, and instead of a massive amount of collectibles they went too far in the opposite direction by making collectibles too scarce with notes being limited to a few nests, Mumbo tokens being condensed into easy-to-find Glowbos, and Jiggies being harder to obtain.
I still think it's a great game though, I replayed it and Kazooie just last month in anticipation for Y-L. I actually enjoyed it a bit more than B-K this time around, I'd never finished Grunty Industries before and it ended up being one of my favorite Banjo worlds.
I still think it's a great game though, I replayed it and Kazooie just last month in anticipation for Y-L. I actually enjoyed it a bit more than B-K this time around, I'd never finished Grunty Industries before and it ended up being one of my favorite Banjo worlds.
Finally Capital B's casino simulator.
PSFan
Member
Oh yeah, Grunty Industries and Witchyworld were my favorites. Really hyped for Yooka-Laylee, and Hat in Time too, if it ever comes out.
TheDinoman
Member
But quite frankly, Tooie's biggest sin isn't its complicated level design/mission structure or the Red/Blue/Green mini-games or whatever. No, it's this spawn of Hades right here.
Jesus christ. The first race with her in Glitter Gulch Mine is tolerable enough, but the second in Cloud Cuckooland is by far one of the most horrifically designed missions in any game that I can think of. All of a sudden Canary Mary has this ridiculous rubber band AI that forces you to jam on the button at a super specific pace.
I replayed BT last year on XBLA and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't win. So I just gave up, went on to Amazon and ordered a third party turbo controller for 360 and I then I was finally able to kick her ass.
Did it again to get the last Cheeto page. Holy shit, they wanted people to do this shit two times with a regular controller, especially when the second race looks even harder and longer? Fuck that.
Jesus christ. The first race with her in Glitter Gulch Mine is tolerable enough, but the second in Cloud Cuckooland is by far one of the most horrifically designed missions in any game that I can think of. All of a sudden Canary Mary has this ridiculous rubber band AI that forces you to jam on the button at a super specific pace.
I replayed BT last year on XBLA and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't win. So I just gave up, went on to Amazon and ordered a third party turbo controller for 360 and I then I was finally able to kick her ass.
Did it again to get the last Cheeto page. Holy shit, they wanted people to do this shit two times with a regular controller, especially when the second race looks even harder and longer? Fuck that.
But quite frankly, Tooie's biggest sin isn't its complicated level design/mission structure or the Red/Blue/Green mini-games or whatever. No, it's this spawn of Hades right here.
Jesus christ. The first race with her in Glitter Gulch Mine is tolerable enough, but the second in Cloud Cuckooland is by far one of the most horrifically designed missions in any game that I can think of.
I replayed BT last year on XBLA and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't win. So I just gave up, went on to Amazon and ordered a third party turbo controller for 360 and I then I was finally able to kick her ass.
Did it again to get the last Cheeto page. Holy shit, they wanted people to do this shit two times with a regular controller, especially when the second race looks even harder and longer? Fuck that.
The jiggy race in Cloud Cuckooland was easy, the cheato page was a test created in hell. I ended up giving myself a giant blister as a kid before I figured out the trick because of how much I had to mash the A button.
Yeah, Hat is still a ways off. It's currently set to release on Steam at some point between November 7th and December 7th as per its position on the Coming Soon list when ordered by date.
Good informative video <3
Shame about the framerate issues though
Also a shame a lot of related videos are about idiots bitching that JonTron got removed from the game
Yeah I'm looking forward to the reviews! Hoping this turns out really great.
Here's another neat video of Andy Robinson showing off a fanmade Yooka-Laylee on an SNES.
Ignore the comments btw, Josh from the BitBlock at it again.
I know some people will be disappointed to hear that I'm very relieved, thank you!!
PSFan
Member
Yeah, I backed the Hat kickstarter, but didn't back Yooka-Laylee because Hat kept taking so long and I had also backed the 3rd 7th Guest game that ended up being cancelled. So I became a little sour about kickstarters after that.
I regret paying for beta access, frankly. The public build (which is what beta backers have access to) hasn't been updated in a little over two years, won't be updated again until release, and there's very little content. Playtonic, on the other hand, was upfront about Yooka's pre-release access being in the form of the "toybox" mode.
So we do get them before release? Had no idea!
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Sorry if it's already been asked and answered, but have they said anything about a physical Switch version?
But quite frankly, Tooie's biggest sin isn't its complicated level design/mission structure or the Red/Blue/Green mini-games or whatever. No, it's this spawn of Hades right here.
Jesus christ. The first race with her in Glitter Gulch Mine is tolerable enough, but the second in Cloud Cuckooland is by far one of the most horrifically designed missions in any game that I can think of. All of a sudden Canary Mary has this ridiculous rubber band AI that forces you to jam on the button at a super specific pace.
I replayed BT last year on XBLA and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't win. So I just gave up, went on to Amazon and ordered a third party turbo controller for 360 and I then I was finally able to kick her ass.
It's the greatest sin amidst a wastebasket full of lesser sins I'd argue. But yea, that final race alone was straight garbage. I did manage to finish it on a standard controller and got all achievements, but I loathed it. After finishing both BK and Tooie to 100% years back, one game I would gladly play again, the other belongs in the same landfill that ET was buried in.
Wok
Member
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, this is in a loooooooooooooooooong time! 😢
Wow! TWO YEARS! 😳
The perfect Dark
Banned
Where is the Switch release date? where is it? I need this game on a nintendo console 
Where is the Switch release date? where is it? I need this game on a nintendo console
According to an interview with Gamereactor:
Looks like something out of a bad 90s CGI cartoon. That's a terrible design.
But quite frankly, Tooie's biggest sin isn't its complicated level design/mission structure or the Red/Blue/Green mini-games or whatever. No, it's this spawn of Hades right here.
Jesus christ. The first race with her in Glitter Gulch Mine is tolerable enough, but the second in Cloud Cuckooland is by far one of the most horrifically designed missions in any game that I can think of. All of a sudden Canary Mary has this ridiculous rubber band AI that forces you to jam on the button at a super specific pace.
I replayed BT last year on XBLA and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't win. So I just gave up, went on to Amazon and ordered a third party turbo controller for 360 and I then I was finally able to kick her ass.
Did it again to get the last Cheeto page. Holy shit, they wanted people to do this shit two times with a regular controller, especially when the second race looks even harder and longer? Fuck that.
I Love Banjo-Tooie. However this is the SINGLE thing I haven't been able to do AT ALL. I'm super poor at button mashing; heck, even the two races in GGM are hard enough for me. Now, imagine those two last races... Yeah. No.
Looking forward to YL though. I was once planning to buy on Wii U but noooooooope. PC it is then.
She looks absolutely terrifying but I think there's room to improve, much like Mumbo did between Kazooie and Tooie. Her concept art has a Brave Little Toaster vibe that they could try to evoke more in the 3D model.
Right there with you, Camjo. I think they could tweak Vendi a bit because as she is right now she reminds me a bit of Jay Jay the Jet Plane.
Lynd7
Member
I seem to remember there is a trick to this that makes it easier? Like start out slower in the button mashing and near the end speed up, the reaction of Mary is relative somehow?
The perfect Dark
Banned
>reading various yooka-laylee previews to tide myself over until the game releases
>think i'm safe from further spoilers because of the embargo
>random preview playtonic retweeted spoils the transformation for the third world
SON OF A-
Don't read the COGconnected preview if you're avoiding spoilers, folks!
>think i'm safe from further spoilers because of the embargo
>random preview playtonic retweeted spoils the transformation for the third world
SON OF A-
Don't read the COGconnected preview if you're avoiding spoilers, folks!
man the quality difference between the final model and the concept art is staggering.
Is that a knock against Sterling?
Okay. Can't wait to hear it.
Phoenix RISING
Banned
Yep. Writing this weekend.