Every player will have a unique experience.Ī COLLECT-EM-UP FOR THE MODERN ERA: Seek out a roster of shiny collectibles with gameplay progression at their core (as well as other, more valuable materials), such as the dual action Butterfly Energy or tricky Ghost Writers!Ī CAST TO LAST: Meet (or beat) a huge cast of memorable characters brought to life by the art and audio teams behind legendary platform games, and destined to endure in future adventures as part of the Playtonic Universe. INTRODUCING OUR NEW BUDDY DUO: Yooka and Laylee boast an awesome arsenal of abilities built for platforming fun and unlocked with added freedom from the serpent salesman Trowzer.ĬARVE YOUR OWN PATH: Purchase and unlock moves with freedom, choose to expand your favourite worlds into even larger, more complex playgrounds and equip unique Tonic gameplay modifiers to customise your play style. Using their arsenal of special moves, our heroes will tackle a huge variety of puzzles and platforming challenges in their search for Pagies, the golden bounty used to unlock - and expand - stunning new worlds, each jammed to the gills with oddball characters, hulking bosses, minecart challenges, arcade games, quiz shows, multiplayer games… and much more! Taking control of the Bee Team, a second player can grab quills, collect and store butterflies, stop traps and more!"īanjo-Threeie Yooka-Laylee will be out on 11 April.Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic!Įxplore huge, beautiful worlds, meet (and beat) an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of shiny collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka (the green one) and Laylee (the wisecracking bat with the big nose) embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B and his devious scheme to absorb all the world’s books… and convert them into pure profit! "As well as the local multiplayer arcade games, Yooka-Laylee offers a second player the opportunity to co-star in the main Yooka-Laylee adventure. "There are eight different games – accompanied by retro-tastic tunes from the one and only Steve Burke (Kameo, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts) – including arena brawler Glaciators, old-school racer Kartos Karting and the friendship-destroying Jobstacle Course." The Yooka-Laylee minigames seem to offer some racing options, some shooting options, some arena challenges and some rushing about collecting stuff options. The one we played a lot of was the Dodgems Challenge where you tried to run over a higher value of things called Twinklies with your little car. Targitzan's Temple Shootout was a maze shooter in the vein of something like Goldeneye 64 but there were also hoop jumping challenges, balloon bursting and so on. Banjo-Kazooie had a few singleplayer minigames, but a big thing I remember about Banjo-Tooie was that there were a few multiplayer options. I'm hoping I've just missed something and that the game will click when I play it!Īnyhoodle. It's Banjo-Kazooie 3 (or 4 or 6, depending on how you feel about Nuts & Bolts and the handheld releases) which is no bad thing, it's more that in that short demo slice I didn't get a sense of where Yooka-Laylee was doing anything different as I'm not a big nostalgia nut.
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I've only had a few minutes of hands-on time with the game on a busy EGX show floor but I spent most of that noting the points where Yooka-Laylee seemed to be reskinning an older framework but not really building on it. It also shares some team members with those older games. Yooka-Laylee is very much in the mould of/a love letter to games like Banjo-Kazooie.
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In fact, it would have been more of a surprise if there were no minigames, but this is the first I've read about said minigames so here is your confirmation that they exist. If you're at all familiar with the games upon which Yooka-Laylee is based this won't actually be a surprise. Yooka-Laylee - the Rare-esque 3D platformer with the chamaeleon and bat odd couple pairing - will be getting a bunch of multiplayer minigames alongside its single player story mode.