Yooka-Laylee

This game made me cry like an Anime Fan on Prom Night.
This is the Banjo Three we never received…I'm still seeing my therapist after the last BK "game".
I can't even describe how happy this game made me. I think a single tear rolled down my cheek while playing this. It's beautiful. I miss Banjo and this will do.
Hello Banjo-Threeie!!!
"Banjo Kazooie", "Conkers Bad Fur Day" and "Donkey Kong Country", if you liked any of those games, from the good old times when you were still young and had no arthritis, then this might be for you. Also perfect for the Steam Deck.
I wish I was still 10 years old again while playing this beautiful game. I remember playing B&K alongside my dad, DK and Banjo tooie. It was amazing, and I will treasure this successor of Banjo Kazooie in that same manner in memory of my father who showed me how much fun video games could be. It's better then it's ancestors in every meaningful way aside from the lack of a direct connection to peoples memories of their childhood.
Honestly, I think people were too harsh on this game. I enjoyed it a lot. Solid collect-a-thon full of 90's nostalgia. It's not the Banjo-successor we dreamed of, but it's the one we needed, warts and all. It gave me all the Banjo-Kazooie vibes I needed without actually playing that game for the 100th time. The game is great and hated on only for being the game that we, Banjo fans asked for. I know it’s flawed, but even a game with problems can still be a fun time, and that nostalgia hit really makes me happy!
This game is Banjo-Kazooie on a budget, and I mean that in the best possible way.
You have to really, really appreciate old school collectathons. If you love Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie to this day, Yooka Laylee is quite fun because it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect, warts and all. The worlds you visit and play in are kinda large though once they’re fully opened up to you and can be a bit of a bother but, as has been acknowledged... warts and all.
Nearly all the challenges are well-constructed and fair, and mostly really fun to tackle as well. Controls are good, collecting is satisfying and the difficulty is balanced, for the most part. All of its flaws stem from the fact that this game simply doesn't have the high production value of Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie. The challenges are a smidge less tightly designed, there is less variation in the world and the challenges, and there's a little less polish overall. All of these issues can be traced back to the fact that this was made by less people, in less time.
The less polished parts are mostly the Rextro and Kartos minigames. The second boss feels a bit boring as well, it just floats around and shoot stuff at you. The only actually BAD parts I encountered are the slide near the end of Hivory Towers (the hub world of the game), and a move used by the fourth boss, that tricks you into believing he's gonna ram you, but then he isn't and then he rams you anyway (and you can't see this coming). Despite the minor issues I loved it because it's so reminiscent of Banjo Kazooie. I know the game has flaws I’ll admit it, but every game has flaws even if small ones, one of my favorite games Sonic Adventure 2 has some stupid stuff I don’t like but despite that I can enjoy it, same goes for Yooka Laylee. I found controlling the duo quite fun and finding ways to move about worlds, collecting quills and pagies, gaining new moves, using tonics and just exploring and discovering was really fun.
I guess I’ll really never understand the problems people have with this game. People were screaming"I want a new Banjo Kazooie! I want a new Banjo Kazooie!" So they make one using the guys who worked on the previous ones with new characters and all people could say about it was "it's just a bad rip off Banjo Kazooie." It's exactly what people asked for; a throwback to the golden days of platforming with big 3D levels, loads of special moves and collectibles and even the same faults like a dodgy camera. This game was fantastic, faults and all and it makes me genuinely sad when I hear people trash it.
After coming back to BK as an adult I was able to see a lot of weakness in level design, including unnecessarily open spaces, particularly in the hub world. There's a lot to love about BK, but there's a lot of nostalgia blindness surrounding this game too. Especially because the final boss was one of the worst in any game I've ever played. I think if you love BK there's no way anything can touch it, because you'll never be that age playing a similar game for the first time again. But I think those expectations give Yooka a worse rap than it deserves. 
Overall, Banjo trumps this game on all fronts, but that says more about Banjo than it says about this game. On its own, Yooka-Laylee is great, and I heavily recommend you pick it up if you have the patience to explore large worlds and collect stuff through beating cool challenges like we did in the old days. It’s an 8/10, but the way I see it, Diet Banjo-Kazooie (this game) is still Banjo-Kazooie gameplay, and that’ll always be a 10 for me.
10/10

Very good platformer with nice gimicks and complete moveset. Also some funny writting :)

If you play the game on mute but you can still hear Banjo-Kazooie sounds, you aren't crazy. You're just getting old.

If you're a fan of the old school collect-a-thon style 3D platformers I can almost guarantee you'll find something you like in this game. While it does have it's warts (no fast travel to different levels or locations in levels) it's definitely still a fun game!

This game sought out to be a throwback to the legendary 3D platformers of the N64 era, and in my opinion it has achieved that goal splendidly.
I'll be revisiting this one in the future I'm sure, just like the 3D platformers of old.

Fun and nostalgic game play that reminds of the when games were made as a passion and not just for money.

Very good platform game with a mix of 90s game play and current humour. Not too many moves to learn, and don't just get used for one thing. Great soundtrack too.
There were only maybe 3 or 4 small bits of the game I didn't like. Also I thought that some of the moves could have easily been more expensive, I was never short of quills to spend.
A must play for anyone whom enjoyed Banjo-Kazooie.