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Explore 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! 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!
Steam User 44
The people that dropped this game had too big of a nostalgia for Banjo Kazooie and never touched Tooie. They also never played Kazooie nearly enough to have that big of a false nostalgia.
Yooka Laylee is its own game, its not Banjo Kazooie, its not Donkey Kong 64 or Tooie. It borrows elements from those games to make its own monster. While I enjoyed most levels, and their design. Theres like 2 I dont care for. Those are Moody and Glacier. Although Glacier has a neat 2D-3D dungeon, which I really enjoyed exploring.
Sometimes the puzzles can be too easy, but then again thats how Banjo Kazooie and Tooie were as well. At the end of the day, its a solid platformer game.
The characters are cute, there is some adult humor, its got something for everyone.
I write this review now, after my first playthrough, nearly finished 20 Pagies to go, I have played a lot of Banjo Kazooie and Tooie, a lot. Out of all my N64 games, I spent many days and years playing Tooie, just replaying it or trying to 100% it. I am not blinded by my Nostaglia, Yooka Laylee is good.
Steam User 18
I have to say, reading reviews initially I was under the assumption this would be a mediocre experience but absolutely not. The worlds are gigantic, and you can literally expand how much there is to do. I'm several levels in, and I haven't even come close to doing all there is to do with any of them minus the first one. The characters are fun, even if they are almost completely a makeshift indie equivalence for a Chinese bootleg of Banjo-Kazooie. There's really just a ton of value for the money here, a lot of fun gameplay mechanics which make for varied design across the board, real diamond in the rough here, 9/10.
Steam User 10
I love a da Banjo so I love a da Yooka
Steam User 10
By the reception this game had, you would think its terrible but if you give it a shot, you will experience something special.
Yooka-Laylee is a 3d platformer/collectathon that tries to catch the n64 era collectathons feeling. In my opinion it does it really well.
It has 5 massive thematic worlds to explore and hunt for collectibles. At first, the vastness of the worlds seem scary but thanks to cool abilities you can unlock, each revisit to the area gets faster to explore.
I think when it comes to 3d platformers, movement and mechanics you unlock are especially important to keep you interested. Yooka-Laylee does a wonderful job at introducing mechanics and making collecting a lot easier when you progress. There are tons of cool abilities you unlock that will help you get the collectible you couldn't before, similar to a metroidvania.
Writing is humorous and decent. Artstyle is gorgeous and some soundtracks are fantastic.
The game takes around 12 hours to play and kept me hooked till i finished it.
If you don't mind the negativity surrounding the game, Yooka-Laylee is an excellent game that offers great deal of content and i think most people who likes collectathons will like it. Definitely recommended.
Steam User 6
Very nice platformer filled with collectibles and platforming puzzles. This game is just cute to look at. I admit, there are just too many references and 4th wall breaking jokes for me, could really do with less. Nonetheless I had a few hours of fun and got really hooked, had to play it until 100% to get all those pesky pagies.
Steam User 3
I will try and keep this review as short as possible because if a make a list of minor annoyances this would be an essay.
This is a good old school 3D platformer but there are things holding in back form being a better game. I most certainly don't agree with almost universal bad reception this game got from the critics and part of player base. This game is hard to review because it is a mixed bag but here we go.
You play as Yooka and Laylee - the lizard and the charming bat companion who has some really funny one liners. Yooka on the other hand is a boring character but I think that was the intention of the developer. The humor is mostly on point with developers making fun of themselves and the gaming industry in general. Laylee stole the show when it comes to funny and witty one liners, sarcastic comments and comebacks. I can't emphasize enough how much I love Laylee as a character, she is in my opinion the best written character in any modern 3D platformer (that I played) . Along your journey you will encounter other characters that are mostly boring and forgettable but I think the writing in this game is ok but there are some sections that are really poorly written.
The game is divided into 5 worlds and the last boss of course.Your goal is to collect enough pagies to unlock the worlds and 100 pagies to unlock the last boss.
The first 3 worlds are very well designed, the 2nd world is the largest and in terms of level design the strongest. Then we come to 1st major flaw and that is the 4th world. It is awful and it looks like the ran out of money and ideas and decided to just design a casino where you play a bunch of casino games and collect tokens which you can later exchange for pagies. I wanted to quit the game when I came to the casino boss because it is just amateurish stuff, the whole world form top to bottom is awful and it would be better if they deleted it and just skipped to 5th world.
The 5th world is ok but then the game starts to feel repetitive because you are doing the same stuff like in the first 4 worlds and the original missions are rare.
The last boss is to put it mildly annoying and the sooner you get rid of him the better.
Oh yes, in between the 5 worlds you have an hub world that is very well designed.
The thing I think was not used enough are the fire, water, projectiles etc . I don't mind these not being used in combat but they could've been used in puzzle solving much more . Example - you find electricity in 5th world and you can use it 2 or 3 times and that is it.
Other thing you will do are races (awful) , fetch quests (meh) and all other usual things, if you played old school games you will be familiar with most of them.
The platforming feels good and the controls are responsive, it is not a hard game so I will not mention some minor flaws in that aspect.
Now the really bad stuff, so there are courses that you will have to complete in certain time limit but if you fall you can't restart them, to make things worse you will have to listen to dialogue when you retry the course. This is maybe my main issue, not being able to restart and listening to dialogue over and over is just annoying and kills momentum.
In one boss battle there is major stuttering and how that didn't get fixed is beyond me.
Occasionally the game will shift to 2.5D perspective and that was very poorly executed.
To progress the game you will have to take part in the quizzes, they were mostly easy for me but at the same time I think they shouldn't be in this game at all. I will stop here because there are more minor issues but I lied at the start when I said this is gonna be a short review :)
The music is also a mixed bag, some tracks are ok but others are not good and I hate when the music is intense while you are walking around the level....ufff
This is the game of 2 halves, the first 3 worlds are strong 4th world is awful ,5th is ok but with repetitive tasks and 6th world is just an annoying boss battle.
You might think I didn't like this game but I did, despite all the flaws (and there are many) I had a good time. I made a common mistake and listened to mainstream media, I dismissed this game. I can tell you right now, that it is not as bad as they say it is.
In the end the positives outweigh the negatives and I can recommend this game. Do I think it is worth the full price you ask...hell no! This game is bundled almost every month so buy it in a cheap bundle, you can't go wrong and who knows, you might like it like I did.
Steam User 3
This game is a lot of fun, I don't get the hate. It's a solid collectathon 3d platformer. I give it an 8/10