You intrepid heroes battle windows, mumble, and collect feathers.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Yooka-Laylee
Webzone: YookaLaylee
Devel: Playtonic Games
Engine: Unity
Price: £34.99 / US$39.99 / CA$44.99
Wazzat: Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Venn:
Does It Launch
- You like windowed mode?
- Cause it launches in windowed mode no matter what.
- Have to fiddle with the screen resolution in-game to make it pop fullscreen.
- Every, singe, time.
Performance @ 1080
- It manages to hold 60 @ 1080, just.
Graphics
- I looks a lot better than I was expecting.
- Nice and bright with all the 3D models looking straight out of the 90’s.
- Even has a dancing save icon.
Control
- Quitting is an option.
- Seriously, quit is in the options menu.
- Even with the camera on manual it’s still a dick.
- When it comes to controls I won’t say floaty as FK but I will say floaty as FK’s second nephew.
- You can legitimately blame the controls for getting you killed to death.
- Sometimes the controls and camera do a tag-team and it’s DIAF city.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- Yup, although all of a sudden disabling vsync makes it really like my leftmost monitor
Performance @ 1080
- Holds 60 @ UHD
Graphics
- I mean, they’re pretty simple, but they get the job done
- Everything is colourful
Control
- OOTB with the dualshock 4 controller
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- It launches if you don’t exit the game in windowed mode.
- If you do, then I hope your GPU isn’t a GTX1080 with a max resolution of 32767×32767
- Because the game will do its goddamndest to render at that resolution and fail miserably
Performance @ 1080
- 60 FerPS at 1080 and 2160
Graphics
- Pretty and cell shaded
- Sounds get annoying after a bit
- And fuck that “voice acting”
Control
- The 8bitdo NES controller works ootb
- No rebindable controls in 2018 loses you another chair.
QA Score:
Fedora:
Soulless:
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Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- I’ve never not cared about something so hard in my life.
- Now don’t confuse that with hate, or even mild anger.
- It’s more of an extreme indifference if anything.
- By the time Banjo-Kazooie rolled out I had bought a Voodoo 1 and separated myself from the filthy console peasants.
- So what can i say?
- You run around and collect things to expand things that let you collect more things.
- The game.
- The worlds are mostly empty and the baddies are effectively the same providing more of an annoyance vs any real challenge.
- The puzzles are sometimes complicated, mainly due to being not so well designed.
- So coming from a zero nostalgia point of view you have a rather primitive collectathon with a paper thin story, slippery controls that does little more than remind me of what games did wrong.
- And if you say differently it’s because one of two things
- 1.Yooka-Laylee reminds you of a different time from the long long ago and good on it for being able to do that and you’re willing to overlook some of the shortcomings.
- 2. You still trying to justify paying $30 for the privilege.
- Jordan
- Its fucking banjo kazooie with the serial numbers filed off
- That’s not necessarily a bad thing
- It’s your bog standard 3d platformer. Run around, collect things, do some puzzles, n unlock powerups, do more puzzles, unlock more puzzles, rinse repeat
- There’s certainly a bunch of stuff to do
- The camera can EABOD sometimes, especially when you’re trying to line up a jump
- It’s a perfectly serviceable game, even if I had to mute the voice audio because it sounds like everyone is having super disappointing sex
- It’s a competently done platformer
- But it’s not $45 good
- Pedro
- Didn’t have an N64 or knew anyone with one.
- I have 0 nostalgia for this one.
- That said, it’s a game about collecting things just so you can unlock other areas to – you guessed it – collect more things.
- Back in the day, that was enough.
- Nowadays, the sole reward for doing one thing being more of that thing seems a bit meh.
- I would say this is a good game for a proto-human but after My Brother Rabbit and the Gardens Between, and how much those games did with much less, that argument seems a lot less poignant
- But hey! If you got it in that Bundle a while back, it was the perfect amount of money.
Fun Score:
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