Yooka-Laylee Looks Like Pure PS4 Platforming Goodness

Looks great, so happy to see a project like this make a success of itself, when so many other games originating on KS seem to disappoint on a massive scale. Looking at you, Mighty No. 9 - this is how you do it.

Just wish T17 would have given us an explanation for Allison Road, too

Oooh yes, it's even got DKC-style minecart levels!

Backed it on kickstarter, so now just waiting for my copy. Looks amazing and a true successor to Banjo Kazooie, got to love the little joke at that series expense at the end 😃

I lol at the end: it'll probably have car sections by then

A couple of little bits of it look a little cheap but I don't think that'll take away from the gameplay. It's also a Kickstarter game so it has an excuse (I think), and it gives it a bit of that charm of those late 1990's and early 2000's 3D platformers. I love the genre and I reckon this looks like a great platformer. Will get it unless it turns out rubbish.

The hype is real, and I can't wait!

@adf86 Haha, love it. Never had an N64 of my own so never got round to playing the original Banjo and Kazooie games, so good to hear this captures so much of the charm from those days!

@get2sammyb sly Cooper thieves in time is a great game.one of the best game I ever play.we need more sly Cooper on ps4

@playstation1995 Agreed. More Sly Copper please Sony!

And this is why I backed it on Kickstarter. Glad to see that it's come a LONG way since the test footage!

I see how Playtonic is taking things from the original Donkey Kong Country game to improve the gameplay: Yooka's rolling is like Donkey standing on a rolling barrel, and the mine races are 2D-style like the original ones. The new footage looks honestly better than last time's footage and anyone can see that it's going to be a lot of fun to play. I hope it's a great success, they truly deserve it and I love this kind of games. Moreover, we Rare fans deserve some good old platforming after all this time, don't we? Super Mario 3D World and Ratchet & Clank are going to be a joke compared to Yooka-Laylee, so I hope Yooka-Laylee sales to be extremely high.

EDIT: The title should be: "Yooka-Laylee Looks Like Pure N64 Platforming Goodness".

But do they have the same personality that banjo and kazoo had?😂

@NomNom Hopefully they do. I love Banjo and Kazooie.

Looks great! Can't wait for this one! We need more of these type of games

Rare has been resurrected from the dead!

A new era begins with Yooka Laylee

@VanillaLake
It's got its work out out if it wants to top Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze though.

That is the one true platformer this generation. And dare I say might even be better than the originals. Idk, I love those too. Either way, that game deserves credit just like Yooka Laylee yet so few people have even played it or acknowledge its existence.

looks good fun and very nostalgic too - PlaystationAccess released a 10min video talking about this game and with the devs. Another game to slip to 2017 though - Seems Q1 could be expensive, Horizon:ZD, Yooka Laylee, ME:Andromeda (although can see that moving deeper into 2017...)

@Kidfried
???

I didn't expect anything. I wasn't talking about on this site I was talking about in general, even among those that own the system.

What do you take me for. I'm just having a casual conversation with a person I have known for some time and talk to regularly. "Expect". I didn't expect anything. Just stating a fact

@JaxonH

How does this compare to Tropical Freeze even? Which is a traditional 2D platformer (an amazingly good one at that).

YL is a 3D platformer......and it looks wonderful in this trailer, even the Playtonic logo is akin to something Rare would have created.

@sub12
It compares because both are modeled after Rare platformers.

Of course Yooka Laylee looks fantastic. I was simply pointing out the OTHER great Rare-modeled platformer. The one no one talks about.

Cannot wait for this definitely be getting day one.

@JaxonH I don't know what Tropical Freeze has to do with the topic, but I answer you. Tropical Freeze is excellent indeed, I never argued the contrary. It's quite evident that the new people that Retro hired for making it are really good, because Retro's previous game, Donkey Kong Country Returns, is rough and its design is quite poor. The lava world looks awful and most enemies are clearly uninspired.

What I mentioned are a few ideas that Playtonic borrowed from the original Donkey Kong Country game (made by Rare) and how they mix Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country elements in order to make something "Rare" that looks great and fresh, but classic at the same time.

@sub12 Actually, the logo is one of Klungo's potion bottles.

@VanillaLake
Lol maybe my initial comment was antagonistic or something, like I was challenging Yooka Laylee's pedigree and I just didn't realize.

I know you never argued to the contrary- I was just making discussion. It doesn't really have much to do with the topic, except for ppl talking about Rare-styled platformers, great or otherwise, and DKC TF is indeed a Rare modeled platformer that's great. You made a point to mention 2 platformers that will easily be out shadowed by this, so I figured I would mention one game that could proudly stand by its side, and as it happens is also a Rare-modeled platformer.

Just mindless chit chat.

@JaxonH That's cool.

Somthing fun for me anf my kid to play .

@BladeRider I hope there is a physical release for every version, it would help the game sell better. The box will be loved by kids and parents (and me!!).

@VanillaLake yeah I agree this game needs a physical copy.so everyone can buy it at retail.so they can have better sales

@Kidfried
Sorry. Seemed like I was being scolded. Whole lot of "lost in translation" on the Internet

Looks well made, alas, not my sort of game, so I'll pass. Always nice to see some diverse titles. Wii U owners should be particularly happy I'm guessing. A Mario type game that's not Mario. More characters for the next Brawl and Mario Kart, perhaps as well?