Did he not know that the devs specifically said that they are remaking some challenges and stuff not just making it look better

Not gonna lie this take is extremely cynical, the devs have stated that this is not just a remaster and they will be adding more to this than just better graphics, to assume that this is just a cash grab or whatever is extremely bad faith, Playtonic likely are well aware that Yooka-Laylee did not live up to most expectations and I like to think they will be addressing at least a chunk of the issues

I think Playtonic is doing a lot more work then a lot of us realize. They rushed Yooka-Laylee out way too early with the successor mindset. Impossible Lair maybe very DKC inspired but what made that game succeed critically was Playtonic's old successor mindset was thrown out the window and they actually made really good levels. The whole structure of the game was unique to the 2D platforming genre. Being able to access the final level at anytime. I loved how they reworked tonics where you'd just find them in the overworld for exploring and solving puzzles as well as being able to unlock new tonic slots. The sheer variety of them made the game super replayable and it really helped the completion aspect. It's been almost 5 years since Impossible Lair came out, and Playtonic now has a lot more employees now and a much higher budget from the minority stake. On the FAQ page on the Yooka-Replaylee steam page states, "Yooka-Replaylee is the culmination of almost 10 years of experience since we founded Playtonic way way back in 2015! We’ve taken on board all the community feedback as well as channelling everything we’ve learned while working on other projects to make this the definitive version of Yooka-Laylee. It’s more than a remaster!" They even made a Discord server to listen to feature requests. I find it real interesting that they didn't show any of the main worlds in the game and they did state that, "It's more then a remaster." I think there's a chance some areas of the game are getting revamped structurally. I think we will learn a lot more as we get to the latter half of this year.

The issues you are stating would not be at fault of the engine, and isnt a "Unity quirk".

Also I do agree that the backers should get the remaster for free, but saying the original Yooka laylee is broken and such, is kinda harsh to the devs who had barely over 1 million dollars to make the game. Which 1 million dollars for a 3d platformer is not a lot of money. They had a super small budget and I think we need to take that into consideration. Also they did fix the controls and camera for the original game with a patch so they did do that for those who got the original

This is incredibly cynical, and tbh I'm disappointed in the lack of critical thinking displayed in this video

tail end of 3d platformers? I feels like we're in the middle of this wave.

On the subject of the original Yooka-Laylee, I backed it expecting something that it ended up being, so I was satisfied. Not blind to its faults mind you, but it's not every game I replay immediately after completing it the first time. A lot of other people though, they seem to have expected something that it did _not_ end up being, and they were disappointed by that. Now, on the subject of the "remaster"... they've specifically said it will NOT be a remaster. Normally I'd scoff at that and dismiss it out of hand, but there was this old concept for the third Banjo that they may have decided to implement here: namely, the game purports to be the same, but significantly different things happen to make that not the case. Think "Termite Queen pops out of the titular Mumbo's Mountain" levels of different. If _that_ is what's going on here? I'd be down for it. If it's just a remake though? I don't tend to go for those when I already own the original, and in this case I do.

I love the game personally.

Hopefully it gets the New Super Lucky's Tale treatment, as i played them both for the achievements, and the original game was pretty boring, and felt very dated, so hopefully they do a similar thing with Yooka Laylee, as the Impossible Lair was a massive improvement, although it still has some issues.

Impossible lair was really good, I have faith that playtonic will fix the original, that interview the devs did basically was a “yeah this game wasn’t great but we fixed it” interview so I’ll definitely buy the game again.

Yeah, I’m glad that the comments are realizing that the uploader is just being cynical and not just taking his side for once. Skepticism is healthy. Pure cynism like this is damaging to the actual gaming outlook.

Yooka Laylee was Amazing ! It was like a modern N64 Rare game. They absolutely nailed it. I can't wait for the remaster (remake, reboot)

Don’t feel bad, at least you didn’t back Mighty No. 9. Like I did…

It really feels like he played for 10 minutes and based the entire game from that 10 minutes.

The game has a long way to go before it's anything great but I dont think its an impossible task to get the game to that level. The developers have said they're adjusting the world design and the challenges in the game, on top of the quality of life changes and other basic remastery stuff. If anything this remaster feels like a chance to correct their wrongs and that seems to be the angle its being approached from. But hey if it ends up being mid its not a huge loss really, it will still be an improvement

Despite the improved Graphics seen in the Trailer... Why waste Development Time for a Remaster when it could be used for a Sequel.

You may have Distaste to Playtonic because of the state Yooka-Laylee launched, but you should know that Playtonic redeemed itself with Yooka-Laylee The Impossible Lair, an amazing game and I have hope that this rework of the first game will make it good.

This video is too long just to say "I hate this game because it feels like things are too big for no reason and not much to do and this remaster won't fix it and I was suffering recording footage for this. And also the people that backed the game up should get a free key because I feel like they got a bad game."

You should really watch the interviews

I'm of two minds of the remake. As someone who DID back the original on Kickstarter, I recognize how flawed it is (one might even repeatedly say a "bad" game"), and if the purpose of a remake is to go back and redeem a project with promise, than I say its an ideal candidate On the other hand, a game with fundamentally bad design can't be saved by a remake, so at that point, you might as well forget it and try something new. Which begs the question... is Yooka Laylee's design bad? That's the question I wanted answered watching this video... And having finished it, I can now say I still don't know. The one criticism I agree with in terms of bad design is Trowser teaching you moves without a place to tutorialize them properly. But beyond that? Like... yeah, the game worlds just let you go off and explore. That's not bad design; that's a choice in how they want the player to approach it. Banjo gets lumped in with Mario 64 but they really do have different vibes. Is the exploration fun? Well, I don't think the size of the levels is the problem; rather the lack of interesting stuff. As you said, Banjo was tighter, and this does evoke Banjo-Tooie's levels in terms of scale but lacks the interconnectivity that made navigating those worlds interesting. The expansion element is a neat idea, but I feel like they should have been a bit more radical to really make the level feel new again. I think that particular idea was handled much better in their excellent follow-up "The Impossible Lair". And honestly, the quality of that game (not bound by kickstarted and simpler in scale) is one of two things that give me faith in Playtonic as a studio. The other is watching the developer commentary they made as they played through the original game. It was fascinating because you could see them constantly going over micro regrets about the design, much in the same way one may look back and cringe at some of our early writing. But the team did seem proud of their work and loved what they did, and that's what I felt as a player going through it. Janky and clunky, but coming from an earnest place. Which is all to say, as a backer, I don't necessarilly feel "owed" the "Re-Playlee". This also doesn't mean I'll go out and buy it sycophantically. If it comes out and gets better reviews, I would feel comfortable making the purchase. If not, I won't. Simple as that...

Ill buy It If they change a lot like the entirety of the snow level

I loved it

If I may play Devil's Advocate below: I liked Banjo Tooie, even a bit better than Banjo Kazooie Yes the worlds were large, but they also had warp pads for that very reason, and many worlds connected to each other in several ways. It made some quests unnecessarily complicated, but it also gave the impression of one cohesive world, better than the isolated worlds in Kazooie. The only world you could accuse of resembling Yooka-Laylee's worlds is Terrydactyland, due to needing to design around the T-Rex transformation. Yooka-Laylee's worlds were large like Tooie's, isolated like Kazooie's, had large lengths of open ground like Terrydactyland, and the fast travel mechanic with a (careful, this is a family game)ing stamina bar, something the Talon Trot never had. I hoped Yooka-Laylee would build on what Tooie introduced, instead we got the worst part of each game.

Impossible Lair was better.

Nothing review, slow-talker! I was scared people would blindly agree with him, I'm happy to see that as a sub 4k view review everyone is being honest! They said they'd grown as devs and saw things they wanted to change, the impossible lair was already dense with detail, far before they even conceived the remake. Excited to see what they do with the worlds!

I also dislike Yooka-Laylee, however, I think you don't like it just because you seem to be one of those people that "hates backtracking", Yooka Laylee is a bad game for many different reasons but a game having certain areas blocked because you need a specific move to gain access to them is not objectively bad design, that's the core principle of metroidvanias, Tooie has many metroidvania aspects which is why I l personally love it.

This video will undoubtedly be ratioed.

Nah fam.

Imo it wouldve served them better to get started on a sequel with the lessons theyve learned. But maybe they dont have the funding and dont want to ask for more money. I think they really had the best intentions and meant to make a great game and fulfill the promise but it just didnt work out that way

Very cynical, ill informed video that does not take into account anything that developers have spoken about.

Shovel Knight is a Kickstarter success that's doing a definitive re-release done right considering the original game was already great and got 4 games added on for free, as well as 2 spinoffs afterwards and is about to make the leap into 3D alongside the studio's new IP, Mina, coming soon, all of this in Yacht Club Game's first 10 years. Meanwhile Playtonic has made Yooka Laylee, a spin off, and Yooka Laylee again in their first 10 years while putting out other people's games to stay afloat.

I think banjo kazooie is better than mario 64 and i do think donkey kong 64 is good but really great when using tag anywhere lets you switch kongs at any time.

I agreed 100% with you... I Hope the devs make more than grafic

Stop stating your opinions as fact. Tooie is in my opinion a better game than banjo kazooie. It's one of those rare occations where a good game gets an even beter sequel.

I had a lot of fun with Yooka Laylee, and tbh the camera and controls didn't give me many major trouble, but I still think you hit the nail on the head saying that it feels more like a successor to Banjo Tooie, collectathons can just get kind of tedious once they pass a certain point of scope and ambition, and trying to 100% Yooka Laylee without an online walkthrough is a complete chore. I'd be very surprised if they actually changed the design of the levels for Yooka Replayee, because for the kind of budget and work that would take, they might as well just make a sequel, but I'd still be very happy if they did!

Imagine yaping for 24 minutes

Yooka-Laylee wasn't a bad game, this remake is really unnecessary though.

im someone who vastly prefers Banjo Tooie over Kazooie but the problem with yooka Laylee is less that it follows in Tooies footsteps and more that it does so with way less of the charm. Yooka just feels like one of those gaa station games youd get for like $5 and the absolute worst part of it is that i can tell I'd like the game if it had just a little more care put into it. Im cautiously optimistic about the remaster but i definitely will not get it until after the dust settles and reviews start coming in

Also the kickstarter said all dlc will be free for backers. And the kickstarter demo had a little secret you can find in the main game...which is a stupid loading bar joke.

im so glad im seeing more people come out and say that YL really isnt all that. the game came out at a time where nostalgia for BK was at its peak, and i think a lot of people are still craving those n64 era platformers without realizing there are SO many better options than YL now. if they dont overhaul the maps themselves to make the game feel more cohesive, then it wouldnt be worth even bothering to try to play the game again. i dont care about a minimap or better button bindings, those should be standard options in any platformer nowadays. what i want is an actually WELL DESIGNED game that doesnt build on the flawed aspects of BT but instead celebrates and recaptures the worlds and controls of BK. YL as a game in and of itself just needs an overhaul but id like to see the worlds themselves be fixed at the bare minimum

I just dunno how a grown man got 24 minutes out of not liking a children’s game and how he’ll probably not like a remaster of the game

The Thing about Yuka-Laylee is that There is Too much Everything

Ah yes, the famous "Banjo Kazooie was such a good game, but Yooka Laylee is very bad"' which blows my mind every time. Yooka Laylee is literally an HD and improved version of Banjo Kazooie with the same flaws and same qualities. This was precisely the goal of the Kickstarter.

I agree with you completely. Yooka Laylee is a dark spot in my catalogue, and I’d rather not have to see it again but it just keeps coming up. I was hoping to see a YL2 that fixes all the issues we had, but it’s disheartening to see this remake/remaster. I don’t know if they’re able to really tighten the controls up to what I would expect out of a modern 3D platformer, and I strongly doubt the world design will be much better. All I ask of them is to please look at Mario Odyssey’s example. Take more lessons from 3D Mario instead of trying to make it an adventure game.

So they’re wanting to remaster this, but they don’t want to remaster banjo Kazooie also what happened to them saying we don’t want to remaster or remake any of our games yet they’re doing it I don’t know what their thought process is

If I backed the game on kickstarter, I'd feel pretty soured too about this. Yooka-Laylee wasn't great and this seems more like them polishing the game (more) rather than a rerelease.

Good video! For the record, I love Banjo-Kazooie, so I was excited for Yooka-Laylee way back when, but, after playing it a few years ago...man, it doesn't even come close to some of the other 3D platformers even from back in the day! Why are they making Replaylee exactly!? This game needs more than just a few tweaks as it has fundamentally poor game design choices. I'd rather go back to play Banjo-Kazooie for the umpteenth time than touch this game again. If the game wasn't fun back then, it certainly won't be fun again no matter how much of a new coat of paint they splash on it. I just never understood how such a respected team from Rare forgot what actually constitutes good game design when they originally were making this game.

I really liked the original game it has to big worlds and to many pagies but thats about it

The sequel was better, but Yooka Laylee could have been good. Don't think I'll double dip on the remaster, TBH this could have been a patch.

And it's wierd

as far as the new features they're adding, frankIy they shouId've been in the originaI game (Iike a map are you serious) the controI fixes shouId've been a _patch_ to the originaI game to make it better and finaIIy, the new updated visuaIs, l can teII there is some effort but it Iooks Iike they just made it ULTRA BRIGHT, with a ton of god-rays everywhere (even during minuteIy cIoudy skys Imao) which Iook Iike such artificiaI adds, they don't Iook better just different

I agree with the whole YL thing. That game is bad. And I wanted to love it because of BK for the N64. But sorry BK beats Mario 64 everyday. Mario 64 is factually is not good. Mario is too slippery as Banjos controls are super tight and responsive.

It's a company that only sits around having other indie developers making shitty games for them. Ofcourse it's just a money grab of the loyal fanboys.

But it isn't a bad game. Wasn't exactly a great game or even a good game, but it wasn't bad. That said, a remaster for this game is nonsical. It doesn't need one.

Yooka Laylee has the same place in disappointments like Nuts and Bolts. I just dont like the Characters and lacking atmosphere Im sorry Playtonic.