Nitro Ant

@@Ivan-db3bf Rad Dude

NitroDude

Or VS match

Wait, you mean they're not the same guy?

Mmmmmmm

Who could it be

lol

Sooubic Kreollo Which video?

@@castleoffiction96 Either his Luigi's Mansion 3 review, or his Sonic and Mario at the Tokio 2020 Olympics review, i can't remember

@@AtlasTheMayor It was both.

I like Antdude a bit more.

Same here. :)

the money they got for their first game may have been high for a Kickstarter campaign, but if you look up how much games usually cost to make you see it was rather insufficient

Me too. I knew there would be more to Yooka-Laylee after the first game. I never played the first game, only the sequel so far. I’m proud they gave this new duo another chance, and I’m glad it paid off beautifully!! 🤩🤩

Yol Riin Lask No fun allowed huh?

When will 'Antrad VS Nitrodude' come out to see?

They need a game that one likes and the other hates, and they have to convince us to pick their side. That would be funny.

@@Keyfur91 not only funny but perfect

So like basically every game review collab video ever?

Have I got news for you

@@pretsal4955 basically all the ones from Caddicarus' old ones. there are some collabs that are not like that. Completionist and Scott the Woz comes to mind (I think I didn't actually watch the whole vid)

Design Doc your here?

Let's not forget the time Chibi Robo went 2D Platformer... actually I would rather forget that ever happened.

Well, there’s one thing Nitro Rad missed. Thank God he doesn’t know about the final challenge!

Agreed. I'm really happy that despite lukewarm feedback they got from the first game, they decided to try again in a different genre and is now getting a lot of praise and is really good. I'm loving this game myself.

The first game is a lot better than Mighty No 9 , man

Most people who played first Yooka Laylee thought it was great. It has 86% positive reviews on steam. It's just clickbaiters and stupid idiots who blindly listened to their bullshit who thought the game was bad.

It makes perfect sense. The first game came out, people didn't like it that much and no one was really interested in a follow up. Any semblence of interest people had in Yooka-Laylee had vanished by the time Impossible Lair came out. It doesn't matter that the game ended up being significantly better.

Not sure what time to day he was writing the script, but he sure made a lot of random comparisons like he was trying so hard not to compare the game to Tropical Freeze like most reviewers have.

@@mystycitty3118 I think the comparisons were appropiate and made sense, plus even if you still think he was "trying too hard" to no bring up more comparisons with the Donkey Kong Country games, it's still better than going the easy and obvious route like everybody else.

@@inendlesspain4724 Some comparisons were a bit of a stretch in my opinion like the one Niklas mentioned. Not trying to complain that "comparisons are bad m'kay?" though, because the game makes very obvious homages to several games.

It's neither. In Yoshi's Island you lose the level when Mario is flown away. So Laylee is more like a hitpoint, like Sonic's rings, but she's a character and there's only one of her, like Mario. And she gives you additional abilities, like the Kongs in DKCR and DKCTF or power-ups in SMB.

​@k-leb4671 So you mean it's both then.

I want Wario World 2 so baddddd

@@danceswithmetroids162 YES

yeah man. warioland deserves some recognition. especially warioland 4

Wario Land is such a good series and I really love Wario Master of Disguise, as well. A shame they're so underrated and forgotten

Wario Land The Shake Dimension was such an underrated gem, especially with the soundtrack

Thanks

Impossible lair also makes me want to give yooka laylee 1 a try as well. never played the first game.

@@gamerprince-tl5hg I can see why people weren't happy with it upon release, but with the recent patches and distance from controversy, I feel like I can appreciate what it does well more.

It's a classic gaming sequel example where the original provide the basis while the follow-up goes and build upon it. Improve on it even.

Same here! I did enjoy Yooka-Laylee the first time around, but hadn't played it a second time until impossible lair came out. I ended up enjoying it a lot more the second time around! Impossible Lair is still better though.

Even Speedwagon is surprised!

just like every other human being

Playtonic really deserves to live, they have a whole lot of staff from Rareware's glory days

well unlike the first Yooka-Laylee, Yooka Laylee and the impossible lair got a physical version on switch. One of the biggest criticisms of the first title was that it was download only. I'm hoping that it's lack of presence on the eshop charts simply means more people bought physical copies like I did. VGchartz didn't have sale numbers the last time I checked.

@@pgcroonerva3256 Well Limited Run Games did print physical copies of the Switch version of the original game if that means anything to you.

I checked on this regularly in the UK too and have never seen it in the top 20. Hope it sold ok :/ Because the game is brilliant and the team deserve a break!

Yeah. It's a solid 7.5/10, which is still better than most games that are released. (my opinion is that most games are average, 5/10 with some notably good and notably bad examples) I still really really enjoy the game.

That's the dangers of nostalgia, people get too fixated on "my childhood" and give themselves a negative bias towards anything that isn't "my childhood". People see a Banjo Kazooie inspired game with a character that is not banjo they immediately go "NOT BANJO NOT BANJO NOT BANJO" and dismiss it as "a bootleg clone" without even thinking. That's why this time it was smarter of Playtonic to make a game that while yes has DK inspirations is still its own original thing with its own identity so nostalgia goggles weren't so intrusive when people look at it.

@@dstinnettmusic definitely agree 7.5 feels like a good mark if Banjo Kazooie is like 9 or 10. It would have definitely been a 8 or more if it had better pacing or at least smaller condensed world's in my opinion.

@@elin111 nostalgia blindness can be very bad but with some games they really do still hold up well and I'm sure we can all agree banjo kazooie is a really good game. I just wish yooka laylee was rated on its own merit and not how good it is compared to another game because it's genuinely not that bad when you compare it to its self.

Yep; nostalgia is a double-edged sword in that respect. I wish people could play it for what it WAS not what it was supposed to BE.

I thought it was way better than the classics. Have you tried playing Banjo Kazooie again? It hasn't aged that well. Nostalgia can blind people

@@vsanz4758 Idk I played banjo kazooie a couple of years ago (2017 I think) after not having played it since I was a kid (and barely did anything in it other than just running around.) and I didn't find the game to feel dated at all. It felt like a well polished and fun game.

It got crucified, the hate bandwagon on that game was insane. It's inferior to Banjo absolutely, but it's not nearly as bad as low IQ youtubers make it out to be (not saying Nitrorad is one of those)

@@danceswithmetroids162I agree. If anything banjo is at least more novel, but yooka laylee is at least notable for evoking an era of gaming past in a time that was fully invested in other things

I agree that it wasn’t as bad as a lot of people made it out to be. My main problems were a couple of missions (that damned snowman mission, some ring based challenges, and collecting some of the feathers), the power gauge for every special move, the limitation to one tonic, and the slow dialogue with annoying, repetitive “voice acting”. Also, the minigames and minecart sections were pretty annoying. And for the record, I’m definitely not coming at this from being too nostalgic for Banjo-Kazooie or disliking 3D platformer/collectathons. I hadn’t played any of the Banjo-Kazooie games, but I loved the 3D Mario games, Spyro, Crash, A Hat in Time, and some B-grade platformers like Ty. From my perspective, Yooka-Laylee was flawed, but if at least you don’t look at it like a AAA platformer-collectathon and don’t keep your expectations too high, it’s pretty decent for the most part.

SO THEY’RE FINALLY HERE

I almost think the genre shift is done because it's quicker and easier to build a game than try to make another open world title. Also they probably realised that there was a reason the 3D collectathon format didn't carry on too much after the N64 days.

"they probably realised that there was a reason the 3D collectathon format didn't carry on" I hate this mindset so much. YookaLaylee did not fail because of its genre. Collect-a-thons can be excellent. YookaLaylee was a mediocre contribution to its genre.

they deserve to do good, they listened and improved, started to get their magic back of the old Rare days and that makes me happy

@@kevincmejia I agree! Any company that is willing to listen to it's fans feedback and tries to improve is worth giving a shot too.

If their output goes against what the suits at EA and Activision think gamers want, then i'm all for it.

Christian Roberts so did antdude. In fact antdude did it first.