This video was a lot harder to put together than usual. On top of experimenting with lighting and audio for the on-camera parts, I also had to deal with corrupted video files, the Shadowplay record button in most of the clips, and the trouble of tracking down the Toybox demo (I didn’t actually get any viruses, that was a joke). But let me know what you think of it! Had some trouble with the audio in the on-camera stuff. I bought a lav mic but it sounds terrible, so I thought I’d try with my new XLR mic, but I’m not super impressed with this set up.

I love re-reviews like this, because a lot can change in a game after launch. Great new video setup!

The pants joke didn't mean "ha ha pants", it was a reference to anthropomorphic characters normally not wearing them.

During the boss fight with Rambo you can stand still on the ramp while being in the rolling position, you don't have to be in constant movement. That is never explained but makes the fight a piece of cake

Just started giving this one a try this year due to the bad reviews. For what is considered "the most dissapointing next gen platformer" I sure found myself playing and enjoying it quite a bit. Saying that Yukalalee isn't as good as Banjo is about as helpful as saying Modern Warfare is worse than Goldeneye.

As a fan of Banjo Kazooie games, the weird noises everyone makes while talking sound completely normal to me.

I'm a Kickstarter backer who finally picked up my Yooka-Laylee GOG copy on Steam Deck. I was so happy to have this as one of the first games I played on it 😄 I think it takes until past the first world for things to click, but once they do you realize that this game is just a giant toy box laid out for your enjoyment. It made me feel like a kid again, where you played games just because they were there.. Not because of hype, or cutting tech, or a metacritic score.. but because it's FUN! I loved everything about Yooka-Laylee.. even the purposefully stupid quizzes!!

The invisibility power also lets you channel lasers to kill enemies or power up batteries. I thought it was one of the more functional powers

Just bought this game because its on sale for $10, seems pretty damn great so far.

I beat this game pre patch when it first came out and even then I enjoyed it a lot. I felt like a lot of the outrage was unjustified. I’m interested in replaying the game though with all the updates.

I love Yooka-Laylee so much, I've gotten a platinum trophy in it and I really hope another one comes out. Thanks for giving it another shot!

“I myself don’t like the Banjo-Kazooie styled jiberesh therefore I cannot understand why some people would like something I do not. Let me continue to drone on about and make.” That’s basically what you just said, yeah I paraphrased it a lot but that’s basically the gist of what you said.

Love this video, everything about it, just fantastic work man!!

As someone who first played this game after it was patched, this has set some things in perspective for me as I didn't realize how much the patch had changed. I feel I understand a bit more why so many people disliked it when it first came out, and also have more respect for the developers that went out of their way to fix so much after release. I really hope to see more games from them. With how much they've grown as a company and as developers, I'm sure a sequel could improve on an already pretty good game. We don't see enough of this kind of games anymore, so it's nice to see that are still developers out there that have passion for this genre.

Your detailed re-review and, may I mention your beard, are great! :) I've now played YL for a few hours. It's such a strange game.... lots of stuff is really annoying but it's also fun.

YO at @12:55 on his bookcase with the games etc. You aee 3 action figures. The one that's on the left that's black and yellow. WHAT IS THAT FROM?!? I ask cause I have it as well and i dont honestly remember.

Rare has come out to say they have had full control of their IPs the entire time.

I loved impossible lair and it made me think if this game is good maybe yooka laylee wasn’t as bad as I had thought so I also went back and yeah it’s not bad

Good video, subbed. I was curious after watching this if you ever reviewed pumpkin jack since thats another platformer i love and i saw you talked about it an upcoming games video and said you would review when it came out, but i cant seem to find it, do you plan on making a video about it someday?

I just bought this on sale for the switch for pennies. I was interested when it was announced, but went on to forget about it. I was quite suprised when I looked up reviews to hear it was poorly received. Good to hear opinion for it has improved.

23:02 Actually have a hypothesis that might explain this: They're former AAA-devs that were working in an indie environment for the first time which might have been a shake-up. They quite possibly also bought into their own hype as developers and the appeal of Banjo-esque games. Likewise, there might have been an element of...impatience on their end? They've been just as eager to release a Banjo-esque game as Banjo fans were to get one. This, I think, also explains why Impossible Lair managed to do better: • They had acclimated themselves to an Indie environment. • Yooka-Laylee's reception caused them to eat a bit of a humble pie, in a good way. • The game wasn't as direct a spiritual successor as Yooka was, and there wasn't automatic demand for it in the same way.

I’ve just bought it on PS4 I’m just starting world 3 the marshland one I love 3D platform games they were part of my childhood and I wish we saw more of them today instead of multiplayer games as service with no heart just designed to be on going cash cows.

Nicely done, i must give the game a try now👍🏻

now there's a remastered version coming, i hope you make a new video when it's out

Nice review! I really like your style! Especially how you poke fun at your own mistakes. I'll have to give the game a try when I get the chance.

I had a great time with Yooka Laylee right after its release and it really makes me sad to see everyone bashing it. It might not have met most people's expectations (doesn't apply to me) but it's definitely not a bad game! I hope that we'll get Tooka Laylee at some point ;) (a proper 3D platformer, not the Impossible Lair)

1:58-2:02: don't forget spyro. Plus it's five-year plan was up. As a side note: i hope it goes out with a big bang!!! It was good while it lasted.

I was one of the Kickstarter backers, it's the only Kickstarter I've ever donated to, I never understood the hate this game got. We backed a spiritual successor to banjo kazooie and we got a spiritual successor to banjo kazooie including all the jank associated with the genre and people complained that they literally got exactly what they were promised.

I love the quizzes. They're like the Gruntilda quiz game from Banjo Kazooie.

Free on epic games tomorrow! I originally played it on the ps4 but am looking forward to playing it with the patch. I want to 100 percent it for the first time! Good review, it was really interesting to listen to you talk about it

I played it on my Switch for a while, but then left it for other title. Thanks for motivating me to go back to play it

Huh never heard of unbox but it looks interesting!

I remember being so excited for this game when it came out. I got it, and I played it, and it almost brought me to tears to see how they continued Banjo and Kazooie's legacy. Since it's almost been 7 years since that happened, I now find myself looking at Yooka the same way I look at banjo. I think about the worlds and how I traveled them so much that they began to feel like home. I was surprised to see such negative reviews about the game. Granted, I got the game after the patch. I'm praying that we get a sequel

Bought this for 10 bucks recently and was wondering why I slept on it for so long but I guess it took a while to get good.

I had a lot of fun playing this game, yeah the karto parts were of the least enjoyable but on the other hand I hated the flying bonus areas of Spyro even more!! And everyone seemed to hate the casino stage which I enjoyed the most. With the new patch fixing to make things better I think the game is still underrated to this day. And at least you can turn the voice sounds off now.

I only played it when it came to the Switch later on in the year of its release, so maybe those initial problems had been fixed by then. But I liked it. My expectations were more level headed though, I think. I weren't expecting anything better than Banjo. Just a fun throwback, which is what I got. Found it hilarious that some like Stop Skeletons were proclaiming that 3D platformers were obsolete with its release, since later on in that year we got Hat in Time and Mario Odyssey to huge success. Whoops.

1:26 You may not know what to do with your hands, but I was surprised by how well-spoken you are, both in tone and cadence. It's a tricky art that I know I'll never master myself, but it seems it comes natural to you.

I just got this game, and im honestly in love with it. Alot of these design issues mentions are avlidable. You can easily get other pagies and leave the level to do other stuff instead. Kinda like in sm64. Some of the stars in each level can be left alone to speed up gameplay instead of constantly slowing down and struggling. All that aside, i cant wait to see where they go next.

Nice review. Impossible Lair is possibly the best 2D platformer I've played... need to go back to this one and give it another chance.

@Triple Eye Hi, grate video. At mark 11:00 you say, that you can not install earlier builds on steam, I just wanted to inform you, that is not true. There is a Web interface to the Steams Package Database where you can find all Package Numbers from all Kinds of Updates DLC and so on. With the Console in steam you can install every Version of a Game and go back, you will find plenty of tutorials about this topic. Hope that information will help you in future projects.

9:50 Yooka and Laylee also appeared in Demon Turf, in which Beebz has to speak in garble to communicate-very cute.

The Quizzes should of been put at the end like in the Banjo games

I’ll give it another go but I did try it a few times as I really wanted to like it but it just felt so lacking to me, not a patch on the charm and polish of BK, I think it needed a lot more time in the oven!

Just got the game on a massive sale, so even if I’m not crazy about it, it’ll still be worth the money.

Great video as well

I wish there was more direction in the game. I felt like it was a giant maze.

Unbox is awesome! Didn't finish it but it was a charming game.

8:00 Okay Mr. Krupp

Pants is a reference to an obscure Rareware game called "It's Mr. Pants"

Coming from a banjo fan in the 90s Yooka laylee is great

Games are allowed to do these things freely more and more but mainly Indie amd AA games mostly

Yooka Laylee was a great game. i really enjoyed it. nice little platforming collectathon.

Love this, thank you

Annual video throwing shade on Star Citizen when?

I don't understand how they screwed up the lighting so bad. When Yooka's in shadow his red parts don't turn shaded red, they just turn solid gray. Why.

I just got it on sale, and I can't put it down, its really good.

Nice Re-review! AND Right now the game is for free in the Epic Games Store! It's a steal *wink wink*

Yooka layley would be so much better if the worlds were just more condensed. It would have been entirely possible to just push them together more and make it ascend higher or add more buildings or something like banjo It feels daunting and even maybe impossible to find all of the “quills” in every level , until you get the tracker tonic. That is something banjo never suffered from because the levels felt like they all revolved around one big central area. Mumbos mountain. The pyramid in gobi desert. The Christmas tree in freeze easy. I really liked yooka layley but I think the massive levels take away from the design core that banjo is so famous for. And even though I did enjoy yooka layley more than the critics or your average fan. I do find it much less replayable than a banjo or Mario 64 with more centralized worlds

By far my worst complaint about the game is the bosses. Especially Capital Bee. You gotta go through 3-4 phases without healing once. Everything else is like a game where you can just turn your brain off (mostly, besides the minecart sections, the 4th/5th world's minecart sections were ass). Maybe that is a skill issue on my part but I did not have a good time trying to actually finish the game.

Great video! 👍 I think your beard would look great encrusted with my se men!

Great vid! But part of me wonders if there’s a better patch for the game that you’re using (just installed the new one on switch) Look, I really want to love this game, I’ve finished both Banjos about 6 times each, but this game plays so much worse than the n64 games. It still feels too floaty, attacking enemies feels like nothing when you can hit them, most of the combat is attacking and missing cause it doesn’t feel tight at all. The worlds are too big and the basic things you need to find are too convoluted to find or too hidden. Going back for the fourth time and each time I remember why I stopped playing. It just doesn’t feel good to play, Banjo is vastly superior in that aspect. So I think I’m finally giving up on finishing this one :/. Now impossible lair is a completely different story. It still feels a little floaty and jank, but it is a huge improvement over the first one.

Yes.

I learned the hard way overhyping for Smash Bros. Brawl

I never played the unpatched version, but I got it for $6 for ps4. I still didn't find the platforming particularly great, and the camera is okay but it sometimes doesn't go as high as I wish it would. Its still a lot of fun, I didn't want to put it down for the most part. But its not the kind of game I'd like to 100%: Rextro suggested I beat the high score for another Pagie and I said, yeah we're not gonna 100% this. The frustration threshold on this is not high.

YES

Those flaming sounds are the point - it’s just funny - because it’s so ridiculous lol

You should play The tower of monsters

hi, are you a fan of YOOKA-LAYLEE ?

I liked the voices and the "juvenile jokes" that's just the charm of the world, it's a vibe rather then a then them trying to be funny. I will say though that naming a entire character as "Kartos the God of Ore" is just dumb to me, it's just a flimsy tie-in gag.

I'm really nostalgic about the N64 era, and I still enjoy 3D plateform games a lot. I had a blast with Yooka-Laylee, it's a truly great game. I don't understand the backfire. It's not a masterpiece, it could have been better with better level design and more interesting objectives for the pages. It suffers from the competition of Super Mario Odyssey of course, but it's a great game nonetheless. It looks, sounds and plays fantastic. I think it's up there will the best platform games of the N64 era. It's better than DK 64 but not as good as the Banjo games or Mario 64, that doesn't make it a bad game.

Great video, but I hope you're leaving the overly self-deprecating comments out these days.

I am getting it NOW for $6 on PS4 (USA) 🤓

Free on epic rn

23:07 Not enough or bad Quality Assurance.

i remember hating this when it came out but im happy to hear its better. gonna give it anotrher go. also the bosses, Rare's DK 64 had some of the best boss fights ever and i wonder if thats what the idea was supposed to be. jack-in-box boss fight was soooo memorable

I absolutely loved the fane at launch and now. I don't over hype about anything and I'm usually very certain of the things I'm gonna like. It was everything I wanted it too be. Perfect ? No but a third babjo game that wasn't banjo but in a weird other dimension where it was made by playtonic not rare yes. I had a blast 100% the game gonna play it with my son in the future. I still haven't beaten Banjo tooie but one day.

I had no build up for this game. Just came off finishing Banjo-Tooie in late 2020 on my beloved n64 and bought a Switch. Got this game as I heard it was from old Rare developers and I enjoyed it muchly. I was surprised at how much it gets panned online, however I wasn’t around the scene when it originally released.

Yooka Laylee isn't anything like banjo kazooie and that was the problem. Yooka Laylee plays like a modern 3D collectathon platformer while banjo kazooie plays like an old ZX spectrum game. Banjo kazooie has much less emphasis on exploration and much more emphasis on gameplay execution and puzzle solving.

This video wreaks of insecurity. Enough with the self deprecating jokes.

5:35 does anyone else believe the rumour that JonTron was *tricked* into saying something r*cist?

Everyone seemed to jump the bandwagon. I actually loved it then and i love it now. The 3D platforming genre is back to stay and i give full credit to Yooka Laylee for reopening the floodgates to allow others through like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Ty The Tasmanian Tiger, Klonoa, and other games like it to come back. Back then, you had modern gamers who hated collectathons from the N64 era calling them dated. It was the old N64 fans who funded the game and made it possible.

I recently played the game too, and while I enjoyed my time and 100% it I wouldn't recommend it for not fans of the genre, the game is too bit for it's own good and goddamn that final boss is brutal.

I remember that time.. and JonTron fanboys all attacking the thought of this game

to bad their waset a level where yooka gets giant stomping all over the levels like in pyconouts Yooka Zilla should be a thing! XD

Honestly, I think Yooka gets a bad rap. I swear, most of the hate for it came from the fact that it "wasn't as good as Banjo", and everyone had massively inflated hopes for it because of who was making it, and that they specifically called it a "spiritual successor to Banjo Tooie." I feel like the game would have had a way better reception if they didn't mention Rare, or Banjo, and just made it as a completely unrelated standalone thing. Then again, it's kickstarter probably wouldn't have blown up, so who knows? Here's the funny thing. I'm not a fan of Banjo, but I actually enjoy Yooka Laylee. And I think I know why. The movement controls. The ol' N64 controls of Banjo 1 and 2, and Conker, always felt super clunky to me. At least, as someone that didn't play them back in the day. I played 'em eventually via emulation, and even again via Rare Replay on Xbox. But playing Yooka Laylee, I'm having quite a bit of fun just dicking around while I play. Yooka Laylee just feels really nice to control. Not to mention that you can do that attack-off-a-ledge to get extra distance thing that Donkey Kong Country did, and add to that the extra burst of distance you get from an air attack, and you get do some pretty neat things with just the jumping. And then there's the rolling thing you can do. I dunno, I don't think Banjo is bad. I never have. But I never really ENJOYED playing it. Meanwhile I'm over here playing Yooka Laylee, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. ____________________ Side note, this and A Hate in Time or some of my favorite 3D Platformers.

So Crash Bandicoot that also came at in 1996 the same year as Super Mario 64 doesn’t lay a foundations for platformers? Does that revolutionary game not count?

People were so blind of nostalgia for banjo they refused to see the good aspects of yooka

It's a good game indeed, but Banjo Kazooie had unique characters and enemies in each level, secrets, collectables that guided you, the quiz stage was enjoyable and you only do it once, and also no stamina bar. I replayed it yesterday and still felt like inside a fantasy world. Yooka Laylee is a very good game but doesn't have the charm that BK has (in my opinion, sorry if it's different than others :)

sony phoney

Dude that's not funny it's just irritating 14:25 get on with video.

I remember when the kickstarter was going around and there were three projects that launched almost at the same time which was FurFun, Kewpie Jazzy and Yooka Laylee. Seeing what Yooka Laylee turned out to be it's OK but that's about all that can be said for this game its just ok and nothing over that... I think that was the main issue when backers expected something a bit different rather than a game that almost copied Banjo or Spyro with very little creativity. To be honest i wish one of the other projects would have gone through instead.

doesn't have the banjo magic, looks large and empty and unpolished with ugly characters which is uncharacteristic of rare

I gotta say I am kinda disappointed... I love Banjo Kazooie, and was excited because of it to play Yooka Laylee, but I gotta say control are a BIG failure for it... Not really sure if it is only the switch version, but having worst control than that of N64 with so many years apart? It seems beautiful and will continue to play just because, but I have a bad feeling I might leave it without completing it...

You Clickbaited a great game, saying it was bad. Now you are clickbaiting again. Shame on you !

My opinion on the game hasn’t change. It’s a good game not great. Amazing if it was an indie but with the talent behind it, I was just disappointed. Most games have the issue that the idea is too big so the execution turns out bad. In Yookas case, the execution was great but too bad the ideas were bad lol

Shame this isn't a switch review

I was looking forward to this game’s so much before release but I had to cancel after what they did to Jon Tron. Looks like Playtonic had to learn, the hard way.

“SOME KZfaqr did voice acting” ok Mr. Big shot video game KZfaqr

Tried to give it a go recently and eh.....sooooo much damn textboxed that constantly interrupt the flow of the gameplay.....heck, let me find out on myself what which button does....also quite convoluted upgrade system with having to buy and unlock new abilities to be able to advance in the game.....like that one quest in world one where you first have to buy the ground stomp to open up the temple top windows and THEN you ALSO have to buy a shooting ability to participate in the shooting range.... Super Mario 64 showed hot it is done properly and that game is TWO decades older, minimal (and OPTIONAL!) explanations when you DECIDE YOURSELF to talk to an NPC AND all abilities of Mario unlocked right from the start. Dunno what the developers of this game were smoking, but it certainly was the wrong stuff..... ....also....STOP THE GIBBERISH VOICES, PLEASE! I'm STILL healing from "Okami"...that one is at least a great game, but uuungh, the gibberish there....At least you can turn those off...

I finally got around to 100% this over Christmas and Yooka-Laylee stands as a sort of monument to why the genre fell out of favour. It makes all the classic mistakes: Frustrating camera, confusing layout, weird difficulty spikes and uninspired busywork. There is a lot here I did like, glimpses into the greater potential it had, but the game is too often the killjoy with a badly designed mission that makes me question if it was ever play tested at all.