Yooka-Laylee

Playtonic Games

Games I've Completed

This is a 3D platformer made by several of the same people that created the Banjo Kazooie games on the N64. It has the same humour and style, and I found it pretty funny. I particularly liked all of the characters.

You gain extra moves in each world by purchasing them from a spiv snake called Trowzer. Great pun. The moves themselves are great also, and really change how you play the game. Each time you get a new one, different sections of previous worlds will now be accessible to you.

I thought the different worlds were a bit too large, I would get lost in them quite often and not really know where I had explored and where the next collectable is. Maybe the smaller levels of the Banjo Kazooie games were due to memory constraints, but I remember them being much more manageable.

The final boss, a giant bee called Capital B, was particularly challenging. There are four stages to the boss fight, and the final one where he’s shooting missiles at you is very tricky.

I enjoyed the game a lot, I hope they make a sequel.