- Platform, Adventure, Indie, Action
Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet (and beat) an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of shiny collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka (the green one) and Laylee (the wisecracking bat with the big nose) embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B and his devious scheme to absorb all the world’s books… and convert them into pure profit!
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Resolved, epic, classical in form and plot-driven.
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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TheXboxHubRichard DobsonApr 20175/5 starsYooka-Laylee has done what everyone, developers and players, had hoped it to do and brought the 3D platformer kicking and screaming into gaming mainstream again, spearheading the revival.
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MonsterVineMichael ElliottApr 20175/5Yooka-Laylee is simply a great quality platformer with few technical issues, a distinct presentation and a wacky world to run around in.
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PushStartPlayDaniel PepperApr 201710/10Yooka-Laylee is the best 3D platformer since the N64.
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The JimquisitionJames Stephanie SterlingApr 20172/10Yooka-Laylee is a game out of time, clinging so desperately to past glories it doesn't seem to understand the Earth kept spinning after the N64 was discontinued. It's everything wrong about the formative years of 3D platforming and it somehow retained none of what made the genre's highlights endure. Yooka-Laylee is, in a word, rubbish.
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Words About GamesGary AlexanderApr 20172/10I really wanted to like Yooka-Laylee. I don’t. Instead of taking a beloved style of game and updating it for modern times (à la Doom last year), Playtonic essentially created a game that could have been from 1998 and released it in 2017. The result is a mess of poorly implemented game mechanics that the games industry fixed two decades ago.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Playtonic
- Publisher
- Team17
- Released
- April 11, 2017
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
- Perspective
- Third person
- Engine
- Unity, Wwise
- Time to beat
- 18 h completionist
IGDB rating 6.8/10 from 130 ratings.
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