Revealed as a part of at present’s Guerrilla Collective presentation, Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee is returning for an encore on “PC and consoles” with Yooka-Replaylee, a glow-up for the 2017 indie unique that introduced again the Banjo spirit to the 3D platforming style.
As you’ll be able to see from the reveal trailer above, this remaster is not only a spit-polish within the visuals division, however will function quite a few gameplay tweaks and additions, together with a brand new world map, enhancements to current challenges, refinements to the duo’s moveset and the digicam, and Dave Smart and Grant Kirkhope’s music getting the complete orchestral rating remedy.
Playtonic says that this remaster marks “the end result of just about 10 years of Playtonic expertise together with an thrilling new starting for our favorite buddy-duo.”
“Yooka-Replaylee is the results of the expansion of the corporate, the issues now we have realized whereas engaged on different tasks in addition to the suggestions now we have taken on board because the unique launch.”
Let’s check out the complete listing of options as per the PR blurb, plus just a few screens:
Key Options:
• MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER – With an artwork and animations overhaul and enhanced efficiency and backbone, the favorite buddy duo has by no means seemed or moved higher.
• NEW AND IMPROVED CHALLENGES – Enhancements to current in-game challenges and lots of solely new challenges to find and undertake!
• NEW COLLECTIBLE CURRENCY – Capital B’s inept minions have dropped their hard-earned cash everywhere. Accumulate the official foreign money of the Hivory Towers to spend on video video games’ most beloved sentient merchandising machine.
• NAVIGATING THE WORLD – Now you will get misplaced within the sport, not on the planet! A brand-new world map and challenges tracker helps you understand the place you might be and what must be accomplished. Hooray!
• VENDI HAS PLENTY TO OFFER – Tonics are again with all new flavours! With the choice to equip a number of game-changing enhancements, you’ll be able to really customise your playstyle. And as if that wasn’t sufficient, Vendi has new traces of merchandise for the fashionable modern adventurer.
• REVISED CONTROLS & CAMERA – A brand new tweaked transfer set lets you mix strikes extra fluidly whereas the brand new digicam controls makes framing the motion a breeze.
• A DREAMY ORCHESTRAL SOUNDTRACK – The unique rating from famed online game composers Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and David Smart (Donkey Kong Nation) returns however as a superbly organized orchestral rating. Now severely, clear out these ears.
There is no phrase on an actual date simply but, and that nebulous “PC and consoles” can all the time be tricksy. Is Yooka-Replaylee coming to Change? We reached out and Playtonic gave us the next assertion:
“We’ve got nothing extra to announce at the moment, keep tuned for extra updates.”
So watch this area, then. Truthfully, we will not think about it will not be on Change, given the style and the workforce’s historic ties to Nintendo consoles, to not point out the 130 million+ Change house owners on the market. Maybe we’re a launch title for the Change successor (think about Trowzer getting his tongue round that), however both means Playtonic is holding shtum about platforms in the intervening time.
Whereas not good, we very a lot loved the unique sport and its trademark humour, which got here courtesy of the ex-Uncommon workers that make up the Playtonic workforce. Not solely does it seem like this remaster will sand off the unique’s tough edges and, hopefully, deliver it as much as the standard of its sequel, however the dev’s point out of “an thrilling new starting” suggests there could also be plans afoot for one thing past an enhanced model of an current sport.
Playtonic is internet hosting a Q&A session on its YouTube channel on Tuesday eleventh June, so we’ll possible study extra concerning the sport and what the workforce has in retailer for the longer term.
Trying ahead to revisiting Hivory Towers? Skipped the unique however just like the look of the enhancements right here? Or are you jonesing for some New-ka-Laylee? Tell us under.
