Yooka-Laylee, the Banjo-Kazooie-inspired platform collect-’em-up from developer Playtonic Video games, is getting a little bit of a spruce-up for PC and unspecified consoles by means of a newly introduced (and dubiously named) remaster, Yooka-Replaylee.
The unique Yooka-Laylee launched again in 2017, garnering modest acclaim – Eurogamer known as it a “light, irreverent platformer let down by spotty dealing with and a slight scarcity of genius” – and was adopted by a far superior side-scrolling sequel, the Donkey Kong Nation-inspired Yooka-Laylee and the Not possible Lair, two years later.
Yooka-Replaylee, although, revisits the colorful if sometimes cumbersome unique with an eye fixed to sharpening issues up for a brand new technology of gamers. To that finish, Playtonic is implementing an improved digicam, revised controls, a world map, a challenges tracker, and extra.
There’s an expansive artwork and animation overhaul (behold that thick, luscious grass, for example), greater decision assist and efficiency enhancements, plus new and remixed challenges, a brand new collectible forex, recent secrets and techniques, and new accessibility choices. Yooka-Laylee’s unique soundtrack has additionally had a serious makeover, now offered in organized orchestral kind.
There is not any launch date for Yooka-Replaylee but, and no phrase on the consoles it is concentrating on, however Playtonic is holding a Q&A session “quickly”, so hopefully we are able to anticipate extra particulars then.