Yooka Laylee | The Completionist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2017
- Yooka Laylee, or Yooka-Laylee depending on how you type, has been something I've followed closely. A Yooka-Laylee review is one of the games I've been dreaming of, and dreading in case it fails to deliver upon my nostalgia. But I'm happy to say that Yooka Laylee are lovable characters, I'm in love with the soundtrack, and I hope my review does this game justice.
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About The Game:
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic!
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!
Using their arsenal of special moves, our heroes will tackle a huge variety of puzzles and platforming challenges in their search for Pagies, the golden bounty used to unlock - and expand - stunning new worlds, each jammed to the gills with oddball characters, hulking bosses, minecart challenges, arcade games, quiz shows, multiplayer games… and much more!
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Hopefully there's not gonna be a Yooka-laylee screws and nails
Jonathan Otero 😂😂😂Im dead
Elias Math I know right🙃
Jonathan Otero it's unlikely cause screws and nails is product of Microsoft taking over rare
Where you... what? Build fences?
Jonathan Otero
Did you know: in one of the trailers, they make fun of Microsoft for doing that to Banjo-Kazooie
BEAR!... I mean LIZARD!
BEARS with coke
You mean, BATS!!! Or CHAMELEONS!!!
no i just wanted to them make a reference to that
no you mean CAMELOEN
+Bram Grootveld no I spelt it right dumbass
I know this is late and most likely no one will ever read this but I got this game some time ago and it's the first game my daughter really enjoys playing and the joy she's having and the fun I have finally being able to help her play the hard parts is something I truly cherish.
I know it might be weird for others but I've always been a gamer so having a game for us to play together when she's still young is something I dreamt of since she was born.
That was very nice to read! I’m hoping to have that if I have kids some day!
awesome i hope it opened a world of video games for her
This is honesly the best review I've read for this game and alone makes me want to at least check it out with my son
That's so beautiful!
Try koop in Hat in Time. You can thanks me later
Twoka-Laylee
Yooka-Laylee: Screws and Nails
Yooka-Laylee: Capital B's Revenge
Yooka-Pilot
Yooka-Laylee revealed for smash
Kickstarter for Spiritual Succsessor of Yooka-Laylee
Yooka-Laylee revealed for Playstation All Stars
Metal Lukas your talking about drums-gutair
yooka laylee should be an echo fighter for banjo kazooie gfdjhgdfdjhgf
Have you picked up this game? If so, how does this game distinguish itself as an outlier in today's modern games? Seeing a 3D Platformer (minus any modern Mario game) is RARE (PUNS, just like the game)
cant wait for breath of the wild in 2 weeks!
That One Video Gamer can you please play this on super beard bros
pre ordered it on steam as soon as it was available, loving the game so far and i agree on the kid in you beeing unleashed, i picked up the controller and i played the pixelperfect platform precision like it was 1998 again, the great thing i do find about playing this game as a adult is that i get lost a lot less cause of the broad view you learn to develop as adult where i would get lost as a kid wandering endlessly in gruntildas hub xD
That One Video Gamer I wish I could play it :'(
That One Video Gamer, please do an JRPG like Persona 3-4-5, xenoblade chronicles, or Fallout(RPG) PLz. I beg of you if you have the time.
Thank you Jirard for stanidng up for this game and reiterating the reason for its existence in the first place. To revitalize industry interest in the 3d Platformer genre
Shesez
Boundary break on yooka lalyee when???
You're the man dude your content is great:D
Ratchet & Clank? Snake Pass? Mario 3D World? The platformer genre hasn't gone anywhere.
ratchet and clank is more of third person shooter with platforming elements. Snake pass is more of a 3d puzzler. and mario is always the exception
Shesez Agreed with this. It's like using dark souls and bloodbourne as an example of the character action genre not being on the verge of dying
Finally one person who doesn't completely hate the game
Sam People hate this game? Ouch, but I love Yooka Laylee. Even as a person who has been a fan of Rareware for a long time.
I don't hate on it, but it feels off from titles like Banjo. But not every game can be the next banjo-kazooie
@@kacpercicharski3431 it gets boring after a while that's it for me
I still 100% it...
So the voices would stop
Hbomberguy loves it to bits
Yeah. It's a solid 3d platformer, not as good as hat in time, but still very enjoyable.
The Switch version of the game is being made in-house at Playtonic, actually!
Mars || Yep, just like the PC version was! Glad I changed my Wii U version to the Switch one. My laptop is old and probably won't run the game too well. I'm confident the Switch version will be just as smooth as the PC one.
Spaceman Spiff Same for me. I'm hoping that they nail it! :D
Mars oh, thank god. I was certainly gonna pick this game up when i got a switch, but when he said the ports were handled by a different company and had issues, that made me want to pick uo the pc version although my pc isn't that good. It's good to hear that they're taking extra care with the switch version, nintendo needs as many good games on the system as they can get
Mars I REALLY hope that there is a physical version on the Switch!
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Ya'll give me something to look forward to every Friday afternoon. Thank you.
Thanks Game Taco!
its Saturday morning from where i live when he upload a video
also i will eat you
So are you a taco that plays games, a game that eats tacos, or a game about tacos? I’m very confused
Oh shoot, my boy Weegee?
"Absolute Nostalgic Perfection" yes, yes, yeeeesss. I adored this game, it reminded me so much of Banjo and my childhood. I nostalgia-loved it too.
Now when are we getting "Bonker's Good Hair Day"
17:48 Kudos to the editor for cueing the music of Psychonauts' "milkman conspiracy" during this part of Jirard's argument, I actually let out an audible laugh at that!
I'm really liking the game but my problem with the stages is not that there's nothing to do in them, there's a lot to do, but the layout of the worlds are not that memorable to me. I could probably draw you a map of any Mario 64 or Banjo Kazooie stage from memory, but I get lost in Yooka Laylee a lot, and I feel like one of the reasons why is because the stages are too big. More, smaller stages would have been preferable to few large ones, at least to me.
James McDohl I'm having that problem too. But I feel that it'll be solved the further I get into the game. Just like the first time playing SM64, I'm sure that I had no idea what was going on in Thwomp's Fortress, but since I was so young and the game was one I revisited over time, I came to know it and memorize it. I'm sure that in time, I'll know every corner of Yooka Laylee just the same.
Alright, I'm in World 4 right now and I don't wanna brag here or anything, but I really never experienced any huge or noticable problems with the navigation. Sure, the levels aren't small, but as long as you always keep an eye on where you are, you should be fine. Especially World 2 and 3 have a lot of distinct characteristics and design choices that help keeping up with the orientation.
Honestly, I'm starting to believe that it isn't the worlds that are too big, but rather that you guys get WAY too easily lost.
The worlds are similar to Tooie to me.
James McDohl its definitely just the size in your case id say. ive memorized a lot of banjo levels too and of course I Know them better than the 3/4th of the original san andreas I also memorized lol
James McDohl ahhh you want a challenge huh, draw me grunty's jndustries from memory hahahah.
2022:
Microsoft: We just bought playtonic
this would be terrible...
2030:
Microsoft:We just bought the entire gaming publishers and industry
They’re on their way right now :/
i know i'm late to this joke, but this gave me a chuckle.
I wish the levels were more dense. They could've packed it in smaller so you're not roaming around a giant level. Banjo never made me feel like I had to travel somewhere because it was artfully dense.
Have you played banjo tooie
Well, the worlds were smaller because of hardware limitations, so they were more packed. Here, they probably got excited about the possibility to make huge worlds and so they were a bit too roomy. That's how I see it, anyway.
In Banjo Kazooie, the levels seemed the right size for me. I couldn't enjoy Tooie as much as the levels were way too big. That they were connected together made it confusing too.
terrydactyl land. did you forget about terrydactyl land?
Banjo Kazooie came out 22 years ago.
Personally I missed games like this from growing up. As a dad with two young kids it's very refreshing that new games like this are being made. Gives me hope that my kids will have something new to play that isn't CoD or just completely dumbed down. I will be gladly supporting this game
"It was as if I went into the past and met young me, and together we pressed start at the same time."
That is an amazing way to describe nostalgia, especially with a game like this. Awesome video as usual Jirard!
Trowzer Snake? Wow. That is just right there.
Late to the party, but catching up on old episodes. I had a great time with this game when it came out. I hope they make more someday. Keep on rockin Jirard!
can I just say that I really admire that Jirard (probably misspelled your name, sorry) admits he has his biases? because I find that really cool
Tpoops That's why cant take his Reviews Srsly
Then...you don't take ANY reviewer seriously?
Because all reviewers are biased. In fact, most of the "this game deserves a 9/10!!" enjoy the genre of game that the review is for.
The only way to get an unbiased review is if we had some robot with a "fun" algorithm to give a calculated score of a game.
Pretty much, yeah. Reviewers are humans, they gauge their score of a game based on how much they enjoyed it, that's how every reviewer works. There's some degree of expertise involved of course, and the more seasoned reviewers are generally more able to produce more objective viewpoints, but when you come right down to it, the only person you can trust on whether or not you will enjoy a game is yourself.
I know there's plenty of games that suffered low review scores, that I still had plenty of fun with regardless.
The reviews honestly shocked me. I was utterly surprised by the amount of critics citing how dated it felt and how it felt to much like a 90's platformer. I dont get how they expected this to redefine the genre. Playtonics made it very clear what there goal was and that was bringing a Banjo Kazooie spiritual successor to the modern consoles and I'd say they accomplished there goal. It has the charm, humor, and collecting I grew to love about 90's platformes.
That does not excuse leaving in some of the worst aspects of the genre in.
Yes but that doesn't mean that the flaws of the genre from 17 years ago shouldn't be refined and improved upon. I'm not saying that every game should be flawless but when a game is suffering from the same issues that games like it were two decades ago then you have to ask "Is being so faithful to nostalgia actually becoming detrimental to the end product?"
Irkaylub well here's the thing. this game was made for banjo kazoiee fans and thats about it. everyone else that plays modern games of today will have issue with it because of maybe the genre or gameplay design that has been abanded since the early 2000s. its just the signs of the times. hopefully in the sequel it will have modern gameplay design choices in order to appeal to a wider audience. but as it stands now its a game made for banjo kazoiee fans and nintendo fans as well I think.
People: We want an old timey collectable from the 90s!
People: EWW! OUTDATED MECHANICS FROM A COLLECTABLE FROM THE 90S? GET AWAY! EWW!
"Not a game journalist"
Well yea, you possess credibility as an actual gamer.
DAE game journalists bad????
OOOOOHHHH
So we're all gonna gloss over the fact that there's literally a character in this game called Trouser Snake?
Okay.
Lmao
That went over my head. Can't unsee anymore!
Back in the days of Rare they snuck in innuendos. In Banjo Tooie for example, the bar in Jolly Roger's Lagoon had a chalkboard with things on it.
"Seaman's Surprise", " Toad in the Hole" etc. Jolly seemed quite flamboyant as well.
Just call him Toothy Penis
@@franzpattison this is how I will be referring to snakes from now on
@@themastertuck Hahaha
in before Jirard fixes the typo. "Threei" He meant Threeie.
done haha.
Can't get away with anything can I?
Just Miles Oh yeah. I didn't notice that. That's kind of funny actually.
That One Video Gamer yeah but what about banjo kazooie nuts and bolts 🔩
*gasp*
I love you Jirard
But Beardman what about Banjo-Kazooie Nut & Bolts
Fries101Reviews Or Kinect Sports 2? Seriously though, I'm eager too see if he'll review Nuts & Bolts sometime soon.
The game that is not a collectathon and even makes fun of the genre? What about it?
Fries101Reviews The best game of all time, obviously
Seven Vile Eyes Is too a collectathon. It's just a very redundant Banjo game and trolls it's fans in the opening. It's actually a pretty great game once you give it a go.
Fries101Reviews fuck that game was trash
I picked the game up because of this review, and I agree with most of this video, as the game is one of the better collectathons I've played in recent years. So thank you!
I just played this game for the first time, and...honestly, I loved it. Most controversial opinion: I like it better than Banjo-Tooie, which I also just beat for the first time recently. My only major complaints were, flying was difficult to control with any sort of precision, and the Kartos segments were more difficult to control than similar DKC ones, which made no sense to me. But I put 24 hours into the game, found every collectable, and would definitely play another 3D platformer with these characters. And I’m REALLY excited to play Impossible Lair now! Also, Capital B is the best and made me laugh a lot.
It's the Jontron filthy fanboys who are running around every page in the internet saying it's bad.
Oh this game mops the floor with Banjo-Tooie. That is a downright bad game in many ways honestly, and is egregiously tedious. People always critique DK64, but half of that game doesn't comprise of "walk to this area, activate thing and/or transform, walk to another area to do something similar, get reward." That's literally half the game. You're just walking from one point to another with no platforming at all in between.
This game was great. Almost on par with Banjo-Kazooie for me. Better in some ways too, but I do think the camera issues and sometimes finicky controls (rolling, flying) left me wishing it was a tiny bit more polished.
And did you ever play Impossible Lair? Now THAT game is a masterpiece!
@@IonSquared I did, and I LOVED it! It was so good!!
BEARS! BATS!
*GOLODEN BATS!*
B
STAB!
Bryan Adler LIZARDS!
What if they actually made the game slow on XBONE on purpose as an attack at Microsoft?
WOKE
ygsr xbone version got fixed recently.
I'm more surprised they even made an xbone port at all.
I love how smug Kazooie and Laylee are and I love how Banjo and Yooka are very different
And I want a green Banjo and purple Kazooie skin for smash bros as a nod to this game
If they made banjos shorts and backpack black, it could be grunty.
Maybe make Banjos backpack and shorts orange?
There is but it's a grunty skin
in 2019 this still brings a tear to my eye, love this game so much
Opinions: *exist
Internet: "Wait that's illegal"
Of course I'm just kidding
Yooka-Laylee was so much fun! I'm so excited for the semi-spinoff sequel!
Here is another point that... points towards the plot being a bit of a parallel to Rare/Playtonic's history:
Those camera minions that you can see everywhere (or at least the one in the Toybox demo) is called *Inept*, which is very close to Microsoft's own *Kinekt*.
Also Microsoft had their very own "B" that was associated with a different kind of capital (letters, to be specific) at times: Steve *B*allmer, who was the CEO of Microsoft when Rare was bought out.
Bright Spark May I pick up my jaw from the floor?
you sir are a celestial ethereal outside thinker.
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
Bright Spark
I actually really like this game. If you still enjoy Banjo Kazooie these days, you'd probably like this game too. I love exploring the big worlds and listening to the game's amazing soundtrack.
Confusing level design? Not really, just pay attention to where you're going and you'll be fine. Bad camera? Ive had no issues with it whatsoever. Ugly graphics? Are you and I playing the same game? The game looks charmingly beautiful imo.
even on all platforms it looks beautiful
Which console did you play it on?
I played it on max settings on my pc
i played them on all and aside from the PC having a higher frame rate the consoles are still perfectly fine and run at an acceptable frame rate for me
Etterbeer Juh The soundtrack is indeed amazing, I think it's the best the game has to offer.
this feels like a “Defend It” video more than a completionist review
This is such an underrated game
Love it or hate it
It's everything they promised.
Nate M exactly
Like the Wii U version... oh wait.
touché
Minus JonTron
Tell that to JonTron Fans
LIZARDS! I remember "BEARS!"...
I miss him...
TheKenchanx What happend to him?
he wasn't funny and he got greedy and wanted more control and/or money within the show and jirard declined so he left
Get your baseless rumors here!
He left because of some kind of business conflict with Jirard. Depending on who you talk to either Jirard started undercutting him, or he got greedy, or they had been on the rocks for a while. The whole thing is wrapped up in NDA's and so we'll probably never get the full story from a credible source.
I can't believe this video is already four years old.
As someone who's played this game myself, I really don't understand all the hate?
Yeah I agree, it doesnt deserve the hate it gets. ThoI feel like people who didn't play Banjo back in the day wont have the same appreciation as those who did.
as a person whos also played the game i don't understand the people who try to defend it. its such lackluster crap.
@@brya9681 well everyone has their opinions, i really enjoyed it but the controlls/camera was really buggy and i hated the arcade games. but other than that i enjoyed it a lot
bryan augustus Well ouch. Even I don’t get why you think it’s lackluster.
@@brya9681 No one asked for your opinion,shut up
17:35 Game Theory: How many beehives does Microsoft have.
only the hiveminded fanbase
Banjo Threeie: Don't Sue Us Edition!
That honest trailer was good
Thanks to Microsoft buying out Rare they also got the right to the Banjo Series, even though they haven't done shit with it for 11 years
I just played through this on Game Pass and was really pleasantly surprised. Is it perfect, no far from it, but if you like Mario, Banjo etc. you will likely like this too,
Just watching this review and seeing the level design, makes me want to get the game myself. I genuinely like the maps shown in the review they all look fun and colorful and I really miss games like that, you don't see them that often anymore. I'm also looking forward to A Hat In Time.
The game is incredibly rough around the edges but if this is what it takes to get another decent 3D collectathon platformer in a modern game industry, then fuck it lol. Despite it's flaws the game is actually pretty damn good. I'm not getting these "journalists" who are trying to paint this game as a Kermit Gosnell abortion.
I doubt most of the reviewers even like (3D) platformers. If the same reviewers give Mario Odessy a low score, then we'll know.
BOSS ROSS a hat in time is comng so
There are plenty other platformers that also give you more bang for your buck like the Lego games, Mario, and if you actually consider this game "rough around the edges" then the most recent Rachet and Clank would be a platforming masterpiece by your standards.
Those are big budget AAA games while Yooka Laylee is a middle market game with a way smaller budget and less resources. For what they had to work with, it's damn good. I just want more games like this along with all of those other platformers on the market.
***** not really. I actually believe I could make a better product than this game. I could even do it without 3 million.
I've thoroughly enjoyed this game so far. This game has been exactly what I've wanted. Maybe it's the nostalgia speaking...because I started tearing up just as Jirard did when I first started the game, but I've been loving the mini-characters with attitude. The occasional fourth-wall breaking has been nice, and I've just...enjoyed it. It made me feel like a kid playing Banjo on the N64 all over again. It made me so HAPPY.
Reading the various reviews online made me sad and worried, but I haven't encountered ANY problems with the game as others have described. Just as Jirard said, the big three issues that I've seen, too, are just bullshit. The levels are huge and thriving AND CAN EVEN EXPAND. The camera is natural and easy to manage. I've had no issues with frame-rate, and I have an outdated laptop for what I use to game.
This game is exactly what I wanted, and I would've funded more if I weren't so skeptical and weary of the kickstarter risk. Also, OF COURSE IT'S A COLLECT-A-THON; I just don't understand people who complain about this! At least it saves what you collect between deaths and level traveling. And, yeah, the casino level was fantastic. I agree that having slightly different basic enemies in the starting level would've been kinda nice, though.
This game is making me so happy, and I feel like a kid again. Nostalgia or not, I genuinely am loving this experience.
See I don't just trust Jirard's opinion because I believe he's infallible. I trust his opinion because he tackles games 100% of the way through against his will. While modern "journalist" scores are ever clouded by the fact that game reviewers are not allowed to pick and choose what games they play, they do have agency over how 'long' they play, and to how much content they specifically see, so they might get bored and stop halfway through without experiencing a game's major rewards or even its proper story.
Jirard is different. He has to slog through a game until absolutely EVERYTHING in it has been experienced ONCE. And he has no choice in that matter. If the game is going to be reviewed, it's 100% (or the closest approximation, barring Sonic Boom glitching) or he doesn't feature it. If this integrity was ever compromised, it would be the day I unsubscribe.
His scale isn't hard to figure out. Complete It: The game is worth 100%. Finish It: The completionist route is too tedious or unsatisfying, just beat the game and move on. Play It: Already reaching slogging levels just to get to the final boss, do what you can and stop guilt-free. Look At It: It'd be more entertaining watching someone else play, because at least the commentary might be more interesting. Donate/Burn (I personally prefer Skip It) It: There's nothing to redeem in this game. Even watching someone play is generally unentertaining; gameplay might be too simple or repetitive or broken to even make a fun commentary on.
If Jirard says a Complete It game was FUN, that should be the final word in it. Issues? Yeah, they're there. Slow open? Sure, but it picks up. Variety? Had to have been enough to not be a Finish It. If Jirard was happy with a game front to back, and never once felt like the "age" of anything like mechanics was a factor, then the game is worth playing. Like he said, make your own decision. Stop listening to reviewers. Play a game because you thought it would be like Banjo-Kazooie. And if you like it, don't be ashamed of liking it because some hack "journalist" doesn't agree with your opinion. Games are meant to be fun. If you had fun, the game did its job. You got your money's worth. We could spend hours trying to scrub the flaws out of a really great game (I personally prefer FF8 over 9 because of 9's flaws, but I still love both), but how much time do we spend talking about what made it FUN? How much time do we spend talking about the hours we WILLINGLY put into a game because it kept entertaining us? That's why I trust Jirard, because he KNOWS when he hits that point. He picks a game, starts playing, goes through doing everything he can, then rates the game pretty much based on what point it stops being fun to complete. Before 100%? Finish It. Before final level? Play It. Before anything meaningful happens? Look At It. Before he even finishes the tutorial? Donate It.
"Journalists" don't care. The moment the game gets too long for them to review the hundreds of other releases they have to do in their job, they put it down, never pick it up again, and write some shoddy review based on what they could recall and distinguish from the numerous other things blending together with the game of the week. Maybe they never unlocked the ability to fly. Maybe they didn't even expand the size of a single world. Maybe they choked on their review copy's problems so hard to get that 'super edgy early access coverage(tm)' they didn't even bother to check if anything was fixed before setting it out the second the embargo lifts.
Long story short, I don't trust many reviews. I always form my own opinion and I appreciate how good Yooka Laylee has turned out as far as my expectations have lifted. And I always find myself agreeing with Jirard's opinion because I know he's probably spent more time with the game than I ever will. Heck, he'll probably 100% Yooka-Laylee twice more by the time his life ends. I would even send him Patreon money if it meant seeing him doing it on Super Beard Bros this time next year. But when a guy like Jirard knows very well what lies at the end and how tough it was to get there, I can trust the opinion of a guy who's made that effort.
Yeah but people tend to forget that. Jirad has to go for that 100 percent mark and that does effect his view on some games and can be more harsher towards games that don't have a completionist mindset in tow I do for the most part trust that he's giving his audience his honest opinion. I mean let's be honest it took a lot of guts for him to say that dark souls 1 sucks and it pist off a lot of people, which is why I think he pussy foots around a few things more but I don't ever feel like he's bullshitting me just being carefully worded some times.
It means incapable of being wrong or making mistakes
Antnj81 Did you just read the first sentence of Alterations comment and nothing else?
damn bro i came for the comments and didnt expect to end up reading an essay XD
Wow, really well thought out comment. Nice job 👍
I've re-watched this video a few times because I find your passion very inspiring. Thank you for all the hard work, Jirard!
I feel like I apply more to this one video gamer than pretty much the rest of the internet, and that makes me very happy.
Checked Metacritic: Critic reviews 17 positive reviews, 6 mix reviews and 1 bad review. User reviews: 37 positive reviews, 2 mixed reviews and 8 bad reviews.. Steam user reviews: 789 positive reviews and 145 bad reviews. I'm pretty sure the game is getting positive reviews but people with mixed opinions are making seem like it's a horrible game that's broken and unplayable.
I think people will pick it up when a price drops but won't pick it up right away at full price because it's not 8's 9's or 10 out 10.
no the people giving it high scores would give it a high score even if it were unplayable trash, because "it's banjo-threeie!! muh nostalgia!! XDD pagie rap"
+Antiform So you are saying that they should give the game a negative review even though they genuinely enjoyed it? Nostalgia is a valid factor to consider when valuing a game. If a technically bad game provides me with nostalgia and therefore makes me enjoy it then it's just as relevant as any other factor that increases my enjoyment. Is a bad game that I enjoy playing actually bad? You could argue that the game abuses the inherent nostalgia that comes from its mere existence. But the user reviews are just intended for people to express if they liked or disliked playing the game so it's not relevant to that discussion.
I want to establish that I haven't actually played this game nor do I have any nostalgia for the n64 platformers. I just found your opinion interesting.
I disagree with Antiform but he's right to some extent. Ive seen a review on metaritic give it a 10 and the person said they never played it.
Also seen a review say its the *worse political game ever made* ....and gave it 1/10. Buncha trolls eachway.
I'm pretty sure that's because the game seems like it does what it set out to do. Because IGN or some other publication claims it's outdated doesn't mean that it's bad. "Outdated" is bullshit. It's a style of game, and if you like it Yooka-Laylee is for you. I'm probably not getting anytime soon, not because it's "Outdated" but because I never liked the older 3d platformers in the first place.
Geckocalypse exactly, turn based combat is considered outdated, but i love turn based RPG (FF10 being my favourite). Outdated shouldn't be a complaint.
Just want to say, your review got me to buy this game and I am loving it. thanks for the recommendation.
I backed the game with 100 bucks and I absolutely love it. It was well worth my time 100%-ing it. 18:12 looks like our last pagies were the same one. That one was well hidden! I needed a little over 25 hours total. Also, you don't get the athlete tonic for the pirate treasure. I had the 15 tonics before getting the treasure. But I can't quite remember what unlocked the tonic. All in all, I share your passion :)
Well, you know what they say Jirard: You can't spell 'Ignorant' without IGN.
IGN didn't even give it a bad score. IGN posts some shitty reviews but at least look it up if you're going to call them out because for once they weren't the problem.
Too much water - IGN
Samuel Puffer hahahaha
Samuel Puffer want to hear a joke? Ign gave YL a 7/10. AC Unity got a 7.8/10. WTF
The 4 Mario Bros. GameStop gave it a 6
Thank you for this. Your review has been the first I've seen with the context I believe is needed. I'm feeling far more confident in my inevitable purchase.
I love you enthusiasm Jirard :) The fact you tell people to get their own opinion, is the most professional thing to tell anyone when it comes to any video game, movie, show, book, or music. Heck, just art in general! Be yourself my friend, that's how you become a true professional :)
Dude I love your channel. I've been binge watching all your episodes and using them as background noises to keep me sane (I usually rewind to see what I missed) and thank you so much for making these. Have a good night!
All I can think about is BEARS.
Nana-Kyoto I guess now it would be BATS!!
ziddyT9 *lizards
metaltom2003 *snakes
:'((((( Don't remind me,I was just forgetting all of it
It was a good gag, we'll never forget.
Thanks for vouching for Playtonic Jirard. I just completed the game a few minutes before watching this video myself, and I had an absolute blast. The game isn't perfect by any means, but it's definitely an excellent start for a new era of 3D platformers. Let Playtonic pave the way for a new chapter in this wonderful genre's life!
showing our support means we could possibly get more of these games in the future too. ;)
I don't want to see collectathons die out.
I was never a fan of 3D platformers, and I've never played any of the Rare games in my life, but it feels good to see how they scratched that itch for long term fans of that genre. Thanks as always for being you!
So glad I watched this!, I ignored other reviews and after seeing yours bought it, it's a joy, in fact, I'm loving it. Thanks!
Don't ever let other opinions blind your own. We are fans first, let's keep it that way. If you like a game that's more power to you everyone
JCaf 8 👏🖒
This needs more up votes. He's got the right idea
NordicThunder96 thank you
So when is the Super Beard Bros series of Yooka-Laylee coming?
Yes
after the 10th play though of mega man X duh.
The Thumbnail looks great, good job to who ever made it
Score reviews should be more like "Just have fun with it/10."
Is a number heavier than words?
Does it metaphorically weigh more?
Actually in some cases yes, the ratings systems have more decision-making power for the consumer than a person's "opinions". Go on Amazon and look for a few products and take note of how many "stars" each product has. Now, without actually reading any comments how inclined would you be to buy something that has consecutively received one or two stars over something that has four or five? You might feel more concerned spending your money on that product if so many people who already purchased and reviewed it said it was only as good as one star, whereas you would probably feel more confident purchasing a product that had consecutively met the consumers' expectations or even exceeded them enough to warrant four or five stars. Same could be said for the service industry. Would you rather go to a restaurant that has five stars or one that has only one star? Sure you could read or watch the reviewer's comments and opinions to have them explain why they loved or hated it, but at the end of the day, the rating they have for that product or service speaks more of the quality of the product overall, than a million people all giving their proverbial two cents on what they liked or disliked the most about it.
that sounds like some projared stuff
Yeah it's weird, it's different for everyone, some people think 5/10 is average (which I do) and some people think 7/10 is average, which I think is stupid.
warlockguy42 If you can only buy a few games a year a 7/10 is not gonna cut it. One would go for the 10's, 9's and 8's.
Surely it would be Yooka-LayThree.
Where's Yooka-Lay Tooie at?
Yooka-Laylee
Tooka-Laylee
Yooka-Laythree
Who's Tooka?
thazkid Who's Tooie?...
Banjo kazooie 2 is called Banjo Tooie, there you go.
As soon as laylee said "yooka is much better with his tongue, to be honest" in response to yooka being told to "get his rod out" I knew this game was great.
And reviews like this are why you have my subscription.
good to see someone not complain about this game
Been playing Yooka Laylee for the past few days and have been living the play. They are a good successor to Banjo Kazooie and I hope the lizard and bat will have more adventures and convince Microsoft to try to bring Banjo back or even release them.
I absolutely love this game. I’m a huge fan of rare’s games, and I don’t see any reason to not continue loving this one. This was a great review!
Loved this review. Thank you for putting in to words, exactly how I felt as I played this game.
It's Playtonic, not Playtonics
he is saying it as "playtonic's" not "playtonics"
No. He literally says Playtonics countless times regardless of the context. To paraphrase: "They formed Playtonics games." Nice try.
Am I the only one who wants to see a professional mod of this game replacing the character models with banjo and kazooie just to feel like I'm playing a new banjo game
This is the best comment on the whole internet.
Give them a minute.
It'd be quite interesting to see Banjo extend his tongue to catch a butterfly
Maybe they will add a easter egg in that will have a new difficulty for that and add in some different moves possibly
somehow get the player models from Nuts & Bolts and swap the models out within the Unity Engine?
What i want from a sequel:
1: More levels. DK64 has 7 worlds with 25 golden collectibles each, and a special challenge world in the end. With Y-L it's only 5, but by adding as little as two worlds, the game would feel so much bigger.
2: Teleports like in Banjo-Tooie. They prevent you from getting lost, and makes travel quicker. Should also be in the hub.
3: Animal sounds in the music, and hubworld music remix when near a world entrance. Click Clock Woods had bee, frog and bird sounds for example.
4: Retire Rextro. No minigames. Kartos can return with better controls, but not Rextro.
5: No flappy flight. In Banjo, you needed a flight pad, and it consumed feathers. You couldn't just fly everywhere and skip every challenge.
6: Ghost writers. They are basically 1/5 of a pagie. How about they instead fill out transparent blocks in the world, allowing access to new areas?
7: Place quills in better places. These collectibles shouldn't be hidden, they should encourage exploration. If you see quills along a path, you know you haven't gone there yet.
8: Better transformations. Even in the Banjo games they usually have less jump height and speed, have worse or sometimes no attacks, and are only used to open gates, go in small holes or getting characters to like you. For the Y-L transformations, i actually like the ship and the helicopter, but not the other three.
9: Ditch the voices in favour of real voice acting. The voices are nostalgic for sure, but annoying for first-timers and after a while even for fans like me.
10: A more varied hubworld. Hivory Towers is basically an office building with books in random places.
Levels should be more condensed too
I loved the Banjo games, and this brings me right back to those days growing up. I just love your enthusiasm for the game, it's amazing!
I agree with you Jirard! I've backed this game from the first whispers of the kickstarter. It's an amazing throwback to the 'good old days'. Great review!
It's not Shovel Knight but it's not Mighty Number 9 it's just somewhere in the middle
WEISS SCHNEE fair enough
But Shovel Knight is in the game.
WEISS SCHNEE
Yes exactly.
The Sky High Video Gamer
If only that were a symbol of Quality.
Then the Zelda CDI Games would be good.
It's just Mighty Knight Meh
It's 2019 I just picked up this game on a Steam Sale. Honestly it's pretty good. I don't think it stands up to the lofty heights of the legends in the genre but it seems fun and well made to me.
I agree with a lot of your points. most of them in fact. however the argument with frame drops against BotW make more sense than you make it out to be. in platformers those frame drops make a difference, could lead you to miss a jump and have to respawn and try it all over again and what not. but with Zelda I found that most frame drops were in transitioning areas or at least not in important platforming or fighting segments so the frame drops in zelda werent as adverse as the ones in YookaLaylee
I'm still waiting for the Switch version.
Jumpmon me too man... me too.
Unity game,,..on switch. dont hold your breath, its a nightmare of epic proportions that even competant devs have not yet delivered on . ( see Hollow Knight _ )
Jumpmon me to
Jumpmon Why?It won't get any better.
Link,Hero of Dank Maybe the issues some have won't bug him?
Jirard after seeing all of the negative reviews about this game before I was able to play it I was almost heartbroken because I've been so stoked about it since its announcement. I finally started playing yesterday and I wasn't sure if I was genuinely enjoying it or forcing myself to because of the hype around it but it makes me so glad to hear that other Banjo Kazooie fans are enjoying this game! It's so much fun! People will literally complain about anything new these days :/
I don't even bother reading reviews before buying games anymore. I stopped after reading the review for Silent Hill HD collection. Every bit of it was nothing but nitpicking and they reviewed the unpatched ps3 version. Some nitpicks were the trophy/achievement pop up ruining the moment which they could very easily turn off, multiple sound bugs which had been fixed already in the patched 360 version and the only one I every encountered was the firing sound for the unlimited submachine gun and the new voice acting which they complained about in the original version. Even fans, because of the review, hated the hd version and some won't acknowledge its existence.
Tom Weber Take this as a lesson to take most reviews with a grain of salt.
Most reviews I see for most games are garbage. It doesn't matter if the game in question is being praised or criticised, the actual reviews are normally so vague that I find it hard to believe they played the game.
I don't generally read reviews necessarilly, but before I was able to play the game I just heard some things on the internet that it wasn't great and, idk if you watch dunkey, but he made a video nd said it wasn't good and that was painful to watch cause I was hoping he would like it too. But oh well. It's a good game and people are too nit pickey
dont you love how reviewers always ask for "innovation" except that when they actually get it they shit on it
I remembered another example. WWE 2k17. It got a 5 or 6.5 I don't remember which. There is no doubt in my mind that the reviewers never even touched the game. They said the controls were clunky and the character movement was sluggish. Both claims are 100% false. The controls are precise and the movement is fluid. I had no issues neither did my friend. They said matches felt like battles of attrition and the bigger superstar always won. Again wrong because my friend has always beaten me with smaller superstars with overalls lower than mine. They said the main characters look cartoony. That is far from the truth. If you're talking about CAWs then yeah they're bound to look like that. They said it was a downgrade from 2k16. No it's the complete opposite since 2k16 was a rehash of 2k15. I don't trust reviewers anymore.
you have inspired me to buy this and try it out. I'm super excited
Thanks for giving this game the love it deserves! I hope we get a sequel
OMG, I just love that *Beard Mode Unlocked* bit - So awesome!
...I want to be able to unlock beard mode too...
Bea Sallander one day, you'll have one too
It would be nice to have a surprise in store for my friends and family. *voilà beard mode*
Still waiting for the Switch version.
Still waiting for A Hat In Time.
Still waiting for Godot.
dude, half life 3 will come, we just gotta be a little patient!
/joke
Colby Heaton at least it looks like it's the best version.
So am I
This game looks so amazing ! I'm SO Happy Rare is back !
Them: yah were getting the gang together to make a n...
Me: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
6:28 That's eggs-actly why! I'm just assuming that was a happy accident. Haha
Hi Tim C:
>wants a late 90s style platformer game
>bitches about game feeling outdated
Robert Tousley That is wrong. Sly Racoon, Jak & Dexter, Rachet & Clank, even Mario 64 doesen‘t feel outdated when playing today....but Yooka-Laylee does....
Except Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank weren't deliberately made to mimic the style of N64 platformers... Also, by the standards of most people that call games "dated", Mario 64 is pretty damn "dated" in its own way (below average graphics even by N64 standards, barely 30fps framerate, an even more annoying camera than Yooka-Laylee had prior to the update, etc.)...
What I'm trying to say is that being "dated" (as in feeling like it was made 10-20 years ago), doesn't automatically make a game bad. If you no longer enjoy the style of games you played in your youth to the point that you can't even enjoy a new game made in that exact same style, it's not because "gaming has moved on", it's because *you* have moved on.
MabuseXX boy.....
Mario 64 feels terrible. Part of the reason watching speedruns of it is so impressive at least for me.
TwitchyWitchX It's not THAT bad. Aged, yes, the game has definitely has, it's outdated. Terrible? Imo that's a bit of an exaggeration.
@@VinnimonCinnimon if you look at the controls even compared to Mario sunshine it's pretty bad. One of my favourite games but it hasn't aged well at all. If you judged it against games today it is in fact terrible. But I love it so much and will never stop completing it.
This is why i subscribed to you. I feel 100% the exact same way, despite seeing every negative review on the game. This game was magic.
I’m definitely picking this and Impossible Lair.
It's not perfect but it's at least a good game. Unlike mighty number 9
Ze Great Pumpkinani really...
Agreed. Mighty No. 9 was Mediocre at best. It was fun, but could have been so much better.
People are angry with how Inafune handled the whole delays and rewards debacle; this makes the game seem worse than it really is. At the end he basically said 'Welp you guys got something" which further soured people's opinions.
Hi Jirard! Great video. Makes me happy to know you liked this game.
I wish I'd seen this 2 years ago!! Thank you, it's late, but definitely going out to find this game.
I started playing the game a few days ago, after dropping out of the moba mentioned in the video and while not being the best game I played, it is decent for what it is. I still have to beat it tough.
Amazing Vid!!!! Keep up the amazing work and keep fighting that good fight!
Thank you Jirard. I needed a single person to tell me that i won't hate this game because they think I only "liked" Banjo cause i was younger and "this genre didn't age well" and all this other overplayed journalistic bull crap. Most reviews I've seen were people complaining about the console ports i guess that means I'll get it on Steam now seeing that it's a near perfect experience. Seeing a single positive video for this game was enough to convince me that maybe i should just ignore all the negativity from modern game journalists and just play a game for myself and let it be my own experience.
I love Banjo and the older Rare games and that obviously bleeds through into this game but buzzwords like nostalgia and childhood shouldn't be the only factor on how people treat a game that is trying to bring back a lost genre of possibly some of the best games ever made.
I've been waiting for this game for quite a while now and I'm disappointed in myself for falling victim to negativity and almost just letting this game pass me by because I was told it's not worth my time. I look forward to playing it.
After Persona 5 that is.
You love 100+ hour JRPGs with multiple playthroughs right?
i wanna play the persona games so badly but they aren't on pc, there is one for 3ds but it looks like you're supposed to play p3 and p4 before pq.
And that my friend is a TRUE real gamer playing a game because you enjoy it and love it and not just because somebody say its good. Just like back in the day the games were about the experience and fun and not always about the grind or tedious gameplay especially cash grab games.
Maybe the video game industry as a whole wants non-Mario platformers to die? Maybe this is the collaboration of Nintendo and Microsoft to quash any interlopers in their collective success? I don't know.
Also, if you play this on PC, Please, please, PLEASE DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME WITH THE KEYBOARD! It gave me such a hard time that I put off my playthrough until I can somehow find a way to hook a controller up to my tower.
I haven't played it yet, but I don't see the problem with the game. Like you said, it's everything that they promised and more. Suddenly people are saying that it's bad for petty reasons that can easily be overlooked. 2 weeks ago I went to EGX, where they had the game on show and I went to see it and there was this guy who just looked in the window and shouted that his childhood was ruined. This left me heartbroken, so I stopped him and asked him what was wrong with the game and he couldn't give me a reply. He hadn't even played the game, but he passed it off as a bad game. I haven't player the game yet either, but I'm not going to give it judgement until I've experienced it myself. Something that I wish more people would do nowadays. I'm starting to lose faith in gaming and it's community. I've been aspiring to be a games designer for my entire life and if this is how people treat those who pour their hearts into a project primarily based on the game and not money, unlike so many companies nowadays, I don't know if I can bring myself to follow that dream anymore.
Upygoo if his childhood was ruined cuz of a game he didnt play, he has no childhood worth ruining.
Upygoo Thats my point. Almost all people in the gaming community seems to play games not for enjoyment and for their own personal taste but much more because it is a trend with so called Standards (which baffles me ) that goes straight to hypocrisy and false stand for what the game industry should do .
Big budget titles released in a very buggy state and needs a ton of patches . Gets praise even in it catastrophical form .Kickstarter game which is fully pledged and aims for a target group which are helping them to realise even if its buggy too but can be solved with patches too . Suddenly getting hate and harsh criticism because it is released buggy .
Being a veteran in game designing because you were in the golden age of gaming doesnt make you a perfect programmer at all because today is game designing much complexer than before .
This time a released game cant be so almost flawless designed from the beginning.
But not the communty alone is the problem of the gaming industry .Even the devs and publishers are guilty too .
And now thats the point where i think the gaming community turns into this mess of people which are getting easily turned up side down because of events that are so negative minimalistic or even has nothing to do with games at all that suddenly boycotting a game for the wrong reasons or defending a game because they dont like the opposition that says the truth about the problem of this piece of entertaiment software.
Especially in a society that tends more into the post-truth thinking.
I refuse to buy it because they removed Jon Tron's voice just because of his political views. It doesn't matter how stupid his political views are, the only way to counteract the stupid bitching of regressive left is to deny my business to people who do everything they yell about.
Upygoo poor controls cannot be overlooked
For what? The rolling? Sure, but that's not the whole game.
you made me want to play this game. thank you for that. first I did not really wanted to give this game a try because of all thous bad reviews. but now I actually really excited again for this game.
You made me want this game. Thank you. I love banjo
The game is fine. I didn't personally enjoy it, but I can see why others did. The original Banjo Kazooie is my personal favourite game of all time so I was very exited for this, but it didn't feel like Banjo to me. That's most due to the level design, the original Banjo was a compact fun collectathon, but Yooka makes you wait much longer in between it's meaningful content. In saying that, the way you move around levels is perfect, and so is most of the sound design.
Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you played Banjo Kazooie before playing Yooka Laylee?
I just want to say that thiz isnt trying to be a banjo kazooie at all but instead bring back that ERA of games