Lizard and bat superfriends Yooka and Laylee will return for his or her second retro-styled platforming journey on October eighth, builders Playtonic Games introduced this week. Following the Banjo-Kazooie-inspired 3D platforming of 2017’s Yooka-Laylee, they’re trying only a smidgen earlier (or maybe adjoining?) with Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair, a side-scrolling “2.5D” platformer with a top-down 3D overlord. History be damned, that is the current and the vital half is: the lizard and bat are nonetheless superfriends. You can see that within the new trailer beneath.
I like when completely different species are associates.
I’m curious how this one may prove. Dear Pip’s Yooka-Laylee review expressed frustration with how a lot it caught to the previous formulation, what number of irritating concepts it stored in as a result of that’s how issues have been again within the day. She did nonetheless discover it charming, thoughts. And having delivered on their preliminary Kickstarter promise for a Rare-style 3D platformer, they will now do regardless of the heck they please. Which may be to make an unashamedly 90s platformer, warts and all, or won’t. All I can inform is the lizard and bat are associates.
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is coming to Steam on October eighth, priced at £25/€30/$30. It’s made by Playtonic Games and printed by Crew17.
