The first title of Playtonic Games & # 39 ;, Yooka-Laylee, paid tribute to the honor of the 3D platformers & # 39; 90s. That makes sense, considering many of the band members who have been working on the Banjo-Kazooie – but the sequential approach takes a very surprising approach. Yooka-Laylee and Impible Lair are tearing down the script, leaving 3D to deliver a focused, high-performance platform that feels like a winner for Donkey Kong Country (another member of the Playtonic game he's worked on). However, rather than relying too much on the illusion of the past, Yooka-Laylee and Impossible Lair created a 2D platform formula with all the right ways to deliver a fun and novel experience.
Yooka-Laylee and Impible Lair start with a bang. After graduating with a master's degree in education, the game dumps you into an unknown Implication Lair, a blast, a very difficult level that is overwhelmed by unpleasant obstacles and a boss fight that has no place to explore. You can start the game in the final stages, but unless you have unimaginable ability on 2D platforms, you'll fail before you know what's going on. While the feeling does little to instill confidence in what's to come, you drop the gauntlet to give you something to aspire to.
That experience sticks with you; the final stage is upon you all the time you play, just waiting for you to face the challenge again – you can try it anytime. But how can you overcome the hellscape obstacles Impible Lair presents? By completing the stages in the main game, you give yourself a chance to fight.
Yooka-Laylee and Impible Lair perform well in a 2D platform platform made of over 20 stages, and all you complete gives you an extra hit point when trying out Impible Lair. I love how this unique approach allows you to make a decision when you're ready for the final hurdle; You don't need to complete all stages to complete Impible Lair, but some of them are so smart and fun that you may want to keep playing.
From the level it has given you to blast deadly distractions to using it by swiping from different threads while skipping and skipping enemies, the variety in stages is impressive. While the whole obstacle course was exciting, my favorite was the offline level that required me to go to five different locations to complete the immediate challenges of finding the five gems.
Yooka and Laylee may dominate as one character, but their interactions are not spectacular. Like Mario and Joshi, they both work together in important ways. When you start a phase, you have both characters, as well as access to your complete skills set. But when you get hit, Laylee panics and then the plane goes off, leaving you without movies like your twirl jumping and butt stomp. You can bring them back by rushing Laylee down (or calling her iron), and this can add a fun risk to many levels. Every time Laylee ran away, I had to count whether the benefit of her skills was worth the risk of following her.
Laylee's skills are not required to complete the stages, but may be required for collectible achievements such as quill and coins. Quills are used as money in many cases, including buying tonic-modified modics, opening a chest somewhere, and buying clues from symptoms. In the meantime, coins are used to continue opening the map to allow you to access the next set of sections. I don't care about meeting in the game, but it is annoying that some levels have passed if you haven't found enough coins to reach the next place in the world. However, the thresholds for the required amount are still low, and I had to go back only to find the coins once I played.
Muscles are fun in-game cheat codes that transform the game in ways that can make levels easier, harder, or different. For example, one tone causes enemies to take extra action to destroy it, while another keeps Yooka from sinking in the snow. Based on how these tonics affect the difficulty, you earn double the amount you collect in that category. The pick I chose was to get 50% more saturation using a tone that gives the enemies an extra point, while using one that makes all the defeated enemies explode like a piano with extra collections.
Between stages, you explore 3D surface underground with an isometric camera. This is a rewarding experience, as simple explorations and small natural puzzles produce appropriate rewards such as extra quills, tonics, and other types of sections. Overcrowding also allows you to face the challenges of a single screen where you have to get creative to overcome the number of enemies. I've always been looking forward to these trick puzzles to solve them, such as the one with the enemy mimicking the movements you need to use to get you into a buzzsaw.
The section varies you open and offers additional coins (and score Impible Lair), but things are quite different from the time you first level. One version is flooding the whole thing, changing the water stage. Some of it spills the sticky material everywhere, making it extremely difficult to navigate – but also giving you the ability to climb tight walls and reach places you would never have before. While playing with the same technical standards, these versions feel as new as the new sections, and I loved the wonders they threw at me.
With tight rock controls and predictable design levels, I couldn't wait to see what awaits the chameleon / bat duo every time I step into a new place. Yooka-Laylee and Impible Lair are an excellent 2D platform with plenty of adventures for fans of this kind of youth and adults.
