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Ravenprose said:

I played Yooka Laylee for 3 or 4 hours when I got it for a few dollars on a Switch sale. It was fun but lost interest in it quickly. I should give it another go sometime. Same with Banjo 1.

A godamn map would be useful.

Game feels a touch generic.

Get Tinykin instead.

gamingeek said:

A godamn map would be useful.

Game feels a touch generic.

Get Tinykin instead.

It's more fun to draw your own map, old school style!

1080p will stick around for a while due to 4K being so resource intensive and so many people using laptops and tablets to view things. New 1080p monitors are ~ as common as 4K.

It's a shame Retro couldn't remake them. Though their two DKC games were way better.

So I went to the second world in Yooka Laylee.

As first it was all right, the new scenary and music was a more friendly introduction to the charms of the game.

Until it wasn't.

This game is Flawed as he'll, I don't get how play testers or the developers didn't realise the problems it has.

It comes off as a bland attempt by a less than average indie developer that fails on most points of what it's trying to achieve.

The level layout is terrible, they aren't segmented in any way. They are far too big, with far too little to do. It comes across as empty. The enemies are brainless. The move set tries to emulate basic Mario controls yet feel loose and ineffective.

There are also so many things unexplained, you see stuff you should be able to interact with, and yet seem inert with no description as to what to do or how to interact with them.

The levels are so big it becomes a chore, to the point of quitting mid play to go back to another area.

There's no map, no way to mark or return to a place you spotted before. No fast travel.

You can't even exit the level via the menu, you have to exit the whole game. Or travel miles back to the level entry point.

Even the hub world feels poorly laid out.

I can see this being confined to a Graveyard folder.on my switch menu.

gamingeek said:

So I went to the second world in Yooka Laylee.

As first it was all right, the new scenary and music was a more friendly introduction to the charms of the game.

Until it wasn't.

This game is Flawed as he'll, I don't get how play testers or the developers didn't realise the problems it has.

It comes off as a bland attempt by a less than average indie developer that fails on most points of what it's trying to achieve.

The level layout is terrible, they aren't segmented in any way. They are far too big, with far too little to do. It comes across as empty. The enemies are brainless. The move set tries to emulate basic Mario controls yet feel loose and ineffective.

There are also so many things unexplained, you see stuff you should be able to interact with, and yet seem inert with no description as to what to do or how to interact with them.

The levels are so big it becomes a chore, to the point of quitting mid play to go back to another area.

There's no map, no way to mark or return to a place you spotted before. No fast travel.

You can't even exit the level via the menu, you have to exit the whole game. Or travel miles back to the level entry point.

Even the hub world feels poorly laid out.

I can see this being confined to a Graveyard folder.on my switch menu.

Yeah, I think it was intentionally designed to be a 90s N64 platformer without the improvements to the genre that came later, which is both its charm and annoyance. Reading your post, I'm remembering now why I stopped playing. I intend to return to it someday, though.

gamingeek said:

You can't even exit the level via the menu, you have to exit the whole game. Or travel miles back to the level entry point.

You can exit a level with the menu by hitting the + and selecting "Return to Hub" while in a level.

Bought Mudrunner, as Snowrunner is still too expensive. Would buy Expeditons in a heartbeat if the Switch version didn't look like a DS game.