Creating Yooka-Replaylee – Our Vision for a Truly Modern Mascot Platformer

About ten years in the past, a group of former Uncommon staff with a long time of mixed expertise engaged on a number of the most famed platformers banded collectively to type Playtonic with the shared imaginative and prescient to resurrect the 3D platformer. Yooka-Laylee was born out of this imaginative and prescient and now virtually a decade and a studio with over 60 staff later, now we have refined that imaginative and prescient and morphed it with our learnings working throughout different tasks and suggestions from our group to convey you Yooka-Replaylee, the definitive model of the 2017’s indie 3D mascot platformer darling. Staring the buddy duo of Yooka, the inexperienced one, and Laylee, the purple one, the epic open world journey is coming to Xbox Sequence X|S!

The makings of a nice mascot platformer begin with at least, nicely, memorable mascots, and Yooka-Replaylee has acquired simply that within the types of the heroic lime-inexperienced lizard Yooka and his wisecracking, now fluffy, purple companion Laylee the bat.

Collectively they go towards the comically villainous Capital B and meet a vibrant and assorted forged of characters alongside the way in which, some acquainted to followers of the IP and a few new ones like Coinelius the piggy financial institution and Mark the appropriately named bookmark who provides you instructions all through the sport. Even a number of the enemies you encounter have undergone a full makeover. The bees are fluffy now! Each character has been given a contemporary coat of paint and smoother animations to go together with it.

Whereas story of Yooka-Replaylee begins in Yooka and Laylee’s residence of Shipwreck Creek and swiftly strikes contained in the lair of the vicious capital B known as the Hivory Towers, a overwhelming majority of the sport takes place inside Grand Tomes, every with its distinctive overarching setting and ambiance.

Getting into the world of Yooka-Replaylee, you’ll rapidly uncover that the worlds at the moment are extra populated with issues to do, enemies with all new assaults to come across, and collectibles to gather than earlier than. Each single problem has been improved and a few solely new challenges have been added.

A wholly new forex known as Q.U.I.D.S has been added for gamers to gather and spend on a retailer run by a franchise favorite character. You not have to fret about getting misplaced on the planet both because of the model world map and the aforementioned Mark the bookmark providing you with steerage and performing as a useful quick-journey system inside the ranges. Additionally, you will be capable to monitor your progress by a model-new problem tracker.

What’s a platformer if it doesn’t really feel good to play? We’ve got utterly redone Yooka and Laylee’s transfer set and the participant digicam in Yooka-Replaylee to create a extra responsive expertise. Now you can intuitively chain your strikes collectively, which is one thing you weren’t capable of do earlier than.

In certainly one of our extra stunning choices, we eliminated the double leap from the sport. As an alternative, your common leap now matches the peak of the previous double leap. That is all to make sure a higher gameplay stream for the gamers. Swim and fly controls have additionally been redone and to the gamers’ aid, strikes now value much less energy to make use of!

Our vibrant forged of characters usually are not the one ones who’ve undergone a makeover. Yooka-Replaylee has undergone a full visible improve protecting each single artwork asset within the sport together with a full UI and HUD refresh. As you run by the grass at Shipwreck Creek or the snow in Glitterglaze Glacier, the world round you feels really alive and respiration, creating a totally immersive platforming expertise.

And I can not end a section speaking about immersion with out highlighting the superbly organized orchestral rating, primarily based on the unique rating composed by Grant Kirkhope and David Clever, we labored along with the Metropolis of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra to supply.

The founders of Playtonic had a imaginative and prescient for a new mascot platformer that may breathe new life into the 3D platforming style. The very first Yooka-Laylee (2017) is to thank for the place the studio is in now, doubling as a improvement studio and a writer, and for the truth that I get to work at Playtonic.

As we strategy our tenth anniversary with extra assets, extra staff with contemporary concepts, beneficial group suggestions and classes discovered working throughout different secret tasks, we expect it is just applicable to return to that authentic journey and have a good time a entire decade of enjoyable and love for platforming by delivering the true definitive model of Yooka and Laylee’s first journey. And what higher option to kickstart an thrilling new starting for the franchise than this? We can not wait for you to get your palms on Yooka-Replaylee when it launches on Xbox Sequence X|S. I’m additionally delighted to announce that homeowners of the unique Yooka-Laylee on Xbox will likely be entitled to an proprietor’s low cost at launch!

Yooka-Replaylee

Playtonic Pals

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remastered and enhanced model of the 3D indie platforming collectathon darling, Yooka-Laylee (2017), developed by key artistic expertise behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Nation video games. New remixed challenges and previous favourites await as you embark to discover the massive, stunning open worlds because the lovable buddy-duo Yooka (the inexperienced one) and Laylee (the purple one) as soon as extra, all whereas backed by a stunning orchestral soundtrack. Did we point out there’s a map now? A shiny new forex? And tons of customisation choices? The favorite buddy duo has by no means moved, appeared, or sounded higher! 

Company creep Capital B is on a quest to steal all of the books on the planet and switch them into chilly arduous money. BUT essentially the most highly effective e-book within the universe is true below his crooked nostril within the neighbouring Shipwreck Creek, residence to our adventurous buddy-duo, Yooka and Laylee!  Seeing their prized e-book stolen pulls them into a wacky journey throughout many fantastical & imaginative worlds, stuffed with vibrant characters and vault-a great deal of shiny collectibles. 

Can you discover the entire magical Pagies from their e-book and save the day?

FEATURES:
MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER – With an artwork and animations overhaul and enhanced efficiency and backbone, the favorite buddy duo has by no means appeared or moved higher. 
NEW AND IMPROVED CHALLENGES – Enhancements to present in-sport challenges and lots of solely new challenges to find and undertake! 
NEW COLLECTIBLE CURRENCY – Capital B’s inept minions have dropped their arduous-earned cash all over. Acquire the official forex of Hivory Towers to spend on the video video games trade’s most beloved sentient merchandising machine Vendi! 
NAVIGATING THE WORLD – Now you may get misplaced within the sport, not on the planet! A model-new world map and challenges tracker helps you understand the place you’re and what must be carried out. Hooray! 
VENDI HAS PLENTY TO OFFER – Tonics are again with all new flavours! With the choice to equip a number of sport-altering enhancements, you’ll be able to really customise your playstyle. And as if that wasn’t sufficient, Vendi has new traces of merchandise for the trendy modern adventurer. 
REVISED CONTROLS & CAMERA – A brand new tweaked transfer set lets you mix strikes extra fluidly whereas the brand new digicam controls make framing the motion a breeze. 
A DREAMY ORCHESTRAL SOUNDTRACK – The unique rating from famed online game composers Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and David Clever (Donkey Kong Nation) returns however as a superbly organized orchestral rating. Now critically, clear out these ears.