Yooka-Laylee: Video Game Overview

The flourishing of three-dimensional platformers came to the era of N64, PS1 and PS2 – games about fluffy non-merging animals who often traveled in Tandem, diverged by millions of circulations, and the milestone creatures themselves became the talismans of home systems. Since then, developers have matured (see. Naughty Dog) and chose more serious genres. Sunset of “jumping” arcades based on collecting all sorts of baubles, occurred as suddenly as the recently emerged Renaissance – in the spring of this year on sale entered (or are only expected on the counters) Snake Pass, Voodoo Vince: RemaStered, Skylar & Plux: Adventure On Clover Island And, of course, Yooka-Laylee.Localization is made with a light. Prompt when passing does not feel.

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In preview I noted that the backbone Playtonic Games, responsible for Yooka-Laylee, – Former employees RARE, And not just random guests, and the pride of the famous studio over the years. You can verify personally, if you do not believe the printed word. They, apparently, did not like the hardest conditions in which the company supplied Microsoft, – Still authors Goldeneye 007, Killer Instinct And Conker: Live & Reloaded deserve more than messing with a series Kinect Sports.

Rebels founded Playtonic Games, They attracted over $ 3 million over Kickstarter and quietly for two years did what they were craftsmen, – 3D platformer about a worrying couple of animals, styled with Hochmas on the topic of the gaming industry. Character design and locations – special, “British”. It does not confuse him with any of the modern projects, sources of inspiration – deals with N64: Banjo-Kazooie (1998) and Banjo-Tooie (2000).

According to the plot Yooka-Laylee The main villain Capital B gave birth to a simple business plan – kidnap all the literature of the world and remain the only player in the market. A certain magic book, belonging to Lobotryasam Yukey (Green Lizard) and Laleli (purple bat). But it’s the magician that the pages take and sink – remember as the name! Cartoon tandem does not intend to close the eyes to frank theft – with the help of a silent businessman of the trauzer trading by acceptances and smuggled pants, they penetrate the Capital B plant, covered by portals to go to five fantastic worlds.

Purely in mood and surrounding the location are highly different: solar jungle, pirate port, sullen swamps … But the gameplay from the level to the level does not change – jumps on platforms, fights with dying from one or two blows minions, frequency puzzles and various tests for the time andSmekalka, award for which Pagies serve. Page – Keys to new worlds and expansion of old.Like in Banjo-Kazooie, in Yooka-Laylee there is a mechanic to transform a duet into something extraordinary to search for caches. At the winter level you will be … a snowpressure.
In order not to get into the scarkels, I advise you to alternate locations with jogging on the “huba” – the benefit of the game condescendingly related to free passage. The main thing is to buy a trauster at the trauster, otherwise it will be nothing to experiment with. Over time, Yuk will master a pair of tricky technician – will be able to absorb the properties of objects (touched the tongue of the cannonal kernel – freely push the powerful air flow by freely) and grab the fiery, ice and other natural berries with a short period, turning. Launching and Lale – her sonar will come in handy in puzzles, and the ability to fly, dragging a friend, sharply expand the horizons of the game. The variability pleases, although it is clear that Yuka most of the time is a rough force, the tavering of the tail of enemies and just bullshinking Semes, Lailey prefers to dissolve the language in conversations with NPC. Dialogues are pretty fun: from carefree to jallery, in general – typical fun in the spirit RARE.

IN Yooka-Laylee Extremely convenient layout – movements and tricks set, but they are remembered quickly. With the Xbox 360 controller, on subjective sensations, play more often than with DualShock 4. Cutting Cathedral Camera Camera: Someone did not wait for the patch of the first day, someone, I suspect, was not too good friends with acrobatic arcades – all the same twenty years passed from release Super Mario 64 And Banjo-Kazooie. As for me – management and chamber scold in scratch.

Pretars were also simple “bosses” (well, throw! Before us after all, platformer), sounding heroes by single sounds (what did you wait for the succession Banjo-Kazooie?) and lack of card. Last – from the category of complaints Parappa The Rapper Remaster, Swimming on PS4 without gameplay clocks and perceived by modern players too hardcore.With the miracle yudins of Yuka and Laleh, they are not ceremony – just chopping a spur … That is, “shvent”.
But, as it should be an ambitious project from a modest studio, Yooka-Laylee Not devastable. In the winter kingdom you will be offered to spread the needle brick – here you are completely appreciated, how embarrassing physics in the destroyed objects of the environment. And phrases that in the circle of Capital B repeats in its burgrole? First they are mixed, however, the farther – the more annoying. Mini-games on the arcade machines and trips on the trolley, too, call good luck – quickly lose interest.

Hardly not the loudest disputes caused the performance of the game, which is strange – it works flawlessly. I managed to evaluate the versions for PC and PS4 – the console port, for example, does not “sag” when there are many sources of fire on the screen. Lighting and range of drawing, despite the expanses and the complexity of the geometry of worlds, – on perfectly, there are no complaints to the textures. In general, it is understandable – technically games RARE There were always insuccession.

The impressions of the computer and console versions summarized the Digital Foundry team (“Iron” department Eurogamer, confirming the obvious, – the PC version was best, which was personally engaged in Playtonic Games, Having porting to shoulders Team17 Digital. On PC, with a good processor and GTX 980 Ti, you are free to bring the resolution up to 1440p (from 60 fps) or immediately remove on 4k. Fair for the sake of the settings menu in Yooka-Laylee Spartan: For example, you can not block recreation frequency at 30 FPS. Versions for PS4 and Xbox One “Passage” in 1080p / 30 FPS – the abundance of objects on the screen and the meticulous detail does not affect the update speed. Cantilever ports are not enough except for high-quality smoothing – this is their only technical minus. Poop Playtonic Games And Team17 Digital It is also worth the fact that they did not introduce support for PS4 Pro, – owners of the “intermediate” platform Sony We’ll have to rely on Boost Mode, forcibly “Cuttering” CPU and GPU. In short, the developers completely coped with UNITY and with honor escaped bugs, having achieved an impressive picture.Against the abuse of Yuka is powerless – cut out, Lale!***
Yooka-Laylee – justified speculation on nostalgia. Ex-workers RARE succeeded on the main fronts – concerns and visual appearance, and gameplay, and script. That before Samoa RARE, This is still an impressive studio with a staff of more than one hundred employees – now its main forces are thrown on the multiplayer pirate “sandbox” Sea of thieves (preview), which should debut on PC and Xbox ONE until the end of the year. Interestingly, “shoot” or not? Anyway RARE and her legacy bury it early – and Yooka-Laylee Live confirmation.