If you had the chance to play the original Yooka-Laylee 3D platformer, you may have found it lusterless at best. But this time Yooka-Laylee looks to be competing with the likes of Donkey Kong Country but with its own twist. So how will this game fare against the classics.. check out my review.

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If you had the chance to play the original Yooka-Laylee 3D platformer, you may have found it lusterless at best. And although it had great graphics it suffered from shoddy controls and camera angles that were just terrible and definitely didn't pay any homage to the retro platformers we loved as kids. Now developer, Playtonic Games, are at it again this time with a 2.5D style Yooka Laylee that looks to be competing with the likes of Donkey Kong Country, but with it’s own twist. There’s not much here as far as the story goes and there usually isn't with platformers, but that's more than forgivable because we're not playing this for the story now. So for a quick rundown we start off challenging the Impossible Lair right from the get-go only to have our Royal Beettalion, that protects us, stolen by the evil Capital B. So, Yooka-Laylee are on a mission to rescue them so they can continue the Impossible Lair and defeat the Evil Capital B and save the Royal Stingdom.

Now game play is where this game really stands out. For the most part it's an enjoyable adventure that you don't want to miss, but at other times it's an infuriating royal pain in the butt. As you play you'll quickly realize that this was absolutely the developers intention. They clearly give you chances to advance at each checkpoint if you find it too difficult to proceed past any particular point. But be warned, there are quills and hidden coins that you don't want to miss in the game, which you will need to advance further. With that said, the level designs are spectacular, each has its own take on the Royal Stingdom, there are conveyor belts, ropes to swing from, honey coated walls to climb and much more. Now Yooka-Laylee takes a different approach than other 2D platformer games do by the addition of a 3D top down adventure puzzle game between platform levels. This top down is so fun it would be a good little Indie game just by itself with its puzzles spread throughout the map, each required to be solved in order to advance further in the game, It was a welcomed break from platforming. Lastly, you're welcome to enter and have a go at the Impossible layer at anytime, but it’s best to advance through the map and rescue more bees because you will definitely need every one of those little buggers to survive.

Just like it's 3D predecessor this game is absolutely beautiful, every character model is highly detailed, maybe even more so in this game. And the developer spared no expense on the background as well. Everything from the forest, the desert, to the dark and impossible layer look fantastic. The developer added tonics to help Yooka-Laylee with their gameplay skills. When collected, the tonics like tick tock and vintage film add a different look and feel to the game if you have the extra quills to purchase them. As for the sound, a few tunes caught my ear, but I didn’t hear anything that impressive and the game definitely could have gone without the mumbling characters (sorry Playtonic), but it gets annoying real quick. Yooka-Laylee is a sometimes infuriating, but definitely an enjoyable 2.5D platformer that would give any old school retro a run for its money. And I say for the foreseeable future Playtonic Games stays with this model and drops the 3D platformer all together because this was the game Yooka-Laylee was meant to be. I would easily give this game a 7.5 out of 10. Yooka-Laylee is available now on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

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