Yooka Laylee | The Completionist
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Length: 33min 27sec (2007 seconds)
Published: Fri Apr 14 2017
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I'm almost 100% on this game now, its enjoyable but really does have some patience testing moment.
Rextro's arcade games are fucking terrible, they aren't even remotely fun and you have to play all of them twice (at least!). The bosses are almost universally boring and the controls never seem to do what you want them to do in the Kartos sections.
The biggest flaw is that they give you the ability to fly just after unlocking the 4th world which breaks the game, so many challenges can be skipped due to this, sure you can argue that if you don't like it don't use it and for a lot of the platforming challenges I didn't anyway. Also the controls when flying are abysmal, trying to collect mid air quills in the last world is a crap shoot.
Overall the game is fun, but they really should have done something about those dreadful minigames, even if its just making them a bit shorter so you don't have to endure them for 5 minutes at a time (especially the hurdles one, how you can fuck up an auto runner that badly i've no idea)
It does seem a go to thing to talk about nostalgia and it's a little unfair because we're only in the position where people talk about collectathons being nostalgic because people suddenly stopped making them. But they're not inherently tied to their era in any other way. And once you're talking about nostalgia, you get to ask the obvious question: does the new game live up to the promises of the past? Which is again unfair as games of other genres don't get analysed in that way they're judged on their own merits.
Now I think YL is a fine game full of joy, something that's missing from the super serious games of the market today. It's not hugely progressed from BK but not was it supposed to be. It's more like if a band that's been away for 20 years put out an album as if to say come on guys, this genre's still got legs. It's up to someone else now to go you know what? It does. And bring new ideas to the table.
I played the old games but I wasn't nostalgic for them I just missed the genre. There should have been 20 years of these type of games, 20 years of devs refining the model, zeroing in on what works and what doesn't. Seeing the game through the lens of nostalgia does it a huge disservice. And it's a good game.
I hope this game does well and revives the genre even if it's just a niche. Games like it are a welcome change to the mostly samy AAA products out there.
Here's a quote from the first few minutes of the video.
"In the time that this game has been worked on, I have gotten the absolute pleasure of becoming friends with not only one of my favorite video game composers of all time, but a person whom I admire very deeply, and that is none other than Grant Kirkhope. He's seriously one of the coolest guys I've ever met, and I'll continue to support him in anything he does. He truly is a wonderful person."
It's good that he discloses his connections as well as his backing the Kickstarter, and I know that he is not a journalist, but seriously? At what point are you so invested that it become pointless to even call this a review? Am I wrong to feel a bit uncomfortable with this?
Anybody else feel like he spends way too much time talking about how, "his views are going against everybody else" and "he's gonna get so much hate for it but he loves the game"? Like, I know that this game is either getting loved or hated on, but I don't really care what other people are thinking. If I clicked on the video, I clicked on it to hear his opinion. Even then, I feel like he just intensely ignored some of the games problems and his response to any of the major issues was, "didnt bother me lmao". I never really had any interest in this game outside of the initial Kickstarter but even after this glowing review the game doesn't look that appealing to me.
Good review. But I'm still waiting for at least one review to complete its critique of the game without using the term nostalgia/nostalgic a single time. It's getting very tiresome to me that no one seems capable of reviewing the game purely on its own merits right now without referencing how it reminds them of the past.
I love Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but I didn't play them as a kid. I played them as an adult in 2009, and they were fantastic. The controls and graphics were dated, sure, but the games are bloody brilliant fun right now.
The "nostalgia factor" of Yooka-Laylee is completely irrelevant to me. Any conclusion that relies on "you're either nostalgic for BK or you're not" is a meaningless statement. I love BK, but I am not nostalgic about it. I'm not accusing this review of saying that, per se. I enjoyed that he had a lot more to talk about besides nostalgia. But it still came up, and I just wish a reviewer could say that they're dismissing the nostalgia conversation altogether and reviewing Yooka-Laylee as a standalone experience today. How fun is it, regardless of your feelings about the past.
Completely spot on with that reference to Zelda. That's all I kept thinking about when the reviews were piling in for this game.