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

About ten years in the past, a bunch of former Uncommon workers with many years of mixed expertise engaged on a few 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 nearly a decade and a studio with over 60 workers later, now we have refined that imaginative and prescient and morphed it with our learnings working throughout different initiatives and suggestions from our neighborhood to deliver 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 Collection X|S!

The makings of an ideal mascot platformer begin with a minimum of, effectively, memorable mascots, and Yooka-Replaylee has acquired simply that within the types of the heroic lime-green lizard Yooka and his wisecracking, now fluffy, purple companion Laylee the bat.

Collectively they go in opposition to the comically villainous Capital B and meet a vibrant and various solid 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 offers you instructions all through the sport. Even a few of the enemies you encounter have undergone a full makeover. The bees are fluffy now! Each character has been given a recent coat of paint and smoother animations to associate with it.

Whereas story of Yooka-Replaylee begins in Yooka and Laylee’s house of Shipwreck Creek and swiftly strikes contained in the lair of the vicious capital B referred to 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 fully new challenges have been added.

A completely new forex referred to 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 steering and performing as a helpful fast-travel system inside the ranges. Additionally, you will have the ability to monitor your progress by a brand-new problem tracker.

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

In considered one of our extra shocking choices, we eliminated the double bounce from the sport. As a substitute, your common bounce now matches the peak of the outdated double bounce. That is all to make sure a greater gameplay circulation 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 solid of characters aren’t the one ones who’ve undergone a makeover. Yooka-Replaylee has undergone a full visible improve overlaying each single artwork asset within the recreation together with an entire 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’t end a phase speaking about immersion with out highlighting the fantastically organized orchestral rating, based mostly on the unique rating composed by Grant Kirkhope and David Smart, we labored along with the Metropolis of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra to provide.

The founders of Playtonic had a imaginative and prescient for a brand 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 sources, extra workers with recent concepts, worthwhile neighborhood suggestions and classes realized working throughout different secret initiatives, we predict it is just acceptable to return to that authentic journey and have a good time a complete decade of enjoyable and love for platforming by delivering the true definitive model of Yooka and Laylee’s first journey. And what higher solution to kickstart an thrilling new starting for the franchise than this? We can’t wait so that you can get your palms on Yooka-Replaylee when it launches on Xbox Collection X|S. I’m additionally delighted to announce that house owners of the unique Yooka-Laylee on Xbox will probably be entitled to an proprietor’s low cost at launch!

Yooka-Replaylee

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Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remastered and enhanced model of the 3D indie platforming collectathon darling, Yooka-Laylee (2017), developed by key inventive expertise behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Nation video games. New remixed challenges and outdated favourites await as you embark to discover the massive, lovely 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 lovely 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, regarded, 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 exhausting money. BUT probably the most highly effective ebook within the universe is correct beneath his crooked nostril within the neighbouring Shipwreck Creek, house to our adventurous buddy-duo, Yooka and Laylee!  Seeing their prized ebook stolen pulls them right into a wacky journey throughout many fantastical & imaginative worlds, filled with vibrant characters and vault-loads of shiny collectibles. 

Can you discover the entire magical Pagies from their ebook 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 regarded or moved higher. 
NEW AND IMPROVED CHALLENGES – Enhancements to current in-game challenges and lots of fully new challenges to find and undertake! 
NEW COLLECTIBLE CURRENCY – Capital B’s inept minions have dropped their hard-earned cash far and wide. Gather 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 will get misplaced within the recreation, not on the planet! A brand-new world map and challenges tracker helps you understand the place you’re and what must be executed. Hooray! 
VENDI HAS PLENTY TO OFFER – Tonics are again with all new flavours! With the choice to equip a number of game-changing enhancements, you may really customise your playstyle. And as if that wasn’t sufficient, Vendi has new strains of merchandise for the fashionable modern adventurer. 
REVISED CONTROLS & CAMERA – A brand new tweaked transfer set permits you to mix strikes extra fluidly whereas the brand new digital camera 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 Smart (Donkey Kong Nation) returns however as a fantastically organized orchestral rating. Now severely, clear out these ears.