Yooka-Laylee

Note: remake "Yooka Replaylee" is announced. 73206 backers crowdfunded Capital B(ee)'s book corp "Hivory Towers" who pulls off the biggest book heist of history. Yooka & Laylee range the worlds to catch the dispersed pagies of their magic book. I sincerely recommend this 3D platformer. It plays natively on 11th Gen i5 on (Garuda) Linux, fluently with half-VSync ingame option. I miss only 4 pagies to 100%. Sadly, only XBOX controller support. Hence I use `xboxdrv -c --evdev ` with GameCube controller. Config includes mimic-xpad, silent and Z mapped to left thumbstick click. Tip: hold Y for fast dialogs. good things: - high gameplay variation (from shooting, transformations, underwater movement and flying to invisibility, even invincibility) - old school 3D platformer exploration, working controls - worlds are big, not huge - many funny references, dialogs, events - quizzes, classic minigames (8 in total), e.g. racing-, shooting-, runner- or flappy-bird-like, some with 1 to 4 players - nice animations, 3D graphics and music - manageable difficulty, no limited lives in between: - "voice effects", no verbal voicing - high number of collectibles - unlockable extended world content after first play - self-ironic about its artificial logic - gameplay-focused story with cutscenes - no co-op bad things: - repeat long boss fights after dying, no tips - many times minimal or no clues what to do, where to collect things or do challenges. At the end, finding needles in a haystack. - some pagies and pirate treasures are hard to find - backtracking previous worlds, moveset is unlocked progressively - invisible lethal world boundaries - oh my sanity, all backers in the credits missing: - 2D world maps with detected collectibles (only statistics available) - better tips for unfound collectibles (only unlockable extra with catcalling-like SFX indication) - fast travel system (you can only go back to the hub world) - pirate treasure statistics

Like a medlay of N64 games, Banjo Kazooie, of course, but also others (leaving the surprise for those who want to play). Lacks originality. If you just want to play a game that looks and feels like one of those Rare platform games from the 90s, feel free to try it ! If you're more into reflexive of difficult platform games, i don't think that would do much for you.

great game very banjo kazooie if i had to pick one this was prolly slightly better then banjo kazooie but this was made much more recently. there are only 5 worlds but they expand a lot and are filled with more depth. its def a n64 collect a thon type game so if you liked super mario 64 or banjo its very simaler . this game got some complaints about camera angles when it came out but that was undeserved the cameras are fine all collectathons have wonky cameras in some area this ones not dropping the ball anywhere that i can see.

This game is the successor of Banjo Tooie, which I looked forward to so much back then. This is a true gem with the same old feeling.

Controller doesn't work in Linux version. In Windows version (using Wine on Linux) controller works without problems. Otherwise, enjoyable so far.