
Rating 4.1 out of 5 stars with 425 reviews
4.1- Gameplay (194)
- Characters (14)
- Fun (7)
- Humor (4)
- Camera (38)
- Controls (20)
- Level Design (8)
- Difficulty (4)
- Performance (3)
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- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good game
I’m not good at hardly any video games. This one is fun but it a little too sensitive for my liking. For example when trying to jump onto a moving platform I always end up falling off. It is probably more so my issue than the games though. Definitely fun for fans of the old Donkey Kong games
Posted by notagamer
- Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Meh. It should be more fun than it is.
This game has a lot of flaws. I played it after the update that was supposed to fix the camera, but I still felt like the camera was not good. The world is big, but always feels empty. They seem to have spread out the activities on the levels in an attempt to make the game feel bigger than it really is. Also, it has some of the worst mini-games I have ever played. The mine cart game is particularly bad. Horrible, horrible controls and camera on the minigames. This game had so much potential, but everything just feels poorly constructed. It just feels like a low budget game. It gives you some adequate platforming gameplay, but is is just not that fun,.
Posted by Sometimegamer
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
If you enjoyed the painfully hard 64 bit game era
Than you will love this. Many of the former developers from Rare worked on this so it plays like Banjo and Kazooie. The controls are a little floaty and take a bit to get use to. The bosses can be painfully difficult and sometimes (even on the first level) there are multiple areas you can't get to because you haven't learned a move yet. There is no hand holding in this game and you can often just get lost trying to find your way to the next level. That said this game is a great collect-a-thon and perfect if you enjoyed old 3d platformers. If you aren't great at platformers than skip it, you will NOT have fun with this.
Posted by Carlpocket
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
If you liked Banjo-Kazooie...
then you'll like Yooka-Laylee, because it's made by the same folks who developed Banjo-Kazooie at Rare back in the day. The same elements of collecting and platforming are present, and overall it's a fun game.
Posted by AtlantisAuthor
- Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Just Play the Banjo-Kazooie Games Instead
This game is basically the same gameplay as the Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie games that came out in the late 90's. It has better graphics, but poorer performance under certain circumstances (a few too many explosions or fire effects onscreen slows the game to like 2 frames per second or even less). It's also buggy. I had it crash at least once, had to leave a level and come back because a character that supposed to be in a certain part of the level never showed up. There was also one part of the game where every time I entered a room, the framerate would drop and my character would leave the room. It didn't matter if I was pushing the control stick or not. Ended up having to reset the game. Sometimes you'll have a hard time figuring out how to interact with certain objects too. For example, you have two moves that can break glass, but it makes no sense why one works and the other doesn't. Throw in instances where you'll come across blocks that might be ice (which must be melted with a fire ability), and things get very confusing. If you see an ice cube in a snow level, you tend to assume that it needs to be melted, but sometimes it's actually glass. Why!? So yeah, there is some fun to be had here, but I can't say I would want to play through it more than once. There are just too many frustrating elements.
Posted by Vartuos