During their adventures, Yooka and Laylee explore worlds contained within magical books and complete challenges to collect "Pagies": golden book pages that act as the main currency in the game. The playable characters are Yooka, a male chameleon, and Laylee, a female bat. The player controls two characters that work together to explore their environment, collect items, solve puzzles and defeat enemies. The gameplay is similar to that of games in the Banjo-Kazooie and Chameleon Twist series. Yooka-Laylee is a platform game played from a third-person perspective. Yooka-Laylee features gameplay similar to the spiritual predecessor, Banjo-Kazooie, where the player searches for and collects items in an open 3D environment. A spin-off, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, was released on October 8, 2019. While most critics agreed that it captured the essence of earlier platformers, they also pointed out technical shortcomings and outdated gameplay.
Yooka-Laylee received mixed reviews, with critics divided on whether emulating its predecessors was enough to make it a successful game, or whether it was purely trying to capitalize on nostalgia. The game follows chameleon Yooka and bat Laylee on their quest to retrieve a magical book from an evil corporation. After years of planning to develop a new game, Playtonic Games initiated a Kickstarter campaign that attracted significant media coverage and raised a record-breaking sum of over £2 million.
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Developed by Playtonic Games, a group of former key personnel from Rare, Yooka-Laylee is a spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie series released for the Nintendo 64 nearly 20 years prior. Yooka-Laylee is a platform game published by Team17 in 2017 for Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.