Yooka-Laylee Review (PlayStation 4)

Yooka-Laylee Review

For this Yooka-Laylee Review, we play a brand-new platform adventure from some of the key creative talents behind ‘Donkey Kong Country’. As the colorful buddy duo, you must tackle a series of stunning, 2.5D levels and explore a puzzling 3D Overworld rich with secrets and surprises!

Yooka-Laylee Review Pros:

  • Big bright colorful graphics.
  • 5.73 GB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • Opening and ongoing tutorial.
  • 2.5D platformer gameplay.
  • 3D hub World to explore.
  • Quills- currency found in the game.
  • Coins-T.W.I.T branded and found hidden in levels.
  • Humor throughout.
  • Pay walls-in game wall that you spend T.W.I.T coins on to open up more of the hub world.
  • Tonics-Find/buy tonics and these affect gameplay like multipliers/difficulty etc.
  • Pagie-beat his challenge and expand the map.
  • Flowers in the hub-water/fire/freeze variants and you interact with them to have bomb versions of the plant.
  • Take two hits-first hits you lose Laylee and the second hit is lethal. You can get Laylee back by catching him or ringing a bell.
  • Constant restart points.
  • Solid platform action.
  • Levels are multi-layered with multiple routes and areas.
  • End of level breakdown.
  • Boss encounters.
  • Different game genres are mixed into the levels to add more variety.
  • Has a Donkey Kong feel to it all.
  • Fun to play.
  • Can replay levels.
  • Full of character.

Yooka-Laylee Review

Yooka-Laylee Review Cons:

  • Difficulty spikes.
  • Slow starter.
  • Few hit detection issues.
  • Some levels can feel long and boring.
  • Little desire to replay the game once finished.

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Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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