Yooka-Laylee, spiritual sucessor of Banjo Kazooie [PS4, XO, NX]

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Yooka-Laylee, a game created by ex Rare developers, which is the spiritual successor of the mythical Banjo Kazooie, is going to launch on consoles and PC, and it will be a simultaneous, concurrent launch.

Those former employees from the British studio Rare, formed a new studio called Playtonic.

The project began with a Kickstarter campaign and achieved its funding goal -175k British pounds- in 40 minutes!!:oops::oops::oops:

At the moment of writing this, the Kickstarter campaign is at £1,267,223 pledged of the initial goal. There are still 44 days to go... Go figure!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival

It has been the fastest video game to ever hit $1M on Kickstarter.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/05/03/1273293

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Typical Rare humour:

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The stretch goals accomplished:

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You can expect accurate bat physics.

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Stretch goals to 1 million achieved, next are the ones below:

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They explain where the money goes:


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Isn't David Wise the author of the so famous Donkey Kong Country soundtrack --the Bramble level song is a classic, the so called Stickerbush Symphony? He is working in the game too.


New stretch goal:

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I edited the one post with the graphic of the stretch goals since they blew threw them so damn quickly even though they kept adding new tiers.

This is amazing.
 
BRiT said:
I edited the one post with the graphic of the stretch goals since they blew threw them so damn quickly even though they kept adding new tiers.

This is amazing.
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I find it very surprising too, it was all so sudden, I hadn't heard of this game before, and now... that's it, a new Banjo Kazooie. I wonder if Rare are working on a Banjo Kazooie game, because then the comparisons will be inevitable. Ironically, maybe that will work in favour of both games.

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Cool! I want it.
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:mrgreen: You are not alone.
 
This is great. I've been waiting for a game like this for a long time. N64 shader? If it includes horribly low polly assets, crt-like post processing and blurry low-res tetures... this will be beautiful! haha, I'm not kidding.
 
I actually really liked Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, is probably one of my top 10 Xbox 360 games, really did something different I thought and I thought the visuals and the game world (and the self-aware humour) were great.

It was also surprisingly difficult, especially for what was ostensibly a kids game!

What I played of the original XBLA remasters didn't seem so great by comparison to me...just another platformer like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot et al.
 
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David Wise, which is the main composer of the game, has said that the favourite song he composed in his career is...


I also love this impressive song:

 
Delayed to 2017, finally after 4 years a real new platformer on PS4! new Gameplay:


This really looks like Banjo & Kazooie 2! Game is more varied than I thought originally!
 
And here I was expecting the update to be that there will be no WiiU version.
 
I really liked bk and rareware games overall back then, but this didn't inspire me too much though. The art, specially, bothers me a little.
 
Kartos, The God of Ore. Also Trouser Snake. Brilliant, if not exactly high-brow :)
Very charming visuals too. The old Rare stuff (Kameo in particular, ugh) always had a sort straight-to-DVD-Disney-knock-off look to it. Hell, most mascot platfomers have god-awful character designs in general.
 
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