For years, fans of the platforming genre have wanted a game that hearkens back to the Nintendo 64 classics created by the team at Rare Ltd. That dream may soon be realized as we are mere days away from the spiritual successor to the iconic Nintendo 64 game Banjo-Kazooie, Yooka-Laylee. Playtonic Games, comprised of many former Rare Ltd. employees, have produced what looks like a worthy addition to the genre in no small part because of the generous backing by fans on their Kickstarter page.
There is a lot of pressure riding on Yooka-Laylee to not only succeed financially, but also to live up to and pay homage to the bear and bird team. In order to do that, here are three areas the game needs to nail to come anywhere near the original dynamic duo.
Dense and Varied Levels
Banjo-Kazooie had incredibly memorable and varied environments for players to interact with. Timeless levels such as Treasure Trove Cove and Mumbo’s Mountain are iconic not only for their design, but also for the amount of collectibles and side activities to perform. These levels were packed with Notes, Jiggies and Jinjos to find and this game needs similar items to populate their world.
Simple and Catchy Music
When someone mentions Banjo-Kazooie, you will be hard pressed to find a gamer that does not remember some of the iconic theme songs for each of the levels. Not only the level soundtracks, the first game also had the amazingly scored intro song that would play every time you loaded the game. These songs helped bring the game alive and Yooka-Laylee need that caliber of music which all signs point to with the sampling on their Kickstarter page and some of the music team returning for the game.
Great Traversal Options
From fast travel with Kazooie’s long legs, rubber boots for swamps and character transformations, Banjo-Kazooie had many different ways for the player to navigate the environments if they wanted that sweet completion. The new pair will need many varied transformations and moves in order to traverse their colorful environments and mix up game play in a satisfying way.
From everything shown so far, the team at Playtonic appears to understand how to include these three elements into the spiritual successor. The original Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel, Banjo-Tooie, are staples of a gaming generation long gone. Hopefully the team sees some success outside the incredibly funded Kickstarter campaign they started last year.
Yooka Laylee will be released April 11 for PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One. A Nintendo Switch version is in the works although there is no set release date for the system.
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The release of Atlas Fallen was delayed until August in order to provide the “best possible version”
Atlas Fallen, an upcoming action role-playing game, has been delayed, according to publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Deck 13. This occurs shortly after a well-received public demonstration, during which new pictures and previews as well as the first gameplay were revealed. The team wants to give the game a bit more time in the oven, even though it appears to be quite promising. The game, originally scheduled to debut on May 16th, will instead do so on August 10th. Deck 13 announced the delay on social media, saying that it was necessary to “give the game some extra time so that we can provide the finest version of Atlas Fallen.”
— Focus Entertainment (@Focus_entmt) March 29, 2023
The company said that it will reveal additional information about the game in the “early summer,” along with “new gameplay videos and your first look at drop-in co-op gameplay.” Atlas Fallen will also be released with a German audio option in addition to the English one. We have high hopes for this because delays are generally seen as positive things these days, and the game already looks great. Are you anticipating this one?
Resident Evil 4 is performing quite well for itself, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Everyone agrees that the remake is a great version of a classic, and it has been a critical and financial success from the start. The game’s publisher, Capcom, announced in a brief statement that it had sold more than 3 million copies in its first two days on the international market. So, to compare, Resident Evil Village reached the same milestone in just four days, whereas Resident Evil 2: Remake sold just as many copies in its first week. In contrast, within five days of its release, Resident Evil 3 sold 2 million copies. Hence, the most recent entry is trending somewhat earlier than the others. Capcom also released an update on the total number of units shipped over the whole series, which presently stands at 135 million units and is accurate until December 31, 2022. It’s difficult to disagree with the publisher when it refers to Resident Evil as its “flagship game series” at this point.
We are not exactly certain how Naughty Dog intended The Last of Us: Part I’s PC release to turn out. It’s having to put out fire after fire from people on social media instead of happy tweets and lovely Picture Mode dumps. Technically speaking, the PC options are allegedly a disaster, as seen by the more than 4,000 “mainly unfavorable” user evaluations that have been consistently posted on Steam. Yet, for the coder, this trending tweet feels like the undesired icing on top. Anyone may use it as a punchline to illustrate how broken the PC version is. As freelance writer Kyle Campbell has illustrated here, Joel has undoubtedly experienced better times on Steam.
Joel Last of Us on Steam Deck is SENDING me pic.twitter.com/TUq1F0zPEa
— Kyle Campbell (@Levit0) March 29, 2023
It’s not exactly the viewpoint Joel will want for future selfies, although we don’t know if the character model appears this way for the entire game. The end of the world has affected him more than usual, as evidenced by his facial hair, which appears to last for days. A truly sad sight. Let’s hope that he has some better days ahead of him. Of course, if you’re playing the game on a powerful computer, Joel doesn’t look like this. Nonetheless, you’d want to assume the port would look at least a little bit better than this because The Last of Us: Part I was even touted with the Steam Deck in a promotional advertisement. Naughty Dog has asked PC customers to submit support queries on its website via Twitter in order to collect comments and identify the problems with this specific version. The developer will want to address these issues right away because they ran flawlessly on the PS5. Many complaints lament frequent crashes, shader problems, and generally subpar performance. Instead of just being a straightforward version that runs on the personal computer, the studio even went so far as to refer to this transfer as being “for PC.” As a result, anticipate thick, quick flows of patches.
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