KickStarter Yooka-Laylee, Banjo Kazooie spiritual successor from ex-Rare employees

[Ivan]

Spiritual successor to Rare's Banjo Kazooie games, music by David Wise and Grant Kirkhope, Playtonic's new project just went live on KS today. It looks gorgeous and I couldn't back fast enough.



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

I get feels watching and hearing that. It's going to be awesome gif.

Some old tunes to get hyped:

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[tuluse]

You didn't link the actual page

 

[hemtae]

You didn't link the actual page

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

Knocked Torment: Tides of Numenera off the "fastest video game kickstarter to $1 mil USD" award.

 

[tuluse]

Wow $60 per backer right now.

 

[empyrean]

Absolutely loved Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie on the N64. Backed.

 

[Korron]

I backed it immediately. The bat's nose really bothers me artistically, but the game looks promising. This made me go buy a copy of banjo kazooie on eBay so I could go back and play that again too.

 

[Akratus]

Never played or liked any console games or platformers like Banjo, but having read this: https://warosu.org/data/vr/img/0015/61/1398413773156.png, I wish them godspeed.

 

[Rivmusique]

Somehow just heard of this now. Wise and Kirkhope are behind some of my favourite video game tracks, and I always wanted a Banjo-Threeie. Not expecting the game to be all that good (moneys on it somehow being an even easier version of BK, it's just the way things tend to go), but I'll throw in a bit for it.

 

[Rivmusique]

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

Ending in 20 hours.

 

[Infinitron]

Funded at $3.25M: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival/posts/1266484

Thank You All So Much!
[Note: Some selected tiers are still available via PayPal for a limited time from our website - see link below]

47 days ago we started this Kickstarter campaign - our first Kickstarter - with little idea of what we were letting ourselves in for.

We know how to make games, but we didn't know much about Kickstarters. We'd taken plenty of advice from plenty of people, but really didn't know how it would turn out. We were still amending and tweaking the Kickstarter page minutes before we went live, to see what could be added, what would look better, what could be said more clearly.

The rest of course, is history, but through these past 47 days we've felt an incredible level of positive support from everyone, whether they opted to back us or not. For that, we are extremely grateful!

What's next? Well, some sleep (right now), then onwards to create a game that, at the end of 2016, lives up to your expectations, and that in years to come you can look back and be proud to be involved with.

Raise your virtual glass to the next exciting installment!

 

[Ivan]

set to release in Q1 2017. it looks amazing. can't wait to get my hands on it.

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i just hope for 2 things: a strong difficulty and no nightmare inducing sharks (pls)

 

[Akratus]

I don't like platformers, and I never played a rare game. But I read a very credible 4chan story, from a guy who posted pictures of rare employee things, so it seemed credible, of how Banjo Threeie went down at Microsoft.

God speed men. God speed.

 

[Ivan]

shit takes me back

just plz let there be no sharks

 

[Infinitum]

Only hoping they'll template this on the original Banjo-Kazooie. Never could stomach those fuckhuge empty levels in the sequel; also most of the new mechanincs were boring and/or bullshit.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Ivan]

 

[Outlander]

They took 60 bux from backers and now it'll cost 40 at release?

 

[Ivan]

They took 60 bux from backers and now it'll cost 40 at release?

$15 (PC). Backed with pleasure. i love these platformers.

just hoping they don't throw in shark jump scares...that scarred my childhood

 

[hemtae]

This isn't doing so well review wise

http://opencritic.com/game/3677/yooka-laylee

 

[DragoFireheart]

I heard this game is mediocre shit.

 

[Des]

Jim Sterling completely trashed this game on his review:

http://www.thejimquisition.com/yooka-laylee-review/

Yooka-Laylee is, in a word, rubbish.

2/10
Bad

 

[Ivan]

must be good then

 

[Astral Rag]

The current year's Knack.

 

[Severian Silk]

Is the game too easy?