History VideoGame / YookaLaylee

Just like [[VideoGame/MightyNo9 similar]] [[VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight instances]] of creators effectively reviving their old series due to another corporation holding the rights, ''Yooka-Laylee'' was crowdfunded through Website/{{Kickstarter}}. The [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival campaign was launched]] on May 1, 2015, reaching its target goal (and, in fact, it exceeding it) on the same day. The campaign ended the following month with a total of £2,090,084 (not including [=PayPal=] donations). A teaser WebOriginal/{{Vine}} can be seen [[https://vine.co/v/e7Jip3Igt63 here.]]

The official website for Playtonic Games is [[http://www.playtonicgames.com/games/yooka-laylee/ here]].

On June 7, 2019, a new TwoAndAHalfD installment, entitled ''VideoGame/YookaLayleeAndTheImpossibleLair'' (this time evoking the aforementioned ''Donkey Kong Country'' series), was announced. The trailer can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgcYbc9ZCtQ here]]. An extended gameplay demonstration can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3yOChAqaQw here]].

* {{Mayincatec}}: Tribalstack Tropics has this aesthetic with it's temples and mask-wearing Corplings.

* GuideDangIt: As a deliberate homage to the Collectathon Platformers of the 90s, the puzzles in ''Yooka-Laylee'' can be very from "challenging" to "how the heck was I supposed to figure this out?!"

* MakeMeWannaShout: Laylee has a three separate moves she can unlock that make use of her bat-like ability to wield echolocations. "Sonar Shot" is a sonic screech that can stun enemies or wake up totems to reveal invisible objects. "Sonar Splosion" is a sonic burst attack that can wipe out groups of enemies at once. "Sonar Shield" has her create a forcefield of sonic energy that makes her and Yooka invulnerable.

* GuideDangIt: Some of the pagies can be really tricky to get. One common thing people get stuck on the Hot Tub puzzle in Glitterglaze Glacier: The hot tub complains about not having any bubbles and that he has a gas problem. There's nothing in the room, nothing related to him in the palace inside that one room, and the ability to create a giant bubble inside the hot tub does nothing either. What you're supposed to do is [[spoiler:only ''half press'' the bubble button to leave a bunch of bubbles in the tub.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: Laylee has a sonic screech that can stun enemies or wake up totems to reveal invisible objects.

* {{Mayincatec}}: Tribalstack Tropics has this appearance with it's temples.

* TropicalIslandAdventure: Galaxy Galleon mixes this with SpaceZone.

* TheDragon: Dr. Quack to Capital B.

* {{Mayincatec}}: Tribalstack Tropics is full of ruins in this style and has enemies wearing matching masks.

* {{Mayincatec}}: Tribalstack Tropics is full of ruins in this style.

** Accessing the final boss merely requires collecting 100 Pagies over the course of the game, rather than spending a set number at once. This exception is likely to prevent the player from [[UnwinnableByMistake not having enough Pagies to unlock or expand every world]].

Yooka and Laylee are also {{Guest Fighter}}s in the games ''VideoGame/{{Brawlout}}'' and ''Mighty Fight Federation''.

* SpaceIsAnOcean: Inverted in Galleon Galaxy. It's a GangplankGalleon-themed level, set on a body of water with a lot of space-themed elements, including characters who dress and act like they're in a RayguGothic SpaceOpera. For example, you can transform into a galleon, but it's called a spaceship. Islands that are a short swim away are treated as separate planets.

* SpaceIsAnOcean: Inverted in Galleon Galaxy. It's a GangplankGalleon-themed level, set on a body of water with a lot of space-themed elements. For example, you can transform into a galleon, but it's called a spaceship. Islands that are a short swim away are treated as separate planets.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Rextro Sixtyfourus, the polygonal ''TyrannosaurusRex''.

Yooka and Laylee are also {{Guest Fighter}}s in the game ''VideoGame/{{Brawlout}}''.

* HailfirePeaks: Galleon Galaxy is set in a lagoon with tropical islands. However, the level has a RaygunGothic theme, where different islands are treated as different planets, you jump around from asteroid to asteroid, and you turn into a "starship" that is really just an old timey galleon.

* HailfirePeaks: Galleon Galaxy is set in a lagoon with tropical islands. However, the level has a RaygunGothic theme, where different islands are treated as different planets, you turn into a "starship" that is really just an old timey galleon.

* HailfirePeaks: Galleon Galaxy is set in a lagoon, with tropical islands. However, the level has a RaygunGothic theme, where different islands are treated as different planets, you turn into a "starship" that is really just an old timey galleon.

* HailfirePeaks: Galleon Galaxy is set in a lagoon, with tropical islands. However, the level has a RaygunGothic theme, where different islands are treated as different planets, you tuen into a "starship" that is really just an old timey galleon.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** A snake that wears pants named "Trowzer", coiled through both pant legs? Yup, this game is Rare pedigree after all. [[note]]For those of you who don't know, "trouser snake" is British shorthand for "penis." [[/note]]
** Not to mention the main antagonist's name "Capital B" reminds one of [[WitchWithACapitalB a certain phrase]], considering that the villain he's based on, [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Gruntilda,]] is a WickedWitch.
** Yooka and Laylee's "adopted home" is called "'''Bat Shi'''p '''Crazy'''", one letter off from "'''Batshi'''t '''Crazy'''".
** The name of Rextro's company that produces his retro arcade games if you shorten it to just the acronym, as well as a lesser example in Trowzer's trading company.[[note]]A.R.S.E and T.W.I.T respectively, and the latter is just one letter off from T.W.A.T.[[/note]]
** Mr. Duke doesn't want to give up his Pagie, because he needs it for when "nature calls". That is, toilet paper.
** Nimbo just really wants you to get him to pee. With stimulation.
** To say nothing of the way Nimbo presents you with your Pagie. ''He's literally giving you a golden shower''.
** Mr. Blowy's ''job'' is ''blowing''. Beats cleaning the streets.
** The giant Corplet statues in Capital Cashino hold the fire hose and the vase next to their crotch, which looks like they are holding it like a penis. In addition, the vase and the fire hose is expelling water.
** One of Brrreeze Blok's lines is "You two are a right pain in the icicles!"
** One of the slot machines in Capital Cashino laments that Capital B. was threatening to turn him into a vending machine, "and not the kind that sells food."