History VideoGame / YookaLaylee

-> '''Trowzer''': Thissss next move is banned in three different modern game genresssss..."

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Yooka and Laylee are also a GuestFighter in the game ''VideoGame/{{Brawlout}}''.

** The villain is named Capital B, who is a greedy corporate executive who happens to be a Bee. His lair is called Hivory Towers, a play on the term Ivory Tower.

** If you manage to beat Captial Cashinos' minecart section but die to the boss immediately afterwards, the game will let you start off there instead of forcing you to play the entire section again.

** 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, Gruntilda, is a WickedWitch.

** The name of Rextro's company that produces his retro arcade games if you shorten it to just the acronym.[[note]]A.R.S.E.[[/note]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: While Capital B is the BigBad, he's still subservient to a group of board members headed by the company's chairman of the board. These villains only show up in one scene in a video-conference call and don't have any legible lines, but [[spoiler:Dr. Quack is their agent, not Capital B's, and is watching him on their behalf to ensure he sticks to their plan]].

[[caption-width-right:350:If any of this [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie looks familiar]], [[SpiritualSuccessor it's supposed to.]][[note]]From middle going clockwise: Yooka the Chameleon and Laylee the Bat, Trowzer the Snake, Rextro Sixtyfourus, Dr. Puzz, Kartos, Dr. Quack, and Capital B with two I.N.E.P.T agents[[/note]]]]

** A snake that wears pants named "Trowzer", coiled through both pant legs? Yup, this game is Rare pedigree after all.

** 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 is a WickedWitch.

[[caption-width-right:350:If any of this [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie looks familiar]], [[SpiritualSuccessor it's supposed to.]][[note]]From middle going clockwise: Yooka the Chameleon and Laylee the Bat, Trowzer the Snake, Rextro Sixtyfourus, Dr. Puzz, Kartos, Dr. Quack, and Capital B with two of his grunts[[/note]]]]

* AnimateInanimateObject: Kartos the mine cart is one, which makes the game even more Rare-Like. Others include Planker the sign post, Ollie the shopping cart, and Nimbo the cloud.

* BlackComedy: How do you initiate Galleon Galaxy's boss fight? By accidentally blowing up an old sentient moon, causing his angry planet widow to seek revenge.

* CharacterCustomization: Play Tonics can be collected and used to enhance the duo's skills in any way the player desires.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Blasto showing up out of nowhere after the Capital B boss fight.]]
* DownloadableContent: The £2M stretch goal was free DLC for all the backers. The Kickstarter campaign reached that amount on its final day.

** The Ghost Writers play the same role that Jinjos played. Appearance-wise they greatly resemble the ghosts of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''.
** Capital B. and Dr. Puzz are taking the roles of Gruntilda and Mumbo Jumbo, respectively.
** The Mollycools fulfill the same role as the Mumbo Tokens and Glowbos from Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie, being the item needed to activate the transformations.

* GenreThrowback: While 3D Platformers ''have'' been around in recent years, this is one of the first straight examples of a 'Collect-A-Thon' 3D Platformer since the N64 / [=PS1=] days.

* GreaterScopeVillain: While Capital B is the BigBad, he's still subservient to a group of board members headed by the company's chairman of the board.

* MineCartMadness: Included in the game, courtesy of Kartos the mine cart.

* MultiPlatform: In contrast to Rare's tradition of being a single-platform developer, this was an explicit goal of Playtonic. Originally, the plan was for the game to come out on PC operating systems first (Windows, Mac, and Linux) before eventually making its way over to consoles, but raising so much money on Kickstarter will allow them to release the game on all (five!) platforms all at once, adding the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, to the aforementioned PC [=OSs=], with a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version coming out sometime later. [[note]]A Wii U version was originally planned but later cancelled when the switch version was announced[[/note]]

* ProductionThrowback: Overlapping with StealthPun. The art design for [[LockAndKeyPuzzle the keys]] in [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Glitterglaze Glacier]] are inspired by the Ice Key, an item from ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'''s [[UrbanLegendOfZelda infamous]] Stop-n-Swop quest.

* {{Retraux}}: To quote the Kickstarter page: "Each world hides at least one secret arcade game encasing old-school gaming goodness."

** It's also a GenreThrowback to the old Collect-A-Thon platformers of the N64 era of old.
** A character known as Rextro Sixtyfourus looks like he came straight out of an N64 game.

** During one level the protagonists come across a talking minecart named "Kartos." Upon hearing his name, Laylee asks "[let] me guess... the [[VideoGame/GodOfWar god of ore]]?" Kartos then responds saying he has no idea what she's talking about. The sequence that follows with Kartos is an obvious callback to the minecart sequences seen in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'', which the same developers worked on over years 20 years prior.
** The achievement for beating one of Rextro's minigames for the first time is [[Music/TheBeatles "When I'm 64"]].
*** The achievement picture also displays Rextro with the famous [[Main/AWinnerIsYou "A Winner is you"]] message.

** One of the random bits of Capital B's dialogue talks about a [[VideoGame/{{Croc}} Reptile that's obsessed with collecting gems]].
** Some of the books in the Archive read [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey 50 Shaders of Gaming]] and [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Jet Packs and Butlers]].

** One conversation the duo can have with Rextro is them talking about how the reviewers will likely have a 'fun' time with his games. Rextro responds by noting how [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney he already paid off the important reviewers already]].[[note]]Which, unfortunately, [[TruthInTelevision is a very real problem plaguing most big named review sites these days.]][[/note]]

* ToppledStatue: Downplayed. The first thing you see upon entering Hivory Towers proper is a massive golden statue of Capital B. It's possible to climb up to the top of it and break off the nose using Buddy Slam. There's an Achievement/Trophy for doing this.

* VariableMix: Just like ''Banjo-Kazooie'', as you move through the world the music will go through different arrangements depending on where you are. In the final game, this is also the case with HubWorld, Hivory Towers.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you manage to beat Captial Cashinos' minecart section but die to the boss immediately afterwards, the game will let you start off there instead of forcing you to play the entire section again.
** One of the tonics makes it so being around a collectable or powerup causes a whistling noise, which gets louder the closer you get. It even works if it's not visible and requires a different path.

* BigBad: Capital B.

* BubblegloopSwamp: Moodymaze Marsh which is an ''{{Expy}}'' of the TropeNamer in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''.

* CameraScrew: Unfortunately, it wouldn't be a true GenreThrowback to the old UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 days without an antiquated camera that repeatedly fails to provide the best angle for your platforming (and it's even worse for the flying required later in the game), which was a frequent subject of criticism in the game's reviews. In response to the criticism, a patch was released with an option to entirely disable the camera's dubious attempts to automatically keep itself pointed in the right direction in favor of purely manual camera control.

* CheckPointStarvation: Zig-zagged. If the duo die or fall into a bottomless pit, they will respawn back at the last entrance/exit they came from. While this is helpful in certain areas and spots, it's far less helpful in long and challenging platforming sections, especially if you were almost extremely close to getting past that section.

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: A sentient moon and planet in Galleon Galaxy fulfill the same role as the ice cube couple in [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]. [[spoiler:In that you have to kill both of them violently in order to receive a Pagie.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Laylee according to the Kickstarter page. Given that she's an Expy of Kazooie (as mentioned below), it's not all that surprising.

* ExpansionPackWorld: A literal case, the player can use [[PlotCouponThatDoesSomething Pagies]] to expand preexisting worlds.

** Yooka appears to be one for Banjo while Laylee appears to be one for Kazooie.
** Pagies for Jiggies.
** Trowzer for Bottles the mole.

* {{Fartillery}}: The Kickstarter page mentioned there may or may not be a move involving a "giant fart bubble", which was ultimately revealed in the Gamescom 2016 trailer. The move sees Yooka farting out an air-tight bubble that fully envelopes himself and Laylee, and gives the duo access to their on-land moveset underwater.

* FollowTheMoney: Quills are often used to direct the player, at one point the pair accidentally stumble into an employee's only area with the excuse that they were just following the Quills.

* GuideDangIt: Some of the pagies can be really tricky to get. One common thing people get stuck on the Hot Tub Puzzle in Glitterglazier: 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.]]

* LastLousyPoint: Unless you equip the tonic that makes a noise when you're near a collectable, good luck finding all of them in the massive, mostly empty worlds.
* LizardFolk: Yooka the chameleon appears to be one.

* MediumAwareness: Everyone knows they're in a videogame.

* MoonLogicPuzzle: Some of the puzzles have solutions that are downright asinine, seemingly because the developers didn't think through what their (generally-single purpose) abilities might be capable of [[SubvertedTrope beyond the]] [[EmergentGameplay intended use]].
** Need to walk on the bottom of water, and have some swallowable cannonballs nearby? Nope, cannon balls are only for resisting air currents, you'll need an air bubble to walk underwater.
** Have an ability that tells the player "not to use near glass"? Well don't, that's not the ability that can break cracked glass.
** Perhaps most frustrating, (some) ice cubes ''cannot be melted'': instead the only way to get rid of them is with a radial sonic attack. Various forms of fire, explosives, and even the directionally aimed version of the sonic attack do nothing against them.

* PassThroughTheRings: A common task sees the pair having to traverse through a series of rings to get a pagie; with a strict time-limit or resetting if the pair hit the floor.

** The first post-£1M stretch goal of the Kickstarter campaign included an "N64 shader" to give the game some retro flavoring.
** It's also a throw back to the old Collect-A-Thon platformers of the N64 era of old.

** While each "puzzle" is clearly designed to take advantage of one or two unlock-able skills you're not punished for finding creative solutions. Once you unlock the ability to fly, much of the trickier platforming can be ignored too.
** Even before that, it's possible to get some of the more difficult to get pagies or even just skip sections that otherwise require later abilities through some creative platforming.

** One of Vendi's tonics turns Yooka's GroundPound into this.

*** Trev the Tenteyecle, boss of Moodymaze Marsh, will randomly say "Come 'n' 'ave a go if ya think you're 'ard enough!!", a phrase often used in conjunction with Mumbo Jumbo, most notably in the theme tune of [[BanjoTooie Mayahem Temple]].
*** The first time you transform in Tribalstack Tropics, Trev remarks she meant to turn you into a ''[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs T. rex]]'', referencing the morph for Terrydactyland in ''Banjo-Tooie'' not to mention Mumbo's attempt at turning you into one in the first game.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Intentionally made to be one for ''Banjo-Kazooie'', down to name similarity. The [[http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2015/18/1430413653-yooka-laylee-logo.jpg logo]] is undoubtedly similar as well.

* StealthPun: A character that was supposed to be "voiced" by WebVideo/JonTron is encountered trapped in a toilet. As in, the "john".

** "If cartridges were popular, this level would have loaded by now!"

* UnusualEuphemism: After Yooka and Laylee whale on Capital B for a bit during his boss battle, he groans "Ouch, right in my stocks and shares!"

On June 7, 2019, a new TwoAndAHalfD installment, entitled ''Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair'' (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]].

''Yooka-Laylee'' (working title: ''Project [[{{Pun}} Ukulele]]'') is a 3D "[[GottaCatchEmall Collect-a-Thon]]" PlatformGame that serves as a spiritual successor to the ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' series. The title was developed by Playtonic Games, a group of former key personnel from Creator/{{Rare}} -- specifically, the same people behind such games as ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' and the aforementioned ''Banjo-Kazooie''. The game released on April 11, 2017 for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]], [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac]] [[UsefulNotes/MacOS OS X]], [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]], UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version would release several months later on December 14, 2017.

''Yooka-Laylee'' (working title: ''Project [[{{Pun}} Ukulele]]'') is a 3D [[PlatformGame Platformer]] developed by Playtonic Games, a group of former key personnel from Creator/{{Rare}} -- specifically, the same people behind such games as ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' and ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. The game released on April 11, 2017 for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]], [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac]] [[UsefulNotes/MacOS OS X]], [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]], UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version would release several months later on December 14, 2017.

Similarly to ''Banjo-Kazooie'', you play as a duo of anthropomorphic animal buddies. Yooka, a chameleon, and Laylee, a bat. The game is notable in that its collectible PlotCoupon, Pagies, can not only be used to unlock more worlds and thus reach the FinalBoss, but also ''expand'' the world, making them bigger and adding challenges, which in turn grants access to more collectibles, including other Pagies.

The game was crowdfunded on Website/{{Kickstarter}}, with the [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival campaign being launched]] on May 1, 2015. The game reached its target goal (in fact, it exceeded it) on the same day, and would end 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 ''Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair'', was announced.

''Yooka-Laylee'' (previously called ''Project [[{{Pun}} Ukulele]]'') is a 3D [[PlatformGame Platformer]] from the creators of such games as ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' and ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', who have since left Creator/{{Rare}} and have formed their own company called Playtonic Games. Released on April 11, 2017 for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]], [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac]] [[UsefulNotes/MacOS OS X]], [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]], UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and later on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on December 14, 2017. A UsefulNotes/WiiU version was originally planned but scrapped in December of 2016 when the Switch port was announced.

A Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival campaign was launched]] on 1 May 2015 (with funding far exceeded on the same day) and ended at midnight London time on 17 June 2015 for a (not including [=PayPal=]) total of £2,090,084. A teaser WebOriginal/{{Vine}} can be seen [[https://vine.co/v/e7Jip3Igt63 here.]]

Yooka and Laylee are also a GuestFighter in the game VideoGame/{{Brawlout}}.

** Some of the books in the Archive read [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey 50 Shades of Gaming]] and [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Jet Packs and Butlers]].

On June 7, 2019, a new TwoAndAHalfD installment, entitled ''VideoGame/YookaLayleeAndTheImpossibleLair'', was announced.

*** Also in Glitterglaze Glacier, after expanding the world, two [[BanjoKazooie ice keys]] appear in the stage. Yooka makes a note of both and how two of them is much better than one.

On June 7, 2019, a new TwoAndAHalfD installment, entitled ''VideoGame/YookaLayleeAndTheImpossibleLair'' was announced.