It was announced a few months ago that the classic platformer Yooka-Laylee would be getting a remaster in the form of Yooka-Replaylee, and today it's been confirmed that it'll definitely be coming to Xbox Series X and Series S.
This version of the game will feature an "art and animations overhaul", improved performance and resolution, new and improved challenges, better camera controls, a new world map, tweaks to your move set, and much more.
"Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remastered and enhanced version of the 3D indie platforming collectathon darling, Yooka-Laylee (2017), developed by key creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games. New remixed challenges and old favourites await as you embark to explore the huge, beautiful open worlds as the lovable buddy-duo Yooka (the green one) and Laylee (the purple one) once more, all while backed by a beautiful orchestral soundtrack. Did we mention there is a map now? A shiny new currency? And tons of customisation options? The favourite buddy duo has never moved, looked, or sounded better!"
It's still early days for this remaster and we don't have a full release date just yet, but it looks like development is going well - and apparently there's going to be a playable demo of it at EGX in the UK this weekend.
In fact, we're going to let the cat out of the bag and reveal that we've been playing Yooka-Replaylee here at Pure Xbox over the past couple of weeks, and we've put together a comparison with the original that you can watch up above!
We'll throw the official "Console Announcement Trailer" down below as well:
Excited for Yooka-Replaylee on Xbox? Let us know down in the comments section.
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Would have been nice to hit for this Christmas 2024.
Oh, this was likely secret play test you've all been up to. Cool. Congrats on getting that inside track.
I wanted to like this game so bad, they tried so hard to mimic Banjo-Kazooie, but it just was just missing some magic. Not a bad game, but not great either. Hopefully this version improves some of the flaws.
I have never played the Banjo-Kazooie games, it's one of those I couldn't play backl in the day cause I didn't have the right console and now it's on the ever growing backlog of things to play.
I gave money on kickstarter for this one and don't regret it, game was decent, I wouldn't say great. Generally ok with the "impossible lair" one too, although I had some doubts too. Still, as a fan of platforming games, I enjoyed it, so would recommend people who enjoy this genre and hasn't played it before to give it a try if reasonably priced.
I'm unsure, but maybe I'll play the remaster at some point too.
All these remasters are getting ridiculous now especially of average games
Oh wow, not only do the graphics look way better, its gameplay looks to be much smoother as well.
This is more like a remake than a simple remaster.
@Stamnoso You should also play the Banjo-Kazooie games on Rare Replay. The original Yooka-Laylee is inspired by these classics, but can't hold a candle to them.
Please stop with the remakes and remasters, devs, just give us new gaaaames. I bought the original to support the team, but come on...
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