Playtonic Games
Yooka's the lizard; Laylee's the bat.
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In May of 2015, a gaggle of ex-developers from the game studio Rare made the crowd-funding rounds with dreams of resurrecting the 3D-platformer genre—and the results have finally begun to bear fruit. Yooka-Laylee, the debut project from Playtonic Games, looks like a blatant love letter to N64 classic Banjo-Kazooie. This week the game has finally been received a proper video reveal almost exactly a year after the dev team concluded its $3.2 million campaign.
The trailer, seen below, was apparently saved to help fans swallow the hard pill of a game delay. Yooka-Laylee has been pushed back from its original October 2016 promise to "Q1 2017." New publisher Team 17 (of Worms fame) will handle the game's Xbox One, PS4, Wii U, and Steam releases next year.
Yooka-Laylee premiere trailer
From the look of things, Playtonic seems dead-set on making a third Banjo-Kazooie (Banjo Three-ie?) in everything but name and main characters. Lizard and bat combine to double-jump, float, roll, and transform into other temporary creatures while traversing what appear to be some large, incredibly colorful worlds. Floating blocks, magically appearing platforms, and races (including a roll through a tunnel and a Donkey Kong Country-esque mine cart ride) fill out the brief preview footage found in an official trailer and a Eurogamer eyes-on preview.
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