Yooka-Laylee: The Impossible Lair - Nintendo Switch

For those who don’t know, the development team who made this game is made up of folks who used to work for Rare back in their SNES and N64 glory days. They did a Kickstarter for the first Yooka Laylee game to basically try to make another Banjo game. Not unlike the whole Mighty No. 9 debacle, the first Yooka Laylee game mostly just reminded folks that you really shouldn’t try to slavishly copy one vintage game, as many felt the resulting game didn’t live up to their rose tinted memories or the Kickstarter hype.So in this sequel, the devs decided to pull a few pages from the Shovel Knight handbook and pull from a variety of influences to make a game that tickles the nostalgia bone AND feels fresh and good to play.At its core, The Impossible Lair is a 2-D platformer in the style of Donkey Kong Country, with tight controls, similar mechanics and the same great organic level design found in recent entries like DKC: Tropical Freeze. But it’s not just a straight DKC clone, there are twists to the formula that borrow from things like Yoshi’s Island and Rayman Legends, which help give the game more of its own identity and feel.Also helping with this is the overworld. Instead of just being a path of levels, the game’s levels are all points on a top down overworld where you solve some light Zelda style puzzles to open up the levels and trigger environmental changes to each level. So 20 levels become 40 after solving various puzzles. The overworld also has hidden goodies and other secrets to find. The other Zelda influence comes in the form of the titular Impossible Lair itself. Just like Hyrule Castle is available from the beginning of Breath of the Wild, the last level of the game, the super challenging Impossible Lair is available from the start. Any time you wanna try to beat the game, it’s there but it takes considerable skill to beat it at all, much less early in the game.All of this adds up to something much more interesting than the first Yooka game. It’s not just a copy of the past but a mix of positive influences that it weaves into a cohesive and satisfying whole. The graphics look great, the levels are bursting with personality, the controls are tight, and the music is gorgeous. It’s a great game for $30, and an easy recommendation for anyone who likes platformers.

This game is an excellent throwback to the days of old school donkey kong country and in my opinion, is superior to Tropical Freeze in many ways.Graphics: It has the beauty of a modern platformer, with the look and feel that brings you memories of the original Donkey Kong Country.Music/Sound: The music again bring back memories of the old super nintendo Donkey Kong Country Games and how that music should have evolved over the years.Gameplay: The gameplay has good flow to it and is extremely enjoyable, again feeling like old school dk action. The difficulty level of the game can run from easy to very difficult. The impossible lair is extremely difficult, so don’t expect to beat it in your first outing. The game provides the unique mechanic of being able to challenge the impossible lair at any point in the game and as many times as you like. You get more lives and the lair essentially becomes less impossible with the more bees that you collect by beating other levels and exploring the world. Expect to have to explore most of the world and collect the majority of the bees, before beating the game is possible.Overall: If you’re looking for that old nostalgic feel of a classic Donkey Kong Country game, in a modern platformer, this is the perfect game for you. Just don’t anticipate beating the impossible lair until you’ve collected the majority of the bees and thoroughly explored the game.

I heard a lot of good and bad things about this game. All the good things compared it with classic Donkey Kong Country on snes and the same with the bad things. But it was made by ex rare employee’s and after the first game playing similar to Banjo Tooie and Donkey Kong 64 it seems they wanted to make an older style of platformer and they nailed it. Graphically it is simplistic but colorful, really responsive controls, and interesting level designs that are multi layered. As for the challenge tough but fair it has plenty of checkpoints and not overwhelmingly tough. I enjoyed it a simple platformer a bit easy for me but Fun none the less. It felt like an Easier Donkey Kong Country with DKC3 over world full of secrets and to clarify easy it’s because of the checkpoints there is some challenging parts here and there. If you want a simple old school platformer this will give you that no more no less.

So after beating the game this is my review. The game as other people have said as well as PlayTonic themselves have said, this is more in the likes of DK Country, modernized and tweaked a lot. Almost every level (aside from the last one if I'm not mistaken) has 2 sides, because as you know, "every story has 2 sides". This second side would be playing the "almost same level", but under water, frozen, with winds, upside down, swinging, darker, and a lot more. The last level is hard as heck since there are NO checkpoints and it's long long loooong, but a good challenge is always welcoming. If anyone enjoyed the first Yooka-Laylee and enjoys DK Country, you should definitely give this a try.

I loved playing the Banjo Kazooie games from my childhood, so I was thrilled when Yooka-Laylee was released. Unfortunately, the first game in the series disappointed me. This one, however, is fantastic. This is a quality game with a very interesting story progression. Basically, you start off by attempting the final level. You will probably die. Then, you can either reattempt the final level, OR progress from level 1 to make the final level easier. It's pretty interesting.One thing to note: This game plays differently than Banjo Kazooie and the original Yooka Laylee. The majority of the game is 2D sidescrolling, only the overworld is 3Dish. It's more reminiscent of the Donkey Kong games, but that isn't a bad thing!

Yooka Laylee is an incredibly fun 2D platformer from the masterminds who made Donkey Kong country what it was. The game's platforming shines, without being nearly as difficult as the DKC series. Unfortunately, the game goes from being a chill experience to being one of incredibly frustrating difficult, earning it's name "The Impossible Lair". The difficulty of the Impossible Lair is so steep compared to the rest of the game that you'll quickly find the game scantly prepared you for a challenge of this scale, and even with the updates to add in check points to the nightmarishly frustrating final level, after 5 attempts most people will quit when they're eight or ten hours into the game and have every collectible to help them through.After thirty some attempts, I've given up. I can't recommend this game to anyone but the most hardcore of 2D platform players because the reality is, they will never finish the game without an enormous time investment being required for the final level. I don't know what they were thinking with this level; it meshes so poorly with the rest of the game. I should add that, while 2.5D (and 2D platformers) are not my strong suite, I am not unfamiliar with them by any means, and I am a pretty hardcore gamer: I found it too difficult. The final level, even with all 48 bees, is so beyond most players they will never finish it without sinking more time into the final level than they did the rest of the game. It isn't fun, it's tedious.

Es un juego muy divertido, corre aparentemente a 60fps en Switch, es compatible con la Switch normal como con la lite, este juego te mantendrá con horas de diversion, los personajes son muy carismáticos, en modo dock se ve increíble, los escenarios son muy bonitos.Si bien su apariencia es infantil, algunos niños podrían llegar a frustrarse con la elevada dificultad de algunos niveles.La dificultad es considerablemente alta, eso es bueno si te gustan juegos como Crash Bandicoot pues completar todo el juego será un gran desafío.

haven't played a lot but the couples first stages was fun, i think its a good game for the price.Pros:60 fps gameplay handheld / Docked.seems to have a lot of replayablility.look goodFunCons:have not find any cons yet.must have for your collection if you like sidescrolling games. ;)

Excelente juego, recomendable, divertido, entretenido, de los ex de Rare ahora Playtonic games, por lo que la jugabilidad y musica muy al estilo de Donkey Kong.

Great price but son not interested in this game. It was cheap so I bought it but he has played it once. Looks cool to me though. Worth the month.