Playtonic Games announced Yooka-Replaylee on Thursday, revealing the new and improved version of the 2017 platforming game, Yooka-Laylee.
What is new in Yooka-Replayee?
Yooka-Replaylee will feature new visuals, an improved camera system, improved controls, and an updated orchestral score for the game. Alongside the changes to the visuals of the game, Yooka-Replaylee will also feature brand new content, with Playtonic Games calling this “the best version” of the game to own.
The upcoming game will once again come from the same key creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games, and a full Q&A session will be held next week on Playtonic’s YouTube channel to show off the game and dive into what fans can expect.
Check out the Yooka-Replaylee trailer below:
Currently, no information on when the Yooka-Replaylee release date will be, but more information is likely to come on June 11, when Playtonic Senior Community Manager Steve James hosts a sit-down Q&A session with some of the company’s founders to answer questions about the upcoming game, as well as what Playtonic has in store in the future.
Known key features of Yooka-Replaylee include:
- More Beautiful Than Ever – With an art and animations overhaul and enhanced performance and resolution, the favourite buddy duo has never looked or moved better.
- New and Improved Challenges – Improvements to existing in-game challenges and many entirely new challenges to discover and undertake!
- New Collectible Currency – Capital B’s inept minions have dropped their hard-earned coins all over the place. Collect the official currency of the Hivory Towers to spend on video games’ most beloved sentient vending machine.
- Navigating the World – Now you can get lost in the game, not in the world! A brand-new world map and challenges tracker helps you know where you are and what needs to be done. Hooray!
- Vendi Has Plenty to Offer – Tonics are back with all new flavours! With the option to equip multiple game-changing enhancements, you can truly customise your playstyle. And as if that wasn’t enough, Vendi has new lines of merchandise for the modern fashionable adventurer.
- Revised Controls & Camera – A new tweaked move set allows you to combine moves more fluidly while the new camera controls makes framing the action a breeze.
- A Dreamy Orchestral Soundtrack – The original score from famed video game composers Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and David Wise (Donkey Kong Country) returns but as a beautifully arranged orchestral score. Now seriously, clean out those ears.
