Harrow posted:

My guess is that Yooka-Laylee is probably a perfectly good collectathon 3D platformer, but that, without nostalgia, we don't actually want to play collectathon 3D platformers anymore. We can go back and play Banjo Kazooie and have fun because we played it as kids and have that affection for it, but a new one doesn't have the glow of nostalgia going for it and we're going to notice a lot more of the things that make that kind of game tedious.

That said, Yooka-Laylee also has utterly baffling character design and chose an unfortunate art direction for its budget, so maybe it isn't all that good, either.

Lurdiak posted:

I just don't see what makes Banjo games tedious. Like people keep saying "you collect things in it" like it's this damning thing. Unless you're talking about a game that just isn't fun to play at all(Star Fox Adventures, I'm looking at you), there's nothing inherently wrong with having collectibles as objectives in your game as long as the levels are designed around it.

Tangents posted:

I kind of feel the same way about Donkey Kong 64 which tends to get a lot of the same poo poo. Is having piles of points to collect a bad thing if there's fun platformer game around it?

Of course, I never actually beat DK64 because I couldn't beat the original Donkey Kong minigame, so maybe I'm not the best source here

corn in the bible posted:

I'm the EYE DIVINE CYBERMANCY fans attacking a game for having silly bad animations

corn in the bible posted:

They're way funnier now and it's great

oddium posted:

rich evans is bad

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Captain Invictus posted:

VIDEO

GAMES

wikipedia page for blitzkampf posted:

some non-Japanese enthusiasts have gathered in communities like Shoryuken.com[8] (the official host of the Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournaments in the US), where the game has received unofficial nicknames such as "Jewpuncher".

Sakurazuka posted:

Can't allow any crosses in a game just in case.

precision posted:

please don't sexualize Link

Ciaphas posted:

Beat Specter Knight, yay

But now I'm bored again, boo

VideoGames posted:

One of my kitts

VideoGames posted:

She's just lying upside down on a pillow and being a nuisance as I was trying to change the bedding.

Her older 'sister' is completely deaf though.

Mordja posted:

It's a great thread, and goldmined somewhere too, I think, so even losers like me can read it without Archives.

It was mostly dollar store crap, but I think someone actually got a preopened DVD from that.

Harrow posted:

Is that actually true anymore? There were so many "Metroidvania" Castlevanias made for GBA and DS that they might outnumber the classic linear platformers. Maybe. I actually don't know, there are a lot of Castlevania games.

Spring Break My Heart posted:

The guy with the tiny head on a gigantic body.

Olive Garden tonight! posted:

I am once again in a depressive rut where I want to play video games but I can't make myself play video games.

Real hurthling! posted:

reminder to buy dqh2 and play with me on the twenty fifth

Jim Sterling posted:

It’s often hard to know where you’re going to land while jumping in a 3D space and old school level design couldn’t deal with it, with moving platforms and tricky chasms that simply refused to account for the shift in player perspective. From Mario 64 to Crash Bandicoot, there were plenty of control issues as well. Subtlety of movement wasn’t a strong suit of early 3D mascot platforms, which made navigating narrow ledges a pain.

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However, I powered through to at least see all the worlds on offer, a task rendered difficult only by the horrendous hub world design that makes the simple act of finding levels difficult due to obscure, sometimes bizarre placement. I don’t think I’ve seen a hub world so poorly executed before – it’s almost like they wanted it to feel like a Metroidvania map with its shortcuts and intertwining corridors, but it’s just a big steaming mess.

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Combat is brainless, consisting of tapping a single button while enemies walk thoughtlessly into your attacks. Sometimes you’ll not connect with an attack and take damage just because of some reasons. Yooka-Laylee can be quite arbitrary like that. The meat of the game is Banjo-Kazooie remade, which most people were expecting. It is quite literally that. It’s a collect-a-thon in which you travel to “unique” worlds and solve puzzles or uncover secrets to earn enough glorified keys to unlock additional worlds. In this case, the asspull collectibles are Pagies, bits of a magical book that came loose after the tome was stolen by Capital B – an evil capitalist who is a bee, you see.

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Additionally, the game is drowning in Quillies, or Quills, or whatever. They’re more contrived bits of magical bullshit you pick up so you can buy new moves from Trowzer the snake (he’s named after a penis). Some of these moves are crucial to acquiring new Pagies, although the game doesn’t always tell you what moves are needed and when. In fact, it might make you navigate intricate and irritating jumping sections to get to your goal… only to find out you don’t have some as-yet unknown power and will have to repeat everything later. Yooka-Laylee loves pulling this snide little stunt on its players.

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This is to say nothing of the awful minigames, none of which feel particularly optional since they all award Pagies. There are several “retro” arcade games that couldn’t even be bothered to use new character models to make anything look retro and take the form of piss-poor racing games or shooters.

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While regular platforming, puzzles, and minigames ruin your day, you’re also having to deal with the dialog noises because this is a game that assaults the psyche on all possible levels. It was never really funny when Banjo-Kazooie replaced talking with grating grunts and moans, but in Yooka-Laylee it’s a loving nightmare. Unlike The Legend of Zelda, where one or two noises are enough to get the point across, dialog sections in Yooka-Laylee insist that characters bark and wheeze and groan constantly while talking – every syllable needs an atrocious bloody racket. Some of the cacophony can thankfully be skipped, but not all of it. Expect to hear plenty of hacking, snorting, and sneering as characters rattle off droll in-jokes and self-references to the point of saturation. Also, Yooka himself sounds like a total loving pervert every time he “speaks.” It’s actually quite distressing.

The dialog as written is only slightly less painful with terrible jokes that undeservedly throw shade at other games and Laylee’s “witty” quips routinely insulting the looks of any creature that isn’t her, often using derogatory nicknames based on their appearance. She’ll toss out slurs against snakes, shopping carts, clouds, she doesn’t care. Laylee is a complete racist, and as facetious as I’m being here, she really does come off as a hateful, nasty, thoroughly unlikable little bastard. Jokes are often repeated and fall firmly into cringe territory with hamfisted fourth-wall breaks and mockery of modern game design – things that could work in a better game, one that was well designed enough to get away with mocking things, or one that’s at least funny when it does so. Yooka-Laylee is not funny. In fact, as someone who backed it, I can safely say it’s a loving disaster.

Rexroom posted:

Those sound like valid criticisms that other reviewers have expressed, although in a different tone. Jim doesn't like the game, and he states his reasons. Those same reasons might be why you like it.

Real hurthling! posted:

imagine if mario could only back flip jump off of predetermined pads on the ground

Phantasium posted:

Wait, did Cosmic Star Heroine actually come out?

It's a god damned miracle.

In Training posted:

There's badass screen filling skeletons though and you can turn into a werewolf on command and just gently caress things up. It's cool that they were given a second chance by Konami to finish/fix their game [glances longingly at MGSV...]

corn in the bible posted:

the egg poop powerup. lol.