Yooka-Laylee
Release: April 11th
Availability: PS4, Xbox, Switch, PC, Mac, Linux
For a certain subset of the gaming community, the release of Yooka-Laylee is like a coming home party. Probably the most well known Kickstarter darling, Yooka-Laylee smashed crowdfunding records in mere minutes of the campaign’s beginning. Created by a team of developers from Rare’s golden days, Yooka-Laylee is meant to be a spiritual successor to the team’s previous platforming darlings. To some, that might not seem like much. Yooka-Laylee could be easily seen as more of the same instead of something new, but after nearly ten years of nothing quite like Banjo-Kazooie or Donkey Kong 64, this is a welcome breath of fresh air. Again, the weight of the Mighty No. 9 disaster looms, but backers have played a beta version of the game and have reported good things. After the miserable time many had in 2016, this is one colorful palette cleanser I think many will get behind.
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