Yooka-Replaylee

TheSixthAxisSteve C

9/10

Way back when it was announced, Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee attracted a huge amount of excitement and anticipation, promising to bring back the lost art of the collectathon 3D platformer. With ex-Rare devs leading the way, and their former employer subject to the whims of Microsoft’s inner workings, fans were hoping that the lizard and bat combination would resurrect the golden age of Banjo-Kazooie et al. The end result was one of the biggest disappointments in gaming memory. Yooka-Laylee wasn’t a complete disaster but felt unfinished and strangely empty, especially in the later levels. The 2D sp...

Impulse GamerNay Clark

Yooka and Laylee are back…again!? Yooka-Re-Playlee is an action-platforming adventure developed by Playtonic Games, published by PM Studios, Inc. and

COGConnectedStephan Adamus

80/100

Yooka-Laylee was a platformer I wanted to love, but struggled with because of the controls and camera. Many also hated the backtracking and linear structure. Those issues have been addressed in Yooka Re-Playlee, making it the superior version. I actually really enjoyed unlocking abilities and levels in the original game. And feel like some of the attempts to make it more open, and to have more collectables, don’t work super well. I wish there was a choice to play Yooka Re-Playlee with just the improved visuals, camera, and controls. It would be a dream come true for me if Yooka Re-Playlee offe...

GamelinerPatrick Lamers

Playtonic Games is back with Yooka-Replaylee. You can read whether the developer has managed to address the criticisms of the original in our review.

Push SquareJohn Hansen

8/10

When Yooka-Laylee was released in 2017, it was a fine game. Many came in extremely excited for it but were largely let down overall; it turned out to be pretty middling at best.

The Punished BacklogSam Martinelli

7.8/10

In our Yooka-Replayee review, learn why this remake of 2017's Yooka-Laylee is a nice do-over that rectifies many of the original's errors.

PPEPaweł Musiolik

7.5/10

Yooka and Laylee return in a new-old game that corrects many of the original's shortcomings. It's hard not to feel like they're a few years too late.

NoobFeedChoitytata

75/100

Playtonic returns to its ambitious first game, fixing what was wrong and bringing back the fun of 3D platformers with charm, color, and newfound confidence.

AltCharAsmir Kovacevic

7/10

Yooka-Replaylee is a charming and colourful 3D platformer remaster that delivers polished visuals, smooth performance, and a nostalgic experience, but, unfortunately, with very basic and rather generic platforming and gameplay in general.

Playstation UniverseJoe Richards

6/10

Blow for blow, Yooka-Replaylee is a quality 3D platformer. It does what it needs to do and does so in a way that’s inoffensive and pretty bogstandard. My issues with the game come from its existence as a replacement for a game with genuinely interesting ideas. Replaylee does away with every interesting wrinkle in favour of an experience that, unfortunately, falls far too close to certain other games for me to want to prioritise this one. It’s a bizarre exercise in overcorrection that misses what the original game was literally made for. Is it a better game than the original? Probably. But it's...

Lords of GamingRobert Kellett

Unscored

Playtonic returns to Yooka and Laylee's first adventure with 'Yooka-Replaylee'. Does this polished book turn the paggie?

GamingTrendAnthony Pelone

Unscored

Yooka-Replaylee oozes with charm and color, yet much as its visuals endear, its lack of cohesion still can’t match the heights of its 64-bit ancestors. While filled to the gills with collectibles, those nostalgic for Rare’s golden age may well be better off revisiting their classics via Nintendo Switch Online or digging out their old Banjo cartridges.