The duo Yooka and Laylee are making their way back with another adventure. The creator of the first Yooka-Laylee series - Playtonic has announced the next sequel: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
You can watch the reveal trailer below:
The next story of the Yooka-Laylee duo
Team17 has briefly revealed the story of Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair in the latest press release. This time Queen Phoebee’s Royal Beettalion Guard were captured by the wicked Capital B.
It's the adorable chameleon - Yooka and bat - Laylee's duty to rescue them. The duo has to make their way through the toughest challenge ever created by the antagonist - the Impossible Lair. Combining skills to swim, jump and dash through multiple traps, and find the way through Overworld to take down Capital B!
Brand new gameplay
The game still features bright-colors gameplay, but if you're expecting a sequel without any changes in gameplay, then you must think again.
Unlike its predecessors, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair has ditched the 3D sandbox gameplay and makes its 2.5D. Specifically, it's much more 2D with the side-scrolling adventure to further explore the lair, and top-down 3D when the duo has to solve the puzzles.
For me, the game clearly brings some reminiscences to the Donkey Kong Country Returns series from Retro.
Fun enough, there's an interesting thing notice about the series' developer Playtonic and Retro. Apparently, Rare created the Donkey Kong Country series and then Retro pick it up and create the Return series based on Rare's work. And now, former Rare developers gathered to make Playtonic, and delivered a game that looks similar to those Retro's titles.
What a weird loop!
Set things aside, with this sequel, you'll make your way through a variety of obstacles, secret routes, gaining items and all that good stuff. In order to do that, Yooka and Laylee both have their unique abilities, which you'll have to combine precisely in every challenge.
It's 2019, so you can't expect the gameplay to be spoon-fed to you, but it will not be over-the-head either.
To top things up, the soundtrack will come from the hand of Grant Kirkhope and David Wise - Rare's famous composers.
Supported platforms and release date
Playtonic will work with the publisher Team17 to bring the game to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC through Steam.
The publisher hasn't announced the official release date yet but planned to release it at some point this year.
Are you eager to see this adorable duo back in action?