It’s been one year since Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee was fully funded and since then the studio has been in a self imposed blackout, but the lights are back on and they have some new stuff to show us.
Aside from screenshots there’s a bunch of new information on how the game will work and the characters that will inhabit the world. There also seems to be hands on previews on the way, no doubt the game has been shown behind closed doors.
The story
Yooka and Laylee’s adventure will take them deep inside the work halls of a baneful business, as the buddy-duo seek out the magical Pagies required to explore the mysterious Grand Tomes. The dexterous pair will seek to unlock the ancient secrets of these bewitching books, as they battle to thwart corporate creep Capital B and his devious scheme to absorb all of the world’s literature… and convert them into pure profit.
Collectables
Using the hundreds of collectible Quills discovered during their travels, the buddy-duo will purchase and unlock moves from the serpent salesman Trowzer, which they can choose to do in virtually any order that the player decides. This is just one way which Yooka-Laylee empowers player choice, in addition to the ability to expand and make larger the worlds you’ve already explored, and the unique Tonic gameplay modifiers which can be used to customise your play style.
There’s more about the game on a fully featured blog post on the companies website.
There’s good news for the games Kickstarter backers, this July you’ll be getting your hands on the ‘Toybox’. This was promised to be a simple in-webbrowser tech demo but the team say it has evolved a lot since then.
Quite simply, our plans for the Toybox have expanded beyond the web-based, single-room play thing we originally planned and it’s now a much more significant chunk of playable content.
As promised in our Kickstarter campaign, the Toybox isn’t a traditional ‘demo’, but a self-contained, spoiler-free sandbox designed to give Yooka-Laylee backers a taste of the platforming to come in the final game.There are plenty moves to try, custom-built props to play with, secrets to discover and yes, shiny collectibles to hunt out.
We’re going to assume this Toybox is still a PC only thing for now. Heck we’re not even sure what platforms the final game will be on.
Big name first party titles aplenty, all the big names.
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