Plaything through Yooka-Replaylee as their deal on the game if you are an owner of the original game was leaving soon, and I had been meaning to pick it up and so far it is definitely a step up from what I generally remember from the first game, which was a real rough time, it looks nice, it mostly plays well (Was alot more frame drops in the snow world than the temple world), but I'm also not 100% in love.
It's fine, it generally does what it is supposed but it still has a little bit of the feel I remember of the first game where it never felt like it was a real big advancement of that N64 era of 3D platformer. In some ways it is, but there are so many pagies to collect in each world, 50 I think, so rather than a handful of distinct challenges to collect the important stuff, they are just everywhere. This isn't Donkey Kong 64 bad or anything, you don't have to switch characters or anything like that, I don't know...It just feels basic. It's got kinda bad aim controls for shooting objects, where you come to a stop and have to aim and it feels awkward, rather than just allowing you a free move in first or third person like a shooter would have it. It's an odd choice. There's also little bits of jank, such as when you collect a pagie, it does the "I grabbed the thing" animation, that transitions very stiffly back to gameplay, it's odd.
I don't know, maybe I'm just less in the mood for this than I thought, it's not bad, maybe something like having played Astro Bot kinda spoiled me abit when it comes to a new 3D platformer.
