Logan Moore is the Managing Editor around these parts and enjoys the video game Super Mario Odyssey. I’ll say this up front: if you’ve been clamoring for a mascot platformer for years then you’ll be ...

As a spiritual successor to 3D platformer Banjo-Kazooie, Yooka-Laylee really does capture the cheeky personality of its predecessor. It doesn’t introduce many new ideas, but it does rework the ...

As someone who grew up on 3D platformers, hope for the genre's return is something I'd been clinging onto. I'm clearly not alone, as Yooka-Laylee is one of Kickstarter's biggest success stories. The ...

The Yooka-Laylee embargo has dropped and it’s running the gamut. This spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie is getting scores ranging up and down the whole scale, and we’ve got a round up of some of ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Though a sequel to the Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Laylee from Playtonic Games, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair harkens back to Rare’s even older work, Donkey Kong Country, with a ...

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out more about how we test ...

As such, the the two-dimensional escapades Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair feel much closer to something like Donkey Kong Country (many of the key creative staff behind that game worked on this) ...

Yooka-Laylee is proof that sometimes our fondest memories should stay in the past. The Kickstarter success story promised a new version of classic Rare-developed titles from the Nintendo 64 era, ...

This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been ...

When the Yooka-Laylee crowfunding campaign got underway in 2015, its developers stated that their intention was to "create a spiritual successor to our most cherished work from the past." Now that the ...

When it’s at its best, Yooka-Laylee reminds me of why 3D platformers have been one of my favorite game genres for the past two decades. Its colorful worlds, vibrant and funny characters, and generally ...