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 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 and the Impossible Lair lacks most of the original game’s charm, and its final gauntlet is more tedious than taxing. I’ll never finish Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair—and no, not ...

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, ...

The game stars titular characters Yooka and Laylee. Yooka is a male chameleon, and also the sensible one of the duo. Sitting atop his head is Laylee. She’s a wise-cracking, sarcastic bat who helps you ...

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 ...

Yooka-Laylee's second outing is a surprising switch of perspective. The bat and lizard are back, and they've undergone a shocking transformation. Where the first Yooka Laylee looked to resurrect 3D ...

Platformers from the late 90’s tended to have a few things in common. One of which were similar character designs. Not that they all looked alike, but that each game had people and places that all ...

In the most 1990s, neon, Nickelodeon kind of way, I feel lucky to have lived through the industry’s exciting transition from 2D to 3D. Even more specifically, and with I'm-not-crying-you're-crying ...

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

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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 ...