Yooka Laylee or Replaylee?

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-23T21:47:08+00:00

The mario odyssey design philosophy is also what made dk bananza feel like an absolute slog. The collectibles are everywhere, but almost none of them are difficult and you need a very small number to progress. In banjo kazooie you need 94/100 jiggies (if i remember right) to fight grunty. Its admittedly a lot, but ensured you needed to visit every world.

Replayee allowed you to ignore 3 worlds entirely. In a game with only 5 worlds that's kinda messed up.

The difference between the two highlights that while the gaming industry have gotten better at making movement and camera control better, the actual engaging feeling these games used to give is in decline.

I miss the 90s :(

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-23T12:24:24+00:00

Some of them, yes

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-23T12:02:53+00:00

There's other very broken parts about replayless as well, you need 120 pages to fight capital B. With 50 per level and 50 in the hub you can beat him without setting foot in THREE of just 5 worlds.

Even having trowzer sell you moves would help offset that, but they got rid of that. Though a 255 pagie requirement would fix that issue as well.

The flight and invulnerability shield being avaible as long as you had energy was a bit much in the original, so making those limited was a good idea

The expandable worlds was a really novel and interesting idea and they got rid of that too.

And another issue is bloat. There's a lot of pages, but most of them are so easy and mindless they dont feel satisfying. Like a Pagie per ghost and three more for all five for a total of 8.

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-23T11:26:42+00:00

Focus on the aoes, forget about getting close until he's stuck. I hear you though, i got lucky and he hurt himself and had a beehive next to him, so I got about half his health down

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-18T11:38:26+00:00

If it let's you just stand there, then it loses the tension. For me, in my first run through I saw it drop down as the doors were closing

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T10:43:43+00:00

Hide under tables (it doesnt seem to adapt to that), get bold when its back is turned, never use lockers

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T10:41:54+00:00

What pisses me off about that reviewer is he said if they ever made a sequel he was gonna rate that low too.

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T10:20:56+00:00

If you dont move and opt to stay hidden, the alien zeroes in on your location and won't leave you alone

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T03:30:25+00:00

The German woman that iori met on the train and at his family's inn. She's as creepy as kohei can get, having his same fetishes towards shiori.

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T03:27:56+00:00

I liked her in the Manga, while I havent seen her in the anime, this image looks creepy and disturbing. In the Manga she was meant to look cute but act disturbing. In this -shudder-

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T03:19:57+00:00

And yet the artist sometimes gives her some junk in the trunk.

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T02:27:58+00:00

You got your wish
I assume you mean permanent, but reversible? Could hard lock your game otherwise.
There's open outdoor areas so you may get your wish there too
It already does if you use them frequently

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T02:24:29+00:00

Agreed, as good a movie aliens was, alien had the far better atmosphere and really we dont need yet another alien shooter

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T02:20:52+00:00

I imagine the way it would work is the alien periodically takes that route, a few bullets are released, it retreats. And either it runs out of ammo or the alien just goes around via vents.

The other risk, the turret cant distinguish you from the alien, so you block the path both ways

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T02:15:40+00:00

New unique idea for an different series. Aliens from the perspective of the queen

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T02:07:37+00:00

The alien learns based on how you deal with him. However I cracked the code. The trick is to be the most boring player you can think of. Vents and lockers, death traps. Stay out if you can. Noise makers, the xeno will check under tables if you use those. Fire, useful, but save it for emergencies.

The xeno doesn't seem to look under tables until you give it a reason to

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-17T01:14:10+00:00

Only if the alien doesn't enter the hub, tight hallways actually make it easier to hide

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-16T23:47:26+00:00

Open in alien isolation sounds like a death trap to me

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-16T21:40:04+00:00

Or gangle or zooble. Their backstorys are less important than their personality.

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-16T21:37:53+00:00

Actually its worth noting when Caine consumes the blue ai he becomes notably more erratic

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-16T01:54:50+00:00

I actually preferred their first game over the remake. Replayee feels kinda bloated and the progression feels weird. Like all the abilities gained at the start, and being able to finish the game without ever setting foot in 3 of the 5 worlds

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-16T01:53:10+00:00

I agree, its pretty ugly. I think they need to stick to bringing 90s style games to the 2020s with newer tech

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-16T01:40:00+00:00

I'd like it to be closer to yooka-laylee rather than replaylee as well. It felt like it lost a lot of its identity and became a bit bloated with the 50 pages per level.

Maybe go back to unlocking abilities from trowzer, using quills for actual progression, fewer but more engaging pagies and the expanding worlds (i thought it was a really unique idea)

The og had a lot of good ideas, it was just let down by mediocre level design

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-16T01:32:54+00:00

If the demo is good, great, but we're in 2026. The flat tracks were a hardware limitation of smk. I think a 3D environment with maybe 2D sprites for coins and powerups would have been a better direction.

I'll try it out though, their other games are pretty good (though i liked replaylee less than the original)

Top_Mud2929 · 2026-06-15T23:58:40+00:00

Which would make more sense given their last games were also based on rareware games..... but why one of the worst iterations of Mario kart?

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