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Carlos Yarib
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Can we just talk about Yooka-Laylee? In all my experience on gaming I have never witnessed a game as underrated as this. The game sold so poorly that it might mean that Playtonic will not develop a sequel. I might be biased because Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie (Especially Banjo-Tooie) were for me what Super Mario 64 and Zelda OoT were for others during my childhood. I cannot compare SM64 with Banjo-Tooie, because in my opinion, the latter is far superior in many ways. Anyway, going back to Yooka-Laylee. It is in my opinion a masterpiece of its kind. So early into the game it simply feels like home. It feels like 7 years ago when I first played BK and BT, and felt immersed in their beautiful story, music, humor, and gameplay (Although I'm young, I've always liked platformers way better than say FPS and RPG). Many factors could've been the cause of the poor performance of this game when it comes to sales. It could've been all the JonTron drama, which made a significant amount of backers take back their money, or the fact that the Wii U version was cancelled, and many of the Wii U backers are not getting a Switch. When they removed JonTron from the game, I knew they were on for terrible consequences, and in my opinion, staying neutral on the subject would have just been the best decision for the devs. Overall, what I think affected this game the most is the lack of interest for the game. Those couple hundred thousand players were mostly BK fans, and not a whole lot of people had interest for a spiritual successor to Banjo-Tooie (Banjo-Kazooie already had a successor, so YL is a spiritual successor to Banjo-Tooie). This game would've totally disappeared from shelves 20 years ago, but today, people want to kill zombies, spend $100+ on skins, and yell at microphone with insults. Just check the reviews for the game. Many call it "boring" and "too childish". Because today, the real gaming community is as small as it was 20 years ago, and the rest are whiny butt holes and "game journalists" who started gaming 6 months ago. Long gone are the golden days of gaming, and that is the main reason why games like this are ignored. Just my humble opinion.