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A big Yooka-Laylee patch helps some of the annoyances I had

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Yooka-Laylee [Steam, GOG, Official Site] has been patched and it's actually a pretty decent patch. It sounds like they've really listened to feedback.

Highlights:
  • New camera mode with minimal assist. (Find this in the settings menu)
  • Further, general camera improvements in set locations within the game.
  • Skip cut-scenes.
  • Shorter 'gibberish chat'. (Find this in the settings menu)
  • Skip dialogue by holding Y.
  • The Capital Cashino bugs have been squished with great vengeance and furious anger.

You can see the full changelog here, there's a lot more smaller changes too.

The gibberish chat and non-skippable cut-scenes were two major annoyances for me, so I'm really pleased to see those get sorted. Any game that doesn't allow you to skip scenes gets a black mark in my book. Seems like I might now be able to complete it, as it sounds like it's a much better experience overall now.

What do you guys think to the game, have any of you completed it? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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7 comments

Beamboom Jun 28, 2017
I really think their coop mode, who's just a cursor picking up stuff being the only thing the second player could do, was a missed opportunity to create a really cool couch coop game. I am aware of the multiplayer "arcade", but that's secondary to the main game.

I might still pick it up eventually as it looks charming enough in itself, but yeah... A well designed coop mode would have made it an instabuy.
pb Jun 28, 2017
Did they fix the first boss (Rampo)? No idea if it's Linux-specific or SteamOS-specific, but for me it was completely broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbY8WPEcnw

I can't check it myself because after SteamOS update my xbox360 controller doesn't work at all with Yooka-Laylee (and if I enable xbox controllers in the controller settings menu in SteamOS, it is recognised in Yooka-Laylee but the right stick doesn't work, so it's still pretty much unplayable).


Last edited by pb on 28 June 2017 at 1:18 pm UTC
Nezchan Jun 28, 2017
I've hated the damn gibberish chat right from the start. It's badly implemented and annoying, so making it unskippable was a major downside for me. By contrast, look at the old PS1 game Klonoa to see the same idea done well.
Naib Jun 28, 2017
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Quoting: KelsI've hated the damn gibberish chat right from the start. It's badly implemented and annoying, so making it unskippable was a major downside for me. By contrast, look at the old PS1 game Klonoa to see the same idea done well.
I was getting that tearing as well.
I have not check yet but I will do shortly
spamatica Jun 28, 2017
Is GOG really updated? I still get the old version.
I backed this on kickstarter because at $15 it felt like a steal and I want the 3d platformer genre back but in the first place a banjo kazooie like title never really appealed to me. Granted I only occasionally played it on demos in stores but as a kid all I needed was my Spyro to get my fix. Spyro was great, I feel like downloading an emulator now and playing it some.
ison111 Jun 29, 2017
Oh wow, how did I not know this was out yet?
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