The rest of the industry should be taking notice of this.
No, not on the punny name part.
Yooka-Laylee isn’t that old.
There was some glowing praise and some outright negative takes.
The thing is: those are easy problems to fix.
But improving Yooka-Laylee for the new version won’t require a complete reworking of the game’s core identity.
It’s all stuff that can be tweaked.
Case in point: One of Yooka-Replaylee’s big selling points is the addition of…a map.
This isn’t the first game that has taken this approach.
It was a great change that made a game I liked with caveats much easier to love.
Instead, we tend to get remakes of canonical classics.
Those games were all considered great upon release, so remakes were safe financial bets for their publishers.
There’s an existing demand for those games that just needed to be capitalized on.
But those games got remade because of those proximities.
Capcom was remaking the Resident Evil games and 3 was next.
Both choices made sense.
These reworks fill the gap.
Observer is a cult classic, and deserves more recognition.
