Yooka-Laylee: two artworks, additional details

Last week, Playtonic Games finally started talking about Yooka-Laylee again, and revealed two new characters:

• Dr. Quack: a fowl wearing an exosuit, who’s making the best of a bad situation under the rule of Capital B. After the ruthless takeover of his Quack Corp organisation, he’s started to create various inventions to satisfy the demands of his new boss and of the shareholders. He used to be much less unpleasant.
• Dr. Puzz: she used to be Dr Quack’s sweet, naive prodigy. When Capital B took over Quack Corp, she immediately left (taking her own inventions with her). She was designed by Ed Bryan.  She’s the one who created the “wild and wonderful” transformations to be found in the game (something Playtonic Games will talk about in the near future).

Today, Playtonic Games revealed an artwork for each character:

And as announced last week, Yooka-Laylee is featured in EDGE magazine this month. We learn that Playtonic’s focus has been to blend N64-style platforming and collecting with modern trends: that includes making sure every collectible is worth collecting and has value. Thanks to the collectibles, you can unlock improved moves, new areas, and more.

Thanks to collectible tokens, you can actually unlock 8 multiplayer arcade games, which can be played with up to 4 players, and which can be accessed at any time once they’ve been unlocked.

Also, the game seems to be quite varied, and includes some minecart levels (what would be a good platformer without at least one of those?). With Yooka-Laylee, Playtonic Games really want to surprise players all the time, so that they don’t know what’s coming next. Their goal was to keep the element of surprise, and avoid everythign to start feeling formulaic.

Yooka-Laylee (Wii U) should be released later this year!

Source: Kickstarter / EDGE
Via: NintendoLife