Playtonic Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Yooka-Laylee, a spiritual successor to the cult Banjo Kazooie platformer series. This time our heroes aren’t a bear and a bird, but a gecko and a bat. That’s progress, people!
Yooka and Laylee were created by Steve Mayles, the same character artist responsible for Banjo and Kazooie and several members of the extended Kong family. Platforming royalty, essentially. According to a preview over on IGN, Yooka the lizard can grab stuff with his sticky tongue and grapple to ledges, while Laylee the bat can fly and use a sonic attack.
The Kickstarter’s not quite up yet (we’ll update this post when it is) but developer Playtonic promises “sprawling, gorgeous worlds to explore, tons of smartarse characters to meet and inventive moves to learn.”
Judging by the footage above, Yooka-Laylee looks like it’s pretty far along its development cycle, so it’ll be interesting to see what Playtonic’s looking to get from the Kickstarter.
