The shit I just took was better then Mighty No. 9.
No they're complaining that it's fucking boring.
I don't know how you can draw that conclusion, ME:2 had solid voice acting and character building despite over-simplifying a lot of the elements from the first game. ME:A has a bunch of nobodies doing the VA, unlikable characters, and terrible writing even by Bioware's standards. ME:A also over-simplified the gameplay (even more than ME:2) for no good reason after they had gotten it mostly right in ME:3.
Umm.... the entire reason I was even excited for this game was because of the nostalgia. Its basically Banjo-Kazooie with a new skin. Exactly what I was hoping for. Anyone who expected it to be anything other than that clearly didn't do their homework. My only complaint is that the camera auto-centers when you move. It can be annoying. They could easily patch that out, though (not that I expect them to).
There's plenty of "wrong" with the game, I lost 40 hours of progress because the game went into a never-ending loading loop and, according to EA, the only way to "fix the issue" was starting over. The game also has problems with texture pop-in, especially on Kadara from what I noticed, and I'm playing on the PS4 Pro, so there's no excuse - the console version is broken. I currently have a quest marker on the Nexus for a quest that hasn't even started yet, pointing to a non-existent NPC, and the only way to get rid of it is to just play the game until the NPC finally spawns in the right moment of the story. The scanner often refuses to scan certain objects despite the fact that they're highlighted, which means that the pin-point picking system is broken. Multiplayer matches are also screwed, as the game is plagued with a random bug that disconnects you and sends you to an error code screen, and to make matters worse, it conveniently happens on Wave 6, right before extraction - in my experience one in four matches sends me back to the PS4 homescreen, making online barely playable. Don't get me wrong, I like the game, but the technical shortcomings go beyond the "faces" which didn't bother me in the first place, they're in basic functionality of the game.
They had a chance to make something new and exciting and they blew it with a reskin. If it wasn't for the packaging, you could confuse the game for a ROM hack, that's not acceptable. Not only that, it's not a very good ROM hack either.
No one said you have to like the game. Myself, on the other hand, I really like the fact that this game is so close to Banjo-Kazooie. I was, in fact, looking forward to it. Sorry to hear you were disappointed.
It sounds like the majority of the press was disappointed. There's a difference between reviving a defunct gameplay model and making it work again by applying modern mechanics, like inExile is doing, and just applying high voltage to a corpse to create a Frankenstein of an IP. I'm happy that you're enjoying the game, but the consensus is that the title feels dated at best.
It feels dated because 3d platformers were "killed off" around the time everything needed to either be fps or open world to be good. COD is constantly top of the charts, yet every single one of those is a "reskin" as well...
3D platformers have gone through an exodus of sorts in recent years, Yooka-Laylee is hardly the first of its kind, it's just dated.
Its not supposed to be the first of its kind.... The ENTIRE point of the game from the start was to be a Banjo-Kazooie clone. I don't understand how you could have expected anything else.
