Yooka-Laylee is looking amazing

[A Black Falcon]

If you look at reviews of the game, they are very mixed, with as many really low scores as high ones: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/yooka-laylee I haven't played it yet, but I somehow doubt I'll think it deserves a score as low as that average. How are 3d platformers like this somehow now a "niche genre" like I see some people saying, I think they're so much better than most of the popular kinds of games now -- crafting games, open-world shooters, etc...

Something called a Jontron has been excised from the game, due to racism.

Oh yeah, that. Good riddance, the guy made some amusing videos years ago but I was never really a fan. It is disappointing that he turned out to be really racist, but I never liked or watched much Game Grumps when he was on it (or since), so... it's too bad but says more about the state of the industry now, where you can be openly racist in a way that never would have been okay before but at the same time there is also a stronger push to for social justice in gaming than their used to be, so things like what he said are a reaction against that direction that is going to win in the end. Anyway, more than being about him in specific, this is about that general trend; he's not the only one like that, after all.

As for the people claiming "I will not play Yooka-Laylee because Playtronic decided to not support a racist"... well, they're probably lying and never were going to play it (or are going to anyway), because his little guest voice bit was not exactly major, but regardless... well, let's just say that nothing of value was lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=req-W-V1bNk