8th October 2017, 9:23 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Where did I use the word "everyone"? I just mean by all accounts I've seen so far.There have only been a handful of reviews so far and they are mostly pretty positive, though Gamespot's 7/10 might be closer to what I'm thinking right now.
Quote:It's interesting to see this point of view though. I knew about the Jontron controversy. I can understand why that would turn someone off from the game, but for me it wasn't enough. It certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings if they made the call to cut his voice and get someone else in there though. Frankly, he's not a very good voice actor anyway and should stick to comedy (and should probably also reconsider his stances on a lot of things, I really don't think his racist positions are as close to his heart as he pretends they are).The Jontron thing is pretty bad, but it's a lot worse because it has happened on top of all that other very questionable stuff the developer did, both before and after the kickstarter. This is one of the reasons why I'm backing far fewer kickstarters now than I was a few years ago; not only is it usually a poor value-for-money proposition, but also sometimes you end up backing things like this, by people you really would rather not support... and that is too bad because the game seems to be okay (though flawed), but it's a significant factor.
I had no idea about the troubled development history. I can understand why that would sour you with the game. Untold Story is an even worse case if you've never dived into that one's train wreck development history.
Quote:My experience with the controls is that they are, yes floaty, but that's not an inherently bad thing and there are cases where "floaty" is exactly what you need (Nights Into Dreams). Yooka Laylee doesn't exactly have the best controls if you ask me, with some rather questionable choices in how some mechanics work. For the platforming I've seen so far, the controls seem to work pretty well. You're right that it skews further towards Mario 64 than Banjo Kazooie though, but hey, I love Mario 64, so that's ok in my book.Sure Y-L does take a little getting used to, but once you have the moves it plays really well. This game is very floaty, and it has collision problems too -- I got stuck on a box in the first level, for example, and it sounds like this is not a one-time problem. And while both games have camera issues, like most games in the genre, I'd take Y-L's camera any day over the distractingly bad black cross-hatching AHiT uses...
I know it's hard for me to separate the game from the other stuff, but I consider Yooka-Laylee as one of the best new games I've played in quite some time. It's not going to be my game of the year this year, because Starcraft Remaster exists, but it's up there. AHiT won't be on my list, certainly. I will admit though, with more time you do get more used to the controls, and there is fun to be had. I'm definitely not all negative on the game.