Yooka-Laylee Physical Pre-Orders Have Been Delayed Until Friday, More Details To Come

Been waiting patiently for this, will snatch up a collectors edition on friday.
The site says the preorder be live at 10am EST, which is 3pm BST

@Bunkerneath I'm waiting to find out. If it is meh I will only go for standard.

If it has Yooka and Laylee as plushes I will be all over that CE

Hopefully CE for me too

I hope the CE is good, if not I'll get the regular edition. Been waiting for this game for almost 2 years now, a few days delay doesn't matter at this point xd

Played it on my PS4, and was actually quite disappointed with it. Can't really remember why though, it somehow just didn't click with me.

@ShaiHulud think they were a little ambitious with the size of the levels, tighter more focused ones like BK would have been a lot better. This game has it's moments but the whole experience does feel a bit disjointed. Also think they rushed it out to appease the amount of money pledged, could have done with taking a couple more years to really get it right before release.

yeah Im buying. I cant resist any new 3d platformer I havent yet experienced. I see alot of people bagging this game out so it will be interesting to see how it holds up? (I dont rely on a reviewers opinion)

@paihia

Yeah, this game, no matter what website or forum, will always attract a lot of people screaming at you that the game sucks!
I wonder if it's just a really vocal minority that hates the game for some reason or whatever, because if you look at the general review ratings... most people seem to quite like the game, not love it or anything just like it.

I reckon I'll get more fun out of this game for 50 bucks then I did with Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, that one set me back 40 bucks for the physical edition and wasn't worth it imo.
It was a fun platformer with a charming cast and good humor, but really darn short and all the extra content was just re-hashing the few levels the game has with slightly different abilities.

Yooka Laylee has had to many issues for me to invest my cash into it.
It will eventually come down to a more realistic price of under £20. Maybe then I will give it a go, but there is no rush.

@zool the physical edition sure won't lol

@zool

I can't ever see it dropping as its all limited copy's for both the collectors and normal versions of the game. Once they are sold out then that's it.

@zool Umm..this article is related to the limited run physical edition / collectors edition - If you see it for 20 pounds in the next 2 years let me know lol.

@zool dont be a fool zool @NinjaSyao aye shantae had tedious level design prob cause you had to revisit the same handful of levels over n over again. was glad to sell it (but kept the soundtrack that was a pretty good ost)

I've waited this long, what is another few days to secure my pre-order. My expectations are suitably set, but I think I will like this game.

I recently finished this game to 100% and I really loved it, despite its flaws. There’s a piece of me that’s tempted to pick up the physical version but at $50, I’m going to pass.

@FTL the downloaded version has been reduced already and gone back up to silly money. When it go below £20 I'll consider again. A not so good game is not so good whether it's digital of physical.

@garydbz25 it's selling at an inflated price, it will drop, market forces and all that.

@zool physical copies made by LRG will rarely if ever drop in price

@zool , your drinking too much koolaid here. Maybe in the future they might have end of year sale assuming they have copies left. And if it is Standard release after the date closes I doubt they will have any left as all pre-order will be sold out as that is a order based on how many pre-order the game not a inventory order.

@NinjaSyao I supported this via Kickstarter for a good bit of cash. I think the game lacked spirit, and the level designs, as someone mentioned earlier, were maybe not concise and focused enough. I had a difficult time being engaged by it, and found it hard to jump back in time and time again.

I felt similarly towards Shantae, which I also backed....

@SwitchForce it was already stated that the overpriced physical copy had to be that price and they couldn't lower it because the download price is set high.

@SVTornado I know some collectors will pay high prices for stuff, and never open the product in the hope that 20 years down the line it will have gone up in value. They really are investors not so much collectors. If you open the game the value drops.
If it is over priced to start with it will drop.

It would be interesting to know how many downloads of the game have been sold to date.

I will not pick this up until I can get it on sale fpr £10 like I can on PS4. I wabt it on Nintendo but it is not worth the asking price if the reviews are to be believed.

@zool I agree with that - just saying that the physical game which is what this article refers to is unlikely to be cheap at any point as it’s a limited run game.

@wyzworld76

Yeah, I figured as much from what I've read and seen. But Yooka-Laylee is a collect-a-thon platformer, my favorite kind of platformer, and has far more meat on its bones.
So I reckon I'll get a lot more fun out of it than the 2-3 hours it took me to beat Shantae (I did enjoy Half-Genie Hero in a "good enough" kinda way) and the 6 more hours spend replaying the game until I got bored with it.

Seriously though, I just want a platformer that has actual good collecting to do after Mario Odyssey being such a massive let-down in that regard v.v

@zool I am one of collector/player I do open and register gamees into my NSW games. I doubt I will sell them but remember even opened games will fetch high prices regagrdless.
@FTL as anything made other then from Nintendo will most likely be one time and gone and if you want then 3rd party Scalpers is your choice. So games from LRG, SRG or others or pay higher from scalpers. That is the choice to be had here.

@Bunkerneath Do you know what the shipping cost is for the UK? I tried looking on the site but with no luck.

@Ev0s well the last three pre-orders I've had with them it has been $15 (I'm in the UK too)