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Re: Review: Yono And The Celestial Elephants (Switch eShop)

GeminiSaint

I just finished playing this game this morning.
It was all right, but ultimately nothing too special.
The music was cute, and the puzzles weren't too complicated (a plus for me), even though 90% of them were of the crate-pushing variety.
Graphics were... Game Cube-esque. Make of that what you will. I think more could have been done in this department (see Oceanhorn). Character design was an aspect of the game I didn't like at all (except for Yono himself, who's a total cute, but the rest of the cast... yuck!).
Lastly, the game is short and quite easy to 100% in, say, 6 to 8 hours.

Re: Playtonic Gives Update On Yooka-Laylee For Switch

GeminiSaint

@dew12333
"Other switch games look gorgeous (...)" -> I think you meant Wii U there. Anyway, I think some of those facts are inaccurate. Allow me to offer some corrections:

1) The game doesn't struggle on PC. In fact, the PC version of Yooka-Laylee is the only version that can run at 60 fps. Not even the XBox One version can do that! And optimisation is pretty much unavoidable when you want your game to run on less powerful hardware than it was originally built for. Without optimisation, you may end up with something that runs at 15 fps or worse.

2) The biggest factor preventing Yooka-Laylee from coming out on Switch at the same time as the other versions was the fact that Playtonic just didn't have the devkits from Nintendo. There isn't really much they could do about that. If Nintendo doesn't distribute those devkits in a timely fashion for whatever reason, that's going to result in an unavoidable delay, and that would be Nintendo's fault unfortunately.

Re: Playtonic Gives Update On Yooka-Laylee For Switch

GeminiSaint

@dew12333
Wii U didn't have enough horse power to handle this game. They just couldn't make it work on that aging hardware. Also, the Wii U is pretty much dead now that the Switch is out. Those are two very good reasons for the move to the Switch in my book. Also, update patches is the new industry standard nowadays. Everyone does it (for better or for worse). Regarding reviews, they were all over the spectrum for sure (glowing reviews for this game do exist, which means it certainly resonated with a number of people). Finally, as far as I'm concerned, the game is above average. I'm very much happy with how things turned out (I played it on the XBox One).