Topic: Yooka-Laylee Now Releasing In Early 2017: New Trailer

[Shaymin]

Refining the googly eye engine requires time.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/42798/yooka-laylee-now-releasing-in-early-2017-new-trailer

Playtonic Games will need a few more months of prep time before Yooka-Laylee emerges.

The company announced today that the N64-inspired platformer would release in Q1 2017 (January - March) instead of the promised October 2016, citing a desire to add some more polish time to the schedule.

The announcement was accompanied by the release of the game's E3 trailer, which you can see below:

[fred13]

Looks great. Good thing I already have way more to play than time to play. Hopefully by early 2017 I'll be ready for it.

[TOPHATANT123]

Early 2017 is still a really good turn around from kickstarter to release. It looks like it's shaping up to be a well crafted game made by professionals.

[ejamer]

Early 2017 is still a really good turn around from kickstarter to release. It looks like it's shaping up to be a well crafted game made by professionals.

Agreed. Is this game going to get a retail release, or digital only?  (At this point it might not be known?)

[nickmitch]

Good trailer.  I'm really looking forward to this one.

[Stratos]

This just keeps looking better and better. I'm excited to see the final product.

[Mop it up]

I expected a delay, so I'm not disappointed. I just hope it still releases on Wii U.

[Lemonade]

Hopefully we will see more gameplay at E3. The trailer looks really good.
Not surprised by the delay.

[Oedo]

I haven't been following this game's development all that closely, but I'm a little more interested after that trailer. It'll be interesting to see which version ends up being the best since Playtonic also revealed today that they'll be handling the Wii U version themselves so that it gets the "right attention". Even if it isn't the best one, it's nice to know that they are putting some care into it.

[ThePerm]

Considering how much more polished it looks, i'd say the time is worth it. Plus there's the whole question of how NX fits into this.

[broodwars]

The game's looking good, but I could REALLY do without the Banjo-Kazooie-style garblespeak, which was annoying enough in those games. Hopefully it's just a cute in-joke for the trailer.

[Stratos]

I actually liked the garble speak in BK, especially Gruntilda's lines.

[Ian Sane]

At the time I just saw the garblespeak as a clever way to work around the N64's cartridge limitations and have pseudo-voice acting.  Without the technical need for such a feature I'm not sure how I feel about it.  If a new Banjo-Kazooie came out today I would probably expect it to have voice acting using the same voice actors that did the N64 garblespeak.

[Adrock]

Looks good. I'm still not fond of Laylee's design. I think it's the nose.

[ShyGuy]

This is looking pretty good, I think I will be picking up a copy for Wii U (or NX if that comes to be)