You know, up until this year, I’ve never had the chance to play the likes of Banjo Kazooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day or any of the other oft-acclaimed Rareware classics. As a child, I never owned a Nintendo 64 of my own, and I rarely even had access to Nintendo’s fifth-generation gaming platform. Needless to say, I don't have any nostalgic memories whatsoever what many consider to be the golden age of Rareware, prior to its acquisition by Microsoft in 2002.
I only got around to trying my hand at some of these games when I picked up Rare Replay alongside an Xbox One a couple of months ago. Interestingly enough, even when going into Banjo Kazooie nearly two decades later and with absolutely no sentimentality attached to it, I found that it still holds up pretty well. So much so that I immediately developed an interest in Yooka-Laylee; a spiritual successor to the beloved platformer by Playtonic Games, which is a studio comprised of several former Rare developers.
Well, it doesn't appear as if the wait for Yooka-Laylee will be all that much longer. According to a new trailer by Playtonic Games, Yooka-Laylee will come out on the 11th of April, 2017. That is, precisely one week after the release of the much-anticipated Persona 5.
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