Two Questions

It felt super sloppy and amateurish and not from a team of devs who have been in the game for 30+ years

I love how people bitch about Yooka Laylee and Tooie, but in the same breath praise Odyssey, when its the same exact tepid shit just with bingbing wahoo on the cover.

How well did that game sell? Something tells me they may be getting made more again but they aren't even selling a million copies. I guess Spyro did but Spyro is a long established name at this point and that trilogy was a despicable nostalgia cash grab.

>1. Why did this game flop?
The game is legitimately a piece of shit, holy shit it's impressive just how incompetent the Rare devs are. Nintendo dodged a fucking nuke by letting Microsoft buy them.
>2. Can the 3D platformer ever make a comeback?
Possibly, stuff like hat in time are high quality and the crash and spyro remakes made a lot of good will too. But Yooka Laylee has legitimately damaged the genre identity and a lot of people think the genre is inherently bad now.

Cause the majority of devs making 3D platformers think they need to be brain dead easy games aimed exclusively at small children. See New Super Lucky's Tale for a recent example. 10/10 everything except for the difficulty which tanks it to a 5/10.

And then there's a minority of speedrunners/autists making "gitgud" 3D platformers like Cloudbuilt. These are again unplayable by normal people. Blue Fire and Demon Turf have some of these elements too.

game was shit and the devs are tranny faggets, instead of keeping their retarded idealogies to themselves they had to make a big stink about john tron.

shutting the fuck up is good for everyone.

shitty toiler cleaner game and the kangaroo isn't yiffy

>How well did that game sell?
Pretty poorly. It doesn't help that the devs got greedy and priced the game really high outside of the US/EU. It costs more than CP2077 in my region, despite being a $30 game.

If Nintendo still owned Banjo I'd guarantee that series would still be getting nothing but praise but I also think Nintendo would have treated it way better. In fact it would probably be thriving right now.

rare became tranny pedo groomer studio, maybe that was because of Microsoft who knows but not even nintendo would have saved them.

Well the original was never popular though so this shouldn't be a shocker to them. I didn't even remember it existing at all.

I love Tooie and hated Yooka. Tooie's worlds are bigger but not the retardation that Yooka is. It's like a 15 hour game which is fine for a platformer while Yooka's worlds are over 10 times as big with only like twice as much content.
Plus Tooie had a lot of stuff Yooka is somehow missing like fast travel in the overworld and levels, shortcuts between all the levels, reduced collectathon nonsense, and actual level design.
Yooka Laylee somehow manages to be worse than both Kazooie and Tooie in every way outside of newer graphics.

I literally only know about this game because they removed JonTron over political reasons. Not the best publicity when your colorful mascot platformer also stands for BLM or something like that.
There's also a tranny flag in A Hat in Time so perhaps twitter politics are a staple of the genre, I don't know. I generally prefer cinematic platformers.

>1. Why did this game flop?
It was unfinished
>2. Can the 3D platformer ever make a comeback?
It already did with the superior impossible lair

>2. Can the 3D platformer ever make a comeback?
They did. One or two are released every other year. Last one came out last month, even, Kao The Kangaroo. But they will never be as ubiquitous as shooters or metroidvanias, if that's what you consider a comeback, since children now mainly play games with build and crafting mechanics.

Everyone's shitting on the level design and stuff which is fair but can we take a moment to shit on the writing?
All the characters and dialogue felt soulless compared to Banjo and half the time the game wouldn't shut the fuck up about "Dude we're a Kickstarter game! 3D platformers are so old and retro!"

They fucked up the regional pricing. It's affordable for me on Xbox marketplace but expensive on Steam.

And if it sold poorly it's because there was no marketing prior to release. It was announced earlier this year and then it was released. I don't think i saw a popup news entry on Steam about it, or a Storepage banner.

Considering the original game is obscure as fuck, it didn't sell well at all. They were pretty much entirely banking on the "le ebin obscure scotformer" appeal, which, surprise surprise, isn't very appealing to most people. It's a generic platformer outside of that.

I think something similar happened to the adventure game genre, plenty of good games by smaller studios came out each year, but the gaming media still acted like The Walking Dead Season 1 was "reviving" the genre.

Zoomer that go introduced to platformers through reignited here, how does the kao reboot compared to reignited?

>YL tanked their reputation just a week or two before release by announcing the removal of JonTron's voice lines from the game
>the only part he had in the game was some grunts and yells for ONE (1) npc's dialogue, that only appeared one time in the whole game
lol
lmao, even

Rayman 4 could save platformers but unfortunately Rayman’s creator, Michael Incel, has lost all faith in gaming.