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Patreon supporter here. I'm sure it's not going to be perfect, but it's a work of love, and man, I miss games being a work of love.

Industrial and/or spooky themes rock. Sadly, both were more or less covered with Moody Maze Marsh already, but neither was done in a way that was all that satisfying. In general, I prefer "manmade place" themes (like Rusty Bucket Bay, Witchy World, Grunty Industries, Clanker's Cavern) and ...

I don't think there will be Switch exclusive content. It would be more work for fewer people. It would also seem out of place considering they haven't delivered all their promises yet. Even after that, I think the only legitimate kind of exclusive content are things that don't make sense elsewhere (...

I'm really not interested in Mario games as much, as they have often disappointed me with their low difficulty (and also the Mario universe is kinda silly to me). So I'm not sure what my opinion on Odysee will be if I get to play it. Either way, I agree to the critizism that YL feels very unpolished...

Do you think maybe they'll have to resort to that eventually, especially since waiting for the update to Unity wasn't the big success they hoped it'd be? No, absolutely not. It's more like, you built a house, and then you find out every door is just a tiny bit too small for some reason. And now you...

About collect-a-thon, I really dislike this term. If I want to play a game where all I do is collect, I'll get something like Cookie Clicker or play a fetch quest in some rpg. Games like Banjo or Crash have hazards and action, because stuff is meant to be earned. Part of the earning will be collecti...

From my experience, porting works best if you build with ports in mind from the get-go. It's a bit like writing a long text on paper, and knowing you'll have to replace certain words with other words later. If you know this from the start, you'll avoid the words or mark the pages they appear on to e...

They made this game in literally less than two years. May 2015 was the kickstarter announce. April 2017 released. One month shy of two years. Small team focused on good gameplay. I consider this a success. They are also incredibly driven to fix the technical issues. How is everyone this upset? I im...

Piet is one of the reasons why I don't post here anymore. It's like trying to have a conversation with a baby crying next to you.

I couldn't agree more. It's quite possible they wanted more. That's part of what makes it such a lost opportunity. Hopefully they will do another game in the future and take their time with that one.

Man, I'd so love to work on a platformer...

Yes, I really think Playtonic either didn't have the budget or the time to add more variety. Or at least that's what I hope. Sometimes I get the impression that they also didn't care about the characters that much, given the excessive use of (often negative) self-awareness-based humor. The few chara...

That's a great idea. Underwater characters would absolutely have improved GGG. Even just that narwhal on its own doing its rounds would have lived that place up by so much. I think the icy village on the hilltop was also a bit lacking. It could have had yetis who complain about how ugly the other ye...

The whining here has become unbearable. Curiously enough, things don't happen faster if you complain about them every other day, Piet. And spreading your misery won't make it go away, either. What could would be if you tried not focusing on Yooka-Laylee for a week or two. Because honestly, the game'...

Your Tribalstack Tropics character ideas fit the world nicely. They could also have had a bug, like a scarab, or something to represent the tribespeople that isn't just cosmetic changes to the corplets. I mean, YL isn't only lackluster when it comes to characters to talk with, but the enemies are al...

I would not help fund a successor. The update improved some things, but I am not currently convinced PTG has what it takes to pull off an actual Banjo 3. They might get the storytelling right next time, I hope, but I fear that PTG lacks the resources to make a game as colorful and rich in variety as...

I may be a minority, but I really don't care about a YL kart racer. I didn't feel all that much of a connection to YL's cast, and so right now I don't see what a YL racer could offer that Mario Kart doesn't have. I don't want to just assume that a Playtonic racer will automatically be as good as DKR.

This reminds me of a long, boring road trip. Including the kids on the back seat screaming "This is so boring!" every other minute.

I felt his Banjo work was better. YL's music isn't worse in itself, but I miss environmental noises and you had a lot more variantions of a level's theme in the Banjo series than you do here.