Yooka successfully funds his own game on Lickstarter (in this universe, when a motor engine doesn't work, one tries licking it to get it working, even if they don't have an extendable tongue). The only problem is, the game goes 300% over it's goal limit in the first hour, surpassing all of the stretch goals, and Yooka is forced to come up with a new goal right on the spot. Without thinking, he promises that his composer, Leylee, will write a follow up to Hit Song that defined a generation, My City 5 from the hit game Cityville 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpELN_ddpIMThe only catch is, Leylee was never told he was going to have to write My City 6, as Yooka called it. Now, Yooka must help Leylee collect 3,000 Pagies, so he can write My City 6 with the same planning and precision he did with the predecessor.