Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Reviews

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is ranked in the 89th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
85 / 100
Oct 11, 2019

Excellent 2D-Jump & Run, that dares little new, but combines its individual elements into a very coherent whole.

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91 / 100
Oct 12, 2019

With charm, wit, and brimming with positivity, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a fantastic new direction for Playtonics dynamic duo.

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8 / 10
Oct 13, 2019

A polished 2D platformer rich in content and ideas, and show the developer capable of iterating on what they started earlier in their career.

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8.6 / 10.0
Oct 13, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a brilliant direction for the young series, effortlessly mixing classic, 2-D platforming with an adventure style overworld without one negatively affecting the other.

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IGN Spain
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Oct 13, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair manages to surpass its predecessor in almost every aspect. The change to the two dimensions has been great.

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8.4 / 10.0
Oct 14, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a great 2D platformer that provides some neat ways to mix-up the experience, and it felt like such a breath of fresh air in a crowded genre.

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87 / 100
Oct 14, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is one the best surprises of this year. An epic tribute for DKC that everyone should play.

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TrueGaming
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Oct 15, 2019

It is really rare to have a platforming game this well-designed outside of Nintendo's offerings, this game more than makes up for the first one's shortcomings.The Impossible Lair does inspire from the best, while also introducing unique ideas of its own to build something truly unique. this is one of the best platforming games for this console generation.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 16, 2019

The Impossible Lair may receive top billing, but the entire journey leading to that titular final challenge is rewarding

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7.5 / 10.0
Oct 17, 2019

Yooka and Layle return with a new 2.5D twist, but their new game lacks its own identity.

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8 / 10
Oct 19, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a marvelous piece of a platform game that may not reinvent the whole genre but which has enough of the right stuff to provide an experience that's enjoyable and delightful to play. Thanks to its gaming worlds, humorous dialogues and challenge level, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will fit well with both fans of platform games and those taking their first steps in the genre.

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Essential
Oct 21, 2019

This is a most exciting game indeed. Yooka-Laylee is a classic and is fun for all ages. In this adventure we have two ways of playing. Platformer mixed with Open World 3D. The first thing someone will notice is that we start off in a platformer style genre, but after completion you will get a whole lot more out of the game than just running back and forth while jumping and rolling around obstacles.

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Oct 23, 2019

Even with plenty of superb 2D platformers releasing in recent years, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair easily belongs alongside the best the generation has to offer thanks to excellent level design and platforming that is evocative of past classics from the genre.

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Oct 23, 2019

"Learning new tricks from the old ape."

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Liked-a-lot
Oct 25, 2019

From a mixed 3D platform to a superb 2D one. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is delightful.

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5 / 5.0
Oct 26, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair may have made it into one of the best games of 2019!

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8.3 / 10.0
Oct 27, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair is fun, beautiful and challenging and although sometimes it reminds a lot of other titles, perhaps too much, it includes enough homegrown additions for the game to gain its own accord.

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ZTGD
Top Critic
10 / 10.0
Oct 28, 2019

While I hope they give the 3D platformer another fair shake, I will be more than happy if Playtonic does more sidescrolling platformers in the future because The Impossible Lair is impossibly good.

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Oct 28, 2019

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair may not be impossible, but it is a wonderfully fun and challenging retro platformer. Though it still has much of that compulsive collector DNA from the first game, I found it much less bothersome in this format. For $29.99, you get a lot to explore in this expansive world. Though I spent around 13 hours to beat the game, I still have plenty to uncover. And that’s not even touching upon the many super secret treasures still deftly squirreled away. I would strongly encourage most gamers to check this out. With the use of Tonics, you’re able to tailor the experience to your ability level, so really it’s hard to turn it down. A fantastic and worthy follow up to the original Yooka-Laylee from the fine folks at Playtonic Games. Here’s to looking forward to whatever they cook up next!

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Unscored
Oct 30, 2019

Yooka-Layle and the Impossible Lair is a 2D platform game that will engage both adults and children and that will provide us with many hours of fun (12-15 hours). You can see the hand of the creators of Donkey Kong in a game where the gameplay is the main star.

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