Yooka-Laylee / Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair

Well it is impossible so that's fair enough.

The Lair's the big flaw I've heard about from a lot of people, and the main reason I haven't paid this game much attention (backlog aside, but I'll gladly ignore it for a top game). I don't want to get all the way to the endgame to find I can't beat the final level. LOOKING AT YOU OCTOPATH

From what I've seen it looks like one of them bonus levels that platformers have after you've unlocked all the collectibles, I get that as it's a story based stage then you want it to be beatable but I quite the idea that you can beat it early on if you're good enough. I should probably just find out for myself as I've had the game for a month.

Did you play it at all, Smurf? The game was 50% off so I thought I'd give it a bash, and... yep, it's very Donkey Kong so far, and that's very David Wise in the background. I'm two levels in (all the coins, natch) and I feel like I know pretty much exactly what I'm going to get out of this. Which is fine, if not exciting.

Keep in that habit of collecting the coins, but know that you can't always get all five in each level on your first playthrough - you'll need extra tonics and to revisit early levels later on. 

The Impossible Lair perhaps isn't as refined as Tropical Freeze, but what is? I thought it was excellent, and absolutely one of my favourite games of 2019.

Aght, that's going to bug me. I presume the same applies to getting stuff in the overworld? There's already been things I can't get to - I guessed you got a long jump for them?

Nope still not played it, I only had lockdown as an excuse to do so as well, I did however spend some time playing the original Yooka-Laylee which is alright, not finished it but I can see myself going back to it in between bigger games. THEN and only then can I look at the Impossible Lair.

I've given up on the original long ago, which makes the constant references to its events a little irritating.  That's the only thing though: the rest of the game's very solid so far, and for the first time in maybe four months I'd say I have a 'main game' to concentrate on.  I like changing the levels too, although I can't help feeling that the overworld feels more faff than fun at this stage.