A bug has already been discovered in open-world platformer Yooka-Laylee that allows players to skip over most of the game. This huge glitch was demonstrated by YouTube user MilsTailsPrower on the day the title was made available – April 11 – for Windows, PS4, Xbxox One, Mac and Linux. The Nintendo Switch version is coming later this year.
As seen in the video, the bug lets players break out of the map in the Hivory Towers hub world by dipping themselves in a certain pool of acid, and then have Laylee use Flappy Flight to fly them straight to the door behind which the final boss lurks. It might take a bit of effort to execute, but the shortcut’s there all right, waiting for players to take advantage of it.
It’s possible that many might actually embrace the bug since annoyed murmurings have been heard about the number of Pagies which need to be collected before the last confrontation as well as through the levels. Developer Platonic Games has capitalized on nostalgia in Yooka-Laylee, the unashamed spiritual successor to 1998’s Banjo-Kazooie. Most gamers appear to love the idea.
But a few elements in the title seem to be rubbing players the wrong way – the inordinate number of Pagies, or golden book pages, they need to collect to progress through the game for starters. Then there are the superfluous quiz sections and certain lack of imagination in terms of how it could have improved on Banjo-Kazooie among other small things.
It’s not like Yooka-Laylee is a bad game because of how much it piggybacks on nostalgia to appeal to folks. Some love the very features which tend to irritate other gamers. But there’s a certain feeling that it could have been much more. What d’you say?
