You Need To Play Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair 

Minus points for calling it a backup plan instead of Plan Bee.

I can only imagine the look of utter confusion on someone who had no idea how the game was supposed to be structured, and yet _somehow_ managed to beat the Impossible Lair on his first go, watching the credits roll after less than an hour of gameplay.

If their 2D game turned out so much better than their 3D game, the next logical step is to make a 1D game.

Its interesting to compare Tropical Freeze and Impossible Lair because both feel like an separate evolutions of DKC. The former really emphasizes the spectacle and distinct energy of its level design, while the latter builds upon the overworld gameplay, unlockable bonus content with tonics, and more non-linear approach to progress. Different emphases, but definitely trying to build on what the 90s games had created.

Not gonna lie, I completely ignored this when I saw it in the Switch store, because I assumed it was just DLC for Yooka-Laylee. Now I'm low-key hoping this game succeeds so Playtonic can kick the bad reputation the first game had.

This game *completely* flew under my radar until last week or so. You'd think there'd have been more fanfare. Thanks for making this video! From the looks of it, the game deserves a lot more attention than the first Yooka-Laylee.

Thank you for addressing the overworld. The levels themselves were fantastic, but I found myself stockpiling TWIT coins and then opening all the pay walls I could and spending an hour plus exploring the overworld opening all the levels I could, finding all the tonics I could, all the hidden bees I could, the overworld is a blast. It’s like a hybrid of Super Mario 3D World and the 1985 Zelda. I loved it

I just watched Jirard nearly give up on completing this game two days ago. That reference was very well timed.

This makes me happy. I completely wrote off this game and Playtonic because of how bad the original Yooka-Laylee was. But seeing you talk about this game makes me really happy and want to pick it up. The Impossible Lair looks like the kind of polish I'd expect from a Rare title, and the interesting concept of having one gauntlet at the end to beat at any time is something super unique and creative. Playtonic isn't just trying to recreate old magic here like they did for Yooka-Laylee, they're trying new things. Definitely picking this up, thanks Snowman!

*sees video about yooka layle* Me: cool, another bad game design Snow: you NEED to play Me: NANI???!!!!!??!?!?!!????

Yooka-Laylee never left a bad taste in me, but I agree. The development needed a little more time, especially around the writing as the writing was always so fun and clever in Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day! Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair was an absolute blast. I couldn't put down the controller once the first level, secrets and treasure was done and discovered. The stage and 3D overworld design is done in such a clever way and consider their budget. This was simply impressive!

Oh yeah, Jirard says completing this game was the hardest game he's ever had to complete. THE HARDEST! That means something from him!

5:32 So that's how you get to the lever that unlocks alternate Chapter 9!

i admit i'm not very interested in Yooka Laylee...but Impossible Lair looks like a fantastic new leaf for the series. they deserve some applause.

i never even heard of this game before, how did something that looks to be this good just completely flew under my radar?

Here's to hoping that Playtonic would revisit the 3D collect-a-thon platformer with some new lessons learned (such as how to better organize a massive level's collectables by dividing it up into smaller, more digestable sub-levels, like in A Hat in Time).

This is such an amazing game. One of my favorite games of 2019. I have completed the game & I opened another save file to play it again until New Super Lucky's Tale comes out & I get my physical copy of A Hat in Time. Definitely worth a playthrough & the fact that it's only 40$ makes it even better. I can't wait to see what else Playtonic does with Yooka & Laylee. I hope they keep the 2d aspect to the game though, as they really know what they are doing making the 2d levels. I heard they were talking about a kart racer as well. Great review.

It took Jirard 50 hours to be the final level of the game without having any bees. But this game has been on my radar for a while now. Think it's finally time to buy it.

I'm happy to see that they got another shot at the franchise and that it seems to have paid off this time!

Since your all about rage games, I thought you'd like to do a good game design episode on a game called "never give up" it has an interesting idea of 1 room that constantly changes and gets harder

Coming 2027: Yooka-Laylee Nuts & Bolts

This game is, indeed, excellent. Well done, Playtonic.

2:49 On top of that, Yooka'n collect...

Biggest surprise of the year. Yooka-Laylee and the impossible Liar is my GotY 2020 so far.

Thanks for making this video. I wasnt going to buy this game based on what I've seen from the developer at E3 but your video changed my mind.

I hope they eventually tackle a Tooka-Laylee with the added experience they now have, seeing all the feedback from both the first game and the impossible lair, as well as taking cues from Mario Odyssey to craft an exquisite 3D platforming experience

I always thought about getting this game since it was announced. I knew that the first Yooka game would not live up to every expectation because it was going to be their first game independently developed. So my disappointment wasn’t as big. I’m glad that they haven’t given up and that we have this to play. I still haven’t purchased because being a Switch gamer means being busy lol. But I will definitely get it soon!

Wow, that world stuff seems reeeeeeeally cool, and that last stage from the start idea is awesome as well! You convinced me to play, my friend.

I have been so pleasantly surprised with this game and it is such a shame that so many won't give it a chance based on their experiences with the previous title. If you loved those classic Donkey Kong Country titles you will LOVE this one.

I have been binging this game for the last week and it has quickly become my favorite game of all time. Aside from some minor graphical and performance issues (stuff randomly popping on screen and the camera occasionally stuttering), It's just about perfect.

If they decide to do a kart racer then I hope they have some indie character guests as well! Would love to see Shovel Knight, Shantae, Sans, and others maybe like the Hollow Knight or even Cuphead, or Steve from Minecraft. But Yooka-Laylee has so many characters too. I hope they design a few more for any future projects they are thinking about doing like how they did with Diddy Kong’s Racing when Banjo and Conker were present.

After the half-bakedness of yooka laylee, I'm really happy this game is good

I was waiting for your take on this game knowing your love for all things DK! This is one of my favourite games of 2019.

Backup plan? Missed opportunity to say Plan Bee! Haha, love the video though

>Snowman Gaming recommended a game yeah. i bought it

Grrrr, too many good games coming out on Switch right now. I want to play this game so badly

Man, the game looks really creative and cool. But it also appears to be one of these games where objects and enemies blend into the complex-looking environment, which is a bummer.

Impossible Lair actually has a secret ending for when you beat the final level on your first try.

Just for the "stay frosty my friends" at the end of the videos, I'll watch all your videos.

6:01 BEE ready to put your skills to the test

I saw this game’s release trailer, but nothing before that. It feels like they never said anything about this game until it came out. I’m excited to try it though, because it definitely looks interesting.

6:22 well… he wasn’t wrong

Thank you for making this video. More people need to play it!

“I hope I’m safe from my phobia of large books” *push*

I need this game! The Nintendo Donkey Kong games were my all time favourites.

Great video! The amount of puns was unbeelievable though

Top 10 comebacks no one expected

OK, this looks amazing. I'm sold.

Loved the game on the whole. Thought the Impossible Lair was a bit of a misstep though. The difficulty curve wasn't well judged.

Playtonic Games did an AMAZING job recreating the original experience of Banjo-Kazooie in a modern style with Yooka-Laylee, and the same with Donkey Kong Country in Impossible Lair. Maybe they could try doing the same with Conker's Bad Fur Day. Perhaps "Yooka's Bad Scale Day" or something.

This game needs more attention. Thanks for doing a video on it!

The first Yooka-Laylee was a bit of a curate's egg and I didn't give this game much thought thinking it was a DKC rip-off. But having played the first few levels I was really surprised. Can't wait to see where it goes from here. :)

When I first saw footage of this game, I was heavily disappointed. I was really hoping that they would stick to the 3D Collectathon genre and create the experience we hoped the first game would give us. While I still have high hopes that we will eventually get a game we can call _Banjo Threeie_ (and it's probably for the better that they wait before delving into that genre again), this is looking very promising. I'm a bit sceptical about the Lair itself, as I already found the end boss of _Yooka Laylee_ unnecessarily long, and I'm worried that they will continue that trend. But most of the game looks very charming; Trowser's literal paywalls are exactly the cheeky stuff I expect to see in these games, MUCH more clever than the Tonics replacing Cheato. I want this game to be great for the irony alone; it would be quite funny, after they (kind of) failed with a game inspired by the original _Banjo Kazooie,_ to see them succeed with something that looks more like _Grunty's Lair._

You beat the impossible lair? But it's impossible! The next yooka laylee will take inspiration from battle toads. First it was rareware's last big hurrah, now we get the game that brought them to the party (donkey kong country), so next we'll roll back further in time as we see a game that first really got people talking (battle toads). Then after that.... wasn't there a rocketship game they did? Anyways, if the first was called Yooka-Laylee (a wink at banjo), then this one should of been called Yooka Kong Country. Then Yooka Toads.

EVERYONE needs this game. Its just incredible! Its just like Donkey Kong Country, so if you like that you will love this. Soooo much better than the first Yooka Laylee game.

Does anyone else wanna see these guys try making a 3D DKC style game, like that Banjo-Kazooie prototype?

1:17 "right from the gecko"

its funny, because when the trailers released, I thought that the game looked like an awful mobile game you had to pay for on a console (for some reason) and now its one of my favorite games of the year, huh

My biggest complaint about the game is that most of the puzzles to unlock levels were pretty simple and self-contained - but this is really more of a 'I wish there was more of the game so the concepts could be ramped up further', since the overworld is only a portion of the game.

Matt Griffin and Dan Murdoch compositions were amazing. Of course David Wise and Grant Kirkhope were great as well. But man these new composers deserve so much credit. So grateful to now have this soundtrack in my library of game music!

I honestly think I like the overworld more than the legit levels. Not saying the levels are less than incredible, but I'm enjoying unlocking the map thru little puzzles

Having watched Jirard's completion video for this before having seen this video, yeah... he did not sound like he had any fun really with getting the "beat the impossible lair the first time in" tonic, vs the rest of the game.

Saw The Completionist video before this and your call out to him made me straight LOLS.

Snowman I think you should make a video about how nostalgia affects ones enjoyment and how that can give old games from childhoods can have a certain advantage.

I had no interest in a 2d Yooka Laylee from the moment it was announced. I was so closed off to the idea that I never watched anything related to it. But I trust Snoman’s opinion on games, so I checked out this video. Now I’m super hyped to play the game!

I think I got interested in the game. I will give it a try.

Rareware is back!

Huge shout out to whoever made the snake character and called it Trowzer 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great video as always my man

Great to see Rare has gotten back on track! I'll definitely bee picking this up when I have a chance to.

wtf i check youtube and find ur video, uploaded less than a minute ago. Nice, thanks man! Like bofore watching

1:16 You should've said, "Right from the Gecko"

From the game play I've seen, it looks like they're going for rare version of cuphead.

Ah yes, my favorite platformer duo: *Whip and Nae-nae*

This game is great its even better than donkey Kong country topical freeze.

You need to play Zelda 2

I'm quite happy this game exists. Big fan of the genre.

"After an underwhelming predecessor, Yooka Laylee" me:i 100% disagree (i respect your opinion though)

I hope PlayTonic makes first person shooter, kart racers, and other fun characters just like they did with Rare

I still feel like the first Yooka game was too harshly judged but I'm glad they went another way with the sequel, zig when people think you're gonna zag!

I want to see an any% speedrun of this

Shut up, I have to wait til christmas :(

Maybe they’ll make a modernized version of Diddy Kong Racing in the future

The quills multipliers is very reminiscent of halo skulls

I was debating whether to buy this game or DKC: TF (I will likely end up having both at some point but as of now my wallet ain't about that luxury). I think I'm gonna go with this one now, tbh. I'm a sucker for good hubworlds and it's also cheaper so that's even better!

Kirkhope only did the overworld theme. And about half of the pieces were done by Matt Griffin. Wise and Dan Murdoch did about the same amount of pieces though.

snoman needs to play..... easy games with zero challenge WAH

The game is really good and beautiful. And the music... Sacre bleu

You actually sold me on this. And normally I can’t stand 2D platformers.

I do wish that passing through a checkpoint brought Laylee back. I mean dying makes you respawn with Laylee, and some times I would just kill myself to get Laylee back

It would’ve been funny if after Comcept released the polarizing Mighty No.9 that they tried to redeem themselves in a similar way to how Playtonic did with this game by releasing Red-Ash: The Indelible Legend to critical acclaim

You should do a review on zack and wiki quest for barbaros treasure (for Nintendo wii developed by capcom) you use wiki to change enemies into items and use them to your advantage also there are many different themes like jungle lava spooky mansion etc there are also a lot of colectibles 500+ so yeah an underrated game but truly a classic

With the way the game's laid out it'd be interesting to see the speedruns; running through the Impossible Lair without getting hit.

There’s too many good games coming out. I already preordered Luigi’s Mansion 3 now this is out? Bro I don’t have unlimited money I really want to play this game

I think this game might be better than DKC3... I’ll need some more time to think about it.

I recently got the original on the switch. I like the game and the self aware writing is funny af. I never got the hate for it

Oh shit, this sounds fun

The game is fun, the music is great, it is pretty, and the tonics are cool. The Impossible Lair though is a real hassle even with the beettallion.

I didn’t even know this game existed until this video, I’m glad to be exposed to it now

I got this game for Christmas, it's hella fun!