Inside Yooka-Replaylee: Playtonic's Gavin Price on Fixing Yooka-Laylee

We sat down with Playtonic cofounder and director of Yooka-Replaylee, Gavin Price, for a deep dive into EVERYTHING about this "Remakester": why it exists, how it evolved, cut ideas, easter egg ideas, what happened to V.I.L.E., the future of Playtonic and more! Stay tuned for Part 2 soon too!

Watch Part 2:    • Yooka-Laylee Almost Had a Stop ’N’ Swop-Li...  

0:47 Remake or Remaster?
2:20 Is This What Yooka-Laylee Should’ve Been All Along?
3:45 More Mario Odyssey Than Banjo-Kazooie?!
6:05 How Replaylee Evolved
7:34 Managing Scope & Most Divisive Change
10:16 The Toughest Changes
11:48 Balancing Fan Expectations vs New Players
13:29 Did the Whole Team Replay the Original?
15:00 Revisiting the OG Yooka-Laylee
17:01 What Needed the Biggest Fix
18:35 Fixing the Original Move Unlock System
20:41 Rebalancing the Entire Game
22:25 Any Surprise Changes?
25:42 Why Remake the Opening?
28:57 Telescope DLC?!
30:06 A Simpler Story? + Future V.I.L.E. Tease
33:57 How Playtonic Budgets for Easter Eggs
36:10 Cameos! Yooka in Savage Planet & More
38:30 The Banjo-Kazooie Easter Egg That Never Happened
40:34 The Level That Needed the Biggest Makeover
44:46 How Impossible Lair Influenced Replaylee
47:15 Impossible Lair: Remaster or Sequel? And Why It Underperformed
50:50 The Reality of Release Timing
53:33 Talking Nuts & Bolts
57:00 Alternate Movesets Explored? + Rextro Talk
1:01:00 What’s Next for Playtonic Games?

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