Nouvelle bande-annonce du jeu Yooka-Replaylee

Lors du Spring Game Showcase de The MIX x Kinda Funny, Playtonic, le développeur de Yooka-Replaylee, a dévoilé une toute nouvelle bande-annonce de gameplay pour le prochain jeu de plateforme remasterisé du collectathon, confirmant une sortie en 2025. Cette nouvelle s’accompagne d’une annonce de partenariat officialisant le co-édition de PM Studios. Yooka-Replaylee sortira plus tard cette année sur PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S et les plateformes Nintendo.

Voici le communiqué (en anglais) :

Playtonic and PM Studios Celebrate Co-Publishing Deal with a New Yooka-Replaylee Gameplay Trailer at The MIX Spring Showcase

The remixed, remastered, remade collectathon platformer confirms a 2025 launch with a deeper look at its vibrant environments and charming characters

Burton-on-Trent, UK – March 17th, 2025 – Yooka and Laylee have never looked this good! Today during The MIX x Kinda Funny Spring Game Showcase, Yooka-Replaylee developer Playtonic debuted a brand new gameplay trailer for the upcoming remastered collectathon platformer, confirming a 2025 launch. The news was paired with a partnership announcement officializing PM Studios as co-publisher. Yooka-Replaylee releases later this year on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo platforms.

Discover a vibrant world featuring equal parts retro-inspired charm and downright fiendish platforming challenges. The new trailer offers a sneak peek at Yooka-Replaylee’s fully built-from-the-ground-up biomes—five unique worlds each with their own challenges and collectibles. Meet an all-new character, Coinelius, and see the game’s 4K optimizations in action with buttery smooth previews of levels that await.

“Yooka-Laylee was always our love letter to the golden age of platformers, and Yooka-Replaylee is a love letter to that love letter. PM Studios innately understands this,” said Gavin Price, Playtonic CEO. “They’re a perfect partner for Playtonic Friends as we enter this next stage of our journey with the game.”

“As a fan of collectathons like Yooka-Laylee and Banjo-Kazooie before that, it’s a delight to partner with Playtonic in bringing Yooka-Replayee to platformer fans around the globe,” said Michael Yum, PM Studios CEO. “With our powers combined, Yooka and Laylee will be bigger than ever.”

About Yooka-Replaylee:

Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remastered and enhanced version of the 3D indie platforming collectathon darling, Yooka-Laylee, developed by key creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games. New remixed challenges and old favorites await as you embark to explore the huge, beautiful open worlds as the lovable buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee once more, all while backed by a beautiful orchestral soundtrack. Did we mention there’s an even more expandable map now? A shiny new currency? And tons of customization options? The favorite buddy duo has never moved, looked, or sounded better!

Key Game Features:

MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER – With an art and animations overhaul and enhanced performance and resolution, the favourite buddy duo has never looked or moved better.
NEW AND IMPROVED CHALLENGES – Improvements to existing in-game challenges and many entirely new challenges to discover and undertake!
NEW COLLECTIBLE CURRENCY – Capital B’s inept minions have dropped their hard-earned coins all over the place. Collect the official currency of the Hivory Towers to spend on video games’ most beloved sentient vending machine.
NAVIGATING THE WORLD – Now you can get lost in the game, not in the world! A brand-new world map and challenges tracker helps you know where you are and what needs to be done. Hooray!
VENDI HAS PLENTY TO OFFER – Tonics are back with all new flavours! With the option to equip multiple game-changing enhancements, you can truly customize your playstyle. And as if that wasn’t enough, Vendi has new lines of merchandise for the modern fashionable adventurer.
REVISED CONTROLS & CAMERA – A new tweaked move set allows you to combine moves more fluidly while the new camera controls makes framing the action a breeze.
A DREAMY ORCHESTRAL SOUNDTRACK – The original score from famed video game composers Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) and David Wise (Donkey Kong Country) returns but as a beautifully arranged orchestral score. Now seriously, clean out those ears.