Yooka-Laylee is a 3D adventure platformer with 5 open-worlds to explore and a lot of stuff to do. As you collect pagies you can use them to expand each of the 5 worlds to make them even bigger opening up new areas. Collecting quills on the other hand lets you use them as a currency in shop to buy new abilities that will allow you to reach and do things you couldn't before.
With each world having different abilities you can buy, you won't be able to fully explore and do everything in each world the first time you enter. You will have to go to the other worlds, collect quills, buy abilities and then backtrack to previous ones to do things you couldn't before.
Overall I found the game quite enjoyable. The exploration was fun, the levels are for the most part well designed, the story wasn't anything worth writing about though and they break the fourth wall relatively often which might be a turn off for some.
Congrats on the completion!! I still hated the controls in this game, but it’s full of originality and charm.
Congratulations on your assassination! What was your favorite part? the graphics look similar to Spyro from the trilogy.
Game worlds not being linear was really nice, you can go around and tackle things in any order you want (limited only by the abilities you’ve unlocked thus far). For the most part I also liked the game’s balance, it’s challenging here and there but almost never frustrating which I appreciate. Even the timed sections which I usually really hate in other games I didn’t mind at all here because you’re given reasonable amount of time to do them.