{"id":107704,"date":"2020-01-20T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/soon_youll_be_able_to_try_yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair_before_you_buy"},"modified":"2020-01-20T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:45:00","slug":"soon-youll-be-able-to-try-yooka-laylee-and-the-impossible-lair-before-you-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/soon-youll-be-able-to-try-yooka-laylee-and-the-impossible-lair-before-you-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon You&#8217;ll Be Able To Try Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair Before You Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a1b051a7a3fa6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a1b051a7a3fa6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a1b051a7a3fa6\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dB5IZPuTVHk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When we reviewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair\">Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair<\/a><\/strong> back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair\">October 2019<\/a>, we said it was &#8220;a fantastic sophomore effort that pays tribute to Rare&#8217;s past and establishes Playtonic as one of the UK&#8217;s most exciting studios.&#8221; If that wasn&#8217;t enough encouragement for you to buy it, then perhaps the ability to sample a portion of the game before you take the plunge will suffice?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s precisely what Playtonic is doing at the end of this month. A free demo will hit the eShop on January 30th (a week after Steam). The demo will include &#8220;an assortment of vibrant and exciting 2D levels&#8221;, a &#8216;Pagie Challenge&#8217;, a state change for one of the stages, some tonics to sample (one of which gives Yooka a massive head), and access to titular Impossible Lair itself (gasp!). Furthermore, your progress from the demo can be carried over to the full game.<\/p>\n<p>But why now, and why not at the time of release, you may ask? Well, according to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlaytonicGames\/status\/1219261142217916416\">Playtonic&#8217;s Twitter<\/a>, demos aren&#8217;t just something you pop out with minimal effort \u2013 they have to be certified just like a full release, and there simply wasn&#8217;t the time or resource to produce a demo at launch. We&#8217;ll let them off, because they&#8217;re good people.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be downloading this demo on the 30th? Let us know by voting in the poll below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] When we reviewed Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair back in October 2019, we said it was &#8220;a fantastic sophomore effort that pays tribute to Rare&#8217;s past and establishes Playtonic as one of the UK&#8217;s most exciting studios.&#8221; If that wasn&#8217;t enough encouragement for you to buy it, then perhaps the ability to sample [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}