{"id":113226,"date":"2020-05-21T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/still_on_the_fence_about_yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair_nows_the_time_to_strike"},"modified":"2020-05-21T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:45:00","slug":"still-on-the-fence-about-yooka-laylee-and-the-impossible-lair-nows-the-time-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/21\/still-on-the-fence-about-yooka-laylee-and-the-impossible-lair-nows-the-time-to-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Still On The Fence About Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair? Now&#8217;s The Time To Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0fd7ba6a67421\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0fd7ba6a67421\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0fd7ba6a67421\/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\/2yHPREi-wBw?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>We really liked <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair\">Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair<\/a><\/strong>. Playtonic dropped the full-3D approach of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/yooka-laylee\">original<\/a> for a purer 2.5D look, and, in our book, came up with something of a spiritual successor to the <strong>Donkey Kong Country<\/strong> series (yes, we know that series is ongoing, but this was made by the many of the original team members).<\/p>\n<p>We awarded the title an impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair\">9\/10<\/a> in our review, stating that &#8220;Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is 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;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve for some reason decided against buying the game up to this point, then you might be interested to learn that it&#8217;s currently on sale with 33% off the normal price. If you&#8217;re in the UK, that&#8217;s \u00a316.74, down from \u00a324.99. European buyers can get it for 20.09 \u20ac (instead of the usual 29.99 \u20ac). Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s on sale in North America. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p>Will this price drop tempt you to part with your cash? Let us know by posting a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] We really liked Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. Playtonic dropped the full-3D approach of the original for a purer 2.5D look, and, in our book, came up with something of a spiritual successor to the Donkey Kong Country series (yes, we know that series is ongoing, but this was made by the many [&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-113226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113226","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=113226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}