Fans of Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong rejoice, your spiritual successors have returned.

At the Guerrilla Collective 2024 Showcase, Playtonic Games have announced that a remastered and enhanced version of the 2017 platformer Yooka-Laylee will be releasing in the form of Yooka-Replaylee (love it!).

Commenting on the remaster, Playtonic noted that Yooka-Replaylee is “the result of the growth of the company, the things we have learned while working on other projects, as well as the feedback we have taken on board since the original release.”

Key features for the remaster include:

• 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 customise 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.

The team from Playtonic Games will be on YouTube on 11 June for a sit-down Q&A session where you can find out more.

Yooka-Replaylee has been announced for PC and consoles, but said consoles are yet to be specified, though given the formats the original was one, we should expect to see the remaster on all consoles when it does release.

Are you excited to see the remaster of Yooka-Laylee, or would you have preferred a sequel?