Super Yooka-Laylee Kart looks like an old-school Mario Kart for the modern era

Super Yooka-Laylee. Car

Playtonic is transforming the Yooka-Laylee series from a platform game to a seemingly familiar street racing car.

Last year's Mario Race World did not meet expectations for many. But during the developer's day's summer game, there was a game that seemed to bring back street racing fans. Developer Playtonic Games combines the roles in the Yooka-Laylee platform game series with the original version of Super Mario Race, which presents Super Yooka-Laylee Kart.

Apparently, Playtonic was inspired by Nintendo's 1992 car racing, both the title of the game and the beauty of the game. It looks like a modern edition of Super Mario Race, where pixel artists race on the track, where coins and boxes with energy props are flat. Those drifts around the corner look familiar.

Nevertheless, in addition to role, track layout and capacity enhancement, there are many other differences between Super Yucarelli and Super Marikadin. The new game has an anger system, which is built when you compete for a place in the game and is likely to be hit frequently by blue shells. According to Platonic, this will eventually allow you to use “the destructive capacity of revenge that can change the outcome immediately” to achieve “tactical counterattack”.

The studio envisages Super Yooka-Laylee Kart as a skill-based, pixel-perfect race-by-carriage game, whose mechanisms and objects will be of great benefit to you. There is an “in-depth story event”, which includes championships, timings, endurance and skills challenges. You can use the gold coins collected during the competition for upgrading. There is also support for online models and local screens with up to eight people. The competition is highly custom-made. For example, you can allow all competitors to remain invisible, or you can modify the acceleration pad to slow down the players.

I haven't played any Yoga-Laylee games (the series is the spiritual heir of Banjo-Kazooi), so I'm not connected to any character. But I grew up watching Super Mario, so I definitely wanted to try.

Super Yooka-Laylee Kart is developing Steam. There's no news yet if it'll land on the game, but it'll be on Nintendo Switch 2 sometime, right? In any case, the Beta test of the online multi-person mode will soon take place.