Yooka-Replaylee

Respect to the Devs who actually listened and fixed the issue. This was incredibly aggravating when it happened, but the fact that I posted it and they fixed it within days in commendable. Changing it to an upvote! Original issue: Then the bugs... The fact that this game is still like this almost a year later is sad. Constant frame drops and stuttering on a 7950x3d and a 5090... Then at the final boss, after collecting everything else, the game crashed so hard it completely messed up the nvidia drivers and windows system files. After hours of troubleshooting (my profession is in IT and I still needed AI to assist), I was finally able to repair the pc. Oh but the game is still broken so I guess I'll leave it at 99% done. Thanks... Heres the AI's output for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game caused: The game appears to have suffered a severe memory leak during play. Performance gradually deteriorated, the frame rate dropped, and the game eventually crashed after consuming roughly 120 GB of virtual memory. That exhausted Windows’ available memory commitment and caused unrelated parts of the system to fail at the same time, including Steam, the NVIDIA Control Panel, Game Pass games, the Start menu, Elgato software, and several Windows gaming services. Restarting the PC cleared the active memory usage, but multiple applications still would not launch or remained stuck loading, suggesting the crash left the graphics or related system components in a bad state. Reinstalling the NVIDIA driver and repairing windows system files restored the rest of the PC to normal, but the game itself is still broken and will not run properly. This was not just a normal game crash—it temporarily destabilized the entire system and required considerable effort to recover.

I enjoyed this game quite well, but it was also rather short compared to the games it's inspired by like Banjo Kazooie.

I tried playing the original and bounced off immediately so the fact that I beat this at all means its decent enough. For a $30 game it does feel a bit small in my opinion. I finished probably 95% of the game as finding the last few quills and pagie fragments, neither of which have trackers/tips in game, is a frustrating experience. Really though it the game leaves me with more of a neutral feeling as every aspect of the game feels serviceable. I don't really love or hate any of it. The worlds are good enough, the story gets a pass, the gameplay is fine, the characters I don't hate, but really I feel like I should like them more. And I could probably pass on every doing another rextro stage. Anyways my advice is get it on sale to play the parts you feel like playing and don't feel pressured to 100% it.