Super Yooka-Laylee Kart looks like an old-school Mario Kart for the modern age
Key takeaways
- Playtonic is shifting the Yooka-Laylee series from platforming to familiar-looking arcade racing.
- Playtonic Last year's Mario Kart World didn't quite hit the mark for a lot of folks.
- It's immediately obvious that Playtonic was inspired by Nintendo's 1992 kart racer here, because of both the title and the game's aesthetic.
Playtonic is shifting the Yooka-Laylee series from platforming to familiar-looking arcade racing.
Playtonic Last year's Mario Kart World didn't quite hit the mark for a lot of folks. But during the Summer Game Fest edition of Day of the Devs, one game popped up that looks set to take arcade racing fans back in time. With Super Yooka-Laylee Kart, developer Playtonic Games is smushing together the characters from its Yooka-Laylee platformer series with the original Super Mario Kart.
It's immediately obvious that Playtonic was inspired by Nintendo's 1992 kart racer here, because of both the title and the game's aesthetic. It looks like a modern spin on Super Mario Kart with pixel-art characters racing on a course that has coins and boxes containing power-ups laid flat on the track. Those drifts around corners look mighty familiar too.