Yooka-Laylee’s newest character reveal in some time comes to us today courtesy of Playtonic and IGN First.
The new character is named Rextro SixtyFourus and he is just perfect. Rextro was designed by Mark Stevenson who worked on Donkey Kong Country, DK64 and Kameo: Elements of Power. Discussing the creation of Rextro with IGN, Stevenson said, “We decided on using a dinosaur pretty early on as this is a creature that naturally associates with a past era. Then I think mostly my inspiration came from work I’d done previously on characters for the Donkey Kong 64 game.”
“I wanted Rex to to feel like he captured the era of games from my early career which also included work on the Donkey Kong games on the Super Nintendo. Finally just to reinforce the retro aspect some more, I created a custom shader that creates a scanline effect on Rextro to make him look like he’s being viewed on an old school CRT TV.”
.@ign introduces Rextro SixtyFourus in the first of a number of #YookaLaylee reveals! https://t.co/vbgerbEEOi pic.twitter.com/FmHJ9mkAXT
— Playtonic (@PlaytonicGames) November 11, 2015
Rextro’s role in the title is as the guardian of special arcade machines, hidden in each world. When players find one they’ll be able to take part in some old-school arcade gaming and earn themselves a Pagie.
Yooka-Laylee will be available in October 2016.
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