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Playtonic Games has announced Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, an eye-hurtingly colourful, all-new entry in the developer's indie 'Rare revival' platforming series. Team 17 will once again be partnering up with the studio to publish the game, which is due out later this year.

In the new Yooka-Laylee, you'll once again combine the titular chameleon and bat's respective abilities to tackle a series of challenging 2.5D levels in a fresh adventure, wherein you'll also explore and solve puzzles in a pretty and picturesque 3D overworld.

Ultimately, Yooka and Laylee will need to work together to rescue Queen Phoebee's Royal Beettalion Guard from each of the game's levels, while readying themselves to face Capital B's "most dastardly" challenge yet: the Impossible Lair itself.

Team 17 and Playtonic have more info planned for E3, but until then, you can check out the debut trailer for Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair - coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2019 - in the debut trailer below.

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The Questyen

So the premise of this game is that you are trying to beat the "Impossible Lair". You can play it right from the start of the game but it is a 30 minute no checkpoint/no tonic gauntlet that is insanely difficult. So you are supposed to play through the levels of the game and as you go you are unlocking bees that each one you unlock gives you another bee shield that lets you take another hit in the "Impossible Lair". There are 48 total bees to unlock by playing the game. I unlocked all the bees and have now played the "Impossible Lair" three times and haven't gotten higher than 40% of the way through even with 48 extra hits to take.

This is a giant jump in difficulty from the rest of the game. Even on the later levels I died maybe 5-6 times going through them.