When comparing Grow Home vs Yooka-Laylee, the Slant community recommends Grow Home for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D Platformers on Steam?” Grow Home is ranked 5th while Yooka-Laylee is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Grow Home is:
As you progress through the game you get skills that allow you to travel and explore much faster by jumping through the air. Because of the incredibly vertical nature of the world, you can do awesomely perilous jumps from one part of the level to another.
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Pros
Pro Rocket pack and parachute flowers let you do huge jumps across the landscape
As you progress through the game you get skills that allow you to travel and explore much faster by jumping through the air. Because of the incredibly vertical nature of the world, you can do awesomely perilous jumps from one part of the level to another.
Pro Flower growing mechanic leads to interesting terrain
The areas you explore in the game are floating islands, and to get to them, you grow stems off giant space flowers in any direction you choose, making the landscape of the game unique to every play through.
Pro Cool climbing mechanic
In Grow Home B.U.D. can grab onto and climb on any surface allowing you to be able to explore anywhere in the world.
Pro Procedural walking makes navigating rough terrain more interesting
Walking takes the terrain you're on and your momentum into consideration, so the walk physics are more interesting than simply checking if you're on top of land.
Pro Good graphics
The graphics are great for a game in this specific genre. If you played a lot of Banjo-Kazooie back in the days, then Yooka-Laylee is a great throwback to those times, just with much better graphics.
Pro Colorful and lighthearted game
The game has colorful worlds and a lot of funny characters.
Pro A lot of interesting puzzles
Some of the puzzles are actually challenging for adult players.
Cons
Con Hard to see where you're going to land
There's no shadow or indicator below you to help you gauge landings.
Con Gameplay gets repetitive
The world is expansive, but pretty shallow leading to repetitive gameplay.
Con Constant screen tearing and sub 60fps
The game is not optimized as it has no vsync, which for such a simple graphic game, there should be no reason to turn off vsync for performance unless it was poorly programmed. On top of this the lack of vsync doesn't even afford the game a 60fps framerate.
Con Frustrating camera
The camera zooms to the furthest distance it can and stops at any object it hits making it zoom in even when the object is tiny.
Con Lacking physics and control
The controlling system and physics are not precise - collisions at places can come as a surprise. It's common to fail challenges because of that. It's can get frustrating.
Con Feels not finished
Some characters and details feel like they were just thrown in there without much effort put into polishing them.