Rextro Sixtyfourus is Revealed for Yooka-Laylee

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Playtonic Games has revealed a new character for Yooka-Laylee.

Featured above, the new character is dubbed appropriately Rextro Sixtyfourus, and he’s a clearly a retro-inspired character. The dinosaur-like character was designed by Mark Stevenson, and is straight out of a 90s 3D platformer.


One of the first thing’s you’ll probably notice is his polygonal, blocky, scan-ridden body. He’s likened to being the guardian of hidden arcade machines in each level. Should you complete an arcade machine’s retro challenge, you’ll get another Pagie.

“We decided on using a dinosaur pretty early on as this is a creature that naturally associates with a past era,” Stevenson said to IGN. “Then I think mostly my inspiration came from work I’d done previously on characters for the Donkey Kong 64 game. From this work I knew the kind of forms we had to create due to low polygon counts, so this inspired the shapes used to create Rextro’s blocky feet and hands that are virtually cubes. All the polygons in Rexto have hard edges as well: this affects how the light shines on him meaning you can basically see all the polygon faces as individual facets.

“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.”

Yooka-Laylee is set to launch across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, PC, Mac, and Linux in October of next year.

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