Yooka Laylee was always good.

Everyone went into this game wanting to hate it, that's the entirety of what went wrong. Everyone backed it claiming they wanted a new Banjo Kazooie game, they got Banjo Threeie out of it, and then they decided they didn't actually want that all along. Nostalgia laden gamers are so fickle, they act as if their memories of their experiences and feelings are reality.