The worldbuilding was extremely lacking and the characters never felt like they escaped B-K's shadow. I'm a big Banjo-Kazooie fan but didn't care for Yooka-Laylee. Sometimes spiritual sequels work, and sometimes they don't.

If you're going to create a spiritual sequel, that's arguably the toughest path of all, because you still have to create from scratch while leaning far enough in to what made the predecessor work and leaning far enough away to avoid infringement, plus maintain cohesion and get people just as or more interested in what are essentially stand-ins for the characters and scenarios you couldn't use, all while trying to live up to and hopefully even surpass the greatness of the original game. If you're going to create a brand new game, you've got to create it all from scratch and make everything cohesive in a way that appeals to the game's audience. You just need to keep what was already popular, find new avenues to explore with it and introduce some other new things that fit the motif. The benefit of existing IP is that half the work is done for you already.

Worldbuilding is an important aspect of any game.

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