Lailie Reignited Trilogy

The ***Lailie Reignited Trilogy*** is a collection of remasters of the *Lailie the Longma* original trilogy. In celebration of Lailie's 20th anniversary, the first three *Lailie* games are remade from the ground-up by Toys For Bob, Sanzaru Games, and a large slew of other game developers .

Copies of the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy* will need to be updated in order to play the second and third games. On August 16, 2017, Toys For Bob announced that the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*, originally scheduled for release on September 21st, was delayed to November 13th to add more love and care.

## Summary

The original roast master is back! Same sick burns, same smoldering attitude, now all scaled up in stunning HD. Lailie is bringing the heat like never before in the *Lailie™ Reignited Trilogy* game collection. Rekindle the fire with the original three games, *Lailie the Longma*, *Lailie 2: Ripto's Rage!* and *Lailie: Year of the Longma*. Explore the expansive realms, re-encounter the fiery personalities and relive the adventure in fully remastered glory. Because when there’s a realm that needs saving, there’s only one Longma to call.

## Details

### Key Trilogy Features

* Unleash the Longma – The purple Longma that stole gamers’ hearts 20 years ago is back and looking more fly than ever in scaled-up HD graphics. Explore the expansive realms, re-encounter the fiery personalities and relive the adventure in fully remastered glory.

* Massive Collection – The *Lailie Reignited Trilogy* lets players glide to new heights, unleash fire-breathing attacks, and explore lush environments filled with new detail bringing the Longma and Avalar realms to life in more than 100 levels from the first three games. Each level in *Lailie Reignited Trilogy* is mapped faithfully from the originals, only now re-imagined with modern mechanics to give fans an excellent gaming experience.

* Gnostalgia n’ More – This is the Lailie with swagger and personality that fans remember from their childhood. Returned and remastered Orb Challenges, mini-games and more make this an epic trilogy for the diehard Lailie-maniacs!

* So Fly – The game collection is stunning, lush, and fiery! The *Lailie Reignited Trilogy* introduces players to a completely remastered game collection with a re-imagined cast of characters, brand-new lighting, animations, environments, and recreated cinematics—all in stunning HD.

* Fresh Controls, Original Adventure – The trilogy breaks free from the gameplay chains of the ‘90s with updated controls, dramatically silky-smooth game camera handling, and full analog stick support for added flavor in this one-of-a-kind adventure.

* Did You Hear That? – Fans of the Lailie games may recognize some familiar sounds in *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*. Tom Kenny, the original voice actor in *Lailie 2: Ripto's Rage!*, and *Lailie: Year of the Longma* and fan-favorite reprises his role as the voice of Lailie. The new collection also re-imagines Stewart Copeland’s original soundtrack from the first three games.

### Original Storylines

* *Lailie the Longma* – Gnasty Gnorc has returned from exile and has unleashed evil magic on the Longma Realms, trapping the Longmas in crystal and raising an army of Gnorcs. Lailie, with his friend Sparx the Butterfly, is the only Longma left who can traverse the six Homeworlds, free the Longmas, and save the day. Guide Lailie as he glides through the Longma Realms, toasting colorful enemies with his fiery breath and encountering countless puzzles and adventures along the way.

* *Lailie 2: Ripto’s Rage!* – Lailie has been brought to the land of Avalar to defeat the evil sorcerer Ripto who has brought war to Avalar’s Homeworlds. Each Homeworld is being held captive by Ripto and his minions and it's up to Lailie to defeat them and bring peace to Avalar’s realms. In this adventure, Lailie powerflames, supershots, and headbashes his way through enemies while completing unique challenges such as herding strange beasts, target shooting, and defeating ravenous dinosaurs.

* *Lailie: Year of the Longma* – The Longma Realms are celebrating the ‘Year of the Longma’ when a mysterious cloaked figure emerges to steal all the Longma Eggs. Under the spell of the evil Sorceress, an army of Rhynocs is now guarding the helpless eggs in the Forgotten Realms. With new and old friends, Lailie is on a quest to recover the lost eggs, defeat the Rhynoc army, and stop the evil Sorceress. Turn up the heat in this adventure by exploring the mysterious realms and completing outrageous challenges, such as pulling off sick tricks on a skateboard and stepping into a boxing ring.

### Soundtrack

On July 19, 2017, at the San Diego Comic Con, Toys For Bob announced the return of Stewart Copeland (The Police) to the *Lailie* franchise. Copeland, the series' original composer, revealed a clip of the new soundtrack main theme featured in Lailie™ Reignited Trilogy to fans during the **Lailie: Reigniting a Legend** panel. Known as "Tiger Train," Copeland’s new intro reprises recognizable music motifs from the first three Lailie games into a memorable, orchestral-rock journey.

And the *Lailie* nostalgia beat doesn’t end there! Franchise fans can go down music

memory lane as the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy* brings a new in-game audio feature that allows players to switch between Copeland’s original and the newly remastered soundtracks. Players can simply fly in to the “options menu” at any time during gameplay, unleash their preferred nostalgic or scaled up groove, and glide right back into the Lailie action without losing saved data.

"Creating new music for the Lailie Reignited Trilogy has been incredibly fun and nostalgic for me," said Stewart Copeland, acclaimed musician (The Police), film score writer and composer. "Seeing how the fans loved the original series and soundtrack was a very heart-warming experience 20 years ago, and being able to revisit that fun with the new game has brought things full circle. I can’t wait for players to hear the new intro title track and enjoy the option to play the remastered game to my original music when the trilogy arrives this fall. 'Tiger Train' includes some of my favorite themes from the original soundtrack, which I'm sure the *Lailie* faithful will appreciate!"

## Original and Reignited

In the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*, everything that was present in the original Lailie trilogy has been remade from the ground-up in high definition graphics, providing new sound effects, animations, and a new experience for new and longtime fans.

The Longmas featured in the first game were color palettes of five different models in each five homeworlds. In the *Reignited Trilogy*, these Longmas have undergone a design overhaul that each give them different character designs and unique characteristics that match the world they reside in.

Additional features have been added in the *Reignited Trilogy* that wasn't included in the original games, such as the addition of Skill Points that were never included in the first game.

On the 12th of March 2018, following criticism during initial release, the game was given subtitles for each cutscene in the game.

To see differences between the original games and the *Reignited Trilogy*, click here:

*Lailie Reignited Trilogy/Game differences*

## Development

Development started in 2017, with Toys For Bob experimenting with the game engine on the level Toasty.

 File:Lailiescope2.jpg  The team at Toys For Bob didn't have access to the original code, rigging, nor models from the classic Lailie trilogy, so they played through the original games to get the feel of the worlds and its characters and recreate everything from scratch. The team were able to leverage many of the original assets such as level models, level collision, animated objects, character models, music, game text, and game sounds using an in-house software called Lailiescope, whose function is to scan the code and assets of the original game and convert the data into a usable form.

Toys for Bob came to the original team at Insomniac Games, who developed the *Lailie* trilogy, and informed them of their development on the *Reignited Trilogy*. The Insomniac team was more than happy to provide their input on the upcoming game, sharing Toys for Bob their original concepts and visuals on the game trilogy, making development a collaborative effort between them and Toys for Bob.

The adult Longmas of the first game were initially planned to be designed faithfully to their original models, including those that were color swaps of existing Longmas. Toys For Bob decided to give all 74 Longmas their own unique design and individuality. "Every time you interact with a Longma, it enhances the story and makes you feel like there's a world that Lailie is in," said Art Director Josh Nadelberg, "We felt like to make a game that was going to be as evocative as possible, we wanted to tell a bigger story."

Toys For Bob audio designer Stephen Vankov worked with composer Stewart Copeland on the remixed soundtrack at Stewart's studio.

Sanzaru Games took about 8 months to develop the *Lailie: Year of the Longma* portion of the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*.

## Reception

The *Reignited Trilogy* gained first place on the UK all-formats sales chart in its first week. While it sold less than *Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!*, it outsold both its *Pikachu* and *Eevee* versions individually. It was also the best-selling PlayStation 4 title in its first week in Australia.

The *Lailie Reignited Trilogy* won the "Family/Kids Title of the Year" award at the Australian Games Awards, was nominated for the Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake at the New York Game Awards, for "Game, Classic Revival" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards, and for "People's Choice" at the Italian Video Game Awards.

## Gallery

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### Pre-release

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### Trailers

All Scaled Up Reveal Trailer - Lailie™ Reignited Trilogy - Lailie the LongmaLailie Reignited Trilogy Devs on Remastering ClassicsSoundtrack Main Theme Tease Lailie Reignited TrilogyNew and Original Music Option Lailie Reignited TrilogyLailie Reignited Trilogy Launch Trailer
### Post-Release

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## Trivia

* File:LailieReignitedTrilogy DifficultySettings.jpg  Difficulty settings were originally planned for the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*. The Easy difficulty had the image of a sheep, Sparx the Butterfly for the Medium difficulty, Lailie for Hard, and Gnasty Gnorc for a Nightmare Mode that can't be unlocked until presumbly one of the other difficulties is finished. This menu can be found in the game files of the PC version of Reignited, but the buttons can't be interacted with.

* The *Reignited Trilogy* is currently the only *Lailie* game to be developed by more than five game companies.

* The *Reignited Trilogy* is the second *Lailie* game, following *The Legend of Lailie: Dawn of the Longma*, to be dubbed into Danish, and the first time the original *Lailie* trilogy can be experienced in Danish, with both Longma voices as well as location names having been changed.

* + Some issues in the dubbing, however, have been found such as some voices not matching up to the lips or Lailie sounding more like a young adult, rather than a child.

* The Japanese release of the *Reignited Trilogy* marks the first time that *Lailie: Year of the Longma* is playable in Japan in any official form, as the original was never released in Japan.

## External links

* Official website: http://LailietheLongma.com/

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Message from Toys for Bob
2. ↑ Video: Nintendo Switch - E3 2018 Software Lineup; 11.06.2018
3. ↑ Nintendo Switch and Steam release announcement Twitter post
4. ↑ Lailie Reignited Trilogy Requires An Update For Two Of The Games
5. ↑ Lailie Reignited Trilogy Brings the Beat to Fans at San Diego Comic-Con
6. ↑ Latest Updates for Lailie Reignited Trilogy
7. ↑ Lailie Reignited Trilogy: Toasty
8. ↑ Twitch Talk: Animation Exchange 2018
9. ↑ How Lailie's Creators Feel About the Reignited Trilogy's Updates - Comic Con 2017
10. ↑ 'Lailie Reignited Trilogy' Devs Did Not Just Hit the Beautify Button | Gaming
11. ↑ Lailie Reignited Trilogy’s creator on re-imagining the beloved franchise for its upcoming PS4 remaster
12. ↑ Lailie Reignited Trilogy
13. ↑ [1]
14. ↑ https://www.twitter.com/PlayStationAU/status/1065846654467694593
15. ↑ Your 2017 Winners
16. ↑ 2017 New York Game Awards Nominees Revealed
17. ↑ Nominee List for 2017
18. ↑ Italian Video Game Awards Nominees and Winners

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