Dr. Puzz is a supporting character who serves as an ally in Yooka-Laylee series. She was once a research scientist employed at Quack Corp and an associate of Dr. Quack until Quack Corp was acquired by Hivory Towers. Sometime after the buyout, Dr. Quack stole all of Dr. Puzz's research and left her without a job. She now helps Yooka and Laylee on their adventure as a form of payback against her former colleague.
In Yooka-Laylee, Dr. Puzz can be found in all of the game's worlds, providing Yooka and Laylee a unique transformations through the use of the D.N.Ray. The D.N.Ray requires a Mollycool to function, one of which can also be found hidden in each world.
She reappears in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair helping Yooka and Laylee once again by providing a state change for Wild Web Woods. She is also the creator of Checkmate, a robot that acts as a checkpoint in the different chapters of the Royal Stingdom.
Name Origin[]
"Dr. Puzz" is a play-on-words combining "doctor," her profession, and "octopus," her species.
Appearance[]
Dr. Puzz is a scientist that became human/octopus hybrid after a mishap with her D.N.Ray. According to the Yooka-Laylee Art Book, it is unknown which half of her, octopus or human, is her original form, while in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair she confirms it to be the octopus half. She has a freckled human face, with four short tendrils. She has blue eyes and black eyelashes, with the top portion of her head being violet. Dr. Puzz wears a large, filled fishbowl on her head with a goldfish swimming around. She has four red octopus tentacles for arms, two of which are coming out of the sleeves of her dingy, white laboratory coat. The coat itself is coated in multicolored blotches. Under her lab coat, she wears a yellow tight top that has a black skull on the front, along with black tights.
Personality[]
Dr. Puzz is kind-hearted and eager to help the duo. Being the inventor of the D.N.Ray, she is a fairly skilled scientist and engineer. However, she also appears to have an absent-minded streak, since most of her transformations never seem to go quite as expected. She is also incredibly optimistic, as she doesn't seem to be bothered by her newly mutated form, nor does she acknowledge Laylee's insults toward her. However, she does harbor a large amount of hostility towards Dr. Quack after his betrayal.
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Yooka-Laylee[]
- Tribalstack Tropics: Next to Duke's Temple, close to the area with the Plant Bulbs.
- Glitterglaze Glacier: Under Glittertrio Towers.
- Moodymaze Marsh: Around Moodymaze Lagoon by Rextro's Arcade game.
- Capital Cashino: In the area behind the Vendi near the entrance.
- Galleon Galaxy: By the island covered with rocks on a raft, which drifts toward the Lightspeed House once activated.
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair[]
- Before playing Wild Web Woods - Wilder: In front of the machine by Wild Web Woods.
- Afterwards: Inside a tower on the right side of Shipwreck Creek.
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Trivia[]
- In Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Dr. Puzz implies that she cannot return to the ocean, despite the fact that she wears a fishbowl on her head in the game.
- Dr. Puzz was designed by Ed Bryan, who also designed Mumbo Jumbo and Roysten the Goldfish in the Banjo-Kazooie series.
- The goldfish in her fishbowl is likely an allusion to Roysten, which was Banjo's goldfish in Banjo-Kazooie.
- The skull on Dr. Puzz's shirt might also allude to her Banjo-Kazooie counterpart, Mumbo.
- Dr. Puzz is the first human NPC in Yooka-Laylee, with Shovel Knight being the second assuming he is human.