Boss battles are present but even the end boss is a pushover if you know what to do. After a while, all those bright colors and all that cheeriness starts to wear, and I didn’t mind the game being over. The game is relatively short which is another plus for both parties I guess. They act as a buffer in case Yoshi gets hit, which in turn helps children navigate around enemies. There’s other stuff to unlock as well: a hidden world at the end of the game and… costumes for Yoshi to wear? The costumes can be won at egg vending machines and come in three different levels of rareness. Plus, if you finish a level, you can replay it from back to front and the objectives change from collecting to finding Poochy’s friends. Indeed, a completionist will feel right at home. They argue that adults will enjoy this because there’s plenty to do and it’s still a classic Yoshi platformer. Speaking of kids, is this game tailored to children or to adults? I think The Gamer is right-it’s both. A lovely activity with the kids.Ī part of the world map, with my favorite world highlighted: the Ninjarama. In case you can’t get enough, Nintendo even provides free diorama printables to download, print and cut out. I didn’t notice hickups or bad frame drops but the battery drains fast and the console becomes quite warm. In handheld mode, the console does struggle. It’s crazy to see all that cardboard come to life in the Unreal Engine 4 on the Switch. It must have been a real treat working on this project. I wonder how many physical cut-outs have been made to prototype the levels. When zooming in on the world map, each world is a giant paper diorama that neatly unfolds after you unlock it with a certain amount of flowers-unveiling the first level spot even comes with a bit of (paper, of course) confetti! Yay! The cuteness factor scales off the charts once you’re re-running through the same levels from end to beginning to find three friends of Poochy. In space levels, you hop from plastic bottle to plastic bottle, dressed as rockets using tin foil and a dab of acrylic paint. In water levels, you’re floating on top of cardboard-and-cork lily leafs. That window on the top right? Cardboard-can you see the pattern revealing on the side? Note the floor: it consists of various pieces of paper or cardboard, expertly put together, sometimes with a bit of scotch tape. Animated background art (of which most can be hit for extra coins) look like neatly cut-out pieces, like the ghost in the above screenshot. It appears in every nook and cranny of every level and world map piece. The “cardboard design” isn’t just a label that’s thoughtlessly slapped on. I found a hidden flower! And yes, I'm wearing a Pirana Plant costume.Īs with other Good-Feel games, this one oozes charm. If your last Yoshi adventure was on the SNES, everything is still more or less there, minus the baby Mario(s). It’s a traditional 2D platformer where Yoshi’s iconic abilities are all present: flapping in the air, sticking out the tongue and mjamming enemies to convert them into throwable eggs, finding hidden flowers in the stage, and collecting coins-and of course, being on the lookout for the red ones that yield another flower. Yoshi’s Crafted World is, in essence, Yoshi’s Wooly World, except that all the wool has been traded for cardboard. Bring Your Own scissors, tape, and glue stick. By the way, did you know that Good-Feel was also behind Wario Land: Shake It? Hopefully Yoshi deserves a better treatment compared to the beautiful but awful ending of Wario’s 2D adventure. Even the company name perfectly reflects what they do! If you’ve ever played any recent Kirby game, and more specifically, Epic Yarn, or Yoshi’s Wooly World, you know exactly what to expect. Here’s another feel-good game from the grandmasters of fuzzy warm feeling generation: Good-Feel. Zombies (Game Of The Year) The most popular PopCap game everybody and their grandmother played back in the day was certainly the tile-matching browser game Bejeweled. Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon had a massive impact on me when I was just a wee lad it was my personal Monkey Island revelation. Gobliiins 5: Early Nineties Vibes Almost Included In case that isn’t yet clear from the theme of this website, I love the quirky Gobliins puzzle adventure games.Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes If you’ve ever wondered what a “Puzzle RPG” might look like, you should play Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, a successful blend of tactical puzzling with light RPG elements that perfectly fits on Nintendo’s mobile DS platform.Animal Bejeweled The rise and fall of web-based Flash games netted us a permanent addiction to tile-matching games ever since PopCap’s Bejeweled in 2001 and its innumerable subtle and not so subtle ripoffs. Roleplaying Bejeweled What do you get when you combine an animal zoo with the Bejeweled gemstones in a 2D grid? Zoo Keeper (2004).
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