Yoshi's Crafted World is a title in the Yoshi franchise, the sixth main platform game starring Yoshi, and the follow-up to the Wii U title Yoshi's Woolly World, released for the Nintendo Switch on March 29, 2019. It was developed by Good-Feel, the developer behind Yoshi's Woolly World and its Nintendo 3DS port Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World.
Yoshi's Woolly World is a side-scrolling platformer with a lot in common with past titles. If you've ever played any of the Yoshi's Island games, some of this will sound familiar! It's his first outing on the Wii U and on a home console since N64's Yoshi's Story. I would like to start with the very basic premise of the game, let's begin.
Once Upon A Time In A Woolly World...
- Dec 12, 2016 Welcome to Yoshi's Woolly World! The purpose of this guide is to walk you through obtaining 100% completion in this game. As well as exactly how you unlock each piece of.
- Yoshi's Woolly World is a platform game in the Yoshi's Island series for the Wii U, developed by Good-Feel and starring Yoshi. Surprisingly, it's also the first home console Yoshi game since Yoshi's Story (for the Nintendo 64) in 1997.
Kamek has turned all the Yoshi's into snuggly little balls of yarn and it's up to you to travel across the various worlds collecting them all up. Of course, there may be some appearances from a couple of familiar Mario villains and without giving away any spoilers, Magikoopa could be considered just a puppet in this equation!
The accompanying worlds that take you through your journey have the very traditional themes we all know and love; fire, ice, forest, desert etc. The idea behind each stage is to get to the end of the level in one piece, each one has four varying factors that contribute to the overall completion of the game. To get a shiny gold medal you'll have to make sure you pick up all 5 pieces of wonder wool, all 5 daisys, all of the 20 hidden gems and last but not least finish the stage with full health.
Now that for the most part starts off fairly simple in the beginning, this quickly becomes a lot more challenging though and provides the game with plenty of replay value. I found it easier to complete each stage then work my way back through each level, focusing on one objective at a time. It's a really good idea to get you to continue playing the game long after you've reached the final boss. Unless you know this game inside out before you've played I'd be insanely surprised if you found everything in the game at 100% completion on your first play through.
It does show that Yoshi's Woolly World isn't all just about its look, the developers of the game, Good Feel, have put some real time and effort into creating inventive level design and thought about new ways to play.
Is it a bird?! Is it a plane?! Nope, it's just Yoshi disguised as an umbrella!
That's right, Yoshi is also able to transform into various different means of transport. Some of these are not your usual type, such as the mole digger (I made that up myself) but it just adds to the game's charm. There are special doors that give him these unique abilities and they range from making Yoshi into a towering giant, turning him into a floaty umbrella and even a shimmering mermaid; complete with glittery fin! Behind each one of these special doors you are given a time limit in which to reach the goal and the difficulty level does depend on what you're transformed into.
These forms are in short supply but introduce new ideas each time you come across one, this ensures the gameplay doesn't feel stale and finding out what the next transformation will be gives you a little buzz of excitement!
Amiibos aplenty - oh hey, there's another!
The wonder wool you collect throughout the game on each stage will unlock you a new Yoshi, essentially there are over 70+ to find in the game and the designs they've come up with are truly quite a sight to behold. There's a special stage in each world should you wish to unlock them all which will grant you yet more colourfully designed Yoshis, this is one of the main factors that made this game an essential purchase for me.
If you have been going on a mammoth collect-a-thon and you have some Amiibo sitting on your shelf, you can use them in game to unlock some more Yoshi skins. There's around 25 of the current Amiibo selection that are compatible, it's a small addition but is easy on the eyes. Once you have scanned them in once, they're there forever as well so if you have friends with Amiibo's you haven't got yet it's a good idea to invite them over for game time!
A fluffy finish!
Yoshi is still going around eating enemies, I don't think that will ever change. What's different in this game then? The answer is probably not a lot. Aesthetically though it really gives a feast for the eyes! Instead of eggs, you now poop out woolly balls of yarn to throw at your enemies. You'll be using that an awful lot too, filling in hidden platforms and using your tongue to reveal hidden walkways.
The challenge throughout the game is somewhere in between Kirby's Epic Yarn and Super Mario Galaxy, I never found it to increase terribly but I'd say it's not as easy as Kirby's Epic Yarn (Good Feel were behind that one too, no surprise there!) yet not as difficult as the Galaxy games. The boss battles at the end of each world are very well thought out, inventive and witty and they require a lot of tooth and nail precision timing when throwing your yarn balls but it never feels frustrating.
For people who are expecting something different you probably should save your pennies. If the game wasn't so fuzzy and beautiful, with the overall woolly theme I think this review would be a lot different. As it stands the gameplay is solid and it will take you a good 15 - 20 hours to complete.
That's not including the extras that I haven't mentioned in this review, and completing each level to a gold standard. Yoshi's Woolly World looks beautiful in all it's HD goodness and the colours really 'pop', after 18 years out of the big screens it's nice to have you back Yoshi!
Yoshi's Crafted World is getting released worldwide on March 28th of 2019, which is a new yoshi platformer game released on the Nintendo Switch and will resemble Yoshi's Woolly World on the Nintendo Wii U a bit as both games had the same developers. This is why I'm going to do some Yoshi's Woolly World related lists until then, however I'll not spam out lists like I used to do back in January 2019 where I only posted lists about a certain thing, I'll still be varied in lists now, it's just sometime I'll do yoshi's woolly world lists and stuff. This time I'll look at the best worlds in this game, so with that being said, here's the list.The Top Ten Best Worlds in Yoshi's Woolly World
1World 4You might have noticed a pattern in most mario and nintendo games that overall, the forest, or jungle worlds are usually at the top spot of the lists, or at least close to the top. That was the case with all of the New Super Mario Bros. games, where the forest worlds where in the top three always. And no surprise, but that goes for Yoshi's Woolly World as well. It's a jungle world, mixed with a bit of water elements as well, so it's technically both a jungle and water world, although more of the jungle type. I love it when these two are combined, which is one of the reasons this world is at the top. One of the most important aspects of a world are of course the levels and this world does not disappoint. All the standard levels are pretty fun and original but this is one of the few times where the fortress and castle levels are actually amazing. It's partly because of the puzzles, but because of the settings. The fort one has a lot of water and it's actually fun and the castle level is ...more
2World 5It's a snow world. Snow worlds are in my opinion quite good ones for the most part. This is one of the best snow worlds, partly due to how colourful it is but the levels and boss of the world are all amazing here in my opinion. The scenarios in these levels all look amazing and gorgeous and use either a purple, or a blue sky for the most part and it looks great. All of the levels here were pretty awesome as well. The carpet level, that snowball one, that one set in a house, the curtain level, and Snifberg the Unfeeling's Castle were some of the best and it's only a few. Secondly, the boss battle. Snifberg the Unfeeling. I still think Naval Piranha is better, but, you can't deny how badass he is. The music is some true heavy metal and sounds badass for such an otherwise cute game and the athmosphere is awesome. It's after all the last world boss battle before the final world. It's really awesome.
3World 6World 6, which is the last world of the game, has a mountain/volcano setting, and as the game procceds it gains more of a high sky, considering when you climb a volcano you get higher in the air, obviously with ashy clouds and stuff, and I really appreciate this world, not going to lie. It's a very unique take of a final world in game as volcano and mountains worlds are usually not last worlds in game, although they often are the sixth worlds in a game. Anyway, the levels are some of the most unique in this game, because you not only have cave levels, but there's levels where you climb the volcano, there's a very unique ghost house, a level with sticky conveyors, a high sky level, a sky fortress, and let's not forget the awesome final level, which is excellent. I mean the first phase of Baby Bowser's boss is a bit of a rehash on Yoshi's Island considering setting but it gets better, the giant baby bowser boss at the absolute end of the game is downright epic and original in my ...more
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World 2Our desert world in this game is actually great. Normally desert worlds are rather forgettable but this one's different and unique. The first half is desert, but the second half brings some lava elemets and courses as well, I mean, the boss of this world, is themed after fire and lava, and is red after all, which is Bunson the Hot Dog. He's easly the cutest boss of the game and is one you don't want to defeat. The levels themselves are awesome. You have the pyramid maze-like level, Knot-Wing Koopa's fort, the chain chomp one, and so on. I mean still, World 4 had better theme and some more memorable levels, but this one has more good levels and is one of the most memorable worlds in the game. However since deserts aren't my type this world will stay at number #2. Yeah, and in the even numbered worlds (2, 4, 6), the mid-boss is Knot-Wing the Koopa, the better of the two mid-bosses so that's a plus as well. The biggest flaw has got to be the special level, which is just irritating at ...more
5World 1This is good stuff we're talking. I mean yeah you could say this world is a bit basic as it's a grassland world, however it's a lot more unique than say in the New Super Mario Bros. games. There's not only grass levels. The grass levels are quite great and charming but there's even a forest level, a beach level, a sky level, and so on. It's a lot more unique than other grass worlds in other games. The bosses are basic and from other games, such as the mid-boss being a giant monty mole with the name 'Big Montgomery', which is the mid-boss of the oddly numbered worlds (1, 3, 5) and happens to be my least favourite boss in the game, and the boss of the world is Burt the Bashful, you know that ball from Yoshi's Island. He's basic but he's surely memorable in my opinion. Yeah and the special level in this world is the least irritating one as well.
6Yoshi's Woolly World Switch
Craft IslandIt's the hub world. It has the tent where you switch between yoshies, the boss tent, gallery tent, amiibo tent and is the place where you are when you travel between worlds. Technically this maybe shouldn't be on the list, however, it does contain a total of one level, and it's one of the best levels in the game as well. Wonderful World of Wool, which basically is an epilogue / outro level testing all your skills you've learned (excluding yoshi transformations) and is a mix of about six levels, all resembling the worlds in the game and it's very memorable and fun. Yeah, and this world isn't even last. Well we'll see what world that was so bad that it got ranked under the ' hub world.
7World 3Basically, in a nutshell, in 3D nintendo games, the third world is usually the best. In 2D platformers, nah, it's one of the worst (excluding New Super Mario Bros. 2). This goes for Yoshi's Woolly World as well. It's generally uninteresting and is a sky world, and you might already know that sky worlds are among the worst worlds in a game most often, which is the case for this game as well. There's some candy and toy elements thrown in the world as well which is alright, but this world has a lot of pink and white and these colours togheter are not my type to the point this is my least favourite world in the game. I mean Miss Cluck is a pretty awesome boss but that's all it has going for it. This world is forgettable and not that good, and you know it's so when ' the hub world is higher than a real world.
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