Yoshi’s Crafted World is one of those games that immediately catches your eye. Brimming with an almost offensive amount of colour and charm, it looks like the kind of arts and craft utopia every child dreams of making….but without all the screaming and mess. It’s an ode to recycling, a celebration of rubbish, a bric-a-brac kitbash. Elastic bands, push pins, curled paper cones and corrugated cardboard replace pixels and polygons, and best of all? The little crocheted creature in the middle of it all is you: surrounded by all these cast-offs, left to discover the joy in everyone else’s trash.
In other words, this time, Nintendo has cast its Willy Wonka magic on garbage, turning the offcuts of a primary school art lesson into a living, breathing world. Something about Yoshi’s Crafted World — realised in 720p on the Switch — imbues Yoshi’s island with more resplendent magic than its 3DS or Wii U predecessors. There’s more soul, more vibrancy, more charm. The secret sauce? This is the first Nintendo first party game to make use of Unreal Engine 4, and it shows.
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- Yoshi’s Crafted World Official Synopsis. As Yoshi, you’ll leap up high, gulp down enemies, and set out on a treasure hunt to find all the different collectibles. On the flip side, stages can be played backwards, providing new perspectives to explore and new ways to locate some of the more craftily hidden items!
- Does Crafted World rank as one of the Switch’s best platformers? This is a simple collectathon at heart that never really attempts to strive to be anything more. Children and those craving a cutesy cathartic adventure will love this new Yoshi entry, but those looking for a.
- Yoshi's Crafted World is a fun, cute, and charming game that is pretty fun for shorter play sessions, but it can get repetitive, especially the music. I have always enjoyed the music in Yoshi games, particularly Story and Woolly World, but the same song is basically reused in EVERY level.
Thanks to its mix of vibrant visuals and clever depth of field, this world looks so sweet it’s sickly at times, with billboards for fictional candy and breakfast cereals decorating the horizon, bottle cap boats and foil fish dressing the levels. But for all its creativity — for all the imagination that’s gone into making these Blue Peter diorama levels — unlike most Nintendo platformers, Yoshi’s latest adventure feels hard to love.
Spin a yarn
In many ways, Yoshi’s Crafted World is Nintendo by committee: a cutesy platformer guiding the player down linear paths in themed worlds with a token sprinkling of collectables hidden throughout each 2.5D level.
Thankfully, this crafted world is an incredibly endearing place to be. On your first run through any given zone, you’ll gawk and croon over the gorgeous little touches that make the area feel special. ‘Awh look, the Shy Guys are wearing sailor hats!’ or ‘that’s cute: the Mousers are playing with magnets!’ and it says a lot that this twee take on Mario’s rogue’s gallery never really loses momentum.
The same goes for the puzzling. Throughout the 20 hour run time, you’ll laugh, smile, chuckle and groan at the predictably wholesome puzzles developer Good Feel sends your way. Maybe you’ve got to figure out how to use your body weight to operate a lever, maybe you’ve got to stack swallow-and-spit items on top of each other, maybe you’ve got to find a hidden switch. Keep an eye on the foreground, background and sniff out hidden corners and you’ll breeze through 90% of the game no problem (and the other 10% might require some good timing).
These copy/paste puzzle solutions, on their own, are sort-of entertaining — the kinds of activities you give the kids on a hungover Sunday morning to keep them busy whilst you search for the paracetamol. They take enough low-key brainpower for you to distractedly pluck through, but it’s never enough to really get your head whirring.
The stop/start nature of the game doesn’t help: short levels and unskippable segues create a staccato rhythm that — when paired with shallow puzzling and simple platforming — fails to ever get in your head the way that recent, better platformers have done (Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Celeste and Rayman Legendsyou can all take a bow – you may have ruined Yoshi).
Say it ain’t sew
This game isn’t aimed at mature audiences, though. We know that. It’s easy to be cynical about a game that’s even got a setting that ensures you pretty much can’t die. But even in some of the later levels — you know, where the game is supposed to get hard — Yoshi’s Crafted World fails to glue together a crafty challenge that respects the player’s time investment.
Shunting the game down to the easiest difficulty (Mellow Mode) gives you wings that allow you to float forever, and it feels like Nintendo could have taken advantage of that to let the latter levels spice up the vanilla platforming even a little. Collect-a-thons are all well and good, but even the checkbox structure of a game as wholesome as this becomes tired 20 hours in.
Disappointingly, even in co-op, the game doesn’t really change all that much — it’s just more of the same, but with two people. Some levels might flow better when you’re working together (you can navigate vertical obstacles easier, or take on timed tasks quicker), but other than some incidental hilarity when you swallow each other or nick each other’s eggs… you don’t particularly get much more out of playing with someone else than when playing solo.
Yoshi’s Crafted World tries to jazz up the gameplay muzak by taking you out of the standard levels and dropping you into special ones every now and then. Maybe you’re operating a big vehicular Yoshi, maybe you’re fighting off a boulder-spitting bird, maybe you’re running an infestation of moles out of town. But even at the climax of these boss fights and mini-games, it still feels like you’re riding in the same old elevator and not getting anywhere.
Is Yoshi’s Crafted World any good?
Yoshi’s Crafted World is not a bad game. The ingenuity in how it shows off its world is consistently inspiring, and the way the developers have taken a box of odds and ends and somehow made a living, breathing world out of it cannot be praised enough.
The problem with the green dinosaur’s latest is, it just feels like all the good ideas were spent on the setting — and the developers had checked out creatively by the time it came to designing the levels. It’s a platformer by numbers, and if you strip out those lovely visuals and that inventive packaging it all comes in, it feels much like the colourful pieces that hold together its landscapes — recycled.
Yoshi’s Crafted World hasn’t done much wrong, but held up against the other better (cheaper!) platformers you can currently pick up on Nintendo Switch hardware, it’s hard to recommend. It’s charming, it’s sweet, it’s peddling a message of kinship and harmony… but it does it all so dryly.
Sorry, Yoshi – you’re a good boy, but you’ve got to learn some new tricks.
ON THE FLIP-SIDE, STAGES CAN BE. Overcome varied enemies and obstacles, like Zombie Guys, Skelesaurus, Ukiki, and Monty Mole as you seek out hidden collectables. Explore each stage and then find even more secrets by making your way through the stage backwards on the flip side. Zackscottgames yoshis crafted world 16. AS YOSHI, YOU LL LEAP UP H IGH, GULP DOWN ENEMIES, ANDSET OUT ON A TREASURE HUNT TO FIND ALL THE DIFFERENT COLLECTABLES. JUMP INTO A NEW YOSHI ADVENTURE IN A WORLD MADE OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS LIKE BOXES AND PAPER CUPS!
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Following the recent decline of the Lego titles it’s great to enjoy a proper game that two people of any experience can play together, whether it’s parent and child or hardcore and casual gamer.In that, and many other ways, Yoshi’s Crafted World is a success, but it still feels like it’s coasting along, never really bothering to push itself or its concept as far as it can go. There’s still enough to keep your interest when playing on your own, but where Yoshi’s Crafted World really comes alive is in its two-player co-op mode. We just wish there was more of these sort of levels and less of the recycling of the same old ideas. Yoshis crafted world online co op. The best levels though are right at the end, including a clever stealth stage and what is basically a mini-survival horror game, complete with murderous-looking axemen (made out of wool) that are afraid of the light.
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- ..a delightful adventure..- GameInformer (8.25/10)
- ..an excellent platformer worth picking up..- Nintendo Enthusiast (9/10)
- ..it’ll almost certainly delight you.- US Gamer (4/5)
Get crafty with Yoshi ina handicraft world
Jump into a new Yoshi adventure in a world made of everyday objects—like boxes and paper cups! As Yoshi, you’ll leap up high, gulp down enemies, and set out on a treasure hunt to find all the different collectables. On the flip side, stages can be played backwards, providing new perspectives to explore and new ways to locate some of the more craftily hidden items! this fabled artifact can grant the bearer their wildest dreams! But when the artifact’s gems are sent flying, it falls upon Yoshi and friends to find them. Luckily, saving the day can be cooperative and challenging. Pass a Joy-ConTM controller to a friend to team up as fellow Yoshis. Also, Mellow mode gives Yoshi wings for a breezier experience, which may come in handy! Finding all the flowers, coins, and Poochy Pups is no small feat! For extra protection, suit up in one of the handicraft costumes you can unlock in-game!
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One of them stays in place at the beginning of the level, but proceeds to shuffle towards when he comes close.
Although Zombie Guys are able to damage Yoshi if he runs into them, they can be defeated by any sign of attack, including a jump or an throw. They are introduced at the beginning of when they come out of the ground during a lightning strike and continue to appear frequently throughout the level.Zombie Guys are usually found walking slowly in one direction, turning the other way when they encounter a wall, an edge or another enemy.
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