Yoshi's Crafted World was a pleasant little platformer. Feel of a latter day Yoshi title, with the eponymous clown's moveset and environments looking to take inspiration from everyone's. Kirby games, ayo the clown, yoshi games; 2; 37; StefanN; 2 days ago; I definitely wanna play this, it looks great and i personally loved Yoshi's Crafted World.! Glad to hear it turned out a good. Yoshi’s Crafted World was a pleasing little platformer, and we have what you would possibly name ‘a factor’ for the textile-filled worlds that developer Good Really feel created in its predecessors Yoshi’s Woolly World and the chic Kirby’s Epic Yarn. Subsequently, the trailer for two.5D platformer Ayo the Clown caught our eye not too long.

Yoshi's Crafted World Clown Mask
Yoshi's Crafted World Killer Clown
Yoshi's Crafted World Clown Head

Yoshi's Crafted World is overall a cute and charming platformer. But not every level follows suit. While some later stages get more difficult, one level in particular sticks out as surprisingly creepy. This stage features several deranged clowns who will stop at nothing to hunt you down. Yoshi’s Crafted World is a real joy to play. While it’s monotonous during the flip side levels, its masterful platform design makes up for it in droves. And as Nintendo proved last year, cardboard boxes, bits of string, fuzzy felt and plastic cups can be used to form highly unique creations, suitable for anyone to play.

E3 2017 teased a lot of future Switch titles, but one intriguing one that captures people's imaginations — and social media attention — was titled simply Yoshi. Almost two years later, the finished product, Yoshi's Crafted World is here. But does it measure up to the hype?

The answer is yes and the some.

Yoshi's Crafted World might not innovate as drastically asSuper Mario Odysseyor Breath of the Wild, but it sets a new standard with its devotion to high-quality content (and a lot of it) throughout. Seamless gameplay design and attention to even the smallest of details make this an absolute must-have for Switch owners.

Wish Upon A Gem

Yoshi's Crafted World stars Mario's famous sidekick apparently before he met up with the capped baby for their chronologically first adventure together in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. The story opens on a bright and peaceful day. The Yoshis are gathered around the Sundream Stone, a mystical item said to make the user's dreams come true.

If you've played a Yoshi game before, you know something bad happens anytime Yoshis gather. Crafted World is no exception. Kamek and Baby Bowser (not Bowser Jr., though they look almost identical) show up and try to steal the Stone.

The Yoshis try to stop them, and in the process the Dream Gems — shiny stones set in the Sundream Stone — burst out of the Stone itself and scatter across the island.The hunt is then on to reclaim those Dream Gems before Kamek and Baby Bowser find them first.

Yoshi's Islands

Crafted World takes place in, well, a crafted world. It's a paper, cardboard, DIY-version of Yoshi's Island strung out over different islands. Yet despite being set in that familiar location, you certainly won't recognize any of the themed areas Yoshi visits.

There's the usual lava, cave, and wintery settings, of course; but these are coupled with pirate coves, bucolic train stations, a garden shed, scenic camping trails, a stage infested with demonic clowns, and many, many more. The sheer variety of settings in Crafted World is one of its major strengths because there's always something new to see.

This time around, the island is set up a bit differently too. Whereas other Good Feel games, including Yoshi's Woolly Worldand Kirby's Epic Yarn (andExtra Epic Yarn), have distinct worlds with multiple levels grouped around a specific theme, Crafted World doesn't.

Instead, the island consists of multiple smaller regions themed around a set diorama. With a few exceptions, each diorama will have two or three levels, but even then, the levels vary drastically in form and style.

For example, the Origami Gardens diorama has two levels. The first is a regular platforming level stuffed full of secrets. The second is a mashup of a platforming level and an arcade-style game where you have to defeat as many Monty Moles as possible to earn the highest Smiley Flower score.

It's a theme repeated throughout the game, with every level offering something new. The desert diorama has one level where you use a dino-skull to plow through enemies and obstacles, and the mechanic isn't repeated for the next level. That one sees Yoshi fleeing from a giant, re-animated dinosaur skeleton while still gathering as many extras as possible.

Not only does that mean Crafted World contains the biggest variety of gameplay mechanics of any Yoshi game, but it also means that level and environment designs don't wear out their welcome.

Each level throws its best at you, and as much of it as possible, because that's the only chance it has before it's time for you to move on and see what surprises and delights the next stage has in store.

The order in which you choose experience these levels largely depends on you as well. After you obtain the first Dream Gem, the world map opens up with branching paths. Completing the Origami Gardens diorama lets you choose between the Dino-Desert and the Pastel Pathway, and the pattern repeats.

It's not exactly open world, but it's a nice measure of non-linearity — and to a greater extent than we even saw in Super Mario Odyssey.

Crafty Designs

Each stage certainly does have delights and surprises to show you, whichever path you choose to take. The basic theme is crafts, but like crafty things themselves, there's near endless variety on offer in each stage's design.

Take Poochy's Tape Trail for an example. It borrows the paper-craft aesthetic of the Paper Mario games and multiply it exponentially, with intricate paper vines, flowers, leaves, and snowmen set against a changing backdrop of construction paper and cardboard clouds, all meant to represent the passing seasons.

Mousers and Magnets is yet another example of the game's clever design. Among other things, Yoshi uses an air pump to inflate a balloon cat and scare Mousers out of the rafters of a cardboard camping hostel because they're playing catch with magnets.

These magnets are how you climb up the soda can cliffs to make it further through the level, but the Mousers quickly flee back up the bendy-straw pipes with their loot.

In place of your usual moving platforms, you get something unique to whatever themed area you're in. In Origami Gardens, for instance, you get metal flowers that burst into bloom and shrink back down again. And almost every platform in Yarrctopus Dock's Pirate Pier is made of ropes, which makes them bouncy platforms and changes how you time your movements over the stage's obstacles and enemies.

There's even a nod to Woolly World and Epic Yarn in Pastel Pathway's first level, though it must be said, Crafted World's version does trump both in terms of detail and color.

This is all just the tip of the iceberg, though. It's difficult to determine which to appreciate more, the overall design or the incredible attention to detail, both large and small.

From windmills made of cups and cardboard and paper plate hills with Shy Guys bouncing on platforms just for fun, to toilet paper roll trees and plate fishes on sticks with platforms and their SKU codes still showing underneath peeled paint, Crafted World is absolutely stuffed full of charming touches that make it stand out from the crowd.

Seamless Gameplay

A fantastic aesthetic and attention to detail wouldn't save a game if the actual gameplay in each level was flawed, though. Fortunately, it isn't.

Yoshi's Woolly World was more platform-intensive, similar to a Yoshi's Island game. Crafted World combines platforming with basic puzzle solving and wraps it around levels designed to encourage and reward exploring every possible nook.

There's a total of 16 themed areas, with 39 levels and 5 boss battle levels. There's also a hidden world unlocked after the credits roll with three extra stages and another boss battle.

Yoshi has his classic repertoire of moves

Yoshis Crafted World Clown