1. Yoshi's Crafted World Enemies
2. Yoshi's Crafted World World Map
3. Yoshi's Crafted World Soundtrack
4. Yoshi's Crafted World Map Music

Yoshi trades in the yarn for homemade arts and crafts.

List of crafts in Yoshi's Crafted World. From the Super Mario Wiki. Upon returning to the world map, the Blockafeller rewards Yoshi with a Smiley Flower. There are a total of 121 requested crafts in the game, although there are crafts found in many levels that are never requested by any Blockafellers. Apr 28, 2019 Map (Part 5) - Yoshi's Crafted World Music Extended The Mystery Bomb. Unsubscribe from The Mystery Bomb? Cancel Unsubscribe. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 1.76K.

Mario’s dinosaur sidekick Yoshi first appeared in 1990’s Super Mario World before setting off on his own set of adventures as a lead character. There have been numerous Yoshi games over the years, with Yoshi’s Woolly World being the most recent outing for everybody’s favorite green dinosaur. For his latest adventure though, Yoshi features an arts and crafts theme in the ever mellow Yoshi’s Crafted World.

Dating back to the original Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, Yoshi has gone through a number of art style changes and Yoshi’s Crafted World is certainly no different. Yoshi and the other characters in the game have a plush fabric look to them, which makes them look like stuffed animals placed in a world created by arts and crafts straight out of a child’s imagination. Not only do you get the ever adorable Yoshi in this form, but also characters like Poochy and even Baby Bowser.

The story is as you would expect for a Yoshi game, with Baby Bowser and Kamek trying to steal the Sundream Stone guarded by the Yoshi. This caused the five Dream Gems found on the artifact to be scattered across the land that you must go and collect to return to the platform at the start. The gems are spread out across the world map, each protected by a boss that you must defeat to get it back before Baby Bowser and Kamek can get their hands on them.

Yoshi’s Crafted World features a world map full of smaller themed worlds that each have a few stages within them. These worlds all have their own distinct themes that feel very much Yoshi mixed with the arts and craft theme. Each stage is not only side scrolling left to right either, as you can also walk into the background and foreground at certain parts, which really works well throughout the game. Egg targeting is also extended into these areas as well, which allows for some collectibles to be even more hidden than usual. Outside of the usage of the background and foreground at times though, the gameplay is exactly as you would expect from Yoshi with eating enemies to make eggs, shooting eggs, and ground pounding enemies.

While the levels definitely maintain that patented Yoshi feel most of the time, the game does throw out some more unique stages that are a bit different. Stages like the horror themed Haunted Maker Mansion and the entire Japanese themed world of Ninjarama, specifically Behind the Shoji, really stand out and show the potential of the game design as a whole with the crafting aesthetic. What is really impressive is that the game doesn’t continually rely on the same layouts or puzzles, instead introducing new level ideas throughout.

The various Yoshi games have featured a number of diverse bosses over the years, with plenty of recurring ones along the way. Yoshi’s Crafted World returns some of the familiar bosses you remember like Burt along with brand new bosses to the series as well. As per usual, most of these just involve you hitting them in their weak spot three or so times and they are defeated, but the methods in which you are able to hit them are completely varied. Like the difficulty of the game in general, these bosses are never too overly difficult, though they are still a ton of fun to fight regardless.

Levels definitely maintain that patented Yoshi feel

The world map found in the game is completely linear at first before beginning to branch out more after you obtain the first Dream Gem. At this point, the world map will now show you where the missing gems are located, allowing you to go after them in the order you choose for the most part. Some platformers that are split up with levels across a world map require you to complete a certain number of stages before being able to save, but thankfully this game saves after each and every stage. While it may seem like a small feature, this can be very helpful to have, especially with the ability to take the game portably.

Each little world in the game also has a gatekeeper at the start that asks for flowers to continue. This would seem like it may hinder your progress unless you’re grinding to find most of the flowers in each stage, but really that is not the case. For the most part, you should always have plenty of flowers to trade in to advance considering half of the flowers are pretty easy to obtain without much exploration within each stage.

Yoshi's Crafted World Enemies

Replayability in Yoshi games is typically pretty standard, with your only real reason to go back being to 100% the game by finding all flowers and red coins. However, Yoshi’s Crafted World builds on that by flipping things around literally. Once you complete a stage in the game, you can now select a Flip Side version of that very level where the goal is to find three Poochy Pups within a specified time limit. You are not just going backwards in the stage either, as the entire stage is completely flipped around, allowing you to see an entirely different side from the original run. While not an entirely new stage, this gives players something extra beyond collecting flowers and red coins in the exact same version of each stage. In addition, each little world has a fetch quest type mission given after the fact that has you collecting certain souvenirs that add additional longevity.

Yoshi’s Crafted World also has another collectible to be had in the game in the form of costumes. Its predecessor, Yoshi’s Woolly World, featured a number of unlockable costumes based on other Nintendo characters, but this game takes another approach. The costumes in this game take the arts and crafts theme very literally, by putting Yoshi in homemade costumes that you can purchase at random through slot machines in the game. Selected from the overworld menu, there are 173 costumes to collect in the game in total. These are overall not as neat as the ones available in Woolly World, but they are still very fitting for the game itself. On top of the costumes, you also can play as multiple color Yoshi as well, which is always a great inclusion.

Also adding to the experience as a whole is the ability to play with a friend via local couch co-op. Both players control a separate Yoshi as you play through the adventure together. This may not have the zaniness of a game like New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe does with co-op players, but it instead offers a much more relaxing experience that two people can sit back and enjoy.

Yoshi games rarely feature groundbreaking new mechanics, but that does not preclude them from being a blast to play. This trend is continued in Yoshi’s Crafted World by taking great advantage of the do it yourself setting and mixing it with the gameplay style that everyone knows and loves. While still a bit short overall, Yoshi’s Crafted World does not falter as a result of the the same issues as last year’s Kirby Star Allies by offering much more replayability and innovative level design.

The Verdict

Dating back to the original Yoshi’s Island, the Yoshi series has almost always been known for its unique art designs and Yoshi’s Crafted World once again does this by making a natural transition from yarn to other arts and crafts. Featuring the laid back atmosphere the series is typically known for mixed with enjoyable level design, Yoshi’s Crafted World is yet another delightful entry in the series that is great for families and solo players alike.

Yoshi's Crafted World

• Available On: Nintendo Switch
• Published By: Nintendo
• Developed By: Good-Feel
• Genre: Platformer
• US Release Date: March 29th, 2019
• Reviewed On: Nintendo Switch
• Quote: 'Featuring the laid back atmosphere the series is typically known for mixed with enjoyable level design, Yoshi's Crafted World is yet another delightful entry in the series that is great for families and solo players alike.'

Yoshi has a long history of enjoyable platformers yet he's never quite reached the high notes of his SNES classic Yoshi's Island since it debuted. Does Yoshi's Crafted World have what it takes to make him a platforming superstar yet again?

When I first started playing Yoshi's Crafted World, its distinct visual style of paper crafts come to life immediately reminded me of Media Molecule's fantastic 3D platformer Tearaway. However, Yoshi's Crafted World has something that Tearaway doesn't: Yoshis! Watching the little cuties run, jump, and flutter around is a treat and I particularly enjoyed the brief albeit memorable cutscenes that have the little fellows interact and react to surprising circumstances. Plus, being able to dress them up in oversized costumes (many of which can be unlocked by scanning certain amiibo) offers plenty of goofy fun. On the audio side, you'll hear plenty of familiar Yoshi noises as he charges his egg throws and flutters his little legs while the music is charming yet not as catchy as previous entries in the series.

Adorable graphics and sound aside, how does Yoshi's Crafted World set itself apart from other games in the franchise? For starters, it has a semi-3D element in that you can throw eggs at objects in the backgrounds and foregrounds and even travel up and down pathways to change lanes. It's still very much a 2D platformer but these touches definitely give it a whole new dimension, literally.

The core gameplay of Yoshi's Crafted World isn't far removed from what you'd expect although it does feature plenty of twists that keep its campaign feeling fresh. You'll encounter many different kinds of stages and segments throughout the campaign such as automatically scrolling levels, a stage where you can only see shadows whenever a screen slides in the way, and portions that have you control certain vehicles or ride everyone's favourite pup: Poochy! This amount of variety definitely makes for one fulfilling adventure.

Yoshi's Crafted World's campaign is uniquely designed as well. First of all, you'll reach a point early on where you can choose various paths on the world map that each include a precious jewel at the end and the goal of the campaign is to retrieve them all. Having this non-linear level structure is great as not many platformers allow you to have this much freedom. As you play through levels, you'll amass a collection of hidden Smiley Flowers that are also earned through finishing levels at full health as well as after collecting 100 regular coins and all 20 hidden red coins. Some stages are played like mini arcade games where you have to reach certain score thresholds to earn Smiley Flowers. Anyway, these flowers are used to unlock more levels so earning enough is crucial if you want to progress further.

Believe it or not, there's plenty of replay value within Yoshi's Crafted World's campaign in addition to collecting everything in each stage. Almost every stage allows you play it again in reverse while trying to collect all of the Poochy Pups which is as fun as it is adorable. There are also 121 hidden crafts that you can collect to fill out a rewarding catalog as well as toy vending machines that grant you costumes and such by spending your hard-earned coins. You could spend dozens of hours and still have a lot more to see and do.

Although it sounds like an excellent game, Yoshi's Crafted World unfortunately has its fair share of faults. Primarily, it's far too easy even for a Nintendo platformer. Not only can you breeze through the majority of the campaign while almost never biting the dust, some of the stages can be downright boring. For example, controlling a giant automatically moving Yoshi by merely punching up, down, or straight ahead made me want to fall asleep. Also, the arcade-style stages where you have to earn points are more tedious than many NES Zapper games. Next, I enjoy playing cooperatively but many co-op mechanics here are irritating to deal with. Accidentally hopping on each other's backs or eating each other made me and my gaming pal almost constantly annoyed, especially during crucial moments.

Yoshi's Crafted World World Map

Finally, even though Yoshi's Crafted World is an extremely easy game, it also has many 'what the heck do I do now?' moments. There were more than a few times when progressing through a stage or defeating a boss required a very specific yet unclear set of steps and wandering around while trying to figure these situations out just isn't fun. For example, you may have walked by a key object that you needed or not noticed a side path and a couple of bosses even require some outside the box thinking to defeat although they're still technically very easy. These sorts of key steps could have definitely been highlighted in a more intuitive way.

Yoshi's Crafted World is one of the cutest games that you'll ever play but it's incredibly easy to the point where it becomes unengaging. That being said, the amount of variety and replay value is top-notch and that makes the familiar gameplay really shine.

Yoshi's Crafted World Soundtrack

• + Familiar Yoshi gameplay yet with an interesting 3D element and plenty of twists
• + Adorable visuals and music
• + Lots of stages, variety, and replay value

Yoshi's Crafted World Map Music

• - Little sense of challenge and some stages are just plain boring
• - Co-op mechanics can be irritating
• - Plenty of 'what do I do?' moments