Still not sold on Yoshi. It looks great but haven't really been feeling 2D platformers lately. I do want that Yarn Yoshi Amiibo though.
This is my first Yoshi game, though I have played Yoshi's Island on SNES a bit, and I'm really liking the game so far (just got past the 2nd world).
It's cute (my gf really likes the style naturally), but it also looks great otherwise as well. My only complaint in the whole game is one flat texture you can see in the opening video, everything else really looks like it's made of real yarn, fabric etc. The music, while not really great is still good, and every level has its own music I think, and there's some memorable tunes.
One thing that worried me initially was the challenge the game offers, but the game has shown it actually offers a good bit of challenge. If you just want to run through levels, then it can be quite easy, at least so far, though couple of levels have been decent challenge even then, but if you try to get all the bonus stuff, it becomes a good challenge. And why would you try to get that stuff? Because it opens up extra levels, which are even more challenging. It opens different colored Yoshis and probably some stuff that I don't know yet.
The controls are good (except on the world map they feel wonky, but that doesn't matter), there's lots of different transformations, the levels add new ideas all the time and there seems to be quite a few hours of gameplay all in all. Like I said, I'm past the 2nd world in which I haven't opened the secret level yet (meaning I haven't collected all the extra stuff), and I've played about 7 hours now. Sure it's been mostly 2 player co-op, which btw is tons of fun, because you can screw up the other player if you want or try to work like a good team. But it also makes the levels a bit slower, because if you want to really co-op, you have to be more careful. But it's one of the few games my gf likes to play with me, so all's good.
