Yoshi's Woolly World | Nintendo Wii U

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About the Game

Yoshi's Woolly World is a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer starring the anthropomorphic dinosaur Yoshi known from many Mario games. The game uses a visual style where all characters and the environment look as if they are made out of cloth or yarn, similar to Kirby's Epic Yarn by the same developer. Many Yoshis live together peacefully on Craft Island in the Handmade Ocean. One day the evil wizard Kamek arrives on his broom and turns all the Yoshis into bundles of yarn.

Story & Setting

Only two are able to hide and they need to rescue their friends.

Gameplay & Core Systems

Yoshi typically attacks using his tongue to swallow enemies and produce eggs, but in this game balls of yarn are produced instead. Yoshi can use a flutter jump for a short while to reach platforms while hovering. Instead of just completing levels, players are encouraged to find all the collectibles. Each level has many secret areas and there are jewels to collect, pieces of yarn (Wonder Whools), five smiley flowers, and stamp patches. They are used to buy power-ups, unlock new levels (six S-rank courses), new Yoshi skins and Miiverse stamps respectively.

Standout Features

• About six can be carried at all times and they have various uses.
• They can be launched at enemies, aiming with a reticule, to ensnare them.
• In other sections they are used to interact with the environment, to activate platforms or reveal hidden sections, or to reach and grab items that are far away.
• White chicks can be gathered to create temporary cloud platforms.
• There are also short sequences where Yoshi can transform himself into an umbrella, a motorbike, a mermaid etc.
• Poochy: For 5,000 gems for instance you can summon Poochy who sniffs out secrets and a later upgrade reveals all hidden items right away.
• Often small threads can be pulled to reveal a new piece of the environment and stacks of pillow can be compressed to make a path.
• There is a mellow mode, next to a classic mode, where Yoshi can fly through levels without having to land.

Modes & Ways to Play

In the local cooperative mode players each control a Yoshi and can work together, for instance by swallowing and launching the other Yoshi to launch it to a hard to reach area. It is also possible to save a Yoshi skin to use it during cooperative games.

Player support includes Same/Split-Screen and Co-Op.

Presentation & Atmosphere

There are 48 levels in total, grouped into eight worlds. Every world has a mini-boss in the middle and a world boss. The 2017 Nintendo 3DS port of Yoshi's Woolly World contains all the levels of the Wii U game, with extra stages added, especially for Poochy.