It's funny/sad that they decided to make this game an early 2017 3DS game and not wait two more measly months and instead make the version with the stop-motion theater shorts, Poochy auto-running levels, and the create-a-Yoshi customization a Switch launch title instead. Now Yoshi's Woolly World both feels underappreciated and exists in this weird limbo where I can't consider either version "definitive" because one version lacks content and the other one doesn't have the cute HD yarn graphics.

It's a shame too, because if I ignore my childhood nostalgia for Yoshi's Story, this might be my second favorite Yoshi title behind the eternally beloved Yoshi's Island. After all these years, they finally rediscovered the secret sauce for making another good Yoshi's Island title - complete with a great soundtrack, as if in apology for the auditory crimes committed by New Island - only for Nintendo to say "yeah I'm sure the 3DS and the Switch can coexist without any sales repercussions" and doom this game to obscurity.

They even changed the way items are collected in this game! You don't have to gather everything in one run to count for 100% completion! Now I don't feel like I HAVE to spend forever combing through every corner in every level and find every little stamp to make sure my playthrough "counts"!

This game deserved better. Yarn Yoshi deserved better. My custom-made Rayman Yoshi (whom I've named Ray-Yoshi) and my custom-made Banjo-Kazooie Yoshi (dubbed Banyo-Kazoshi) deserved better.

And Poochy, especially, deserved better, even if don't want to ask the uncomfortable question of where the Poochy Pups came from if there only seems to be one Poochy. (although I guess Yarn Stork brought them. maybe.)