Yoshi's Crafted World is an impossibly special game. The level design, visual style, and gameplay variety is in another UNIVERSE compared to a lot of its contemporaries, I seriously cannot stress this enough.
The game offers so much in terms of collectible content, and while 100% completing the game might stretch the experience a bit thin, going for a lot of them but not pushing it is an incredible experience that rewards you for exploring the levels, learning the tricks of the wonderfully unique environments and soaking in the luxuriously crafted (pun intended) atmosphere.
The soundtrack is a tad grating and lacks variety, but I like the main theme's melody enough to where this wasn't a huge issue for me. Of course the game isn't particularly hard, but looking for all the different types of collectibles in the insane variety of environments that the game provides you is certainly a challenge, because some are hidden damn well. Each level is designed to be played from multiple angles, increasing the amount of detail and bumping the crafts aesthetic up to the umpteenth degree. The souvenir collectibles turn it into a platforming I-Spy game, which works incredibly with the visual style and provides a lot of rich environmental detail.
These environments are also ridiculously varied, as the game is split into well over a dozen smaller worlds each with their own unique theme, and the levels in those worlds are also super varied, meaning that no two levels are alike visually or mechanically, with tons of level-specific mechanics.
On top of the platforming levels having diverse environments, the gameplay is also shaken up quite a few times with mini-game-esque, high score based levels that are entirely too fun. You might go on a monty mole hunt, pilot a plane through an aerial minefield, or even do a solar-powered race in a bottle car (my personal favorite).
I just had a blast with this game from start to finish, and I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.
The game offers so much in terms of collectible content, and while 100% completing the game might stretch the experience a bit thin, going for a lot of them but not pushing it is an incredible experience that rewards you for exploring the levels, learning the tricks of the wonderfully unique environments and soaking in the luxuriously crafted (pun intended) atmosphere.
The soundtrack is a tad grating and lacks variety, but I like the main theme's melody enough to where this wasn't a huge issue for me. Of course the game isn't particularly hard, but looking for all the different types of collectibles in the insane variety of environments that the game provides you is certainly a challenge, because some are hidden damn well. Each level is designed to be played from multiple angles, increasing the amount of detail and bumping the crafts aesthetic up to the umpteenth degree. The souvenir collectibles turn it into a platforming I-Spy game, which works incredibly with the visual style and provides a lot of rich environmental detail.
These environments are also ridiculously varied, as the game is split into well over a dozen smaller worlds each with their own unique theme, and the levels in those worlds are also super varied, meaning that no two levels are alike visually or mechanically, with tons of level-specific mechanics.
On top of the platforming levels having diverse environments, the gameplay is also shaken up quite a few times with mini-game-esque, high score based levels that are entirely too fun. You might go on a monty mole hunt, pilot a plane through an aerial minefield, or even do a solar-powered race in a bottle car (my personal favorite).
I just had a blast with this game from start to finish, and I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.