Don't let the cutesy visuals deceive you: Yoshi's Woolly World is as challenging a platformer as anything to have come from Nintendo. This is a game that unashamedly plays on nostalgia, almost tricking you into thinking that maybe, just maybe, there's not a lot new to see or do within its delightfully bright and fluffy world. And sure, some occasionally obtuse level design and frustrating checkpoints mean that it doesn't quite reach the glorious heights of its genre-defining forebears. But even with its problems, Yoshi's Woolly World is so cute, and so mechanically refined—in that way only Nintendo platformers can be—that it's so very hard not to be taken in by its charms.
And hey, who wouldn't be charmed by a small green dinosaur that squeaks like a puppy and eats and poops balls of wool? Yes, Yoshi's Woolly World is what the kids call "totes adorbs," a striking mass of billowing fabrics and fluffy wool that's been stitched together to create a bright and colourful world. This aesthetic isn't new to Nintendo, debuting in the Wii platformer Kirby's Epic Yarn, but here it's been refined, the HD power of the Wii U rendering each intricate thread with startling clarity. It's an absolute joy to look at, and the Yoshis themselves (yes, there's more than one of them) are unbearably cute, leaping around the screen with a yelp and a flutter of their tiny woolly legs.
But there is more to the game than just gorgeous graphics, even if that's the initial draw. Woolly World is your typical Nintendo platformer fare, a mass of puzzles, platforming challenges, and hidden collectibles strewn across some neatly designed levels. There's even something of a story too, albeit—in that classic Nintendo way—a paper-thin one. Craft Island, home to the woolly Yoshis, finds itself under attack by the evil series villain Kamek, who turns the Yoshis into bundles of wool. Unfortunately for Kamek, two of them escape, and quickly set about to unravel his evil plans.
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