1. Yoshi's Crafted World Glitches 2017

The sphere of video games aimed at children has become increasingly cluttered with overpriced plastic toys, flashy microtransaction emotes vying for adolescent attention, and mind-numbingly repetitive slogs through copy-and-paste LEGO games. Paradoxically, Yoshi's Crafted World feels fresh by being something more traditional: a 2.5D platformer with an emphasis on collecting all its hidden goodies. It's cutesy, creative, stuffed with content, and full of optional challenges to entertain and delight platforming perfectionists and first-timers alike.

Yoshi's Woolly World is a side-scrolling platformer video game and is the seventh main entry in the Yoshi series of games. The game is the seventh main entry in the Yoshi series of games, and the first home console title in the series since 1997's Yoshi's Story. The game was released worldwide throughout 2015. Yoshi’s Crafted World isn’t a particularly hard game, but if you are looking to find all the collectibles you might find yourself playing and replaying stages over and over again only to find that your last happy flower was hiding in plain sight the whole time. To avoid these small bits of frustration, we have put together a few tips to help you in your treasure hunting. Seeing as there's nowhere to post about Mario Glitches, I took matters into my own hands and created r/TheMinusWorld Posted by 1 hour ago Here you can get help or post about weird Glitches you found in the Mario Franchise!

Yoshi's Crafted World utilizes a tried and tested platformer formula that still works wonders – especially when it's executed this well. You play as your choice of colored Yoshi and saunter through the sizable number of levels while collecting the hidden Smiley Flowers scattered throughout each one. The mechanics here are simple: you can jump, briefly flutter at the end of your leaps, swallow enemies to make eggs to toss, and ground pound into the floor. The modest mechanics allow you to quickly grasp the basics and get on to the fun part: collecting stuff.

Collectibles are the primary focus in this Yoshi installment, and crossing each one off your list is met with an inherent sense of satisfaction thanks to how well each one is hidden and how effectively everything is tracked. Your close attention and scrutiny is required to find concealed areas and to pick out things in the background that could use an egg hurled their way. When you're bopped out to the overworld map between stages, the excellent collectible menu lets you easily see what you've missed in each level, and you can teleport directly there with the press of a button, so backtracking is a breeze. You only need a small number of the Smiley Flowers to progress onward, but the pull to collect them all is so strong that you'll likely never find yourself lacking the number needed.

Attempting to collect everything in Yoshi's Crafted World is made more enticing thanks to how intelligently designed its side-scrolling levels are. Level geometry is carefully choreographed to draw your attention to secret spots, and new mechanics are gradually introduced before things begin to ramp up. Each stage is filled with unique enemies, level contraptions, and vehicles (including an awesome Yoshi Mech); but you're always allowed time for experimentation before the challenge begins kicking in. The first few areas are a bit dull since they don't have much going on, but novel new mechanics, interesting ideas, and fresh level gimmicks quickly start seeping in to keep the meaty amount of content here enjoyable. High-score sections are peppered throughout to provide a welcome change of pace, and almost every stage has a Poochy Pup variant that has you scouring familiar locations for three yelping baby canines. There's plenty to do in Yoshi's Crafted World, and nearly all of it is enjoyable to partake in.

Being a successor to the stylistically unique Yoshi's Woolly World, this arts & crafts inspired installment is stylish, but it doesn't deliver on all the promise inherent in its premise. The general look of everything isn't all that striking – a fuzzy-looking Yoshi running through cardboard cut-outs and colorful construction paper gives everything a notably less-polished feel. Some of the game's worlds have cool themes like a ninja dojo that requires you to navigate via silhouettes or a an excellent pirate stage that has you blowing up ships full of Shy Guys, but the cooler ideas are rarely influenced by the crafty aesthetic. There's also some stunning stop-motion effects, but they're severely underutilized. Despite having “Crafted” in the title, this Yoshi sequel feels more like the Yoshi of old than it does an interesting twist or advancement of an established formula. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's hard not to feel let down when comparing this to its far more fetching predecessor.

One thing Yoshi's Crafted World does get right when compared to its precursor is its difficulty. Rolling credits isn't much of a challenge, but getting every Smiley Flower is. A keen eye and quick reflexes are required to find all the goodies, and there's a bonus flower in each stage for finishing with full health. You can ratchet the difficulty down a bit by using costumes that'll let you take a few hits before your health bar is exposed, and there's an easier mode that decreases the damage you take and gives your Yoshi a pair of wings to make platforming even easier. Thankfully, the bits that make the game easier are entirely optional, and there are some legitimately tough post-game stages that make for great tests of platforming prowess.

Despite striking the right balance in terms of difficulty, there are a few nagging issues with targeting here that cause unneeded frustration. You'll have to toss eggs at countless targets to reveal collectibles, and – credit where it's due – the egg-tossing controls here are better than they have been in any Yoshi game to date. There aren't any motion control options here – everything is controlled with traditional buttons and sticks, and there are next to no issues on that front. You're able to freely move your targeting cursor around the screen to pick your target, but trying to hit something that isn't on the same plane as you can be infuriating. Your crosshairs must be positioned directly over any potential target if it's in the background or foreground. To make matters worse, you might need to quickly throw an egg in front of you to dispatch an enemy only to have your cursor drift over something in the background, rendering your throw ineffective and wasting an egg. There had to be a better way to handle such a system, and it really stands out in a game that's otherwise frictionless.

Multiplayer makes a return, and it's full of ups and downs. With a couple exceptions, every level can be played alongside a friend that has full control over their own dinosaur pal, allowing you to take on the armies of Shy Guys and the boisterous boss battles together. The inclusion of couch co-op is extremely welcome, especially at a time in which such a thing is becoming increasingly rare, but the on-screen chaos when a second player joins the fray is often too much. You can accidentally swallow the other player which causes their egg supply to vanish; if your companion jumps on your back, you're no longer able to toss any eggs yourself; and you both need to stay on screen, or else one of you will be arbitrarily forced to respawn. Combine that with all the chaos that'll ensue when you're both fighting over enemies to swallow for more egg ammunition, and it's often a recipe for disaster. There's still fun to be had with the co-op, and there were some smart design decisions made to try and accommodate two simultaneous players, but it's clear that it's not the way Yoshi's Crafted World was meant to be played.

There can be a lot happening on screen at any one time, especially when you add a friend into the mix, but performance here is rock-solid. Gameplay is silky smooth, and hitches only occur in a couple of the busy boss battles. The overworld map and cutscenes run at half the framerate which is admittedly jarring, but all the gameplay sections are kept smooth and responsive regardless of whether you're playing portably or docked.

As a sequel to Yoshi's Woolly World, it's hard not to be disappointed by this entry's underwhelming aesthetics. However, as a Yoshi game, this is as good as it's ever been for Nintendo's endearing green dino. It's dangerously easy to find yourself committed to this game's many collectibles. Clever level design, an abundance of variety, and heaps of content make Yoshi's Crafted World well worth its full retail price if you're not picking it up solely for the co-op.

While the Wii U seemed to be nearly overflowing with platformers based on Nintendo's most beloved mascots, the Nintendo Switch by comparison is still lacking a few of the most important platforming pals. Enter Yoshi, for Yoshi's Crafted World, which appears to be exactly the kind of wholesome Nintendo action platforming that fans of Nintendo's development studios love. This is the same Yoshi game that was originally announced at E3 2017, and after a long development, its release appears to finally be approaching.

Here's everything we know so far about what you'll get to do in Yoshi's Crafted World:

What is Yoshi's Crafted World?

Yoshi's Crafted World is the latest Yoshi title from Good-Feel, following Yoshi's Woolly World for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. It shares many similarities with its predecessor, the most obvious being that it's another Yoshi action-platforming game. But both games make use of a crafts-like aesthetic, with Woolly World focusing on fabrics and Crafted World using paper items in the style of a miniature diorama. Most of Woolly World's mechanics, enemies, and concepts make returns in Crafted World, though the game and its levels are entirely new.

One of the big draws of Yoshi's Crafted World is this craft aesthetic, which can manifest in interesting platforming sections where you're leaping across rolled bits of paper, flowers made of wood and string, and facing enemies that look like a 5-year-old made them in art class!

Is there a story?

Like many other Yoshi games, there is a light story guiding your adventures across Yoshi's island home. Baby Bowser and Kamek appear in the Yoshi's happy home and steal the coveted Sundream Stone, scattering its gems across multiple worlds. As Yoshi, you'll have to track down the Sundream Stone and stop a horde of Baby Bowser and Kamek's minions along the way. That means lots of collectibles and hidden secrets, just like in past Yoshi games!

How do you play?

Like past Yoshi games, Yoshi's main abilities are his flutter jump and his ability to eat enemies and turn them into eggs. As a platformer, you'll need to use Yoshi's ability to jump and flutter jump to climb and cross levels. But enemies will fly, run, and roll at you as you go, so you'll also have to work your way forward by eating them, turning them into eggs, and then using those eggs to throw at other enemies or at certain spots on the map to reveal hidden platforms or secrets.

And like its predecessor Yoshi's Woolly World, Yoshi's Crafted World will feature unlockable Yoshi color palettes you can swap to as you collect them, allowing you to play as an adorably soft Yoshi in any number of different colors and patterns.

Yoshi's Crafted World Glitches 2017

What's this about flipping levels?

The big 'gimmick' of Yoshi's Crafted World is that levels can be 'flipped.' Levels are designed on a three-dimensional plane, with enemies in the foreground and background and with the ability to flip the level backward and play from the other side. This is occasionally done as a part of the regular gameplay of the level, but you can also play any level from back to front flipped over after you beat it forward.

This doesn't just apply to the game's flip mechanics, though. Because the game is a 2D platformer on a 3D plane, you'll often find yourself moving forward and back in a three-dimensional space to avoid enemies, collect items and coins, and platform through obstacles.

This will surely result in some interesting challenges and platforming puzzles, so keep an eye out for ways flipping the level can change your perspective!

Can I play with a friend?

You can! Yoshi's Crafted World includes the ability to play with two players at once, each in control of a Yoshi. You can help one another get through all the levels for a bit of extra assistance you wouldn't otherwise have while playing solo.

When can I get it?

Yoshi's Woolly World is planned for launch on March 29, 2019 and will cost $59.99.

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February 2019: Added release date, story info, info about Yoshi color palettes.

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