Yoshi's Crafted World Playtime
The following is a list of Yoshi's Woolly World and Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World Yoshi designs that are unlocked throughout the game. Most designs are unlocked by collecting Wonder Wool scattered through each level. Other designs are unlocked through scanning certain amiibo, listed below, as well as any variant of the amiibo. Scanning a non-compatible amiibo will result in the generic Green.
Yoshi is one of our favourite Nintendo characters; He’s definitely the cutest! So we were excited to go along to Kidzania and take part in Yoshi’s Crafted World Easter Egg Hunt which is running all through the school Easter holidays. The kids also had chance to try out the new Yoshi’s Crafted World game on Nintendo Switch, and to spend time doing lots of the other activities around Kidzania, which is always a lot of fun.
In the Yoshi activity at Kidzania, all of the children get a chance to try out the game before setting off on their Easter egg hunt. Yoshi’s Crafted World is a fun platform style game, with multiple levels all made out of crafting materials like cartons and cardboard. This was the first time the boys got to try out the game, and they enjoyed it a lot. They used to play a lot of Yoshi’s Woolly World on our Nintendo Wii U a few years ago, so I was sure they would love this newer Yoshi game and it’s definitely one we will have to think of getting at home.
After playing the game, all of the children were given a clue sheet and set off racing around Kidzania to find Yoshi’s hidden eggs with letters, and solve their Easter egg hunt.
Once they complete it, they will be rewarded with a Yoshi certificate
For Nintendo fans, there is also a Nintendo Labo activity within Kidzania where you can try out some of the toy con games. It’s a great way to test these out and try something new if you don’t have Labo at home. This is one of the great things about Kidzania, it’s always easy to try new things there and for the kids to get new experiences. Each time we go, the children seem to try a new job or activity that they haven’t done before even though we have visited quite regularly. This time, the boys made their own newspaper articles in the Metro office, and made their own burgers for lunch in the GBK activity, as well as the Yoshi egg hunt and revisiting a few of their old favourite activities too. Little N had a brilliant time at Kidzania too, although she is only 2 years old so can’t take part in a lot of the jobs she spent hours playing in the early years kitchen, reading and drawing in the library and just running around the streets of Kidzania
We were invited to Kidzania in order to check out the Yoshi activity
I’ve been playing Yoshi’s Crafted World for Switch in advance of its March 29 release, and the thing that’s sticking with me the most is how just plain beautiful it looks.
I know we all enjoy playing our Switches in handheld mode, but you should consider docking that sucker for the duration of your Crafted World play time, so you can better enjoy its visual feast on the biggest screen in your house.
The clever graphical conceit — all of the game’s levels are apparently “crafted” from household objects, looking like a child’s shoebox diorama — can be appreciated even on the Switch’s built-in screen, but you can best take them in on a TV.
I mean, just look at that. The lighting! The attention to tiny details! The pipe-cleaner coral! The unpainted toilet paper roll suggesting that this diorama was not exactly half-assed but slightly less than full-assed.
Or this scene. The reflections on the eggs! The slightly warped cardboard on the steps. The remnants of the printing on the “box” that was used to make the building. The lopsided arrow on the sign that was “penciled” in before being coloured over with marker.
Yoshi’s Crafted World, like any good Mario game, rarely repeats its motifs. Each level is a unique concept with a different visual theme and a slightly different gameplay twist. If you want to collect all of the Smiley Flowers in the game, you’ll have to play each of its levels multiple times, from different angles—literally and figuratively.
Yoshi's Crafted World Playtime 2
Once you’ve been through a level once, you can go through again from the opposite perspective and see the “backs” of everything, which of course themselves are packed with little visual Easter eggs for you to find.
You can also go back into the levels to find certain items hidden in the background and foreground. Now, the level becomes a hidden-object hunt, and it gets you to study the background for all the little details you might have missed the first time through.
It’s not simply the attention to detail that makes Crafted World look good; the lighting and the liberal use of the tilt-shift effect really makes it look like a photorealistic diorama.
Even simple things like putting a coin into a vending machine look beautiful. During scenes like this, the game starts deliberately skipping frames of animation to create a Gumby-style stop-motion animation effect.
So far, I’m finding Crafted World to be about what you’d expect from a Yoshi game: A fairly slow, simple platformer that’ll be great for casual players and kids, but won’t put up a huge fight for experienced players. The graphic design is so pretty and imaginative that it’s still going to be quite a lot of fun no matter what your skill level.