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Now, if you want to make your own Yoshis in Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World, you need to be aware of a few things. First, you need to use the Professional Mode. This is the one that will give you. The Poochy Pups’ true purpose in Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World are as thinking bumpers.Yes, like the kind children use when they bowl. In “Mellow Mode,” you can opt into pup support.

Yoshi's Woolly World is a platform game in the Yoshi's Island series for the Wii U, developed by Good-Feel and starring Yoshi. Surprisingly, it's also the first home console Yoshi game since Yoshi's Story (for the Nintendo 64) in 1997. Its gameplay is highly reminiscent of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Story, but the game is also a spiritual successor to Kirby's Epic Yarn, a Good-Feel game for the Wii that shares the arts-and-crafts aesthetic.

Baby Bowser, up to his nasty tricks again, has ordered Kamek to transform the Yoshis into inanimate Wonder Wool and scatter them across the land. It's up to Yoshi (and Red Yoshi, if you’re playing co-op note ) to journey across gorgeous landscapes made of cloth and yarn and retrieve the Wonder Wool. Several classic elements from Yoshi's previous adventures return, such as Chomp Rocks, Shy Guys, Huffin' Puffins, and clouds that burst open and spill goodies if Yoshi shoots a projectile at them. Instead of turning enemies into eggs, Yoshi can swallow bits of yarn from the environment to turn them into yarn balls. Yarn balls have multiple purposes; they can be used to uncover secrets, 'knit' new platforms, and tangle up enemies to expose them for a good jump attack.

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In your journey, you’re offered two modes for play: Classic Mode and Mellow Mode. In Classic Mode, you play through yarn-filled worlds as you would a typical platformer, collecting Wonder Wool, beads, and other goodies along the way. Mellow Mode is similar, but allows you to play as Winged Yoshi. Winged Yoshi can indefinitely flutter, allowing casual players to breeze their way through tougher stages. Either mode can be accessed at any time while the game is paused.

The game hit store shelves (and the Wii U eShop) in the second half of 2015, with a Japanese release on July 16th, a North American release on October 16th, a European release on June 26th, and an Australian release on June 25th. Watch the trailer here. amiibo functionality is also included; the game is compatible with Yoshi's figurines as well as a set of unique plush doll amiibo. Scanning these figures will allow you to create another Yoshi, which acts similarly to a second player. In addition, all other amiibo (except the Pokémon ones) can be scanned in to unlock themed patterns for Yoshi based on that character.

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A 3DS version of the game named Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World was announced on September 1, 2016 for release on February 2, 2017. This version includes new exclusive levels with Poochy along with the ability to summon Poochy-Pups to help out in a stage and find hidden secrets. This version also features creating custom designs for Yoshi, and Yoshi Theater which features 30 stop-motion shorts starring Yoshi and his buddy Poochy. The game is also bundled with a new yarn Poochy amiibo. A sequel for Nintendo Switch featuring a more general arts-and-crafts aesthetic, Yoshi's Crafted World, was later announced at E3 2017.

Tropes:

  • 2½D: The game uses 3D graphics, but stays on a 2D plane outside of the hub-world.
  • Adorable Evil Minions: Everything you can kill in this game is adorable to some extent, thanks to the yarn aesthetic. Even the bosses.
  • Advancing Boss of Doom: World 4-S consists of you being chased the entire way by Naval Piranha. Touching its thorns or being eaten results in instant death, so have fun with that.
  • All Cloth Unravels: Yoshi can use his tongue to tug on loose threads and radically alter his environment. Inversely, he can use his yarn balls to 'knit' additional platforms onto the stage, to climb sheer cliffs for example. Also, tugging on loose threads is how you unravel Burt the Bashful's pants this time.
  • And Your Reward Is Clothes:
    • Collecting all of the Wonder Wool in a stage will unlock a uniquely-patterned Yoshi to play as.
    • Using an amiibo will give you a pattern based on the figure that was scanned in, as well, although some amiibonote only give you a generic pattern, Yarn Yoshi wearing an amiibo t-shirt.
    • Defeating groups of four bosses in the Boss Tent unlocks a Bronze, Silver and then Gold Yoshi.
    • Getting all the Wonder Wool in the Secret Level unlocks a Shiny Platinum Yoshi.
  • Anti-Frustration Features: Flowers, Wonder Wool, heart count, and Miiverse Stamps only need to be collected once and stay unlocked for good once you finish a course with them in your possession, making 100% Completion less frustrating. In previous games, all items had to be collected in one run to count for completion. Also, Poochy can even fetch some of the Flowers for you! Good boy!
  • Art Shift:
    • Design for the game varied wildly in production. The first idea was a sequin Yoshi, followed by a yarn outline form. Then this was changed so Yoshi switches between two forms, a yarn outline form and a full 3D model when he eats an enemy that glows green. The final version of the game has everything perpetually in fully knitted 3D models.
    • A Dummied Outtest level involves a small Yoshi made of yarn running across a non-yarn Japanese girl's room.
  • Ascended Extra: Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World gives Yoshi's faithful friend top billing.
  • Award-Bait Song: The song that plays in the final part of the Wonderful World of Wool is a lyricless example. It starts off soothing, it has 'sparkle synth,' it shows up at the very end of the game, is feel-goody, and it gets more triumphant near the end.
  • Badass Adorable: Yoshi's even more of one than usual, being a crochet doll and all.
  • Berserk Button: Don't steal Poochy's strawberry!
  • Big Bad: Unsurprisingly, Baby Bowser is the villain again, with Kamek being the antagonist for most of the story.
  • Big Boo's Haunt: 4-6 and 6-5 take place in a haunted house.
  • Black Bead Eyes: Most apparently on Poochy, whose eyes are actually beads.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: The Spooky Yoshi skin, with white irises and black sclera.
  • Book-Ends: The final area of the final level is an orange field of flowers that looks very similar to the first area from the first level.
  • Boss Rush: The Boss Tent, where all bosses are sped up. The bosses can be fought at will, however.
  • Bottomless Pit Rescue Service: The 'Fall into a pit? No problem!' Power Badge. it makes every pit in the game bounce Yoshi back upwards if he falls into one.
  • Brutal Bonus Level: It wouldn't be a Yoshi game without them. In this case, they're the S levels, unlocked by obtaining every flower in each level. None of them have checkpoints.
    • 3-S: Woollet Bill's Last Ride. It is an Auto-Scrolling Level in the clouds, where a single Woollet Bill leaves a trail of clouds you must run alongside to reach the end, which moves very fast. In addition you have to watch out for endless hazards and keep a good supply of Yarn Balls to collect the 10 main collectables (5 flowers and 5 wonder wools) of the stage. Fall, get crushed, or accidentally kill the Woollet Bill? You're forced to die and start the entire level over, losing everything you grabbed in your previous run. And like the other secret levels, it has no checkpoints. Good Luck.
    • 4-S: Naval Piranha 2: Now It's Personal!: While it may not be as tedious as Woollet Bill's Last Ride since the player doesn't have to worry about killing the only thing allowing them to progress, it's yet another Auto-Scrolling Level, this time with an Advancing Boss of Doom continuously advancing and forcing the player ahead, while there are plenty of Piranha Plants serving as obstacles, with spiky red vines everywhere.
    • The crowning achievement of this trope goes to Star-S: Wonderful World of Wool: An All the Worlds Are a StageMarathon Level with once again not a checkpoint in sight. While the secrets aren't too hard to find (and considering how gargantuan this stage is, you'll very likely want to scoop them all up in your first run), the massive number of Piranha Plants and other instant-kill hazards that infest the stage will make short work of you, even if you equip Double Yoshi or use a power-up patch to make yourself immune to bottomless pits or fire/lava. What's that, Piranha Plants killed you in the World 5 section? Back to the World 1 section!
  • The Bus Came Back: Poochy for one, as well as Burt the Bashful and Naval Piranha serving as boss fights (albeit with new attacks).
  • Butt-Monkey: Yoshi in the 3DS shorts often gets on the receiving end of several mishaps, such as getting stuck inside a doughnut after trying to go through it.
  • Celebrity Paradox: In the 3DS version, the last short involves Yoshi and Poochy opening up a 3DS that runs Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World on it.
  • Checkpoint Starvation: None of the Secret levels have any checkpoints. If you die in one after grabbing some goodies without finishing the level, you have to do it all over again.
  • Console Cameo:
    • The Wonder Wool in the six secret stages unlock Yoshi themed after Nintendo's consoles in descending order, starting with a pattern themed after the Wii U and ending with a pattern themed after the Nintendo Entertainment System.
    • The 3DS version has the same console (Along with New 3DS and 2DS models) appear in some of the stop-motion shorts.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • World 6-6 is called 'Feel Fuzzy, Get Clingy', a pretty obvious reference to the infamous Yoshi's Island level, 'Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy'.
    • Naval Piranha returns as the boss of World 4-8, and its castle stage bears many similarities to 3-8 from the original game. You can even throw a yarn ball at it before the fight begins like in the original game, though this won't kill it prematurely.
    • While references to Yoshi's Island DS are incredibly scarce, one of the possible bonus levels includes Bouncies from that game.
  • Co-Op Multiplayer: Supported with up to two players; both players can eat and turn one another into balls of yarn. You can actually toss your partner in any direction to help them reach hidden areas, but it also lends itself to griefing. The functionality is replicated with Yoshi amiibo, which lets you control two Yoshi's simultaneously.
  • Cruelty Is the Only Option: 3-5: Fluffin' Puffin Babysitting has this in spades. The central mechanic of the level and the only way to traverse it revolves around picking up and throwing small baby puffins that leave behind cloud trails that you can walk across. You get the baby puffins by stealing them from a nest or even worse, killing a mother puffin who's leading her children across the level.
  • Cumulonemesis: The Fluffy Phantoms are enemy clouds that blow gusts of wind at Yoshi. While they can make Yoshi's carpets fly, they often try to blow him towards Bottomless Pits...
  • A Day in the Limelight: Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World is this for Poochy.
  • Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Like Rayman Origins, you just respawn at the last checkpoint after dying. Though if you do die, any collectables you acquired since hitting a checkpoint is taken from your inventory and placed back on the stage for you to collect all over again. And in the Secret levels, there are no checkpoints.
  • Death Mountain: World 6, as per tradition.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: A stage based off this game is featured in the earlier release Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
  • Easter Egg: Naval Piranha returns, and you can pull off the same 'quick-kill' trick from the original Yoshi's Island. However, since Piranha Plants cannot be defeated by yarn balls, all it does is slightly alter the preceding cutscene.
  • Excuse Plot: No grand setup here. Kamek just says 'Hey, li'l Yoshis, I need to turn you all into yarn!' and then you're off to the races.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Yoshi, naturally.
  • Feed It a Bomb: How you deal with Naval Piranha this time around.
  • Goomba Stomp: This ability returns from the main Yoshi series. Interestingly enough, Piranha Plants are now susceptible to this, as long as Yoshi tangles them up in yarn first.
  • Gimmick Level:
    • 2-S involves solving puzzles, sometimes by manipulating enemy behavior, instead of a straightforward romp through the level.
    • 4-5 and 5-S have Yoshi cling on curtains that zoom along tracks zip-line style.
    • 4-6 features curtains that reveal otherwise intangible blocks when the curtains pass over them. They also turn enemies into invincible horrors while in their field.
    • 6-6 features Velcro-covered conveyor belts that Yoshi sticks to.
  • Green Hill Zone: World 1.
  • Guide Dang It!: Each level has thirty key collectables: 5 Smiley Flowers, 5 Wonder Wools, and 20 Miiverse Stamps. Some are placed inside well-hidden Winged Clouds that require the player to touch its location with either themselves or a ball of yarn (either spat or thrown) to reveal its location, while others require solving puzzles, pushing walls, or phasing through fake walls New Super Mario Bros. Wii style. The Miiverse Stamps aren't helped by looking almost identical to regular gems.
  • Human Resources: The entire reason the Yoshis were turned to yarn was so Baby Bowser could use them as building materials for a new castle. Yoshi can do the same to create new platforms, warp pipes, and presents.
  • Idle Animation: As with other Yoshi games, Yoshi has various animations if you let him stand still for a bit. This time, Poochy gets in on it, too: He'll sit down and spin in place occasionally. Yoshi's idle stance will change to a sad, worn-down expression if he's on his last hit point, and he'll be quivering and looking around nervously if he's in one of the game's Big Boo's Haunt levels.
  • Jungle Japes: World 4
  • Last Chance Hit Point: Yoshi has one, shown by a cracked, flashing heart that remains after the life meter vanishes.
  • Level Ate: World 3.
  • Life Meter: Unlike Kirby's Epic Yarn, the Yoshis can take damage and die here, though Death Is a Slap on the Wrist.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: A unique version of this pops up in the game: Kamek uses his magic to break the majority of the Yoshi population into Wonder Wool, with each Yoshi being broken into 5 pieces. They can be restored after gathering the 5 respective pieces of Wonder Wool in each level. Many enemies also fall apart into loose string when defeated.
  • Mercy Mode: In Mellow Mode, you play as a Yoshi equipped with New Island's Flutter Wings. Yoshi also starts out with a full 20 hearts, and heart-giving clouds release ten hearts instead of five. Additionally, dying enough times with these wings will prompt a rainbow egg to fly in the instant Yoshi respawns; touching it gives permanent invincibility to enemy damage. However, you can still die due to the effects of spikes, bottomless pits, being crushed in any manner, and you can still be knocked-back. Lest we forget the Power Badges, such as immunity to lava and fire or damage, which can snap the difficulty of stages regarding those hazards in half.
    • As if the game wasn't easy enough for a player already, in the 3DS's version of Mellow Mode, you are given 3 Poochy-Pups that tell you where secrets are located, and can be used as ammunition in place of yarn balls and come back to you like a homing pigeon after being thrown. They can also take out enemies.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Scanning in a regular Yoshi amiibo unlocks a plastic, glossy Yoshi costume. It really sticks out compared to the yarn-knitted style of the rest of the game.
  • Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Parodied with World 4-S, titled 'Naval Piranha 2: Now It's Personal!'
  • Palette Swap: All of the unlockable patterns are functionally identical, and vary solely in color and texture.
  • Precious Puppy: Besides Poochy, who even appears on the cover, there’s also Bunson the Hot Dog, who's at least ten times larger than Yoshi himself but still a puppy.
  • Projectile Pocketing: Yarn balls can be used to collect gems and flowers.
  • Recurring Boss: Both Big Montgomery and Knot-Wing the Koopa appear as bosses three times each, with the former being found in every odd-numbered world, and the latter in every even-numbered world.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter:
    • Yoshi himself becomes this due to his woolly redesign. Just check out his yarn amiibo! The alternate patterns have the potential to make Yoshi even cuter, as well.
    • Poochy is also at his cutest in this game, complete with beady little eyes.
    • The mini versions of Bunson the Hot Dog are deadly but also possibly the most adorable enemy in the game.
    • There's a type of enemy that is literally a round baby chick, who groups with others to disguise themselves as a (still cute) large chicken head. A enlarged one is the 3rd boss, Miss Cluck the Insincere, and it's still adorable.
  • Running Gag: Once again, Burt the Bashful is a boss, and he's once again beaten by removing his pants.
  • Scenery Porn: Definitely one of the most visually gorgeous Nintendo games to date, as it expands on the Kirby's Epic Yarn art style by adding a dynamic camera and fully rendered 3D environments. Even the Useful Notes/3DS version looks gorgeous, especially with it's clever use of 3D foreground objects in certain stages. The improved hardware power of the Wii U definitely helps.
  • Shifting Sand Land: World 2.
  • Slippy-Slidey Ice World: World 5
  • Shout-Out:
    • Yoshi's biplane transformation is named the Sky Pop.
    • The sound effect used when Yoshi ground-pounds a boss is the same exact one used when Wario damaged a boss in Wario Land: Shake It!. Fitting, as both games were developed by Good-Feel.
    • One level is named 'Rollin' Down The River'
    • One of the shorts in the 3DS version has Yoshi and Poochy play the original Super Mario Bros. on a New 3DS, according to the sound effects. They somehow manage to get a Game Over on the first stage after already collecting a 1-Up.
  • Snowy Sleigh Bells: Both A Little Light Snowfall and the frozen World 5's map theme both are rythmed by jingle bells.
  • Spiritual Successor: To both Kirby's Epic Yarn and Yoshi's Story. Also plays very much like the original Yoshi's Island despite not having 'island' in the name.
  • The Unfought: Kamek, as usual. At least not directly, but he will assist some of Baby Bowser's attacks in the final battle. He also swoops in for aerial attacks in World 6-7, and this time you can smack him off his broom if you so desire.
  • Timed Mission: The transformation sequences. Let the timer run out and you're booted back to the entrance to try again, with any Wools/Flowers/Miiverse Stamps you may have collected being placed back.
  • Unexpected Shmup Level: The Sky Pop Yoshi segments in 3-7 and 6-7.
  • Variable Mix: Snifberg the Unfeeling's battle music is comprised of small snippets that play depending on his current actions or state of vulnerability.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can make life miserable for your partner during co-op, such as swallowing your teammate and then spitting them into a Bottomless Pit.
  • Wheel o' Feet: Yoshi’s feet literally turn into little wheels when he runs (and into a propeller when he hovers, like an upside-down Snoopy). This is also reminiscent of Kirby's Epic Yarn, as Kirby transforms into a car if he runs.
  • Windmill Scenery: You can hazard a wild guess on what profusely appear in the level entitled 'Knitty-Knotty Windmill Hill'.

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[Review] Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Dennis(@LyonHart_) in 3DS, Reviews

System: 3DS
Release date: February 3, 2017
Developer: Good-Feel
Publisher Nintendo

Yoshi and his Woolly World are back to entertain you again, but this time on the 3DS – and with a friend. Yoshi has seen a long and healthy run in the handheld space with Yoshi Island remakes, spinoffs, and sequels, before going back to the console space. Now he returns home in Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World on 3DS. After Super Mario Maker, this is the newest 3DS port of a Wii U title from its library, but what’s the difference, if any, between its console counterpart?

For those who have played the extremely cute and fun Yoshi’s Woolly World on Wii U, the experience is virtually identical. You’ll start out in your hub world with many other Yoshi when all of a sudden Kamek – a familiar face throughout the Yoshi series – arrives and unravels nearly all of the Yoshi in the area and confiscates their yarn.

It’s from here after a short cut-scene that you’ll embark on your side-scrolling platforming adventure throughout the wool-filled world and save and restore your friends back while getting a bunch of patterns and different looks along the way to play with. This a fun way to personalize your Yoshi in a bunch of different ways, which also includes amiibo. While the amiibo don’t give much if any perks when you scan them into your game, doing so is seamless, and you’ll only have to do it once to get it registered into your game. You can always choose to scan the amiibo at any given point of the game, and, if you want to change how you look, you can simply go to amiibo hut in the hub world – a click away from the touch screen while you’re in the level-selecting overworld – and a selection of every look you’ve unlocked through amiibo or in-game will be made available for you to choose from.

The game is fairly straightforward in its UI and presentation, but in some cases, as an avid Yoshi fan, this does it a disservice. Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World, much like Yoshi’s Woolly World before it, is way too easy even in its Classic Mode – one of the two modes offered in addition to the alternative Mellow Mode in which you’re given wings and it is literally impossible for you to fall into a pit or anywhere for that matter unless you’re incapable of pressing the A button, your primary function for getting across levels and platforming.

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While the slight change of name from Yoshi’s Woolly World to Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World would imply that there’s been added content – enough to warrant the pricing of a full 3DS title – there really isn’t too much. Yes, with the addition of Poochy, you get an added mode called Poochy Dash that works like an endless runner would where you’d simply have to time your jumps and collect the gems as you go from point A to point B, but other than that the game is identical to the Wii U version. For those who have played or own the Wii U version of the game, there’s nothing overly new for you here unless you want to give it another go. There’s a Scrapbook Theater also that brings the cuteness of Poochy and Yoshi’s wool-infused amiibo to life through stop-motion animation, but they’re only short snippets of each before you have to wait a whole day until the next video unlocks, assuming you’ve correctly answered the easy pop-quiz that’s given to you after the video finishes.

One unfortunate omission is the multiplayer feature from the Wii U version. While its absence may deter some from picking up Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World assuming they haven’t experienced the original game, playing by yourself is fine, and with the quick levels and ease of the game in general, you never really feel like you need someone there to help you out.

Graphically, Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World looks good and the performance is still on par with the Wii U version as it’s running at a steady 60 frames per second on New 3DS (30 on the regular 3DS) with no drops whatsoever. The set pieces are nice just like they were in the Wii U edition. But due to the lack of power the 3DS offers as well as its poor resolution, the world doesn’t look nearly as alive or as wool-like as it did on Wii U. In the Wii U version of Yoshi’s Woolly World, the wool looks practically real and rarely gives off the vibe of it being a 3D render, and instead feels like you’re playing through an actual wool-made set piece. The 3DS version certainly makes it look cartoony, and is practically Yoshi’s Island but with a slightly different art direction.

For all its faults, Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World feels fantastic on the 3DS thanks to the side-scrolling nature of the game, which I feel has always been appropriate for handhelds and shine the most through them. Being able to take Yoshi platforming on the go with non-stop adorable moments and excellent level-design is a plus in my book, and those unable to attain the Wii U version of the game have a well-done title waiting to be played, especially for the platforming aficionados. The game isn’t particularly designed to be played in extended play-sessions, so having it on your 3DS able to be played when you have time throughout your day in-between errands, work, travel, and other things make Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World accessible and perfect for those situations.

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Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World doesn’t provide much for those who have enjoyed the Wii U version of the game, but for those without it, you have a solid side-scrolling Yoshi title that will give you hours of entertainment, even though you’re forced to play alone this time around. Poochy doesn’t provide much in the 3DS release, and while this will probably mislead a few to purchase the game with the notion they’ll have a “definitive” version of the game, all you’re really getting are some mini-games and a few sketches you’ll have to wait days for. Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World isn’t made for those with the Wii U version, but 3DS owners and those who love Yoshi’s Island and similar games will be provided with a nice addition to their library and a decent amount of hours of gameplay to go through.

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