Yoshi's Woolly World

A load of gameplay footage went up today, and I'm a lot more excited about it now. To me it feels more Epic Yarn than Yoshi's Island, which is definitely a good thing. Don't want this game to toil in the 1995 original's shadow.

Also: No sedate Tezuka music! A big surprise given his compositions are used every time we see the game. That's definitely a good thing in my eyes.

Here are some highlights:
https://youtu.be/F92195iXpyk?list=PLmzNOj_HPsNvkr6zspR_VsJQCPSFPjHmX
https://youtu.be/5oU8116J2bk?list=PLmzNOj_HPsNvkr6zspR_VsJQCPSFPjHmX

Shame about how the story is told, at least at first. Seems a bit half-arsed: https://youtu.be/adkH0fBPJLs

Compare that to Epic Yarn's narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URskY_cpHgk&feature=youtu.be&t=34

GRASS FEELS LIKE TROUSERS

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Glad to hear that Woolly World is closer to Epic Yarn than Super Mario World 2 right enough. It's weird: there have only been three games like Yoshi's Island in the last nineteen years, but it feels like hundreds.

It... just... D'AWWWWWWWWWWW.

This game looks so pretty. Dat wool tho.

Can't wait for my Sonic Yoshi

Balladeer wrote:

It...  just...  D'AWWWWWWWWWWW.

I think they meant creepy instead of cute.

The 'regular' stable of Yoshi have cool fur/wool variants: https://youtu.be/d4_JRPhDtiY

Just noticed a few have the "U" from the Wii U logo on them -- why not let us design our own patterns, like in Mario Kart DS and Animal Crossing?

The Amiibo ones? Woe be Pac-Man Yoshi. Or Wario Yoshi. Brr...

Balladeer wrote:

Advert is absolutely adorable.

Jeez, Fronky, it's like you don't read every post or something!

I would love to be Warioshi, but I'll settle for Kirbyoshi (if I can get ZJ to lend me his amiibi).

Kirbyoshi Maru? [/nerd] You'll have a job, sir - Kirbybo is Jo's, I'm afraid.

Aww.

Also, the music from that "cookie" level is almost lifted from KEY! Not a bad thing.

Dying to scan an original Yoshibo and see what happens...

It does this Zero



Kirby Yoshi is here.

Yoshedede is my favourite.

Shame King Dedede is a pain to get, he's one of the three smash ones I'm missing.

Watching those ads... I

*passes out from cute*
*comes round*

Yoshi seems to have a new noise - "badubudubudum".

Sorry, I had to enquire about this somewhere.

More Yoshi stuff!  Not all of it looks easy.  I'm sold beyond redemption on the cute factor alone, mind.

Yeah, it looks like you'll have to be quick and precise in places - not the more sedate Yoshi I'm used to, maybe, but then the formula does need a good shake-up. Angora get it on day one.

Another adorable trailer! I honestly don't see how anyone can not be hyped for this, apart from extreme 2D platformer fatigue.

It's hard to find good wool puns - unless you're willing to pay cashmere-te.

I'm getting but not hyped as like Balla says 2D fatigue and hard to find to enjoy something in the genre since Rayman Legends.

I'm not fatigued of 2Ds, but it is Yoshi....

Oh c'mon, it's hardly YNI. You can tell that at a glance.

No, but it looks too much like Yoshi's Island

Oh yes, I forget that you're one of the oddities populating this world that didn't like YI.