YMMV / Yoshi's Woolly World

• Awesome Music: The game's developed by Good-Feel; this is only to be expected.
  • Yarn Yoshi Takes Shape!, a laidback song with a "lazy summer day" feeling.
  • Clawdaddy Beach is heavily reminiscent of the beach levels from Kirby's Epic Yarn, or the overall soundtrack of Super Mario RPG.
  • Lava Scarves and Red Hot Blarggs. It's a freakin' rock song in a Yoshi game. And it's catchy as all hell, to boot.
  • Snifberg the Unfeeling. EDM in a Yoshi game?!
  • King Bowser's Castle - Halls is just amazing.
  • The Special Course song is beautiful, almost negating the feeling of wanting to tear you hair out from frustration with the Special Courses.
  • Fluffin' Puffin Babysitting is one of the cheeriest songs in the game. It sounds a bit like the "triumphant" song in a musical.
• Anticlimax Boss: The first Baby Bowser phase. Kamek supplies you with plenty of yarn balls in the hallway before, and a large portion of the fight's difficulty is due to yarn ball starvation. The Boss Rush version and phase two more than make up for it.
• Critical Dissonance: While many fans tend to claim Woolly World as a return to form to the series, approaching the quality of the original SNES title, its critical reception was merely just above average on review aggregate websites. Notably, the far more contested DS installment, Yoshi's Island DS, has a higher score at 81.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Yoshi's Epic Yarn, Little Big Yoshi and most popular; Yarn Yoshi.
  • Yoshi's Wooly Butthole, courtesy of a Running Gag spawned from the Yo Videogames crew playing on the Wooly World stage in Super Smash Bros..
• Genius Bonus: Bunson's name is quite clever. Most will take away the obvious pun (Bunson the Hotdog). However, anyone who's studied and worked with chemistry will know the name is fitting in another way as well.
• It's Easy, So It Sucks!: Mellow Mode, which allows the player to fly in levels and bypass every challenges, and even to skip levels altogether. Classic Mode, however, mostly averts this by offering a challenge very similar to the first Yoshi's Island game, especially as you delve into the last couple of worlds, some of the post-credits content, and the secret courses the game has on offer and the fact that Mellow Mode is optional and can be switched off to classic mode whenever you want doesn't hurt the game's quality that much. Checkpoints? What are those?
• Memetic Mutation:
  • _____ Yoshi^Explanation The American commercial has a narrator with a Verbal Tic of "Yoshi". Fans took this and ran with it.
    • It's a double Yoshi exploshi!^Explanation Another line from the same commercial. It became a meme due to its inherent absurdity, with many also editing it over animations of two Yoshis exploding for obvious reasons.
  • This game came out months ago.^Explanation The game was delayed in North America for about 4 months (October 2015) in North America while the rest of the world got it in Summer 2015, with Nintendo of America attempting to Hand Wave it by saying they don't like releasing games in the summer. It didn't work, and the comparatively late American release date is still joked about to this day.
• Polished Port: The 3DS version is a pretty solid port. Like the Donkey Kong Country Returns port before it, the graphics had to be downgraded, but the game still runs fine and even at 60FPS on a New 3DS, and also even adds extra content not in the Wii U release.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Poochy. This time around the dog is more useful compared to its debut, being able to follow your steps from a lower platform and catch unaccesible yarn pieces just like a play of fetch.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The overreliance on fake walls and hidden flying clouds (this one also present in Yoshi's New Island by the way) make a lot of the collectibles an annoyance to find. While most secrets can be detected and found by investigating a suspicious spot, a few of them are not really hinted by the level design at all, meaning that without a guide in hand, you'll be at the mercy of dumb luck or Trial-and-Error Gameplay in order to get 100%.
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • The theme for Yoshi and Cookies sounds suspiciously similar to the theme to Flower Fields from Kirby's Epic Yarn. Justified as both games were made by Good-Feel, and both songs were composed by Tomoya Tomita.
  • The backing track to "Shy but Deadly" is quite similar to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". So much so that there's a mashup for it here, as well as another on SiIvaGunner alongside The Beatles' "Revolution".
• Surprise Difficulty: Just like Kirby's Epic Yarn, the game's later levels can be a stark contrast with the adorable aesthetics.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: After lukewarm game Yoshi's New Island, many Yoshi fans consider this game to be as good as prior main Yoshi games, on account of its polished level design, co-op multiplayer, emphasis on Poochy and more accessible difficulty than the previously mentioned games.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel:
  • You thought yarn Kirby was cute? Say hello to crochet doll Yoshi!◊
  • Even more adorable is the E3 interview where both leads of Good-Feel and creator of Yoshi show off their own crochet doll Yoshis. Now, with the introduction of Yarn Yoshi amiibo, you can have one too!
    • They even released a special giant Yarn Yoshi which is about the same size as most plush bears or similar, and just as cuddly.
  • A trailer shows off amiibo functionality with the Super Smash Bros., Toad, and Splatoon figures. The crochet doll Yoshis will adopt a pattern related to that character. The results are adorable.
  • You know a game is adorable when even Bowser is cute. Baby Bowser has long been beady-eyed and after some Art Evolution is almost indistinguishable from Bowser Junior, but this game makes him out of yarn and gives him nubby little arms with no hands. Watching him hang off his curtains and bounce around his room is delightful. He does get actual fingers with claws when he's mega-sized.
  • The 3DS port adds to the already adorable yarn Yoshi toy with a yarn Poochy.
  • Also from the 3DS version, the stop-motion shorts are insanely adorable.
• That One Level:
  • 5-6: Up Shuttlethread Pass. In this stage, you're constantly shifting between the "front side" and "back side" of the level, not unlike the earlier level Duplicitous Delve. Unlike in the delve, you can't see between the two sides of the stage. The stage itself is heavily mazelike, and you'll have to flip between the two sides of the level constantly to progress. Since your perception of the whole stage is mirrored every time you flip sides, it's very easy to become disoriented. And since it's a vertical level, accidentally falling can undo loads of your progress as you must climb back up. The level can easily become a Marathon Level if you try to sniff out every secret. Perhaps it's not for nothing that this level has the quietest and calmest music in the game.
  • 5-8: Snifberg the Unfeeling's Castle. Almost the entirety of the stage is covered in Frictionless Ice, and it's filled to the brim with ice blocks that slowly roll on an axis like the giant blocks in Shifting Sand Land. Expect countless deaths from getting pinched by one as it rolls over while you're trying to get out of its way. Then they become enormous and then they roll fast into the foreground in such a way it's difficult to judge their depth. The collectibles aren't easy to reach, either. At least the boss isn't that bad once you figure out his weakness.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: They made sure to make the yarn look like actual yarn, and it looks amazing. Heck, there are even those tiny fibers that stick out of yarn all about the Yoshis.
• Win Back the Crowd: After the middling-to-hostile reception towards Yoshi's New Island, Yoshi's Woolly World was praised as a much-needed return to form for the series.

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