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Yoshi's Woolly World

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  • Awesome Music:
  • Anti-Climax 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 see Woolly World as a return to form to the series, approaching the quality of the original SNES title, and was widely seen an improvement over Yoshi's New Island; its critical reception was merely just above average at 78 on review aggregate websites. Notably, the comparatively more contested by fans but still well received (just considered inferior to the original) DS installment, Yoshi's Island DS, got a higher score at 81. A few fans, while enjoying both, also prefer DS to Woolly World, due to its core gameplay being comparatively more closer to the original and expanding upon it.
  • Fan Nickname:
  • 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.
  • Memetic Mutation:
  • Polished Port: The Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World 3DS version is a pretty solid port. Like Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D before it, the graphics had to be downgraded, but the game still runs fine and even at 60FPS on a New 3DS, and does make up for the graphical trade-off by supporting 3D. It even adds extra content not in the original Wii U release, funny and memorable bonus movies featuring Yarn Yoshis and Poochy, Poochy levels which play similarly to Super Mario Run, and the Mellow Mode alleviates the Scrappy Mechanic of finding secrets in fake walls and hidden flying clouds without any indication whatsoever present in the original version and Yoshi's New Island with Poochy Pups, which can also be turn off anytime with no drawbacks for the original experience.
  • 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 inaccessible yarn pieces just like a game of fetch.
  • Scrappy Mechanic: The overreliance on fake walls and hidden flying clouds without any indication whatsoever (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 and Trial-and-Error Gameplay in order to get 100%. The Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World Polished Port greatly alleviates this, where Poochy Pups alert hidden secrets by barking and pointing at their locations though in Mellow Mode only (although it can be disabled anytime and there are no drawbacks to using it, meaning it's possible to use it to find the very hidden secrets and then disable it for boss fights).
  • Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • 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 around 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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