Nintendo keeps finding new ways to reinvent platformers

Source: The Verge

Review

In most platforming games, you’re fighting against the world around you. You’re trying to beat a level, nail a seemingly impossible series of jumps, or defeat a powerful boss. But even though Yoshi and the Mysterious Book uses familiar gameplay—you traverse the world by jumping, climbing, and, uh, eating—it reframes your goal to focus on exploration instead of competition. In doing so, it reimagines the classic side‑scrolling platformer as something that feels refreshingly new: laid‑back, playful, and bursting with ideas.

The new Yoshi game looks like a storybook, and that’s because it takes place inside of one. Early on you meet a s…

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