Yoshi's Story

Brilliantly designed for young kids. You've got the fun dynamic pop-up book level select/cutscenes, reprised at the end of Story Mode as the game re-tells your story—the levels you played. You've got the highly-animated Yoshis and all the little details in the world. You've got occasional stark and strange things like this. You've got the breadth of game's visual style, from kids' handcraft stuff to other things you might see around the house or elsewhere like old newspaper, leather-button armchairs, and mended denim. You've got the very low difficulty floor combined with the optional but increasingly tough-as-nails challenge of finding all 30 melons in every level. It's not without its flaws—e.g. the out-of-place scoreboards or how the game permanently unloads key items from the level if you move too far away or exit an area—but it really is a wonderful playground of a game.