Yoshi's Crafted World Receives Its First Update

Eh, I stopped playing this game after beating all the levels, including the secret levels. Like Super Mario Party, Crafted World is going to need plenty more than just fixes to get me back on board.

If only they could add a "turn off the awful music" option...

My only real issue with this game is that I feel like the aiming reticle/cursor thingy moves too slowly when you go to shoot an egg. I like the fact that I have complete control over it in this game, I just think it needs to be much faster, or at least they should have given players the option to adjust the thing’s movement speed.
(If such an option already exists, then ignore this comment.)

Id welcome an option for choosing between Performance Mode and Graphics Mode. Id actually rather play at 30 fps in a higher resolution than at 60 fps and a poor resolution. ....The game also lacks motion controls.

havent bought yet. from what I read its too easy. after how much of a kiddy cake walk the last kirby game on switch I have reservations..

@Solomon18 It is easy but fun. It's not quite up to the standard of Woolly World however. It took me around 7 hours to beat the final boss. I have spent another 3-4 hours going back through the levels to fully complete many of them since. I think it's been worth the purchase....
I would give it 3-4 months then buy it, prices on Ebay are already dropping and it's only been out 3 weeks.

@smashboy2000 Agreed. The music is truly awful. Yoshis Island on SNES still has the best music.

@BlackenedHalo : As nice as the silky smooth frame rate is, I too would prefer more detail on the screen. These blurry images surely cannot be good for the eyes in the long term as they attempt to focus on what isn't there.

And what motion controls do you feel that the game lacks? Were you referring to the reticle/crosshair? I think it would have made the game slightly convoluted to implement pointer controls for a single function, though there have been occasions where, design-wise, they have made it much too difficult to aim, such as when one needs to aim whilst standing on a rotating platform.

@BlackenedHalo Your comment is a nightmare for me 😂
60fps will always be the best choice as far as I'm concerned ! The gameplay feels so much more precise.

@BANJO I don't mind easy so long as its creative. my last yoshi game I played was yoshis new island on 3ds and far out that was a flop compared to past greatness. thanks for the heads up will def be picking it up somewhere down the track

Would this help me finally complete that damn Go Go Yoshi stage?😩

@NintendoFan4Lyf I have heard Switch games don't look as good on 4k tv's. I play on a standard HD TV like you and the game looked very good to me also...

@smashboy2000 how would the option of a graphics mode be a nightmare to you? Wouldn’t it be simple just to chose the performance option in this hypothetical world. Or are you like some people on here where if you don’t like it (ea games, call of duty) then it shouldn’t be a option at all for other switch owners.

@NintendoFan4Lyf I have a QLED Samsung 4K tv and it looks blurry. Perhaps it isn’t so much playing the game on a 4K tv as it is myself being used to 4K content now. That said if you go buy a tv in Canada these days it’s super hard to buy anything not 4K. Also my 1080p tv was not a smart tv so I’m not going back. It’s Nintendo’s responsibility to make a system that is better than good enough on a 4K tv. For the record 1080p 60fps games do look significantly better on my 4K tv. In fact the upscalling does such a good job I almost don’t know it’s not 4K content. Which is why I’m always advocating 1080p 60fps. The more work the upscaller has to do the worse the image looks.

@sixrings OK, I replied a little too fast, sorry : I have absolutly nothing about giving the choice !! They should indeed. For exemple I'm so sad that they don't give a performance mode in Sekiro on XBox X to have a locked 60fps in 1080p (it's only 1800p with 40fps).
So yep, we should have the choice. The "nightmare" I was talking about was a pure question of taste : I would should the performance mode every time.

And no, I'm not the kind of gamer you're mentionning : I'm not a huge fan of the latests CoD or every football game ever, but I'm glad they exist. The more the merrier !! 🎉

@BANJO less than 1080p stresses the 4K tv upscaller and the images look noticibly worse.

@smashboy2000 Xbox one x is usually the king of choices which makes it my console of choice. Too bad I love Nintendo characters. Specifically Mario games. Thank goodness they are pretty good at making Mario games run optimal. But its sad to see yoshi running so poorly.

@sixrings I had also in memory the last Yoshi on Wii U : beautiful but a pain in the a** to watch animated in 30fps.
Look at the mod someone made to make it run emulated at 60fps on PC (and 4K !). It changes totally the feeling of the game.

That's the real reason I'm glad Switch's Yoshi is in 60fps.

But you're right : we should have a graphic mode.

I’m just frustrated that these are not graphic intensive games (Mario, yoshi, dk games) so they should be able to run at 1080p 60fps. Mario odyssey didn’t either which was disappointing. I can understand not getting forza 7 to run at 1080p or doom or call of duty or Star Wars but First party Nintendo games constantly not making the 1080p cut is a bit much. If they can’t even make games run properly on their own hardware then how can they expect third parties to. In the end I just wish for a switch pro that can make my felt yoshi not only walk smoothly but look sharp at the same time.

@NintendoFan4Lyf in some ways I wish I didn’t upgrade to 4K. Well really only because of the switch. Everything else looks so much better in 4K. I still have the 1080p but it’s in the basement where I never go and even less bring friends. So I don’t want to put the switch down there. It’s just frustrating it’s the one thing that I have to try to cater to. Maybe I should have just bought a Apple TV box and kept the 1080p tv. That’s a lot of bending just to keep my Nintendo addiction going.

@NintendoFan4Lyf @sixrings I only got my TV beginning of 2016 as they were selling it off relatively cheap, the last of the 1080p TV's a 43 Inch Samsung. So I wont be upgrading for at least a couple of years at the earliest.
However its worrying that the Switch looks noticeably worse on the 4K TV's. By then however I presume the Switch Pro will have released and will (hopefully) accommodate this issue.

@NintendoFan4Lyf In your situation with both a Playstation Pro and a Xbox one S I would be very tempted to get a 4K TV, but luckily as you said that the picture still looks great which is good

@BANJO hopefully switch pro has patches for the games already released or dynamic resolutions gives the games a natural boost.

The thing is 4k has been around for quite some time with ps5 claiming it will support 8k. I'm not even asking for 4k. All I want is just 1080p 60fps. That's apparently too much to ask. People say it's a portable system. I guess people like myself who mainly play docked on a tv don't matter.

A lot of people say hdr is more important than resolution. Yet I never saw one 1080p tv with hdr for sale. If you wanted HDR then you needed to buy a 4k set.

@NintendoFan4Lyf Yes as I play mostly in docked mode a upgraded dock to boost docked mode would be ideal. As you say however it would need a high speed port on the bottom to work which likely means a complete hardware refresh with a faster physical interface to the dock.
From the rumours which may or may not be correct it seems Nintendo maybe having issues with the Pro model and it could be down to the problems you stated. Hopefully when it arrives it can give a decent performance boost......

@sixrings Yes that's all I'm after really 1080p 60 fps would do me fine also.....

My only issue with the game, apart from the repetitive music, is the idiotic fetch quest at the end. You have to:
1) Go back to catch every item you may have missed
2) Speed run / Poochy Pup run every level
3) Find the hide and seek robot in each level
4) Find the secret item in each level. Sometimes you have to return to the same level for another item.

What is the reward? A costume. It is idiotic. If they wanted to make the game longer they should have created new worlds.

Part of the Yoshi series was not just "beating the game" but also 100% it. (All red coins, smiley flowers, flip side Poochys, etc.)

Playing in co-op is a treat to 100% as you don't have to manage eggs.

Sure, to go straight to the end is easy, but be real, people. You're talking about a game that's aimed squarely at kids and families. Were you honestly expecting Dark Souls-level difficulty? lol

@StephenYap3 not all games have to be continuously playable over a long time with consistent updates. It's a mostly single player platformer game, those are usually one-and-done. No one cares if this won't pull you back in because its not meant to

@jcgonzmo a small reward makes sure you did all that because you enjoyed it rather than being obligated. If you aren't enjoying the game then stop playing when it stops being fun. Its really simple.

@sixrings Switch Pro better support at least 1440p docked.

@Peterjr1 "not all games have to be continuously playable over a long time with consistent updates"

No, but it would've been nice to get more actual content like a new mode in the vein of Octo Expansion or Master Mode, even.

@Solomon18 I'd argue that Crafted World was even easier than Star Allies due to the latter's side content actually showing a semblance of challenge, whereas the former game felt like "Stage 1" of any easy game to me.

@StephenYap3 I just hated how kirby played the game for me. you befriend 3 star allies then sit back n watch while your allies do all the grunt work for you. anyway I hear the music in yoshi on switch is bad. thats just sad. yoshi tunes were always a highlight

@Solomon18 I beat Star Allies just before starting Yoshi and I’d say Yoshi is definitely more difficult- especially if you don’t use the costumes. The music isn’t bad it’s just kinda too cute and repetitive and aimed at a younger audience, just as the game is as a whole - which is fine by me! Kids need more games like this, and I personally love going back to this freaking amazingly developed world for some light hearted imaginative beauty after dying hundreds of times in games like Celeste, Cuphead/etc

At 6 I finished super Mario Bros. That's considerably more difficult. Kids don't need dark souls but also things on the other end can be too easy. I also don't think children NEED games. Nintendo wants to sell more but I lived a perfectly happy life with Lego and star wars toys before I got addicted to super Mario Bros.

I'm not super into it, but it's been a super chill side game. I like games that aren't too difficult. I know a lot of people want to replay the same level 37 times until they master the split second timing needed to progress... but that's not me. Yoshi is full of charm and fun to play.

Though I do totally expect that once I beat it once I wont touch it again for a while.

There was a bug?? I never notice I beat the game to fast to notice.