Ben Lindbergh

Right.

This is sort of a second-party developer.

Yeah, exactly.

Like if Nintendo proper wasn't family friendly enough, then we call in Goodfeel for the extra family friendliness, cater to an even younger audience, often sort of starring secondary characters, shots at Yoshi, my apologies, but...

Even though this has kind of a kiddie veneer, I was pretty impressed by it.

Now, it is a lot like mixtape in that there's no fail state.

So if you need your games to be grueling... I need Yoshi to die.

Yes, if you need him to plummet to his death repeatedly and bleed out, then Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is not the game for you.

But this is sort of a Super Mario Wonder-like...

game that to me, you know, there's sort of a stop motion like mixtape storybook aspect to it.

The gimmick here is that there is a literal encyclopedia and you were diving into the pages of this book as Yoshi's of various colors and you are fleshing out this world and discovering the

aspects of the story that are on the page.

And so you put your magnifying glass over some sort of creature on one page, and that acts as a portal into a platforming level that is centered on that creature.

And I use the term platformer advisedly.

It's as much a puzzle game as it is a platformer.

It's about exploration.

But it's really incredibly clever

where you are sort of, it's interesting because you're trying to just like trigger various things and make various things happen in this world.

And so you're just sort of wandering around and yeah, there's some jumping and everything, but it's, you know, pretty light platforming.

but you're really just trying to interact with the world in as many ways as possible.