Played this game with my 6 year old daughter and I can see how, if played solo, this game could be thoroughly enjoyable - The level design is great, the world is vibrant and beautiful, the story and characters are fun and the replayability is decent... However, all of these things amount to nothing when you're playing co-op with a 6 year old.
Yoshi can do a number of things - Jump (And float a bit), butt-slam, eat enemies to make eggs and throw said eggs. Unfortunately, someone made the decision that, in co-op, one Yoshi can sit on another Yoshi's back and be carried around without their consent, this causes further problems when the Yoshi doing the carrying is now not allowed to throw eggs, instead, only the Yoshi who's being carried can throw eggs - and with no way of getting the carried Yoshi off your back without repeatedly asking 'Get off my back! Get off my back!!', this becomes quite the ordeal.
Now, it's worth noting at this point that my daughter enjoyed being carried around, A LOT, I would argue probably most of the game, as you can imagine, this was a problem and I started to wonder why I suggested this game in the first place. Luckily for me, there was another way to carry her around - INSIDE MY MOUTH (Yoshi's mouth, obviously!) Of course though, this was also not a permanent solution as I can't eat the enemies to get more eggs if my daughter is taking residence inside my mouth the whole time.
Aside from these two MAJOR issues, the constant bumping into each other, all of the times my daughter's Yoshi blocks my eggs throws and that one level right near the end of the game that was so uncharacteristically terrifying that it had my daughter screaming 'CARRY ME! CARRY ME!' so loud that I thought I was going to lose all hearing in my right ear, this game was great! Poochy is the best dog.
Yoshi can do a number of things - Jump (And float a bit), butt-slam, eat enemies to make eggs and throw said eggs. Unfortunately, someone made the decision that, in co-op, one Yoshi can sit on another Yoshi's back and be carried around without their consent, this causes further problems when the Yoshi doing the carrying is now not allowed to throw eggs, instead, only the Yoshi who's being carried can throw eggs - and with no way of getting the carried Yoshi off your back without repeatedly asking 'Get off my back! Get off my back!!', this becomes quite the ordeal.
Now, it's worth noting at this point that my daughter enjoyed being carried around, A LOT, I would argue probably most of the game, as you can imagine, this was a problem and I started to wonder why I suggested this game in the first place. Luckily for me, there was another way to carry her around - INSIDE MY MOUTH (Yoshi's mouth, obviously!) Of course though, this was also not a permanent solution as I can't eat the enemies to get more eggs if my daughter is taking residence inside my mouth the whole time.
Aside from these two MAJOR issues, the constant bumping into each other, all of the times my daughter's Yoshi blocks my eggs throws and that one level right near the end of the game that was so uncharacteristically terrifying that it had my daughter screaming 'CARRY ME! CARRY ME!' so loud that I thought I was going to lose all hearing in my right ear, this game was great! Poochy is the best dog.