I'm at a severe crossroads with this game. The gameplay is BAD - Yoshi's complex moveset doesn't adapt well to simple easy baby time difficulty like the series would take after Island, buuut there is so much visual merit to the art and music, experimental but unashamedly cutesy and sweet. I'd say my thoughts on it are similar to my thoughts on PaRappa the Rapper and EarthBound, where it is creatively genius but a slog to play, but I'm a bit more forgiving on those games given rhythm and RPG games aren't directly gameplay genres like platformers are, if that makes sense.