There's just no spice to the game. As a package, this game shouldn't be less than the sum of its parts. The music's not as good as Yoshi's Island, but it's still high quality work from a first party dev that knew what they were doing with the soundchip. The presentation's great, with everything being very colorful and easy to see in a way that played to the strengths of the console. It handles well, it doesn't overstay its welcome, there's so much that this game has going for it, but when you put the whole thing together as a gameplay package, there just isn't enough bite. There is some interesting level design, but overall this is the easiest Yoshi platformer and one of the easiest Nintendo games with a losing condition.

I love easy games, I'm bad at video games and usually prefer easy modes (especially when harder modes don't fundamentally change gameplay), but there's just so little resistance to the experience that the game lasts half a hour and you'll probably forget most of it shortly after. It sucks, because I enjoyed myself for that half a hour and if you enjoy N64 games, this is still an easy suggestion. It's just not a game that I could see many people calling their favorite, despite the obvious talent that was behind this release.