i played this when i was younger, but never finished it.

for the most part, its a fine game, because it plays just like yoshi's island (a fun game i like a lot). the addition of the new babies is a neat idea and is sometimes cool, but other times you get to a new area and the only practical choice (or only required choice) is a specific baby so you switch to it and thats that. fine, i guess, but just not very interesting.

level design is fine and not very memorable until you get near the end of world 4 (out of 5) when the game starts throwing incredibly stupid levels at you. theres stupidly slow autoscrollers where nothing is happening so you just wait for like 30 seconds for the screen to move for anything interesting to come up (spoiler: nothing interesting does come up) and if you accidentally mess up then you can feel free to restart and take like a minute to get back there in the most painfully slow way possible. one level has bouncy enemies that bounce off you and walls fall from the sky while you move on incredibly precarious platforms, which just feels unfun. all the late game levels are memorable just because of how frustrating they are, and i was super happy to just at least finally be done with the game.

i'd rather just be playing the first game on the snes.
also why does bowser kinda look like he was ripped from a flash game?? lmao?