Yoshi and the rest of the characters are cuddly stuffed animals, complete with fuzzy exteriors, while the levels you’ll traverse look like they were made by an especially artistic eight-year-old. But the game makes up for this through sheer charm. Don’t go in expecting Super Mario Odyssey-level creativity. Much like its predecessor, Yoshi’s Woolly World, Yoshi’s Crafted World is a satisfying, if not particularly inventive, take on the Nintendo-style platformer. Every once in a while, you’ll control a giant Yoshi or race to kill as many moles as possible. Each stage is designed to be replayable, so you can go back later and search for hidden items or earn more coins. You clear out enemies, navigate environmental puzzles, and collect everything from smiling flowers to hidden souvenirs. The levels are simple but playful, with a typically leisurely pace. Yoshi has his usual array of abilities: he can jump, pound the ground, and use his disturbingly long tongue to eat enemies and turn them into throwable eggs. The game is structured like most Super Mario games, pushing you through a series of short levels across various themed worlds.

Platforming games like this are often built around challenges and inventive design, and while Crafted World has some of this, mostly, it’s just a really pleasant place to be. The new Nintendo Switch adventure thrusts a woolly version of Yoshi into a handmade papercraft world where you can dress him up with a milk carton or a cardboard cow costume. As his early pixelated rendition gave way to more recent, fuzzier adventures, it became increasingly hard to imagine how the green dinosaur could get any cuter - but Yoshi’s Crafted World pulls it off. Ever since his debut in Super Mario World nearly three decades ago, Yoshi has become synonymous with adorable charm.

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