Yoku's Island Express

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more complete, competent, fun and wonderfully balanced Indie experience. We all love the God of Wars and Battlefield Vs of the world, but I’d take 10 more Yoku’s Island Expresss every day of the week. And absolutely perfect gaming experience.

Endlessly joyous.

Yoku’s Island Express is a cheery, bright, frictionless experience that adds much-needed twists to an established formula and despite my hesitance for pinball, it sold me on a kind of gameplay that I never knew I wanted.

A beautiful, summery game with furiously fun puzzles that adults and kids will love. [July 2018, p.88]

Villa Gorilla mixes genres and manages to deliver a great game that brings huge doses of fun and entertainment. Yoku’s Island Express is a true experience that should be played.

One part Metroidvania, one part pinball game, Yoku’s Island Express is a beautiful mashup that just shouldn’t work. But it does, and as a result, it’s just wonderful.

Yoku’s Island Express is a beauteous, aurally delightful treat that riffs off the Metroidvania template and pinball tables in a smart and playful manner. It’s somewhat tempered by the dual frustrations of the pinball mechanic’s need for constant precision and a lacklustre fast-travel system that leaves you having to cover the same ground over and over, ultimately taking what could have been an amazing game, and making it a good one.

One of the greatest platform adventure game since Dizzy! With brilliant, innovative game mechanics. Good Job!

Charming, fun little Metroidvania with a great art style and a very unique concept. Finale was kind of a letdown, though. I suspect that there's a real ending locked behind getting all wickerlings or whatever they called, but getting around the map is kind of a pain in the a**, so I don't really feel motivated to do that. Also, the pinball parts can get a little frustrating when you have to make shots with pinpoint accuracy in order to progress and have to shoot from the right nanometer on the bumper to do that.

I played this game for 3 hours (30% progress) but it gets repetitive because you end up repeating things when you are looking for a way to keep going. I think it's best just to play the first 1-2 hours.

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Cannot rebind the keyboard. This is unacceptable in this time and age. No rebinding is unacceptable.