Kholdheart

This game is so good, I made an account here just to rate this. A user score of only 7.9 (at the time of writing this review) is an absolute disgrace. The characters, the life and detail in the world, the gameplay, all 10/10. You can tell that a lot of genuine love and care went into making this game TLDR/Most memorable aspects of this game after spending hundreds of hours playing: (*) This is HANDS DOWN the best couch co-op game on the Switch. (*) There is an amazing amount of variety in the worlds/environments. Each with their own feel, their own theme, and their own types of enemies - which amounts to subtle changes in the gameplay that keeps you from ever getting bored from start to finish. (*) The boss of each area were all uniquely challenging, impeccably designed, and very memorable. (*) You can feel that there was a lot of care and attention put into the level design. You can clearly feel that the developers of this game are gamers themselves, and know what's fun. - The level design in this game is the ANTITHESIS of procedural level generation. (*) Levels slowly and consistently ramp up in difficulty with absolutely no spikes. (*) Enough content for both younger/newer players as well as grizzled veterans like this reviewer. (There is almost an equal amount of content for each!) (*) Tons of unlockable cosmetic items that are actually earned IN-GAME instead of micro transactions! (What a refreshing, novel concept that you don't see these days!) (*) Graphically, this is only time on Nintendo Switch I've seen anything incredibly close to photo-realism. - Complete with a consistently high framerate that never stops or stutters. (*) I lost track of the number of times I smiled and laughed at one of the many THOUSANDS of amazingly detailed objects in the background/foreground. This is arguably the BEST game on the Nintendo Switch as of early 2023. Even if one can argue that perhaps there's a better game than this on the Switch, it's irrefutable that this is the best Yoshi title of the entire bunch, dating all the way back to Yoshis Island on SNES. Speaking of Yoshi's Island on SNES, there are so many nods and references to that 1995 game, that it almost feels like this was made by many of the same developers. The developers were incredibly faithful to all of the Yoshi games (even Yoshi Cookie!) This is an absolute MUST-OWN game, even ahead of every Mario game released thus far. - Mark my words... Yoshi's Crafted World will be remembered decades from now as a classic, and possibly even the pinnacle of what a Yoshi game can be.