I recently popped over to Nintendo UK HQ for a hands-on preview of this latest instalment, and while I certainly came away feeling good about it, I can't help but feel that I wanted more.
Yoshi is tasked with entering the pages of Mr E to interact with these creatures, learning all you can about them and recording the info on Mr E's pages.
For example, the first such creature is a flower-like creature – incidentally, all creatures are named by the player, or given a set name if you can't really be bothered.
Almost every interaction you have with this creature, of which there are plenty, is recorded on the pages of Mr E, with each level culminating in one major discovery.
But to its credit, this was very much a tutorial of sorts, and the further I got, the more interesting, and at times even head-scratching it became to find out the last few interactions.
As you discover more and more creatures, they will start appearing on other pages in the book. The flower creatures from before, along with the others I found in the opening area, now appeared once more.
This is where Mysterious Book really began to draw me in. Whereas previously, completing every page of the book was more of a formality to get done, some of these later levels offered up some rather ingenious little interactions to discover.
Such is the curse of a preview that my limited time with the game forced me to repeatedly leave levels unfinished so I could see everything that was on offer, because I would have happily sat and seen every one of those later levels to completion.
Firstly, this is not a Yoshi platformer in the traditional sense. If you were hoping for Yoshi's Island, then I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, as this is more of a collectathon masquerading as a platformer than an out-and-out one.
It's hardly a surprise. Given his more prominent appearance in the recent Super Mario Galaxy Movie, it seems Nintendo is keen on bringing Yoshi back into the limelight, capitalising on his popularity with merchandise, crossovers, and of course, games.
Even in the case of more difficult to discover secrets in the game, there are a wealth of hints available that you can use to point you in the right direction.
What I am less sure of, is whether this game is perhaps too simplified for an older audience.
From the beautiful, pencil-shaded art-style to the wealth of creative mechanics to discover, Yoshi and the Mysterious book gleams with the quality and care we have come to expect of Nintendo's first-party titles.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book launches on 21 May 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2.
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