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Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Is an Ultra-Forgiving, All-Ages Entry Point Into the Mario Universe | IGN Preview

Let’s get this out of the way: If it wasn’t already painfully obvious from the trailers thus far, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is not the next ultra-ambitious first-party Nintendo game meant to capture any and all demographics, from grade-schoolers to grandmas in the way, say, Donkey Kong Bananza is. It is the most E-rated of Nintendo’s most recent slate of E-rated games. Putting it charitably, it is a game for families with young kids. But who says the littlest gamers among us don’t deserve something cute and low-stakes to have a fun time with? Here’s the setup: A big leathery book called Mr. Encyclopedia — Mr. E, for short — falls out of the sky and lands among a curious pack of Yoshis. Being that a book cannot read itself, he kindly asks the Yoshis to analyze his pages that contain a multitude of fairy-tale habitats full of strange creatures with unique traits. From what I saw, that’s your sole objective: Have a Yoshi magnify in on a being wiggling at you in the book, and hop inside the pages of the book to figure out what it does. Collect trinkets along the way to unlock hints about less obvious traits of guys you’ve already found but haven’t 100%-ed. Get yourself into a boss

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Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Is an Ultra-Forgiving, All-Ages Entry Point Into the Mario Universe | IGN Preview

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