- Yoshi's Crafted World Clown
- Yoshi's Crafted World Clown Mask
- Yoshi's Crafted World Clown
- Yoshi's Crafted World Clown Doll
- Yoshi's Crafted World Clown Head
- Yoshi's Crafted World Clown Costume
Ayo is a sweet yet frustrated little clown on a mission to find his missing circus dog. In this 2.5D platformer, Ayo the Clown has you travel from one colourful world to the next in order to find his best friend. With clear inspirations from fan favourite franchises like Yoshi and Kirby, Cloud M1's second video game title appears to be their most ambitious project to date and has captured the attention of 2D platforming fans everywhere.
Yoshi's Crafted World is overall a cute and charming platformer. But not every level follows suit. While some later stages get more difficult, one level in particular sticks out as surprisingly creepy. This stage features several deranged clowns who will stop at nothing to hunt you down. While some levels fall flat of such ambition (I don’t need more killer clown dolls in my life), the overall feel of Yoshi’s Crafted World is one of joy and excitement, with every aspect of the experience celebrating the wonders of creation and imagination. The world intentionally appears fabricated, but feels so alive. The fuzzy-looking Yoshi game would later be dubbed Yoshi’s Crafted World. While we had a name and some gameplay demos, we didn’t have a release date or a motivation behind the game, featuring one of Nintendo’s most iconic characters.
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The Good
The world, quite like a Yoshi game, encourages exploration and to uncover as many secrets as possible. There's usually more than one path to take and the rewards appeal to completionists with each level containing three hidden teddy bears and three hidden lollipops.
The variety in the game's level design is an aspect that helps to keep the player engaged. In the span of three levels, you'll go from a standard 2.5D platformer, to controlling a tank, to floating upward whilst clinging onto a balloon. You'll also unlock more manoeuvres as you go which have different effects in different levels and this keeps the gameplay fresh throughout its six hour runtime.
Ayo the Clown's boss fights are marvellous. Not only do they pose great challenges but they're also cleverly inventive, utilising that 2.5D space with the foreground and background in fun and creative ways. For kids wanting to play a cute game with colourful aesthetics, it's a good thing that this game has an easy mode because a word of caution, these boss fights are tough on normal are hard modes.
There is so much charm here that just keeps on coming, quite like a handkerchief in a suit pocket. On the overworld map in the first area, I stopped for a minute to watch a big dinosaur demon monster lying on his belly on a hilltop playing with a toy car. It was so silly that I couldn't look away. The world is charming, the characters are delightful and the game's toy-like aesthetic is a treat on the eyes.
TL;DR
- Fun exploration
- Fantastic level variety
- Cleverly challenging boss fights
- Wonderful charm
- Light-hearted toy aesthetic
The Bad
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Checkpoints are cool, right? When you lose a life, it's common knowledge that you'll either lose your gems and can recollect them or you'll just hold onto them, right? Well when you die in Ayo the Clown, you'll lose the gems you collect (with an extra life per 1,000 gems) and while you can recollect them, the chests remain open so you cannot recollect the mountain of gems from them. This seems like a bit of an oversight.
The cutscenes are adorable and add a lot of personality but boy is that dialogue quiet. I'm glad there are subtitles because while the delivery is well done, I could only hear every second word unless I had headphones on. Either that or I'm going deaf in my old age... let's not rule that out!
TL;DR
Yoshi's Crafted World Clown
- Disappearing treasure
- Quiet cutscene dialogue
Final Score: 8/10
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With dimly lit shooters and plenty of retro inspired indie games flooding the market, Ayo the Clown successfully tackles a niche that'll appeal to us Nintendo fans. The variety helps to keep the experience fresh throughout and the level design is well thought out to the point where each level feels new and exciting. If you were left wanting after Yoshi's Crafted World or just want more, then Ayo the Clown can perhaps fill that gap nicely.
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Thank you for checking out our Ayo the Clown Switch review, thank you to Cloud M1 (via Plan of Attack PR) for providing the review code and thank you to our $5 and up Patreon Backers for their ongoing support:
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The title of this article is official, but it comes from a non-English source. If an official name from an English source is found that is not from the English Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, the article should be moved to its appropriate title.
Bunmawashi Dolls[1] are enemies that only appear in Yoshi's Crafted World. They are yarn, clown-like dolls that try to attack Yoshi with an axe. They only appear in the level Be Afraid of the Dark, where they are the most prominent enemy. They constantly walk around with drooping hands, occasionally looking around if Yoshi is near them. When the Bunmawashi Doll spots Yoshi, it will screech and then run into him, trying to chop him with its axe. They cannot be defeated by any means; however, they are affected by the light, which will stun them for a few seconds. They can also unintentionally help Yoshi by breaking crates. References[edit]
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