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Poochy & Yoshi's Wooly World - Nintendo 3DS (2017)

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Status - World 3-2 out of 6    What the box says - Join Yarn Yoshi (and Poochy!) on a journey through a wonderful world of wool!    What I say - 3DS port of a Wii U game (with Poochy!) which seems to be a wool-based successor to the much better classic Yoshi's Island - Super Mario Bros. 2 on the SNES.    Genre - yarn platforming collectathon.    Rage quitting / stress levels - low    Price paid - AUD 29 from Cashies    Metacritic - 77/100    I'm a bit over 1/3rd through P&YWW and it is very much "Yoshi's Island" but with a "yarn" style art style which sometimes is integrated into the gameplay. For those who aren't familiar with Yoshi's Island - it was a "late SNES cycle" platformer sequel of Super Mario Bros (SNES) with a pre-rendered "children's book" art style which fitted the plot/theme (controlling Yoshi and protecting Baby Mario through various platforming levels.  For me YI is one of the all time classic platform

1435 problems but the blog ain't one

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Yes - I've got a problem.  The first step in a video gaming collecting problem is to admit that you have a problem.  My problem - collecting video games for a range of old and new consoles and handheld systems but just don't have the time to do the games justice by even getting around to playing with them.  Case in point - exhibit A - see above a small screen shot of some of my video games. Exhibit B - my "Gameye" app is telling me I own 1435 games across 38 gaming systems including:  - 3DO  - Atari 7800 (2600)  - Atari Jaguar  - Neo Geo MVS  - Neo Geo Pocket  - NES  - Nintendo 3DS (2DS)  - Nintendo 64  - Nintendo Gameboy / GBC / GBA  - Nintendo Gamecube  - Nintendo Switch  - Nintendo Wii  - Nintendo Wii U  - PC Engine Duo  - Sega 32X  - Sega CD  - Sega Dreamcast  - Sega Game Gear  - Sega Megadrive/Genesis (Master System) - Sega Saturn  - Sony OG Playstation  - Sony Playstation 2  - Sony Playstation 3  - Sony Playstation 4 & Pro  - Sony Playstation TV  - Sony Play