Yoshi and the Mysterious Book review: Nintendo’s best Switch 2 kids game

Even 35 years later, that sequence of events still encapsulates the joy of a great Nintendo game. A Mario platformer is a test of skill, but it’s more of a research expedition. Every creature or obstacle you meet is a new variable for you to study. Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 game, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, takes that foundational design philosophy one step further. What if that discovery process was the whole game? No skill, no sweat, no failure: just a laboratory full of creatures ready to be experimented on.